The internet just got a bit more wonderful.
On Saturday a coder, animator, and electronic musician by the name of maple 'mavica' syrup published a free web app that lets anyone take Game Boy Camera-style photos with just their browser and a webcam. It's super fun.
Unleash your creativity with this great retro Gameboy filter effect app and share it with your network. You can select colors, the classic green or black and white. Gameboy camera is the popular. Recreate The Game Boy Camera With 8-Bit Pocket Camera App Photography By Giles Turnbull. 8:30 am, March 30, 2011.
Over Twitter direct message, mavica, who prefers it/it pronouns and a lowercase styling, explained that a 2014 app made by Christine Love led it to create an updated version of the late nineties classic camera toy. mavica recalled how Love's app, 'Interstellar Selfie Station,' helped it at an important moment in its life.
- A simple Game Boy Camera-style filter made in HTML5 and JavaScript. Play with it here! As of this commit, this is simply a direct copy of the files currently in my webserver. Eventually, I will clean things up and make improvements to the code, but since there has been interest in looking at the code, I'm mirroring the files here.
- This $1 iOS app lets you take 200 x 200 tiffs reminiscent of the pictures (and quality) that the Game Boy Camera used to take back in the day (which were 128 x 112).
- This is a selfie camera. This is a selfie & makeover editor. This is the best selfie & makeover app. 'Beauty Camera' is designed to make your photo look more beautiful. Take a selfie and see the makeover magic effect. When you take photos in dark room, the face or object will not look as beautiful as usual. Beauty Camera helps to solve the problem.
'[She'd] made the app back in 2014 but after a few months it got pulled off app stores,' wrote mavica. 'i found the original app when i was just starting my transition and the low-res pictures helped a lot with my dysphoria, so it meant a lot to me and i've wanted to recreate it in some form ever since then.'
it's done!!
i've implemented all functions i wanted to my web gameboy camera app and it seems to be working alright
please let me know if you find any bugs and do share pictures, i'd love to see them!https://t.co/E1xJh6Ev0epic.twitter.com/ThvGqB2QSj
— maple 'mavica' syrup, professional lesbian (@maplesbian) October 18, 2020
The web app is super easy to use, and lets you adjust the brightness, contrast, and color pallet of your photos.
I never had a Gameboy, but I love the aesthetic of its camera. This is really cool, thanks for making it! pic.twitter.com/iC3oAeruDY
— The New Weird Daniel (@ChurchOfCordite) October 19, 2020
mavica built the entire thing over the weekend, and confirmed over direct message that the camera app doesn't store any of the photos people snap.
'[The] app is entirely client-sided, there's no storage anywhere in your device or the server, it's all only a single page with some basic javascript,' mavica explained.
This is rad!! pic.twitter.com/PKQKTVM3ZJ
— scare-ah🎃elizabeth (@saxysarah15) October 19, 2020
'[My] favorite part that people have shared with me so far have been other trans people who also noted that the filter helps their dysphoria and i'm so glad to have spread the same feeling i had 6 years ago,' wrote mavica.
In other words, mavica's web app is not just fun — it's providing real value to people (though, of course, fun by itself is also plenty valuable).
SEE ALSO: Take a Pixelated Look at NYC Through a Game Boy Camera
So go take some rad pixelated photos, update your profile pic, and feel a little better about the world — even if only for a brief moment.
The internet just got a bit more wonderful.
On Saturday a coder, animator, and electronic musician by the name of maple 'mavica' syrup published a free web app that lets anyone take Game Boy Camera-style photos with just their browser and a webcam. It's super fun.
Over Twitter direct message, mavica, who prefers it/it pronouns and a lowercase styling, explained that a 2014 app made by Christine Love led it to create an updated version of the late nineties classic camera toy. mavica recalled how Love's app, 'Interstellar Selfie Station,' helped it at an important moment in its life.
'[She'd] made the app back in 2014 but after a few months it got pulled off app stores,' wrote mavica. 'i found the original app when i was just starting my transition and the low-res pictures helped a lot with my dysphoria, so it meant a lot to me and i've wanted to recreate it in some form ever since then.'
it's done!!
i've implemented all functions i wanted to my web gameboy camera app and it seems to be working alright
please let me know if you find any bugs and do share pictures, i'd love to see them!https://t.co/E1xJh6Ev0epic.twitter.com/ThvGqB2QSj
— maple 'mavica' syrup, professional lesbian (@maplesbian) October 18, 2020
Game Boy Printer
The web app is super easy to use, and lets you adjust the brightness, contrast, and color pallet of your photos.
I never had a Gameboy, but I love the aesthetic of its camera. This is really cool, thanks for making it! pic.twitter.com/iC3oAeruDY
— The New Weird Daniel (@ChurchOfCordite) October 19, 2020
mavica built the entire thing over the weekend, and confirmed over direct message that the camera app doesn't store any of the photos people snap.
'[The] app is entirely client-sided, there's no storage anywhere in your device or the server, it's all only a single page with some basic javascript,' mavica explained.
This is rad!! pic.twitter.com/PKQKTVM3ZJ
Game Boy Camera App Free
— scare-ah🎃elizabeth (@saxysarah15) October 19, 2020
'[My] favorite part that people have shared with me so far have been other trans people who also noted that the filter helps their dysphoria and i'm so glad to have spread the same feeling i had 6 years ago,' wrote mavica.
In other words, mavica's web app is not just fun — it's providing real value to people (though, of course, fun by itself is also plenty valuable).
SEE ALSO: Take a Pixelated Look at NYC Through a Game Boy Camera
So go take some rad pixelated photos, update your profile pic, and feel a little better about the world — even if only for a brief moment.