decided i wasn't gonna try for clouds so i guess it's done! https://xax.itch.io/procgen-landscape #procjam

current #procjam progress: i got mountain shadows

still working on my #procjam project, tho i haven't been doing as much as i hoped

current #procjam project

working on "plant" "simulation" right now

it's not a real videogame until you have radial light overlays

not sure if this polar transform will be in any way useful but it's pretty wacky to look at

then it became a scary reality

i finally fixed the upwarp when you jump into a ceiling! it used to teleport you up to the floor above due to bad wall/ceiling collision discrimination. now you just bonk on the ceiling, as is proper

i'd feel better about bsky banning everything if the onboarding for anybody trying to use the fediverse wasn't "okay here's how to be a sysadmin" OR "just pick w/e small instance you like; it'll be gone in a few years anyway when the admin gives up" OR "use mastodon.social but be aware a bunch […]

i threw together the start of a 'stop the darkness' clone. (https://flori9.itch.io/stop-the-darkness) idk if i'll keep working on it b/c i kinda feel like i ought to come up with my own mechanics

so over the past few days i decided to try to reverse-engineer the wildmender save data file format. there's still a few values that are mysteries to me, but i managed to extract the heightmaps, water values, biome cells, and all object data. i'm pretty sure […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

as always, reminder that splatterhouse (2010) has a sequence where the main character fists a giant dog monster with full camera exposure, and that game was rated M. because. you fist it as part of an execution kill where you rip out its intestines. but god forbid there's anything _sexual_ in […]

started outlining what a water shader would look like given my rendering pipeline and it's some 9-step process involving roughly four or five new buffers, two new shaders, and several new kinds of noise synthesis. rendering translucency: not even once

ah yes upgrade trees that's what you want them to look like

anyway i made a tumblr post about some actual mechanical concepts for my game https://eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/788899306913644544 i gotta actually dig into all the code. tho given it's all game state it would almost certainly be much simpler to code compared to all the rendering stuff […]

rendering glitches are one of the best forms of screenshot imo b/c they destroy the illusion of coherency games work so hard to create. this is almost the same as a normal screenshot just a few critical values were dropped. it's 99% right!

there's still a bunch of weird collision issues but it mostly works! i can now stand on top of a building! (which means i can construct arbitrary buildings with multiple floors and enter and exit them as necessary, including potentially basement/underground […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

http://tzaphiriron.sidemoon.net/code/turing.html i wrote this for fun last night + this morning, after hearing about people finally pinning down BB(5). i might tweak the turing machine outputs to make them more compact. or maybe not! who knows

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65000578 yeehaw it's jak & daxter porn time

i got little edge-of-screen directional tracking icons working! that's neat. the way they're coded is extremely not efficient though; i think i'm going to write a custom shader for them specifically, just so i don't have to do a buffer write per icon per […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

anyway i was working on a pseudo-hydrology thing over the past week. it's okay i guess http://tzaphiriron.sidemoon.net/code/2week/15-flow/

well, i think it's neat

it's like it's a real game now!!

i'm not going to draw fully modular clothes for every bodytype for every pose. but it would be nice if i could

i made a blog post about my gamedev progress over the past month. it really did feel like i had gotten very little accomplished on account of being sick basically all month, up until i actually looked back and made a list https://xax.dreamwidth.org/130848.html

the collision for this doesn't work 100% right but it does more-or-less correctly transfer the pc from the surface layer to the underground layer and back

initial steps towards adding 'caves'

i'm debating doing more 'promotion' (by which i mean 'posting about it anywhere aside from an old side tumblr') of my gamedev thing but i have conflicting feelings about it

very proud of this one. jumping!!

anyway as always i post dev screenshot stuff over on my code screenshots tumblr https://insomniac-isotope.tumblr.com/ . it's a work in progress.

i dumped a (tweaked, simplified) version of the world map from 'the new hive' into this to get some level of structure instead of just endless noise fields. problem: there are like 10 different regions/biomes/area types in the new hive, & to even begin […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

i think my issue with using bluesky, mastodon, whatever, is just that i don't really think microblogging is a particularly good format for expressing, uh, anything. twitter was designed to do _mass texts_ & once it was no monster sending out SMS texts there was no point for the site to be […]

oh hey somebody got a bluesky/fediverse bridge working. that's neat.