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I've been experimenting with Wallpaper Engine recently, exploring a new way to share my artwork, animations and procedural coding experiments with people who'd like to have them running on their own desktops.
For those unfamiliar with it, Wallpaper Engine is a program available on Steam that lets you replace your ordinary desktop wallpaper with animated, interactive and even fully procedural visuals.
It's actually something I've been doing myself for years. I've always got artwork and animations quietly running on a PC in the corner of my room. It's become part of the atmosphere of my home, with constantly shifting imagery, colours and strange little worlds ticking away in the background.
So I thought, why not share some of that with everyone else?
I'm planning to gradually bring more of my work to Wallpaper Engine, including animated versions of my paintings, atmospheric landscapes, generative artwork and various procedural coding experiments. Some will be based on existing pieces, while others will be created specifically for the format.
My first experiment is now available on the Steam Workshop!
It's a quiet, monochrome pixel landscape featuring slowly shifting dunes beneath a dithered sun, with a subtle parallax effect that responds to your mouse movement.
The entire scene is procedurally generated rather than playing back a video. It runs completely offline, contains no sound, text or unnecessary controls, and renders at up to 24 FPS while respecting lower Wallpaper Engine frame rate limits.
The idea was to create something subtle and atmospheric that could sit quietly in the background without becoming distracting.
Download it for free here: Monochrome Pixel Landscape on Steam Workshop
This is just the first little experiment, but I've got plenty of ideas for where to take it next. I'm particularly interested in bringing some of my more expressionist work to life, alongside strange procedural environments and interactive visual experiments.
Hopefully, before long, there'll be a growing collection of my artwork that you can have living and breathing on your desktop. 🖤