@conornally.bsky.social @somestinkydude.bsky.social Hey check it out -- delve running on linux! Installing mint has aged me and I only have internet access by tethering my phone, but the game seems to be running okay :P (And on an 6 year old computer, even)

Drew a wee snowman in the "middle" of the partially frozen loch morlich while skiing today. Thought it was way bigger than it turned out to be #nordicskiing #gpsart #cairngorms

Outsourcing the making of Christmas presents this year, by giving people some "build your own decoration" robin cards. You get this wee card and a tag saying: 1. Cut out my body and wings 2. Piece me together 3. Hang me on your tree It's good fun

Turns out there is a community of DOS enthusiasts looking for #traditionalroguelikes. A Diabaig player ported the open-source code to DOS, which is also emulatable in the browser (though it is a bit slow to actually play). archive.org/details/diab... Very cool, not something I realised was possible

Does the lighthouse keeper live nearby? Sometimes it hits the spot. Theres massive aurora activity but we're still in the tail end of #stormbram so we can't see it.

Every time I start a new project, I try really hard to implement an ECS, then every time I get so far through and think, this is just really daft It seems so complex, there are so many conflicting "methods". If you do it slightly wrong, then you blow all benefits out the water #gamedev #ecs

here we go again #ecs #roguelikedev #cprogramming

thought ordered dithering was going to be a nightmare to understand and implement, but to first degree its not hard and is such a cool effect

how about the sound of our fire, generating pseudo random numbers in a compound gaussian+exponential distribution #proceduralgeneration #waveform #creativecoding

[hippy noise] watching a set of waves come in, to get a recording for some hippy noise... got wet feet

[hippy noise] uniform distribution of pseudo random numbers, generated entirely from a 5 second audio clip of rain on a polytunnel

Been thinking about pseudo random numbers generation for the purposes of procgen and simulation, and how to breath a little more poetry into the otherwise very dry process. I've put together a prototype of PRNG drawn from natural sources of noise in the real world Warning: its pretty hippy stuff 🧵

well.. i think its time to give up. In chasing down all of the edge cases for this river generator, I have tied the algorithm into a knot that i cant unravel 😭 #procjam2025

More wiggly rivers this evening Now with damped curves, leading to less "circley" bends and more intermediate straight sections. Not much visible progress but a lot of refactoring and algorithmic tweaks. Hopefully i can add variable width and branching tributaries next #procjam2025 #procgen

You and me both my friend #rainyday #westernisles

A late start to a #PROCJAM2025 entry. A (second) first draft of generated meandering rivers, after discarding the original method. It has a long way to go but im pleased with the general shape of them so far Now I have it running in the browser too, for more jam clicks #procjam #procedural

Have I adopted SDL3 too early? It seemed like the right idea at the time, but im not sure how wide the support is for it yet? Trying to compile with emscripten emcc but sdl3-image is nowhere to be seen. I don't really want to write support for both versions.. #sdl #cprogramming #wasm

Happy 500th post to the poor lighthouse keeper, who has been procedurally journaling about his life for the last few months. He deserves an update soon

Couldn't help but play with my new found terminal colour palette #ascii #procgen

I have used ansii escape sequences to colour my terminal outputs for years and years... I found out today there is full 24bit rgb support. Absolute game changer

First cut attempt at implementing a rhythm-based parry system in a traditional #roguelike (pls forgive my bad skill) ping @conornally.bsky.social #roguelikedev #indiedev

Since taking on the role as head gardener, our produce has really been booming 🥕 #vegetables #garden #localfood

panic in #ZMAngband

a brief respite in the wind over the last few days allowed us a packed weekend of water based activities. Beginning to get a bit cold for me to dive though #kayak #freedive #surf #westernisles

Ill be refining the list of filters for a wee while yet. Some posts i want to see included aren't showing up and vice versa. But, its working pretty good so far!

roguelikedev feed for those looking for posts by indiedevs working on roguelike or procgen projects bsky.app/profile/did:...

