Gas Powered Games' Crazy Zoomable Mod Tool

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Gas Powered Games’ Chris Taylor shows Project Mercury, the mod tool for their new game Wildman. It has a crazy awesome zoomable user interface. I wish my whole computer worked like this.

I contributed to their Kickstarter for Wildman, but this mod tool interests me way more than the actual game they’re working on.

See also: Oberon.

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