NPC dog traversal algorithm worked! The calculated jump vector to get the correct jump arc was flawless! Only I had messed up another algorithm, so the dog went to the opposite side of the platform to initiate the jump Wishlists would be super appreciated: store.steampowered.com/app/4090240/...

Felt a bit ranty of coca cola commercial holiday bragged about their AI slop ad... for 70,000 clips/prompts to get what they had to show. Id' rather not wait on AI, I just want to create the thing today! #indiegamedev #aislop #maekgaem www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1NB...

Here's a sampler of my upcoming new release Songs of Space, six tracks about space travel in the style of rock, jazz and what-have-you. soundcloud.com/dfast/songs-...

Unity, you cannot call pre-selected analytics sharing "opt-in", that's the word for when it's not selected by default

Tho I certainly have my Linux criticisms, wow my potato laptop runs soooooo much faster with Mint than Windows like, wow, the difference is bonkers

Supraland Six Inches Under has outrageous out of bounds exploration, maybe the most I've come across. Practically everything has colliders, there are so many tricks for escaping the confines Combine this with a Dark Souls "leave messages on the ground" and you'll have my favorite game in the world

Today's Linux Mint experience: Googles "mint task manager". Finds post where someone asks what the Mint version of task manager is. Replies instantly start talking about terminal commands Real answer is ofc it's called "system monitor" and is perfectly launchable via the Start Menu equivalent

I put together a new showreel - please pass it on to anyone you think might be looking playful installations and interactive shows! I'm on the lookout for new opportunities 😊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivv6...

I tried the new affinity, made sure "share user data" is disabled but it's doing this thing where every 10 seconds or so, the task manager's network usage for the application says 0.1 Mbps I do not trust software that doesn't say 0, unless it's actually supposed to do something internety

Went to see Helios, the big sun, in Bristol Cathedral today. What was interesting about it was that I was expecting it to make me feel small, but in reality it made me feel big. Here's this thing that's meant to be impossibly far away, impossibly big, impossibly hot, that you can't even look at...

Had a bug with Linux Mint that it didn't recognize the laptop was plugged in and the UI indicated it was on battery power After a short debugging session I found the issue

Today's Mint experience is a positive one I was like "I need to do fast file search, what software do I have to download... waaaaait, let's try searching in the OS!' Found the file instantly from an arbitrary place on the drive. I had forgot searching in operating systems could be fast

Anyone knows a really good website for stock SFX, when I'd rather buy individual sounds than an entire library? Preferably with a complete AI ban, but an "no AI" filter / "before 2021" search is a solution too.

This is one of the funniest bugs I've had recently. It was canvas scaling related, so when I started the game, I was greeted to this, perfectly filling the screen Also, game has a steam page, if you want to wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/4090240/...

I've order a RackBrute for my Minibrute 2s no going back, I'm becoming a modular synth person

Anyone knows what it means when the computer randomly shut down when plugging in an USB cable? And I don't mean the power was cut, but Windows literally going "shutting down the computer" like I exited via the start menu

Announcing that Rhythm Doggo has a steam page now! It'd be super helpful if you wishlist it! store.steampowered.com/app/4090240/... Key art by @1neila1.bsky.social

Something I really felt today when juggling so many windows is this: What if software don't have tabs? What if windows are't tied to applications at all, but just generic tab-holders? so I can put a notepad tab in the same window as a browser tab, and also add a tab for my music software?

Announcing that Rhythm Doggo has a steam page now! It'd be super helpful if you wishlist it! store.steampowered.com/app/4090240/... Key art by @1neila1.bsky.social

As my grandpa often says, "nu blir det nervöst!" I did a practice music performance of what I'm gonna do at the end of my Roguelike Celebration talk. I've done a few, but I hope the one I pull off at the talk is as good as the practice one, cause that one worked out super well

Whew! A bit nervious for tonight's Roguelike Celebration talk, but I think it'll be fun!

I've decided to become a modular synth person! The eurorack extension to my Microbrute 2S and just a few nice modules. I've always wanted a wasp filter. There's no chance that'll escalate, right?

Music making question. I was thinking about getting a mixer that doubles as a soundcard. Want to use HW synths while listening to my game's audio, trying hardware effect modules in the process, so I can make do sound design in a fun way Couldn't find a mixer with enough aux outs & returns (1/?)

I had such an good time playing this, it's the perfect game when needing a break from everything, and experience something really joyful.

