This is a two birds, one asteroid kind of post. Back when writing about Mario Kart and statistics, I dug into the author—Antoine Mayerowitz—and his other projects. His little project dubbed Tiny Planets spoke to me.

It's just a site that generates a random planet with a unique name and inhabitant. It's cute and quirky. I feel like I'd like to embed it on a site somewhere, but Antoine already does that. You can check out the GitHub page too, if you like.

Then, during the surge of video game news last week, Toukana Interactive and kurzgesagt announced a little base builder, automation game called Star Birds. You appear to inhabit a little Super Mario Galaxy-like asteroid where you build and automate little factories. It also is cute and quirky.

The two reminded me of each other, so here they are bunched up. I hope you take delight in them like I did.