Robot Smithson's Land Art Generator

This is an art tool with survival and crafting mechanics.

Explore a randomly generated terrain, shaping it by digging or placing dirt.

If you create an image you wish to save you can craft an observation balloon to export an image (or simply take a screenshot). If you leave the terrain open, your drawing will eventually erode and disappear.

The game/tool opens in several browser windows that you might choose to switch between as needed.

It's small. If it's too small, zoom the browser page.

I made this after hearing a friend talking about his experience building stuff in Minecraft and how it related to his practice as an artist, tools and the studio.

It also came at the end of a reading group I'd convened around Aesthetic Programming (by Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox).

It's coded poorly and weird things happen. I might fix/add to these weird things at some point.