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Tomjohnville

I thought about the best way to show how this site was made... but didn't like the ideas I had. So here's how it was literally made. Not every prompt, image, and piece of work -- but enough to show how this started, what I tried, what I got rid of, and how I landed here.

The card site: my name and intro above a loose pile of work cards
Work cards on rings round my portrait on a black page
The first isometric home: me, the camper and the truck on a dark grid, projects laid flat beside them
The camper and truck on a green lot beside a road
The town under the welcome sign, with my intro, experience and projects in a side panel
The town dressed for Halloween, with townsfolk round the welcome sign

A globe

  • Sep 12
  • 9 prompts
  • 1 workspace
  • 9M tokens
A wireframe globe of North America
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A Paper board pairing a dotted globe with my writing
A glowing globe with tuning controls
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Sprites, a truck and a camper

  • Sep 22 – Sep 25
  • 102 prompts
  • 5 workspaces
  • 185M tokens
  • +1,614 −245
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The camper with its slides out, cut away to show the layout
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The truck and camper as sprites, with project tiles on the floor
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Inside the camper, close up
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Towing the camper, following behind
Me in 3D next to the truck

A scene for each project

  • Sep 22 – Sep 27
  • 59 prompts
  • 7 workspaces
  • 333M tokens
  • +8,287 −722
A Paper board: three small worlds, one place to wander
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The shadercam doorway, lit and sparkling
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An article card opening, with its transition dials
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Me beside the Prism pyramid
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The doorway, the Pilgrimage chapel and the What the Port? servers on the black floor
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Versions of Macindash from its print files
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One UI

  • Sep 23 – Oct 19
  • 162 prompts
  • 18 workspaces
  • 1.1B tokens
  • +4,703 −2,783
Driving the truck on a phone
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Achievements on a phone
The About page in Paper
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A Paper board: canvas
A Paper board: colour
A Paper board: type
A Paper board: space radius depth
A Paper board: atoms
A Paper board: molecules world
A Paper board: molecules pages
A Paper board: in context world
A Paper board: in context contact
A Paper board: in context about
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The panel as a sheet on a phone
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A Paper board: raised buttons over the world
A Paper board: the town's controls in the raised style
A Paper board: depth buttons
A Paper board: knob hud
A Paper board: knob secondary
A Paper board: knob tertiary
A Paper board: knob project drawer
A Paper board: knob achievements
A Paper board: knob world map
A Paper board: knob reader
A Paper board: knob phone
A Paper board: icons
A Paper board: icon sheet
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The theme menu: UI theme and the town's time of day
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A building's interior, picked
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A Paper board: the side panel's rail
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The side panel open on a scene
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Building cards to swipe on a phone
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A place card over the map on a phone
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Third person in the light UI
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Outfits in the inventory
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The site as pages
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All work on a phone
A place card's gallery on a phone
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Dither loaders
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My studio's panel in the light UI
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My outfits in You
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Going 3D

  • Sep 24 – Sep 27
  • 63 prompts
  • 8 workspaces
  • 502M tokens
  • +1,830 −427
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A realistic 3D model of me from the front
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The same model from the back
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Moonlight on the 3D scene, with lighting dials
A shader gone wrong, everything smeared in black and white
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Third person, behind me in front of the chapel
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A debug view of the edges the shader finds
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Third person with a sky, beside the truck
Third person on the grass, tuning edges
A bridge over the river
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Buildings as my résumé

  • Sep 25 – Oct 14
  • 41 prompts
  • 13 workspaces
  • 301M tokens
  • +4,849 −1,535
The Ditherface gallery, portraits on the walls
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My studio, with client logos on the wall
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The Basedash coworking space, everyone around one table
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The theater's sign on the street
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The theater's red seats
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Inside the Pilgrimage chapel
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The Vercel studio with its robots
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Inside the Vercel office
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The Asurion office
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The Vercel pyramid from outside
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The talks theater with its panel
Intradiem's letters in 3D
Intradiem's lit letters
The black key

Arriving

  • Sep 25 – Oct 2
  • 85 prompts
  • 6 workspaces
  • 690M tokens
  • +1,502 −583
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The Pilgrimage chapel in its own world
Third person by the Tomjohnville sign
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A Paper board: arriving at the billboard
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The loading screen
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Tap anywhere, on a phone
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All work
The arrival on a phone

