The most recent video game that I made, Bytes and Knights, was so fun that I just had to make a physical version! It's really awesome to see my Arduboy game come alive like this!

I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks. www.ft.com/content/a0df...

The freedom to pilfer, steal, and plunder creativity the UK is formally going to give to AI companies is absolutely staggering. If you're in the UK, take this stand right now. This is a fence that you can't put back up if it passes you, and it will kill the UK creative sector.

‪Submissions for the 2025 Raindance Immersive festival are live! If you have a social VR World, VR-made Short film/music video, XR Narrative, Performance or Game you'd like to submit, you have until March 30th next year. Here's the submission guide to learn about the festival and how to enter:

UFO 50 is a cool game. I love Mooncat :D

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

Come check out our Vket booth at Isekai Marché (Eclipse)! @naeruru.com and I created a mocap animation with face tracking using ShaderMotion in VRChat! o kuté muté! vrchat.com/home/world/w... #vrchat #vket

Path of Exile 2, let me in! (third try, blue sky keeps uploading a blank black image)

Virtual Market 2024 Winter starts today, woo! Last time @naeruru.com and I worked together, we made "Kuté Muté," a ska-themed booth with mocap (pictured). This winter, we completed another collaboration. Check us out in Isekai Marché when Vket starts (about 12 hours from now)! #vrchat #vket

I've been using this book to study Esperanto. I like the way it's been keeping things simple and introducing sentences and vocab at the end of each lesson that are easy to throw into a card deck! www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8...

Earlier this year I made a little game about Latrones, an ancient board game thats a precursor to chess. I studied how to make an NPC with a difficulty that scales! #gamedev

"Buy me Slaughter for the NES or go to hell!" This is not bearably playable but... it's a tile-based FPS on the NES with elevation, and it uses NO MAPPERS. This is just the raw 1983 hardware

Now that persistence is out, I'd like to share I've been working on a language-learning adventure world that saves your story and study progression! #vrchat #tokipona

Thanks to @ruby0x1.ca’s efforts, 7 Day FPS competition is still alive! A lot of amazing games have been created during 7DFPS, such as SUPERHOT, Heavy Bullets or Receiver! Check it out, join the jam, and follow Ruby for more!

Finally finished our vket booth! Phew!

Faking chromatic aberration on the NES with a combination of screen shake and palette cycling on the sprites. #NESdev #TripleJump Shaders won't be a thing for another 20 years or so.

I love using Trenchbroom to prototype maps for Unity projects! Even though we're not using Quake, extruding and slicing brushes just feels right. #gamedev

Not that kind of imposter! xD

Does anyone know how to do a reverse projection mapped texture bake? By that I mean, start with a detailed scene with dense foliage. Then place invisible quads rotated randomly throughout the trees. These quads will be used to sample colors as seen from a specific point in the scene. #gamedev

Adding subtitles to our Vket booth now! The first Kuté Muté booth had a pickup object with English, Japanese and Toki Pona. This time I'm going to use floating text, I think. #vket #vrchat #kutemute

Fun fact about the original Kuté Muté booth: I 3D modeled it using Hammer and Counter-Strike: Source! Afterwards we cleaned things up and atlassed in Blender. But the quick turnaround of the Hammer workflow made it really fun to iterate. #vrchat #vket

Giving Esperanto a go!

@naeruru.com and I are working on something new for this winter! Last time we worked together, we created Kuté Muté, a ska-themed booth all about sound. Now there's only a few days left to submit to @vket.com! #vrchat #ska #vket

For realistic stuff, I like sketching things out before doing the pixels :D #pixelart #ドット絵

I gotta finish my touhou nes game one day. 2020 changed things a lot and I got into VR because of the pandemic. It was fun writing the cycle-constant trig functions in 6502 asm for this though! #nesdev #gamedev

The banner is a lot more awkward. Stored at 3000x1000, but displays at 598x150 on desktop. Cropping on desktop is somewhere in the middle. Mobile sees more of the image. This is the best guide I could come up with:

Timeline avatars are 42x42 pixels at standard dpi. So if you want to shoot for pixel perfect: source image should be 42x42, then export at 4x with nearest-neighbor scaling. It'll look good on mobile and also when displayed larger.

avatar #pixelart #ドット絵

One of my favorite lightning talks in the Ma Toki Pona VR community was when waso Keli talked about translating Link's Awakening to Toki Pona :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUzS... #vrchat #tokipona

燕楽 玄鳥 / Enraku Tsubakura #pixelart #ドット絵 #tokipona

blue sky has an interesting default UI behavior: it hides all posts not tagged as written in your language. I removed the language tag from this post. Will it show up for everybody, or nobody?

I made an avatar shader that plays ported Arduboy games :D Open two expressions menus at the same time to emulate a controller. I open sourced this in 2021 on github! #vrchat #shader

These days my primary engagement with the language is the kutemute.com zine project. It's a print-at-home zine about VRChat, in 100% Toki Pona! #vrchat #tokipona

In 2022, I founded the Toki Pona VR language community in VRChat, with the goal of speaking the simple 120 word language and exploring what's possible. Since then I handed off the community, and it's been incredible to see where things have gone. #vrchat #tokipona youtu.be/ISeqUFTNSoQ

It's fun to see how much you can squeeze into a low resolution! This one is based off a well-known TV sitcom. #pixelart #ドット絵

I also like drawing monochrome pixel art! The Arduboy's 128x64 monochrome display is where I got started with it. #pixelart #ドット絵

I also write shaders! A few years ago I gave a talk at TLX, a development conference in VRChat. Here's how I made games run in shaders! #vrchat #shaders #gamedev youtu.be/ADhwvIurXe8

Trying out bluesky! I like to make stuff in Social VR. Here is a panel I gave in VRChat about using toki pona to design an experimental spoken system of encryption, without using a PC for calculations! #vrchat www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C9z...