~ programmer art warning ~ It's taken all day to figure out, but ive put together a rudimentary chunk loading system. So now you can drop onto the islands and run around. Some serious refactoring required though and a rabbit whole of chunk generation and upscaling to come #roguelikedev

Did i miss the boat on #PitchYaGame? Maybe but this is Diabaig, an old school ascii roguelike. Simple to start but tricky to finish. Use nothing but the resources you find, to tackle the large number of unique creatures, and best the dragon at the bottom. ⚔️ conornally.itch.io/diabaig

Really pleased with the first attempt at generating these wee islands. Very early days but a promising start. Excuse the primitive rendering #procgen

mixing more noise functions for strange effects, this one is a bit spooky #procgen

Playing around with noise functions. Not sure what these will be for but I thought they were interesting #procgen

Find myself in cool places but can't help about thinking about procedural terrain generation 🤔 #alps #dolomites #mountaineering

My procgen bot has been coming up with some great journal entries for the light house keeper recently

I generally hold quite a poor view of deer here in Scotland for what they represent with ecologically mismanaged land. However, this particular red deer stag was quite impressively and atomspherically roaring up the glen all day #hebrides #wildlife #mountains

Diabaig v1.0.1 : autoexplore and bug fixes conornally.itch.io/diabaig/devl... #ascii #roguelikedev #indiedev

Auto explore? I've never much liked it because you give up all exploration of the world to some robot. But I'm reworking the auto commands in diabaig as part of a bug fix update and figured i would add it in. It's quite fun zipping around the dungeon! Minor bug fix update coming soon #roguelikedev

Second wind! Diabaig sees a surge in download rate! No idea what happened but its very exciting none the less. Still seeing so many nice comments and messages coming in, its really heartwarming conornally.itch.io/diabaig

Thank you so much Dr @alecxyquest.bsky.social! What a wild ride, I would not have got here without you

A pre-thesis defence swim. Maybe I could just stay here with the seals instead. I can see how selkies draw misguided people into the sea This grey seal gave me a could check out at the surface. We swim with each other for about 5 minutes before it moved on #freediving #wildswimming #scotland

I passed 200 downloads of diabaig this morning. Absolutely blown away by the level of excitement about my little terminal game, it has exceeded all expectations I had. Had so much great feedback that it has been just such a joy to read #roguelikedev #indiegamedev #ascii conornally.itch.io/diabaig

Sat in his chair by the fire, the lighthouse keeper is learning to play the mandolin, he is enjoying seeing improvements. Outside, a thunder storm rages overhead.

Spotted in the itchio analytics that some Russian games site has picked up Diabaig. Their blurb about the game contained: "The developer, as expected, is not going to feel sorry for you.." They are right to be fair #roguelike #indiedev conornally.itch.io/diabaig

Release day! Here is Diabaig, a traditional #ascii #roguelike. conornally.itch.io/diabaig Descend through #procedural floors facing increasing adversity and creatures to defeat the dragon at the bottom. Make your way back out with only the resources you find along the way. #indiedev #opensource

Release day! Here is Diabaig, a traditional #ascii #roguelike. conornally.itch.io/diabaig Descend through #procedural floors facing increasing adversity and creatures to defeat the dragon at the bottom. Make your way back out with only the resources you find along the way. #indiedev #opensource

There is no wind this evening, and no midges either. The lighthouse keeper wanders down to the beach to dip his toes in the water.

Overheard on the ferry tannoy: "for exercise purpose only... Upgrade to abandon ship. Upgrade to abandon ship"

The lighthouse keeper wakes up after falling out of bed. He goes down to the pier to find mussell shells, but he only finds kelp.

A 'tactical' smokebomb retreat in Diabaig #ascii #roguelikedev #screenshotsaturday

I met this gorgeous [crystal?] jellyfish the other day #freediving #jellyfish #scotland #sealife #wildswimming