A street and a campground

  • Sep 26 – Sep 30
  • 42 prompts
  • 13 workspaces
  • 414M tokens
  • +7,543 −1,203
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The first street, from above
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The Vercel scene panel beside the early town
The campground with the camper and truck
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My family's characters up close
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Me working at the camper desk
Me fly fishing in the river
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The plaza with its checkerboard
The plaza with café tables
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The whole town from above
People standing on the street
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A shop with a green awning
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The shops across the street
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The shadercam doorway on the street
The library, two stories of shelves
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The camper cut away
The camper
Basedash at Crew Collective
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The Ditherface gallery
The library with its writing list
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The truck

  • Sep 27 – Oct 9
  • 27 prompts
  • 6 workspaces
  • 399M tokens
  • +2,306 −436
The F-450 model from every side
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The truck and camper on the drive
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The truck bed from the rear camera
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The truck's dashboard
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A campsite plan for the parking game
The parking game in the town
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The truck from every side

Things to find

  • Sep 27 – Oct 18
  • 46 prompts
  • 8 workspaces
  • 515M tokens
  • +4,919 −555
A secret doorway in the dark
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The achievements drawer
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The claymation diorama, opened
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Me on the e-bike
Me on the e-bike under the sky
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The Turbo Speedo shoes
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The relic
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Me jumping the e-bike
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The e-bike's speedometer
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Intradiem's elevator
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Night

  • Sep 27 – Oct 2
  • 28 prompts
  • 7 workspaces
  • 216M tokens
  • +2,496 −392
The family around the campfire at night
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The plaza at night
Sunset over the campground
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The campfire lit
Lit interiors at night
The Vercel pyramid's door at night
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The town at night
The map with the Pilgrimage torches lit

Making it fast

  • Sep 28 – Oct 10
  • 38 prompts
  • 8 workspaces
  • 576M tokens
  • +1,838 −740
Third person on the street, simplified
The camper's door and stairs up close
The town as dither only
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The arrival: me walking up to the sign on black
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Third person at night with performance dials
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The town zoomed out
The frame rate overlay over the street
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The Macindash page
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Third person on the Halloween street

The welcome sign

  • Sep 28 – Oct 2
  • 17 prompts
  • 3 workspaces
  • 42M tokens
  • +482 −33
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The first sign, green and plain
An early concept: a giant me next door
A concept: a big welcome
A concept: my portrait rising like a sun
A concept: a pixel host
The concept that became the sign, before lettering
The finished welcome sign
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Me with my arms out
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Me with a Tomjohnville flag
The 404 sign

Getting around

  • Sep 29 – Oct 9
  • 11 prompts
  • 3 workspaces
  • 27M tokens
  • +248 −158
Walking on a phone with two joysticks
Lock on Tom over the map
Sprint and jump buttons on a phone
Sprint and jump beside the arrival on a phone
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Talking to people

  • Sep 30 – Oct 25
  • 38 prompts
  • 4 workspaces
  • 455M tokens
  • +1,874 −144
The plaza with people talking
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The bouncer at Ditherface's red carpet
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A ditherface up close
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Talking to someone in the town
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Talking to someone in a shop
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The map

  • Oct 2 – Oct 4
  • 3 prompts
  • 2 workspaces
  • 15M tokens
  • +107 −47
The baked map at different times of day
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A round map that follows me

Other people

  • Oct 3 – Oct 16
  • 62 prompts
  • 13 workspaces
  • 417M tokens
  • +5,550 −985
A rite of passage scroll
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Signing the guest list on a phone
The guestbook, open
The guestbook's pages
The workyard
My name pill over my head
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The guestbook's visitor count
A visitor's name over their head
Name tags in the street
Several names under the pointer
Three of me
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The guestbook with a visitor's avatar
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A visitor's chat over their head

chatGPTom

  • Oct 4 – Oct 22
  • 34 prompts
  • 5 workspaces
  • 377M tokens
  • +1,993 −348
A Paper board: chatGPTom expanded
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chatGPTom on a phone
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chatGPTom by the bench: ask me about Tomjohnville
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chatGPTom saying hi in front of the sign
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chatGPTom's suggested questions
Talking to chatGPTom at sunset
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Halloween

  • Oct 27 – Oct 28
  • 9 prompts
  • 2 workspaces
  • 158M tokens
  • +1,779 −133
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A cauldron glowing green by the camper