i have been taking my common, game-agnostic monogame code and putting it into its own library. here is a sample using this code: the high level or realism on display here makes this unbelievable, but this is not real-world video- it is 100% computer rendered

i have also decided to leave opec

The Artisan of Glimmith is excellent, but loopy, loopy can go to hell

He’s got feet and fins now, he looks like a mohawked big-eared bowling ball, what a disaster

if you are in Seattle and you drive by my house prepare for the fright of your life

I have made the dorsal fin and tail of my puffer fish/bear hybrid

some faeries have made a house on my house ❤️❤️❤️ ~blessed~

I don’t mean to brag but I just found a rock shaped like a crab

Large Horses

i got one for home too, where my family lives. does my depravity know no bounds? it does not.

graphic design is something of a passion for me

for my bear game i am planning on using web stuff for the ui so i can build it out using css and html rather than learning some ui library or writing my own. i have integrated a chromium offscreen renderer (CefSharp) and loaded the fat bear week website to prove that it works

becoming an ergo keyboard guy, yet one more insufferable personality trait for my coworkers to endure

working on my little bear game, making janky rivers

i am working on building out a high-ish resolution surface map for my bear game. the idea is to use this for things like object placement and navigation, stuff that needs to be higher precision than the tiles themselves

I disabled this a while back because I guess I miscalculated the api usage and it was too expensive, maybe I will fix it soon

idea: dog pope

I am working from home today and decided to take some time to make myself a delicious lunch because i work hard and I deserve it

I am on vacation enjoying the view (a bird)

i am trying to make rivers but i forgot how rivers work

now that i have the actual tiles working ok i am putting objects into the world for my bear game. too many trees!

Now that I have world generation kind of working the way that I want I have abstracted a bunch of data to json so that I can iterate on things faster. Each tile in my grid is placed based on some parameters (currently just simplex noise) and I can easily add new types or change existing ones.

after a bit of a break i am trying to motivate myself to work on my bear game again. wow it is beautiful

incredible view from the office this morning

i have never really known anything about web development but i am building a website for my kid to post his music on and it has been a Fun Adventure in Learning

#517 Tindouf, Algeria

i drove by this house the other day with a turret and what looks like a machine gun in it, so i did some research to figure out what the deal is but i guess there's no story it's just a guy who put a fake machine gun in a turret on his house

big crows in the front yard today

it is a nice day

we found a salamander

i think it is good, the last thing i am going to do now is make it sometimes spin the other way and then i am going to stop adding things so i can focus on other projects

i am testing a thing where i generate and post videos from streetview for my bot, instead of static images. is it good or is it bad? i don't know yet

incredible

I’m really excited for #100 I bet it’s going to be a banger

#3 Salasar, Rajasthan, India Google Maps

hello! I have made a bot that posts an image from a random google streetview location once every few hours. It is here: @randomstreetview.bsky.social i have a version of this on the old social network (@random_places) that has been running for a decade now, but maybe i will kill it soon :(

there is a nice view of mt rainier’s handsome cloud hat from the office this evening

my game of the year award once again goes to… the nyt super mega crossword! congratulations super mega crossword, you are so large

I have been playing Tunic while on vacation, and after having bounced off of it before it has clicked for me this time and it turns out it is an excellent game

Working on my little bear game. I added some more flavors of tile to test my tiling stuff, it all works pretty ok except this is placeholder art and so the transitions are sometimes weird. Next i will add streams, trees, rocks, etc. But first i will go to Hawaii with my family for a little while.

mostly it is working now, this is what it looks like with placeholder art

perfect

getting closer!!

i am working out how to smoothly tile different types of my hex tiles, and it is more troublesome than i thought but coming along okay maybe

it is Molly and Toki :) (this is de_train from cs2)

i also made what i believe is a very good website tom.games are the webbys still a thing

i have become simply "tom"

making some hexes and trying to figure out how to tile them nicely

two of these dogs are my dogs

hi everyone if you like caterpillars then check out this photograph of a cool caterpillar my wife and i saw earlier while we were on a walk, it’s a good caterpillar. if you don’t like caterpillars then probably skip this one and don’t look at this photo.