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ghosttie, 28 days ago to random

There are English idioms which just sound disgusting to me

"Fill your boots" - for some reason I imagine a person with diarrhea wearing rain boots just standing there crapping until their boots are full...

"Soup to nuts" - why are you putting the soup there? That's not where soup is supposed to go. Now you've ruined the soup. Why are your nuts even involved in this process?

wildrikku, 29 days ago to random

I just learned of a person who completed Hades despite being blind and... HOW? They also commented on Beat Slayer being almost suitable for blind people. I am impressed and confused - and curious. Apparently it does not take too much to make games accessible for blind people so... maybe I should learn more about that.

ghosttie, 29 days ago to gamedev

I've added mouse input events, so it's possible for the player to actually do things - revolutionary!

Unfortunately a decision I made early on to use object-fit: contain; to size the canvas came back to bite me because that meant that it was impossible (difficult) to figure out the mouse position. So I had to redo the canvas sizing, but now everything works as it should.

#gamedev
#indiedev

A black screen with a mouse pointer drawing out "hello" and a smiley face in red pixels

OffTheBooks, 29 days ago to random

Is a #SteamWishlist anonymous? I have an account, but don’t regularly purchase or play games on PC. I’ve been thinking about wishlisting just to bump #IndieDev people, but wasn’t sure about the visibility.

worthlessbums, 29 days ago to random

when the adult on the other end of the phone does not end with "have a good day" or similar, but you reflexively respond with "you too" before hanging up

ghosttie, 30 days ago to random

No. Bad corporation.

ghosttie, 30 days ago to gamedev

Sprite transparency!

It turns out combining RBG pixels with alpha isn't as simple as I'd thought. After a bunch of unsatisfactory googling I found this answer, which it turns out I'd voted up at some point in the past, so I guess that's a pretty good recommendation.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1944193/395319

In any case it seems to work, although I can't confirm whether it's mathematically correct.

#gamedev
#indiedev

A video of a black screen with white characters on it and an animated sprite drawn on top of them, showing that the sprite is drawn with transparency

ghosttie, 1 month ago to random

People living in a pandemic: I'm so sick and I don't know why. I don't know what it is, maybe the flu, but way worse. It's a mystery.

ghosttie, 1 month ago to gamedev

I got sprite sheets working today. When I was testing it I realized that drawing a sprite completely overwrites whatever's behind it, so I need to fix transparency tomorrow.

Unrelated, but something I realized today was that an upside of working on a 2d game rather than 3d is no quaternions 😁

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev
#indiedev

A black screen with a spinning blocky humanoid character bouncing around it

krystman, 1 month ago to random

I don‘t get why Apple keeps making thinner devices. As if that was somehow adding any value. Who loooks at a modern Tablet and thinks „Man, if only this was thinner…“

ghosttie, 1 month ago to random

@ipsquiggle if you pee squiggles you should probably see a urologist

ghosttie, 1 month ago to random

Oh I just remembered Trello

eniko, 1 month ago to random

im really enjoying putting in triple shift days

ghosttie, 1 month ago to gamedev

For my game/engine I chose a resolution of 320x180

My instinct would be to use powers of 2, but this res has a 16:9 aspect ratio so it scales up to 1080p etc. perfectly 👍

ALSO it's close to the 320x200 resolution I remember from my QBasic days

ALSO with the 4x6 pixel font I'm using that gives me a 80x30 text-mode resolution, which is close to the 80x25 I remember from QBasic!

One of my goals was to recapture the joy of that time this has worked out surprisingly well 😁

#gamedev #indiedev

samf, 1 month ago to random

are you fuckin kidding me https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/07/psa-upgrading-apple-pencil/

grumpygamer, 1 month ago to random

Step 1: Stop reading Mastodon.

pyromuffin, 1 month ago to random

getting a thyroid ultrasound today. There is apparently a 1 in 20 chance of thyroid nodules containing cancer - which seems extremely high to me! Luckily, even if i do, it’s highly treatable and almost no one dies from it if they catch it early enough.

ghosttie, 1 month ago to gamedev

Added an FPS counter and some more characters to the font

I'm grateful that the PICO-8 font is CC-0 so I can just copy that instead of trying to find a unique way to fit all letters, numbers, and symbols into 4x6 pixels 😳

I still need to add some characters to the font, then sprite sheets I think

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

A black screen with a white FPS counter in the top-right corner, flickering rapidly between 59 and 60. Also a block of white text consisting of all of the letters of the alphabet and some symbols bounces around the screen.

ghosttie, 1 month ago to random

Oh the PICO-8 font is CC-0, that's so nice!

ben, 1 month ago to random

Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

ghosttie, 1 month ago to random

Using the 1/4 cup measure four times rather than wash the 1 cup measure

lilithsaintcrow, 1 month ago to random

Not even 10am and I have reached the absolute end of my patience. Time for a smoking crater.

0x0961h, 1 month ago to random

Apparently upcoming Pirate Software jam will be web-only.

Welp.

ohmrun, 1 month ago to random

It's weird that one of the vagus nerve techniques is "look right until you sigh, breathe heavy, or yawn"

Ailantd, 1 year ago to random

Picture of an array of tide inspector stations.
The floating thing in the background is not relevant.

#scifi #scifiart #sciencefiction