jonikorpi

jonikorpi, 1 year ago to gamedev

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev

jonikorpi, 1 year ago to gamedev

Sunset at a coastal cliffside town #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

jonikorpi, 9 months ago to gamedev

As I gear up to reboot the gameplay side of this project, I spent some time making the world map nicer. Zoomable UI goes zoom! #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Camera smoothly zooming far out of a stylized island in the middle of an inland sea. The zoom-out reveals a watercolour-esque world map, with various colourful biomes.

jonikorpi, 11 months ago to gamedev

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Night-to-day transition at a cliffside desert gulf, in a stylized game world. Dramatic fog and shadows. Tiny player character in the corner, with a portrait frame pointing at it, showing an expressive male face.

jonikorpi, 11 months ago to random

Fellow graphics programming nerds: any ideas for how to turn noise (I’ve got gradient, value, and cellular) into a shape with sharp ”tips”, like conifer trees?

I’ve tried:

• pow(noise, someHighNumber), but it doesn’t help with the rounded tips
• 1 - abs(noise), but it only creates long ridges, while I’d like more or less freestanding shapes

jonikorpi, 11 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Advice for newcomers: don’t bother with the official Mastodon apps. Try these instead!

Web: https://elk.zone
iOS/macOS: https://tapbots.com/ivory/
Android: https://tusky.app (haven’t used this one myself, but people seem to mention it a lot)

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jonikorpi, 10 months ago to random

Wild that there’s a new Studio Ghibli Miyazaki film coming out this week, and it’s intentionally launching with zero trailers/screencaps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Do_You_Live%3F_(film)

jonikorpi, 10 months ago to gamedev

New dynamic camera setup! Found a nice blend of isometric-ish viewing and top-down-ish targeting.

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev

video/mp4

jonikorpi, 9 months ago to gamedev

Love accidentally breaking the camera and getting jumpscared by whatever cursed things are happening here #gamedev

Bugged camera sliding along garbled polygonal ground, suddenly revealing a portrait of a character with thick blue hair, rounds scary eyes. The character is making a hamster-like motion with its mouth, for some reason.

jonikorpi, 8 months ago to gamedev

Randomly generated portrait testing! #webgl #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

An array of player characters standing on a cliff by the sea, each with a pseudo-3D portrait above them, styled somewhere between anime and French comic art. Various skin and hair colors, masculine and feminine features, shifting expressions, wonky hair shapes. Forested island with cliffs in the background, more forests in foreground.

jonikorpi, 3 months ago to random

I just think it’s neat one of the best designed Mastodon apps is an open-source web app. https://phanpy.social

jonikorpi, 8 months ago to random

May have just cracked the bigger of the two core gameplay design problems that have been plaguing me all year. Tomorrow I’ll take these awkward region borders and rework them. With any luck they’ll become the core of a turn-based movement system that provides both exploration and tactics.

jonikorpi, 6 months ago to random

Here's a one-time contribution to the "popular reactive DOM-rendering JS framework is actually bad" discourse, because it's apparently been brought over from Twitter and is giving me a headache.

You can build a bad, buggy, or slow website with any framework. The most popular framework is going to have a lot of bad, buggy, and slow websites built with it. Badgering people to use a different framework will not change anything. Thank you and good night.

jonikorpi, 8 months ago to random

Started out making a tile-based game. Ended up with half a game that absolutely does not want to be tile-based, resisting with every fiber of its being. Game design is the most frustrating kind of design.

jonikorpi, 4 months ago to random

Surprised how reasonable these changes sound. Might still be too little and too late to revive the platform, but maybe I’ll consider an iOS version of my upcoming game after all. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/

Pretty funny if non-EU ends up keeping the crappy rules though.

jonikorpi, 5 months ago to random

Seeing bizarre #WebGL glitches like these on Chrome + macOS. They last for a little bit after the page loads and then disappear. The fix is to go to about://flags/ and set "Choose ANGLE graphics backend” to “Metal”. Immediately solves it for my project and at least one other.

Now, obviously our users aren’t going to do this, so this is still terrible. For once I’m glad I still haven’t shipped.

Stylized game world at the edge of desert and forest biomes. Grumpy looking player character portrait. Glitches with gaudy colours and distorted geometry fill the world, and gradually disappear.

jonikorpi, 4 months ago to random

I’ve always had trouble getting used to CSS grid. Even if I manage to get the obtuse syntax right, there’s always weird edge cases that need a pile of min/max-width/height hacks to go away.

Well, turns out 1fr actually implicitly means minmax(auto, 1fr). Explains everything. sigh https://mastodon.social/@jaffathecake/111855606312128833

jonikorpi, 4 months ago to random

Now, fellow EU web developers: iOS allowing other browsers engines does not mean we get to stop testing in Safari.

If we only support Chrome we’ll end up with another Internet Explorer 6 situation. If you weren’t around in those times, trust me: it was bad. Competition is vital.

Please test in at least Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. You’ll keep the web healthy.

jonikorpi, 3 months ago to random

screams in graphicdesignerese

jonikorpi, 2 months ago to random

Splendid list of ways to optimise JS code. I wish this had existed back when I was learning. Would’ve avoided digging around in impenetrable posts about browser engine deep dives and other languages. Really glad it’s all accessible in one place now, with great examples and everything. https://romgrk.com/posts/optimizing-javascript

jonikorpi, 6 months ago to gamedev

Normal reloading vs. hot reloading changes on save.

Annoyed I didn’t implement hot reloading sooner, because it creates so much less cognitive load. It saves time and CPU/GPU power too, but the real benefit is not constantly wiping out what you’re trying to look at and focus on.

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #webgl

My WebGL game and a code editor side-by-side. I repeatedly one line in a shader file, which blends the hexagon terrain tiles to rectangles and back. Every time I save, the game reloads with a jarring flash to white and has to regenerate the entire visible world, which takes several seconds.
Same as the previous video, but the changes I make take effect almost instantly, without a jarring reload. I also change world’s windiness and fogginess a few times.

jonikorpi, 25 days ago to random

Sooo how do we protect the web from AI-enshittification? A new search engine? Perhaps powered by human curation? Easier self-publishing via better social media? Something else?

jonikorpi, 1 month ago to random

Props to whoever it is at Atlus keeping graphic design alive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmMz9QjUHmA

Main menu from Metaphor: ReFantazio, with huge typography on curved paths
Weapon shop menu from Metaphor: ReFantazio, huge typography, grunge styling
Equipment menu from Metaphor: ReFantazio, enormous heading covering the entire screen width, other grunge elements

jonikorpi, 1 month ago to random

So I have this years-old iCloud Photos album I use for design inspiration. 3200 images and videos. I’ve tried various methods of tagging and categorising them, but it’s painful.

Is there a tool that will categorise them for me, or let me search through them with natural language? Doesn’t have to be perfect, but has to be better than a bleary-eyed me manually going through all of them.

jonikorpi, 3 months ago to gamedev

Old prototype from 2021. While my work has improved since then, I think I’ve also lost some crispness of detail. I like the underwater shading and water ripples here.

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Stylized game world coastline, with the seafloor visible, detailed in messy penstrokes