Made a start on the music and audio gear section of my website… ritual.sh/audio/

Obligatory fastfetch for new OS install... Windows is properly dead to me now, I don't have it on anything.

Added an about page to my site - ritual.sh/about/ Pretty crazy what you can do with just pure html/css and vanilla js these days, lava lamp effect turned out pretty good. #webdev #neocities #indieweb

pals you gotta quit spotify

Very early redesign of my personal site, now on neocities... ritual.sh

I've been kinda cooked on the whole internet thing altogether... Past few months I have been working on some physical collections - music, movies, etc... Just about feeling up to seeing what's going on online again though, I've been making an approximate start by looking into neocities.org

Since we've surpassed 1000 subscribers, I'm putting my money where my mouth is. I'm letting folks decide what happens to my SG (pictured). Do we strip it of stickers? Lacquer it in? Respond to my poll on the #youtube channel here: youtube.com/post/UgkxL94... #MetalSky #MusicSky #MusicianSky

Physical version of the romhack based on the old creepypasta… just in time for Halloween! #pokemon

It's bandcamp friday, so here are some suggestions: Occams Laser did the soundtrack to Bloodthief, it's pretty great - occamslaser.bandcamp.com/album/bloodt... This dark ambient album from Transponder can take you places - exospheremusic.bandcamp.com/album/umbral...

Today’s listen - cheers @eoghanhmusic.bsky.social

Summer is over, kids are back to school, everyone is back to work, littlest one is hitting up nursery 3 days a week… and I have jury duty starting today.

Had a massive deadline at work so that took all my energy the last few weeks, made it though and now on holiday in Cornwall for 2 weeks. Going to dream up some ideas and try and get a mostly full formed gameplay loop in my head.

Spent some time doing some housekeeping, moved some "temporary" files, setup a scene manager, game manager, and a main menu scene. Nothing very exciting, but all progress is progress. At some point I'll have to think of a name for this... #GameDev #IndieGame

Trees got a bit bigger, feels a bit more like a forest now. They also get out of the way when they're blocking the player which makes life a bit easier. #GameDev #IndieGame

Had to drive up to the office today so spent the time pondering game mechanics, I think I have a few roughly worked out in theory. I feel like I'll need something overarching in the end but a few smaller mechanics to get started will be enough.

The camp now actually gets given a spot during the map generation and I have the player spawning there... At some point I'll make it do something and be upgradable, eventually. When I stop just making environments and start making actual mechanics... #GameDev #IndieGame

I added bushes and flowers that are both coloured based on the season this morning. Things are starting to feel a little more alive now... Next up is making paths. #GameDev #IndieGame

I’ve been working on a system to tweak my tree colours dynamically for seasons, and to add slight variance. It currently performs quite (very) badly but it produces cool looking results. I have optimisation ideas. #ScreenshotSaturday #IndieGame #GameDev

Extremely early version of "biomes" - each cell starts with a temperature, moisture level and elevation. Trees prefer certain conditions and are weighted heavily against things they don't like. Also good example of my chunk loading at this zoom distance. Tree materials need work #GameDev #IndieGame

So after spending 2 hours debugging a massive rabbit hole that was leaking memory all over the place (turned out to be my RNG class weirdly) - I have collisions on trees and a shoddy outline. Not sure why its offset, something to do with the camera. Sounds like tomorrows problem. #GameDev #IndieGame

Random grass density ✔️ Random tree positioning ✔️ Chunks that spawn in and out and remember stuff ✔️ This is further than I expected to get. Guess it's time to actually start putting some of this to use. I definitely didn't think about just making a random tree generator too... #GameDev #IndieGame

Was pretty tired last night, but manged to poke out a little more progress. There's dynamic vegetation density for chunks now. Zoomed far out to try and demonstrate the effect somewhat... Grass and trees! #GameDev #IndieGames #IndieDev

Dynamic chunk loading... Greatly reduced range for demonstration purposes, but its mostly actually working. #GameDev #IndieDev #Godot

Very early representation of my initial map generation… foliage density, paths, and oddly round pools. Each pixel is associated with a tile in the tile map and will be used to set its initial data… from there it’ll be up to the player how things develop. I need to add a river. #GameDev

Set up the scene a little more and added a night environment, and some flickering to the campfire. #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev #Indie

Day 1 one of getting back around to working on my own game again. Managed to import some models, and make a camp fire. Great start... #gamedev

Been waiting years for the kids to age into #minecraft - tomorrow we're going to play it together so had to get the accounts and machines all setup. Not sure how I'll fit in the 4th when the baby ages up, but this is a start!

Got around to completing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Enjoyed the journey and the story, puzzles were cool. Less said about the last boss fight the better I think, really pissed on the whole parade. Still gonna play the DLC when it comes out though.

Amazon should publish the top 100 things people name their timers on Alexa

I haven't touched my game since building a new PC, it is on the list of things to get back to. I got a bit distracted actually playing other games at proper FPS, it's been nice.

Shocking they’ve cancelled the Wheel of Time show after it started getting good, and yet are powering on with the pure slop that is Rings of Power.

Hello World.