Added a basic lighting system (& made the isopods react to it). #gamedev

heard you like containers. so I put containers in your containers (implemented chests, randomised loot & openable items) #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #roguelike

→ Actors have a ‘request_verbs’ method → it sends a signal that components can listen for → components respond w actions they theoretically support → request_verbs checks which are valid in the current context & returns a list → UI panel shows the list (I am v satisfied with how this is working)

living next to a tram line has taught me that: 1. a single driver parking badly can make 500 people late 2. this happens about once per week just on my block

with apologies/gratitude to @lorenschmidt.bsky.social, I had to try this idea for tiling patches of trees (each tile is 2 colours + background) #gamedev #roguelike

I think I’m getting a feel for what this UI could be. Minimal, trying to avoid most common tropes (geo sans-serifs, little bits of art-deco filigree)

O grungy dungeon (grungeon), all filled with lice #roguelike #screenshotsaturday

I can’t remember how Qud does the “select nearby interaction” interface but I feel like it was something like this? either way I like this idea of highlighting tiles where something is available to interact with (pick up item, open door, etc), if there are multiple options

it looks the same as it did ~6mo ago, but now the former spaghetti mess codebase is at least vaguely neat

didn’t think I was tired but I have tried to execute the command `gut pish` twice this morning

great that we can save posts now but I would like to go back to ~3 weeks ago when the Discover feed was actually good

had one of those moments today where I discovered a new programming technique and it felt like stepping out of Plato’s cave. which is also funny because if anything it means I’ll be seeing less daylight in the near future

thinking about the time I abandoned a novel halfway through because the protagonist chose to eat dry toast without butter and shattered my belief that they could possibly be a real person

posting this to help any graphic design nerds using blender who happen to follow me: you gotta get this "ST2" addon. It add so many BASIC typesetting features that are just absent from vanilla blender. Case in point: opentype stylistic sets seen here. Saved me a major headache, coldtype.xyz/st2/

spaceship

Somehow a single flower from our Hydnophytum moseleyanum (epiphytic ant plant) was pollinated, so today we have a single tiny berry

it’s so funny to me how fully 50% of people finding my studio website through ChatGPT end up on 404 pages. It generates URL schemes which don’t exist, it attributes competitors’ products to us. A joke

I'm cool. No problems.

Running Mythic Bastionland (@bastionland.bsky.social) for the first time this week. Here’s my attempt at turning the semi-random hex map we made into something more ‘opening page of fantasy novel’

does Cory Doctorow have a word for when a company diversifies its inventory so much it no longer sells the thing it originally specialised in? (my local stationery store sells Funko Pops but not brown envelopes)

annual redesign of my personal website (this time embracing the fact that 1 image per project is about as much as I can ever manage) craze.co.uk

Trying out some cacti, low poly / N64-style (by which I really just mean linear texture filtering). 64x64 & 256x256 versions

We’re going all in on Liquid Glass, right? #css

if I had a euro for every time someone tried to explain fonts to me (a person who makes fonts for a living) I would probably not need to make fonts for a living

bitter about not having a switch 2 (yet) so I have decided to make my own, better version of mariokart. welcome to Greynbow Road

Maybe you’ve heard: every font is free! Since fonts aren’t subject to copyright, you can legally ‘pirate’ them if you use a specific loophole! ...except that’s not really true. I’ve seen this claim repeated quite a lot recently, and it’s missing some pretty important nuance. 🧵 A thread:

Successfully pulled off my favourite trick: spending a day working on tooling, seemingly falling way behind schedule, then using those tools to race through the work and deliver early

late night drawings of analogue storage media

the “a font is a specific style of typeface” definition was actually kinda specific to *metal* type, in case anyone wants to let the people who get their info from chatgpt know

Cat doesn’t want his nice clean water from the bowl. Cat is waiting for me to water the plants so he can drink the soily surface water before it gets absorbed

“You can’t put the genie back in the bottle” is such a bizarre sentiment in AI discourse because keeping the genie out of the bottle seems to require billions of dollars

goodwill? verisimilitude? basic decency? nah, we can save 2 whole days in our 8 year dev cycle if we just fucking steal

psa: if you disable Instagram DMs what you’re actually doing is choosing not to *receive* them. But people can still send them. And it doesn’t show that they’re not being delivered.

the kitchen door shuts with a kind of tap-tap–clunk sound that just barely evokes the opening dun-dun–duuun motif from Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds (1978) (it’s been a recurring earworm for weeks and I’ve only just figured out why)

“Awake, brave Knight, for the Dawn comes not!” — O Knight of Many Stars Cartridge design & custom lettering for the 2025 My Famicase Exhibition at METEOR, Tokyo. #famicase

Had an unexpectedly popular post on the company account (~5k likes) and now I understand what people here have been complaining about re context collapse. Love it when complete strangers explain my own job to me incorrectly

“The code has no errors but still behaves unexpectedly” is truly the “slow wifi is worse than no wifi” of programming (and this tweet is posted at 1:20 am for a reason)

mind step // mind head #gamedev

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Adobe deleting their first BlueSky post because they realize that the artist community pretty much universally hates them now is extremely funny

I guess it’s #PortfolioDay! I’m Rutherford, I’m a type designer running a small foundry in The Hague. We (me + friends) make really good fonts, and distribute them via a model designed to be simple and fair. Studio: mass-driver.com Latest case study: mass-driver.com/article/md-l...

I'm a designer, illustrator & artist looking for work. If you need graphics of any kind, get in touch: 🌐 jackapedia.design ✉ [email protected]

starting to get the hang of Godot’s UI system. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

It’s hard to see OpenAI’s co-option of Studio Ghibli’s style as anything less than deliberately spiteful. There is no ethical use for generative AI. Those who still support it are demonstrating that they do not care.

rusted/iron/steel

came up with a surprisingly easy solution that lets me delete fully 60 lines of spaghetti code AND it’s more scalable AND it’s performant. everything’s coming up milhouse

hot take: the goal of worldbuilding is to make the weirdest possible thing that still retains verisimilitude further reading: Morrowind

You need to talk to the people in your life about what LLMs can and cannot do.

Charles Entertainment Chaplin

kinda messed up how if I want to take ~12m² of public space to park a car I don’t even have to ask, but if I wanted the same amount of space for some plant pots and a table then that’s a crime