Bath day.

Will add a couple more filter styles to Comicscope soon; I'm not going to get bogged down with styles this time. Instead, I'll get bogged down with UI/UX stuff.

Comicscope's TestFlight beta is open: testflight.apple.com/join/dBGtmEBY Comicscope turns snapshots into a comics-inspired photo collage. Take photos, import images, rearrange frames, and share the results.

I ate a piece of arugula and it tasted like playing a computer game on my Apple IIgs in the 1980s. 🤔

Finally ready to submit to TestFlight.

It's the weekend! Why not challenge yourself and get outside for a walk🚶or wheel 🧑‍🦽that starts and finishes where you live? 🏡 Create, save and navigate as many routes as you want for free. #walking #wheeling #exploring #indiedev

One week of refactoring and performance fixes. Back to features today. It's now easier to make pages: when you scroll away from the camera, a book button appears. Select frames to put into their own page. You can even do it while making dinner!

Game over, Treatbag! 🐾

Social Symbols 2.0.1 release is on with requests/reports from the community: 1. Update Threads with the new logo 2. New WhatsApp 3. New Pixelfed github.com/jeremieb/soc...

In 10th grade I did a book report on Infocom's Enchanter and I still have the ImageWriter II transcript. (I cheated with Invisiclues.)

I must have every issue of Game Developer magazine. I do not want this burden anymore.

I was going to use the name "Comicscope" in 2012, inspired by this amazing send-away advertisement, but I hadn't figured out the icon until today, when I found a coupon I clipped from one of my old comics.

I have a way to collage a page and export it at different aspect ratios.

Ready to prep this for TestFlight.

Passing Time #pixelart

Palm OS graffiti text input for iOS! strokeinput.com

Gallery and detail view transitions.

@lorenschmidt.bsky.social Happy Birthday!

Mousescroll to wriggle your cursor fingers might have been my game design peak

l love layout algorithms. 🔥

Forget iPhones & spyphones, this was peak tech.

There's no narrative, just the visual weight of the panels on the page.

Working on dragable grid layout.

Gridding up output from the first version of my comics app in 2010.

Friyay

Feels like my best implementation yet. Just the core effects and no extra hoops to fight sensor noise.

I can't believe I'm back here, with this comics filter.

She Bop

Vibecoding with Claude Code ✨

You ever spend like a year and a half trying to make an app as polished as you possibly can and then you turn your head and see this?

Nap on sofa with the loafa

Back at the shader editor work; I have better previews now so I can sub out the buggy Perlin noise for Simplex noise.

I licensed 3D models in 1994, while I was in college, for 10% of sales. Payments were small, but then I got a check for over $2k, which I promptly put towards a new Mac. Then I got a letter saying that the check was 10x too much, and to return it, which I could not, because it was already spent. 🤷‍♂️

It is (was) such a PITA to find all the appropriately sized symbols for individual social networks until I found this cool repository from @jeremieberduck.bsky.social . github.com/jeremieb/soc...

Just got a parity error. That’s a bit odd.

Maybe this has potential? 🤔 I developed it as multi-player tabletop game (with cardboard chits) in 2003, then made several starts at implementing it over the years as a computer game. Players place values (squares) and connectors (triangles) so the math in each graph works out correctly.

LLM turned hours into minutes: I asked for all the layout constants to be put into an editable, floating window with live updating, and a copy button at the bottom. I made my layout changes and pasted the settings text back into the LLM, where it updated with all the constants.

Here's the Shadertoy where you can paint eroded mountains and islands with your mouse, right in the browser: www.shadertoy.com/view/sf23W1 #ProcGen #vfx #GameDev

👀 @jamesthomson.bsky.social #twilightzone

Damn, I was hoping to take a quick nap on the sofa.

CMYK Circle Growth visualizes the growth of a tree structure as a groovy 70s jazz record sleeve. CMYK on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python. Available in my shop: shop.paulrickards.com/cmy-circle-g... #PenPlotter #ArtForSale #ArtSky

OK, now my shader graphs: 1. Use Metal's Function Stitching API to make stitchable shaders from nodes 2. Bridge custom/compile-time Metal code with stitchable nodes 3. Allow graph files to be used directly in my Metal-based applications, such as the RealityKit harness (second image). 4. 🔥

Winter landscape. 270x150px #pixelart

Editor progress. I've fully recreated one of my text-only shaders.

I have a hunch that flowchart/graph-based software design will pair well with LLM coding in the future. Both are high-level. Coupling between components is visible, as are dependencies, architecture choices, etc. Software can be built from smaller, well-tested components.

Given the chance, I would use this editor for every one of my graphics pipelines.

It’s spring time here, so I’m revisiting phyllotaxis spiral patterns which are visible in some plants as they grow. CMYK on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter with Python. Available in my shop: shop.paulrickards.com/wildcards/ #PenPlotter #ArtForSale #Art #ArtSky

Progress on shader graph editor