When you've worked in the game industry as long as this week's guest as a designer, programmer and SCUMM engine expert - you've seen some stuff! Let's chat with LucasArts and Humongous Entertainment legend Brad P. Taylor! @lardratboy.bsky.social youtu.be/z1ma0PBZGKw

Took a fork of the boxed in matching #game and made a #slot machine / digital #fidget toy, very early build. Thoughts? codepen.io/lardratboy/f...

I've got a #favor to ask, please help me pick a better set of colors for my latest fidget toy, I was just informed me my colors look #bland.. Anyway in the settings menu there is a ... button which lets you choose colors the game blocks, collective mind I need your help. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...

new #mobile friendlier build of Boxed In #game #update #refresh codepen.io/lardratboy/f...

some fun colors for your feed

The latest iteration of 'eight neighbors' can be found here, please give it a whirl and leave feedback. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...

lovely gradients for your timeline.

Lovely gradients for the day :-)

I updated both my phone and the computer on the same day and for once apple didn't screw my display setup #goodday wow we do live in the future. Not sure I like the latest glass look (old man shakes fist at sky

sketchfab.com/lardratboy/models 3D projections of games, shader outputs, screen grabs and random data files if you find that sort of thing fun let me know I'm looking for #feedback on the tool I built/used to export them.

some color for your timeline

toying with dataprism and projections, choose the data type, endianness and projection mode and discover something about your data :-)

Just what you've always wanted - a tool to 8 fold mirror point clouds, best used with smaller data files (small is defined by your GPU) codepen.io/lardratboy/f...

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'Eight Neighbors' - my latest gameplay prototype is ready to play. #Claude, #Gemini and I have been collaborating on this puzzle #game. If you play it please let me know what you think. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...

3D or 2d projections of a flat data file - if that is your type of #nerdything go try out my latest tool update. It now supports even more data types, more projections, more fun. Use fractional chunks sizes (0.0625) on old game data/ROM files it is a hoot. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...

Looking for users and #feedback for a chrome extension. Audio Log is a chrome extension that keeps a log of browser tabs that have played audio, that's all it does nothing fancy just pure utility. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/audio... the code is here github.com/lardratboy/A...

Updated my chunked bytes to points tool - added tanh normalized float 16/32 support, updated ply exporter, added quantization. Give it a shot if you like looking at reasonably big data files and exporting them as point clouds. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...

curious shapes in motion (controls: mouse movement, left click pan, right click zoom) glslsandbox.com/e#75464.130

#Claude + #methehuman produced something fun to play with, try it out on numpy files, uncompressed data, #gamedev assets/rom files etc - if you try it out let me know if you find have any #feedback codepen.io/lardratboy/f...

Fresh from #Claude4 here is an updated UI and improved ply exporter. #threejs continues to surprise, my m2 mac 32GB can stay interactive up until about 90M points; if you have a beast of a rig I'd be curious what is the upper range of points this thing can handle. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...

computers are #bonkers - also #javascript + #threejs is way more #capable than I thought. Try your own moderately large hunk of data, and let me know how capable your machine is. (oh yeah I added .glb export) codepen.io/lardratboy/f...

I love looking at encoded data as points, wish I had the ram and compute power needed to do this 20+ years ago. (try your own data codepen.io/lardratboy/f...)

B2Ply - exploring data or images as point clouds is my latest tool/distraction. Maybe you will find it entertaining as well. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...

Claude is still my goto, every so often I revisit month old chats to see how the new models are improving, Claude has improved greatly in the past few months, it's amazing what you can get with just multiple prompts not editing anything by hand, 8-neighbors artifact v.0.5 codepen.io/lardratboy/f...

#vibecoding what was before that #chatcoding (so last month-year..)?!, I've taken to using many chat interfaces (takes a village style development), kind of like carving software out of putty. also I might never execute a piece of code on local silicon again in a few months; exciting and worrying.

#colorful gradients for your feed

Republicans have been ordered by their billionaire Puppet Master to end Medicare as we know it. Democrats have 215 members in the House who can stop this extreme effort. All we need is three House Republicans to join us.

fun shape and colors

here is my latest #ClaudeAI 8 neighbors 🎲 prototype (working title) codepen.io/lardratboy/f... .

While it's not a 🎲 game yet, I did make some progress. Prompting #ClaudeAI can be a very iterative thing which I find is a lot more like debugging than programming. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...

Took a break from my puzzle experiments and made a 🎲 super minimalistic-hypercasual toy. Can you reach level 6? 99.9% #ClaudeAI, spent longer trying to reach level 6 than I care to admit. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...

Here's an mockup of a slide puzzle game, still thinking it might be too complicated for us mere mortals with wetware brains.

#bugsftw what started as a software defect is the whole app now.

🛠️ just one of the half dozen #Artifact's I did with #ClaudeAI yesterday. This is a quick way of looking at the contents of a file as RGB data, fun for minutes of entertainment, looking at old game data is a hoot (UX needs some love) check it if you dig such things codepen.io/lardratboy/f...

5,000 pieces of free software and not a single, stinkin' ad. OlderGeeks.com #computing

So any #ClaudeAI users have #Artifact's to show? I'd like to see other people's results. I'm especially interested 🛠️ tools, 🎲 games and🪀 toys made with it.

Update your 7zip if you haven't in a while. Remote code execution vulnerability was announced. Fixed in 24.07 and above which was released this past summer. gbhackers.com/7-zip-vulner...

I've been using #ClaudeAI for a few weeks now and it's useful for sketching ideas. I haven't seen a ton of people sharing their #Artifact links but here is one of mine. It's a tool to load and visualize medium sized data files in 3d, it's fun to throw data at. claude.site/artifacts/22...

since various people have made this comparison, why not.. spaceshipfirehose.vercel.app

messing around with #anthropic #claudeai, it really does feel like the future to me.

btw these large scary math symbols are just for-loops

Colorful gradients, 9 spheres, clipped to -1,-1,-1 to +1,+1,+1

20+ years ago I was doing games for the J2ME/Brew mobile market, here is a cut-scene from TurnONs a maze/puzzle game. I put a few .jar/win32 files up on github a while back, still looking for a J2ME emulator that runs in the browser. github.com/lardratboy/S...

From three or four simple prompts in a chat window I got more or less what I described working and live on the internet, amazing times we live in. #anthropic #claude #artifact

For anyone not familiar with DREAMM, it's an emulator I've been working on that runs a good chunk of all the DOS, FM-Towns, and Windows games released by LucasFilm Games/LucasArts. It runs on Windows, MacOS, and Linux systems, both Intel and ARM-based. Download here: aarongiles.com/dreamm

Time to repost this to #gamedev

#introduction post, if you want to hear about my past at working at Humongous Entertainment and LucasArts on the SCUMM system/tools etc, I did an interview a couple years ago about it ( podcast about game tools from the past century :) soundcloud.com/talkiefile/h...