stop 01 LIVE
Seagull
Splat!
Flap, trim, and time a suspiciously precise seaside incident. There is a meter. This somehow makes it science.
play Seagull Splat!
buslane media
we make things. some of them work.
Games, tools and browser-based incidents from the less supervised end of Everwished.
see what got maderoute 404
the Buslane line
Nine stops. One terminus. Change lines →
Seagull
Read the film transcript
An orchestral opening accompanies a sequence of studio and credit cards:
Warriors of the Cucumber present. A WotC “Not Ours” Partner Publishing Platform production. A buslane memedia production. Produced by buslane media. Produced by Warriors of the Cucumber. Scripted by buslane media. Edited by buslane media, kinda. Written by Guinan. Prompted by buslane media. Sworn at by buslane media. Rewritten by Skynet wearing a Guinan suit. A buslane memedia game. Possibly the best game ever. People are saying it.
The title appears: Operation Orange Chicken. After the complete opening, four split-second glimpses show an illustrated gallery puzzle, a colour-mixing bowl, a pair of cat portraits and paper fragments around an unfinished autocue. The film fades to: Coming Soon to a stop near you.
Music: An Unnecessarily Major Overture — buslane memedia / Warriors of the Cucumber. Instruments: GeneralUser GS by S. Christian Collins.
stop 02 CLOSED ALPHA
Under construction
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Operation
Orange
Chicken
A buslane memedia game.
With Warriors of the Cucumber.
The first-look film has arrived. Settle in for the full opening, then catch a few very quick glimpses of the puzzles waiting round the corner.
The game is still in alpha. For now, enjoy the film. There will be plenty of time to question your decisions later.
Coming Soon
to a stop near you
stop 03 OPEN BETA
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Themed content wrangler
Got a perfect theme and a few words to change? Tweak text, links and image descriptions without wrestling the template. Local recovery copies watch your back. Your site files stay on your device.
open the content wranglerread the guide (PDF)Open once. Install if you like. Work offline.
stop 04 LIVE
Stop now open
Fun404
Even a missing page deserves a little personality. Our holding pages and error-page ideas give visitors something to smile at while the proper thing gets its shoes on.
Meet Hold Your Horses: an interactive bus stop, a horse with time to spare, and a bus dressed head to tail in Buslane Media colours.
Use it on your own site
Download and extract the ZIP into a folder on your website. Open its index.html to try it, then edit config.js for your message. Keep the accompanying files together.
For an error page, first add a <base href="/your-folder/"> element in the HTML head before the stylesheet link, using the folder where you installed it. Then configure your host’s error document to this page. Check a nested missing URL: the artwork and controls should load, and the response should still be HTTP 404.
stop 05 LIVE
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Buslane
DJ Lab
Pretend to run decks, lights, cues, and overlays with unjustified confidence. Local audio welcome. Strobes behave.
open DJ LabRead the video description
A short, silent tour of the Happy Coo website: an illustrated moonlit field, Coo Control, a Highland coo jumping over the moon, and a visit to the Ayrshire Hamlet. The view then changes to the text adventure, where places, choices and story updates are written out. A keyboard-operated “Return to field” button continues the story. The same world can be explored through words and accessible controls.
stop 06 LIVE
Stop upgraded!
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Happy Coo
A shop with a whole little world attached. We made happycoo.shop, and we’re rather proud of the place. Come for the coos. Stay for the adventure.
Designed for screen readers, with a text adventure of its own: the same choices, progress and rewards, told in words. Relying on text baked into pictures would be a cop-out.
Your site could have a world of its own.
Fancy something interactive, thoughtful and a little out of the ordinary?
Let’s make your interactive site →
stop 07 LIVE
Stop now open
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Deja Tu
Buslane, out in the real world. Mildly satirical, thoroughly useful products, made with a slightly unreasonable amount of care.
First off the line: DJTP — Deja Tu Paper. Premium, ultra-strong three-ply toilet tissue. A proper product with a very familiar sense of humour.
meet Deja Tu PaperReal quality. Familiar nonsense.
now leaving the swanky part of townThank you for travelling with us.the scenery may become more experimental.
Stalled.
The bus has broken down. The next two stops are unfinished proofs of concept. A replacement service is not currently being promised.
stop 08 DELAYED
Unfinished PoC
EDINBUS:
Front Seat Service
Defend a bus route from road hazards and onboard nonsense. Protect the driver. They have seen enough.
play EDINBUS
stop 09 DELAYED
Unfinished PoC
Snapcat
Keep approximate cat sightings in this browser, with photo metadata removed before saving. A small cat notebook with boundaries.
open Snapcatstop B DELAYED
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Buslane Terminus
One day this website will let you ride the routes in first person, seeing the stops out of the window.
For now, be happy you have a route map. This service is badly underfunded and the drivers are massively overworked.
service manifest / 004
things we tend to make
- 01games that do not ask permissionBrowser-first play, quick starts, no account ceremony.
- 02tools that might be usefulPractical little systems for awkward real jobs.
- 03media experiments in publicAudio, visuals, maps, controls and the occasional button.
- 04ideas that became code earlyPaperwork may follow. It has been informed.