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Cheeseness

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I write, make, draw, play, game, and do handsome faces. I made Hive Time. Currently making Fossil Sweeper (a game about digging up fossils), Winter's Wake & Icicle (and a stack of side things).

My avatar is a stylised self portrait with short messy hair, set within a hexagonal shaped slice of cheese with holes in.

#nobridge should not be necessary -_-

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Cheeseness, to photography
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I met some morning friends

A raven sits on the bend of a streetlight's pole against a pale sky
A tiny native bee works its way into a dandelion flower
A masked lapwing stands upright, feathers puffed out, and rage nippies visible. A tense look lies on its face, as it prepares to shout angrily at some out-of-view lapwings who're also being territorial

Cheeseness,
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I also spent a little time with my magpie friends. The older male was doing what looked like some territorial wing-poses

That same male Australian magpie seen from a 3/4 front view, showing that his chest feathers are puffed out
The male Australian magpie leans his head close to the ground to listen for bugs
A younger Australian magpie stands on a small tree branch, legs spread, and neck stretched forward as it looks intently toward where an off-camera noise was coming from

danielalbu, to random
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🎙️ Tune in TODAY for my conversation with the incredible Khris Brown!

🗒️ In this conversation, we discuss Full Throttle, The Dig, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Psychonauts and more!

⏰ Premiering in 15 minutes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUMHbOCLjxg

Cheeseness,
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@danielalbu I know what I'm doing this morning

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@danielalbu This was lovely. Thanks to you both - Khris is always a delight!

SasquatcherGeneral, to random
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Inconsequential thing that bugs me about Star Wars:
In Empire Strikes Back, getting frozen in carbonite was about the most traumatic and melodramatic thing that could possibly happen to a person, and they played it up like it was the end of the world. And then in ROTJ it required a long recovery.

Since then, in the comics and even the Mandalorian, they’ve done it casually to dozens of people, and the effects are no worse than taking a nap.

Cheeseness,
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@ja2ke @SasquatcherGeneral The "Jedi all wear desert hobo robes now" thing has bugged me since the shot of Qui Gon running from a droid army transport in first trailer for Episode 1 >_<

Doomed_Daniel, (edited ) to random
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The Descent 3 Source code has been released: https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3

> This is the latest version of the Descent 3 source code. This includes the '1.5' patch that Jeff Slutter and Kevin Bentley wrote several years ago. At the time, it worked for Windows, Linux, and Mac.

UPDATE: First it was thought to be released under MIT license, but that was just the default LICENSE file Github added, which was later removed.
Now it's officially under GPLv3: https://github.com/DescentDevelopers/Descent3/issues/32#issuecomment-2067716480

Cheeseness,
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@Doomed_Daniel Glad to see the licence situation resolved! I always get nervous when I see people saying "Oh, there's no licence right now, but we don't need to let that stop us contributing"

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Sang with this friend and their family this evening. It was very nice

A female Australian magpie walks through some short grass, lit by the late afternoon sun
A male Australian magpie with scruffy underfeathers stands on the street kerb, looking intensely at the camera. Its black feathers are lit orange by the late afternoon sun
The first Australian magpie seen from the other side, looking over its shoulder, silhouetted in front of a darkening sky

unormal, to random
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What's the toughest boss-level bug you've ever fixed?

Cheeseness,
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@unormal While working on Day of the Tentacle Remastered, I came across a bug in iMUSE (cool dynamic music system) that was manifesting reliably on Linux (other platforms too, but less consistently). Turns undefined behaviour was involved in tracking note duration. A note/sequence might be meant to last for a quarter second, but oh no, we're not always reading from the right place in memory. 8 years later, I still feel a moment of rising panic when the bird coughing sample plays in the intro.

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Roundbord being round this evening

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"If you make your own engine you'll never ship a game"

I'm here to tell you this is BS. Kitsune Tails uses a custom engine built on a custom framework all made from the ground up by yours truly. Neither of these were even remotely the bottleneck for development duration. Turns out that the thing that takes the most time when you're developing a game is all the stuff that is hyper specific to that game and can't be generalized anyway

Not to mention all the, you know, actual content that sits on top of the engine. I can write a json parser and serializer from the ground up in a day or two, but all the cutscenes I had to script for KT took many weeks

Then there's the fact that if I'd used an out of the box physics solution for Kitsune Tails I'm fairly certain I'd never have been able to nail the game feel it has, which is the most core thing to the whole experience

You don't have to make an engine but quit pretending doing it is the hard part of making a game. It fucking ain't

Cheeseness,
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@eniko I spent over a decade and a half feeling that if I made my own tech, I'd never have time to make games. I decided to try drawing some triangles with OpenGL during a game jam in 2014, and it was super empowering.

I've since worked on multiple released projects that sit on top of frameworks like SDL and SFML, and it's been more than doable.

I still use engines from time to time, but wish past-me hadn't shied away from seeing rolling a custom stack as viable for so long.

