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This investigative narrative focuses specifically on the historical and tactical "Fall of the Third Precinct" in Minneapolis. Rather than a broad overview, this episode serves as a site-specific deep dive into the history of the location, the evolution of local policing tactics, and the precise sequence of events that led to the precinct's fall in May 2020.
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Spent the weekend running 3 Claude sessions in parallel on my mobile cop-chase game in Unity 🚓
One restyled the HUD, one built a garage, missions & new enemies (SWAT, tanks, a helicopter), one is making new maps.
They messaged each other to avoid clashing. Effective but it killed me 5hr limit in no time.
Changes:
• New HUD
• Garage: 7 cars, missions, levels
• Wrecked cops burst into coins
• SWAT, tanks, roadblocks, a helicopter
• Nitro, shields, magnets, EMPs
• Sandstorms
Next up: Palm Beach + Neon City at night levels
3 sessions coordinating with each other, wild
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Day 17/30: COMMON ROOM
What if a library card could reveal belonging instead of simply proving access?
I built COMMON ROOM, a speculative membership system for the fictional North Quarter Public Library.
Instead of asking members to choose an identity or complete a personality quiz, the system lets their actual behavior inside the library leave the evidence.
Read in the Stacks → leave a margin.
Make in the Workshop → leave a registration mark.
Follow a question through the Index → leave a reference path.
Explore the Quarter → leave a civic trace.
Those traces gradually build a unique Member Record.
The card remembers in layers. Its physical Accession Aperture later becomes a lens into hidden library memory, and completed cards can optionally become part of a Living Collection that begins to reveal the shape of the neighborhood itself.
The project eventually became a system about:
BEHAVIOR → EVIDENCE → OBJECT → MEMORY → COMMUNITY
And the line that defined the whole thing:
You don’t receive a card. You accumulate one.
I also built the launch film around the same visual logic instead of doing a traditional product walkthrough using the card’s traces, layers and aperture as the motion language.
Would love feedback on one thing in particular:
Does the relationship between behavior, the physical card, and belonging read clearly without needing the concept explained first?
Day 17 of my 30 Days of Real Business Problems challenge.
#ProductDesign #InteractionDesign #CreativeDevelopment #DesignEngineering #MotionDesign #CreativeCoding #ThreeJS #Remotion
what inspired the maker and seeker split?
I designed and developed this interactive cyberpunk street food experience for Gǒng Sì Night Market.
Capturing the grit and rain-slicked atmosphere of a near-future Kowloon market meant balancing speculative world-building with tactile interaction design. Combining animated neon typography and canvas puddle reflections with an interactive stall menu, a retro terminal ordering flow, and a simulated thermal receipt printer gave the entire digital commissary an authentic, lived-in weight.😊 🔥