Pacific Drive DLC! Once again imma install the jump jacks, zero-g, and forward facing nitro boosters, and break some maps! Car defense & safety? That's not how I play

Mint potato PC running well So far my experience is, it's nice, runs so fast. But "you don't have to use cli" is outrageously false. You absolutely have to, unless only running a few extremely common apps I still don't think it's near ready for mainstream, but...

In my talk about algorithmic music on Roguelike Celebration, I've got the talk planned out. But is there something in particular you'd like me to include I may not have thought of?

I need to record a backup version of a talk tomorrow if I get ill and can't do the talk for real I'm not used to doing a talk when nobody listens. Anyone want to be audience?

The ratio of "computer causing problems by doing something I didn't ask for" vs "not automatically doing something I thought it'd do" is 99:1 Since I installed Mint on my potato PC, my screen changes brightness depending on what's displayed on it. I can find no settings to make it stop.

I playtested this, it's a very neat roguelike with a match-3 grid linked the player's movement, and I definitely recommend a wishlist

I added a cool feature to my algorithmic music software today. Let's say a music instrument sample has an overtone, say a 5th (or any other), it can verify the overtone against the active music scale, and use a fallback sample without the overtone if it's not compatible.

Is there an official music theory term for the opposite of an overtone? As in, if an instrument has additional frequencies which are tonal offsets of the base note - but not in the harmonic series?

I'm thinking about heist games today for... no reason? If I made a roguelike with procedural levels, it'd be a heist game inspired by Olsen-banden, and the Swedish version of it I grew up with, Jönssonligan. I've had this idea for quite a while so I know how I want it to work. So... (1/?)

Woke up from game design dream this morning. Co-op platformer, but the dangerous obstacles didn't kill the players, but made them possessed by the CPU very briefly, so they start attacking their friends

I got Raylib to work with my former Windows now Linux potato PC. I got it to display a window and things inside the window This is gonna be my experimentation PC where I test and learn the things, so that when I leave Unity behind after my current project, I'll have picked up knowledge

I installed dotnet core and codium and ran my first C# code in Linux Mint had to type so many things into the console but it worked. Goddamn it I'm gonna become a Linux person. This is bad

I want to do one! Native cross-platform development must be much easier. Devs frequently embed an entire web browser with their software to solve this problem, and it wastes energy and make computers obsolete much faster, producing waste

On a positive note, wow my potato PC runs waaaaay faster in Mint than on Windows I'm not completely negative about all this

Linux Mint seems to work. Had to do extremely dodgy stuff with the bios boot settings, thought I bricked the PC for a while. Had to type stuff into the terminal too to install a thing because how it was distributed I trust you will remind me of this day if I ever go "Linux is sooooooooo easy"

"No boot device found" I've bricked my potato PC by trying to install Linux on it :(

booting trouble, lots of bios/secure boot nonsense going on. I know this one isn't actually Linux fault at all, but something I wish everyone understood is that 90% of non-tech users would already have given up at this point anyway, Linux adventures continues

Oh no I'm becoming a Linux person

(Okay, so if I run into problems getting Linux Mint to work, what's the best way to get help? I'm a bit scared of the whole driver thingy)

I watched this and I'm going to the store to buy an USB stick so I can install Linux Mint on my potato laptop over the weekend. My dev PC will stay on Windows 11 until I finish my current project tho, but whatever Win 12 will be is a nope.

📚 My current contract is coming to an end in Dec so I am now looking for new work! ⭐ I am an award-winning & expert/lead game writer & narrative designer. 🌎 I am interested in long & short term contracts & consultancy, ideally remote. Let's chat! hannahnicklin.com linkedin.com/in/hannah-nicklin

I developed a feature that became so useful that I want to incorporate it heavily in all my future workflow: saving states into the clipboard For example, at any point in my game, I can copy the adaptive music state into the clipboard, and paste it directly into my music software. So...

Have you ever wanted to listen to the Monty Hall Problem, in procedural music form? If the answer is "Yes", see my upcoming talk at Roguelike Celebration on October 26, www.roguelike.club

Installing Blippo+ It was introduced to me by a streamer and I have to experience the whole thing. It's TV from another planet, and I need to learn more about them. store.steampowered.com/app/3323850/...

Cafe, dog, coffee, chocolate ball, and AKO kola. I'm very Swedish today

What do you reckon it would sound like, playing a sample, but skewing the playback head, so it reads a bit ahead in time for positive values, and behind time for negative? ...and what if I were to modulate the skew by an LFO? Or use a parabolic playback head? Time to write some audio code