Cheeseness, to random
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I don't have time to participate myself, but this energy-conscious looks neat! (thanks to dok in the Linux Game Jam community for the heads up!) https://itch.io/jam/watt-wise-game-jam

Cheeseness, to photography
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Hung out with a pink friend and a black and white friend this evening

A close up of an Australian magpie walking through an overgrown garden bed, pausing in concentration to listen for dinner

Cheeseness, to photography
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Go go Gadget neck!

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Mum, Dad, and all three babies under my rosebush

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While writing my 2023 recap, I realised that there were a couple bits of misc art that I never shared here. Let's start with a quick little lighthouse I painted when joining @RexSmeal's "Lighthouse Keepers" community

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A rough example frog animation I made while sharing how I try to think about/approach animating (transcript in the alt text)

A little pixel animation of a frog bouncing up and down, puffing its cheeks out. My comments from the conversation this was made during: "Animation isn't my forte, but I find that when I break it down to key poses that communicate energy/mood and try to be conscious about how weight and momentum need to flow across them, then once I have the timing of those right, I'm usually able to fill in the gaps to get something good enough. Sometimes I'm wrong about what those key poses need to be, but so long as I stay sketchy and focus on timings, I can usually identify that before I've invested a lot of effort. Here's a rough little example, the key poses are the resting pose and the cheeks puffed out pose. The extra frame fill in the gaps like [other conversation participant] says, and ideally help carry energy/momentum across those key poses. If I was investing more time, I'd make the knees raise and lower, delayed a frame behind the head moving to help give a sense of "bounce" The timing there is quick and dirty, but hopefully it helps illustrate how making a frame shorter or longer can help control the flow of energy through the animation"

Cheeseness,
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@aetataureate Thanks! I had thought about this beforehand and did it intentionally, taking care to precede the transcript with a note so that anybody who didn't want to hear it could skip to the next element. I will give it further consideration next time!

gamingonlinux, to foss
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DOSBox Staging 0.81.0 out now with new CRT shaders and lots of graphics improvements https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/dosbox-staging-0-81-0-out-now-with-new-crt-shaders-and-lots-of-graphics-improvements/

Cheeseness,
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@gamingonlinux Oh hey, it's GODS

Cheeseness, to photography
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A couple weeks back, I was cutting down a tree that's too close to my house when I found a nest with eggs in it and decided to leave the job half done.

This afternoon, I saw an occupant (spotted doves don't leave the nest till they've got grownup feathers, so this is a rare sight for me)

A close up of the baby dove, some of its wiry baby feathers still visible

mcc, to random
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What kind of album cover did I just create. Like what genre of music is this

Cheeseness,
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@mcc Zoom,Rot's debut album, Close

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I love their little yellow faces

That same masked lapwing stopping to look straight ahead as it listens for insects in the grass
The masked lapwing leaning forward, preparing to nom a bug
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Cheeseness,
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I think I also saw a brown falcon blazing across the sky, but it was too fast/I was too slow to tell for sure.

Sheril, to random
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Do you have a favorite species?

Mine is currently the wombat.

Cheeseness,
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@Sheril Echidnas for me, but woobar (wombats) are pretty good too!

Cheeseness, to gamedev
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For the past couple months, I've been working on developing Bonesweeper into a bigger game, with the support of a grant from Screen Tasmania! I want to share as much of the process as I can. Keep an eye to this thread in the weeks and months to come! :)

Concept art showing an arid dig site with an excavated fossils visible in the pit. A blue tent with various tubs and barrels surrounding folding tables is visible on the left. A white ute is visible on the far side of the pit. Mountains stretch off into the distance beneath a pale sky.
The new dig selection screen, showing a 3D globe with several markers on it. A marker for New South Wales, Australia is highlighted, showing an information panel with a placeholder latin text as well as icons for size and difficulty. At the bottom of the screen is a horizontal slider for controlling geologic time period. An out of focus office with bookshelves and model skeletons is vaguely visible in the background.
The new museum screen, with placeholder triceratops and stegosaurus skeletons from the prototype visible on the left, a pterosaur skeleton suspended from the ceiling, a display cabinet with trilobites on the right, and various informational posters on the walls.

Cheeseness,
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I spent some of today's stream poking around with hotloading meshes and attaching them to existing skeletons (for character customisation).

I already do this in places with skeleton fossil chunks, and I'd done some previous experiments, but it seems I'd overlooked that vertex group information seems to get broken/stomped on if meshes are exported separately - and not consistently (if they're imported as separate files, that's fine). A little frustrating, but I think I have something workable.

A video showing the placeholder character model swapping in gloved hands while switching between animations to show that they're deforming properly
A video showing the placeholder character model's walk animation, where the hands mesh is deformed incorrectly

Cheeseness,
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While working on a visualisation of the new non-square dig site generation stuff for the upcoming dev log video, this shape came up and made me think of a steg. It was nice to take a break and draw this little friend for fun

That exact same shape painted to be a green stegosaurus. The bottom left protrusion becomes the tail, the top right protrosion the head, and the bumps along the bottom legs to make a stegosaurus rearing up. Breaking out of the original shape is a long tongue poking out, two thagomizer spikes, and a row of plates along its back. Flower dotted grass covers the ground, and the background suggests a dirt cliff face.

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