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The project «Letterjongg» aims at translating the far-east Mah-Jongg imagery into late medieval typography. 570 years ago the invention of the modern printing technology by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany (and, two decades later, by William Caxton in England) was massively disruptive. Books, carefully bound manuscripts written and copied by scribes in weeks, if not months, could all of a sudden be mass-produced in a breeze. The invention of moveable types as such, along with other basic book printing technologies, had a huge impact on science and society. | «Letterjongg» aims at translating the ancient far-east Mah-Jongg imagery into late medieval typography. 570 years ago the invention of the modern printing technology by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany (and, two decades later, by William Caxton in England) was massively disruptive. Books, carefully bound manuscripts written and copied by scribes in weeks, if not months, could all of a sudden be mass-produced in a breeze. The invention of moveable types as such, along with other basic book printing technologies, had a huge impact on science and society. |
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Yet, 15th century typographers were not only businessmen, they were artists as well. Early printing fonts reflect their artistic past. The design of 15th/16th century fonts is still influenced by their handwritten predecessors. A new book, although produced by means of a new technology, was meant to be what books had been for centuries: a precious document, often decorated with magnificent illustrations. (Incunables – books printed before 1500 – often have a blank space in the upper left corner of a page so that illustrators could manually add artful initials after the printing process.) | Yet, 15th century typographers were not only businessmen, they were artists as well. Early printing fonts reflect their artistic past. The design of 15th/16th century fonts is still influenced by their calligraphic predecessors. A new book, although produced by means of a new technology, was meant to be what it had been for centuries: a precious document, often decorated with magnificent illustrations. (Incunables – books printed before 1500 – often have a blank space in the upper left corner of a page so that illustrators could manually add artful initials after the printing process.) |
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[[http://thomasweibel.ch/letterjongg/|Letterjongg]] comes with 144 typographic tiles (hence 36 tile faces). The letters have been taken and isolated from a high resolution scan (2,576 × 4,840 pixels, file size: 35.69 MB, MIME type: image/tiff) of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldus_Manutius|Aldus Pius Manutius]], [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aldus_Manutius,_Horatius_Flaccus,_Opera,_Venedig_1501.tif|Horatius Flaccus, Opera]] (font design by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Griffo|Francesco Griffo]], Venice, 1501). «Letterjongg» has been slightly simplified. Nevertheless it is not easy to play as the games are set up at random (actually not every game can be finished) and the player's visual orientation is constrained by the sheer number and resemblance of the tiles. | [[http://thomasweibel.ch/letterjongg/|Letterjongg]] comes with 144 typographic tiles (hence 36 tile faces). The letters have been taken and isolated from a high resolution scan (2,576 × 4,840 pixels, file size: 35.69 MB, MIME type: image/tiff) of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldus_Manutius|Aldus Pius Manutius]], [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aldus_Manutius,_Horatius_Flaccus,_Opera,_Venedig_1501.tif|Horatius Flaccus, Opera]] (font design by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Griffo|Francesco Griffo]], Venice, 1501). «Letterjongg» has been slightly simplified. Nevertheless it is not easy to play as the games are set up at random (actually not every game can be finished) and the player's visual orientation is constrained by the sheer number and resemblance of the tiles. |
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Starting from the sides, or from the central tile at the top of the pile, remove tiles by clicking on two equal letters. If the tiles are identical, they will disappear, and your score will rise. Removeable tiles always must be free on their left or right side. If a tile sits between two tiles on the same level, it cannot be selected. | Starting from the sides, or from the central tile at the top of the pile, remove tiles by clicking on two equal letters. If the tiles are identical, they will disappear, and your score will rise. Removeable tiles always must be free on their left or right side. If a tile sits between two tiles on the same level, it cannot be selected. |
===== Updates ===== | ===== Version history ===== |
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2018/10/26 v0.1: Basic game engine, prototype\\ | 2018/10/26 v0.1: Basic game engine, prototype\\ |
2018/10/27 v0.11: Moves counter, rules section\\ | 2018/10/27 v0.11: Moves counter, about\\ |
2018/10/28 v0.12: Minor bugfixing\\ | 2018/10/30 v0.2: Matches counter\\ |
2018/10/30 v0.2: Matches counter, code cleanup | 2018/11/06 v0.21: Animations |
===== Data ===== | ===== Data ===== |
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