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BreoganHackett

@BreoganHackett@mastodon.gamedev.place

Irish trans woman creating games, music and art.
Worked on If Found, Started the Haunted PS1, Making Submechanoid (and 1000000 other things)

Pronouns: they/she 💖💖💖
Pronounced - bro-gone

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fabraz, to random
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I'm curious: Do we have any data showing a bump in sales AFTER adding anti-piracy measures to an already released game?

It feels like the negative reception & loss of platform compatibility eclipses any possible benefits.

BreoganHackett,
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@fabraz I think large companies just think ensuring nobody gets a product for free is more important than the overall quality. There's also like DRM companies exist to solve a problem for other companies so they spend a lot of time pushing their services to companies and the people involved in those conversations are just so distant from the realities of the customer or artists.

grumpygamer, to random
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After 6 months, I've had to resubscribe to Adobe PS. I work with too many people who send me PS files and there is no alternative that can open and save them reliability. It sad how many "helper" apps Adobe installs and how often they try to connect to the internet. I block them all, but it's scary. I have to unblock them every 30 days. Please do not suggest alternatives unless you know for a fact they load and save .psd files seamlessly. Do not suggest GIMP or I block you.

BreoganHackett,
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@grumpygamer I mean you could also maybe ask the people you work with to send you a different non proprietary format, surely that wouldn't be an unreasonable ask right? Totally makes sense this would happen but I genuinely hope you don't have to stick with that subscription for too long.

BreoganHackett, to random
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Please learn to enjoy being bad at things.

noio, to gamedev
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generating a mesh for water surfaces that has baked into vertex colors:

  • distance to the nearest shore
  • depth of the water

allows for some very nice effects in shader!

#gamedev #indiedev

BreoganHackett,
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@noio This is the good stuff, I've always wanted to do something like this! Wonder what you could encode in the 2 extra channles, I guess maybe flow if you were doing it for rivers too.

SirTapTap, to random
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I actually much prefer the "American" definition of Liberal (to mean, more or less, progressive) to the classical/European definition.

I understand the historical context but, especially when one party is calling themselves "Conservatives", it's kind of screwed up for "Liberal" to mean "Conservative" as well

BreoganHackett,
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@SirTapTap I think that liberal can't mean what it means in europe to you is more of an indictment of the US political system than any flaw of language :)

BreoganHackett, to dnb
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⚠️ BIG NEWS!⚠️

For #BandcampFriday today I finally released my dreamy dnb album Spaceship Submarine.

It's 5 euros and it would mean a lot to me if you bought it. I've been without my usual paying work for a couple of months and my progress in saving so I can move to my own place and move on with my life has backslid.

Even if you can't afford to buy my music, a listen and/or share would be really impactful. https://breoganhackett.bandcamp.com/album/spaceship-submarine

#dnb #ElectronicMusic #bandcamp #DrumAndBass

Nifflas, to random
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Oh no. Naming problem, the bane of programming. A class detects one of two things, depending on the mode. In one mode, it detects if a point is right of a line. In another mode, it checks if a point is inside a circle. It's used for checkpoints where both are useful ways to define when a checkpoint should be triggered, depending on the checkpoint.

I need a variable name for a bool which signals whether this is true or not - that works for both modes.

BreoganHackett,
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@Nifflas if the class is something like CheckpointValidator (if that's it's only use case) you could have a bool called valid or isValid.

eniko, to random
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gamedevs always dispense the wisdom that you shouldn't make a platformer because the field is too crowded. if you ask me, that's wrong. the problem with making a platformer is that the gatekeepers, the people who decide which games to cover in the press and the people who decide which games get shown in events and showcases go "a platformer? meh"

people, in my experience, are actually pretty hungry for good platformers, it's just that the gatekeepers won't let you market one effectively which means your launch will almost certainly be dead in the water

BreoganHackett,
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@eniko I agree but I also know due to having contributed to it with a project of my own 2 years into learning dev that the genre is flooded with amateur attempts and it can muddy the waters around more considered approaches. Also I think a big reason platformers break through when they're successful is people recognising previous work from the devs. I think you nearly have to prove you can make an interesting game before people will believe you can make an interesting platformer.

BreoganHackett, to random
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rgb = deflection * raydirection

sphere rendered in godot with a debug view for a glass refraction shader I'm working on. Appears as a circle coloured with distorted gradients between blue, cyan and purple.

BreoganHackett,
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abs(raydirection) and it makes a pretty visualiser thing.

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csilverman, to affinity
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folks: what are you switching to?

I've thought about waiting to see how bad it gets, but I don't really want to get any more invested in a product whose future and stewardship (i.e. pricing model) seems uncertain.

BreoganHackett,
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@csilverman I'm not sure which workflow you're looking to replace but if it's image editing I can highly recommend Krita, its free, open source, and been capable of everything I've needed in the last few years without wasting time on novelty or buzzword tech.

dougbinks, (edited ) to random
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Setting up a new PC (Windows in this case but many Linux distros are as bad) is a study in how long I can control my temper at all the bullshit tacked on.

Today I find my taskbar no longer works because I'd turned off widgets. I do not want to know the weather where my ISP has an office, but I do want to run programs, that being the thing an OS is supposed to be for. I got the taskbar working again (widgets on, widgets off fixed that!), but now the task bar is back to searching the internet.

BreoganHackett,
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@dougbinks windows keeps searching %appdata% in bing because that's the function of the first search result when you type it in start but if you type it out and hit enter it actually goes to appdata. Basic functionality I've been using since I was like 13 broken because they couldn't compete in the browser market and make it profitable. My default browser isn't edge it's just what the start menu search decides for you????!

mcc, to random
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Today is my birthday!

If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Abstract art by Vian Borchert

BreoganHackett,
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@mcc some Irish skies

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BreoganHackett, to gamedev
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Look at all the cool stuff I collected by destroying clown caves in my game and stored in the inventory in the first successful save file!

item_dict = {
"m0": 9,
"m1": 10,
"m2": 6,
"m3": 4,
"m4": 7,
"m5": 2,
"m6": 11,
"m7": 3
}

I have so much property yay, noo please don't copy paste my inventory it's mine ;-;

BreoganHackett,
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@onelson Yeah there's one down the road from me, I hear their oversized shoes squeaking as they leave on their nocturnal hunts when I'm trying to sleep sometimes.

BreoganHackett, to random
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First project in a port of my old twine game that was an early response to the rising wave of "can you pet the dog" popularity iirc. Or maybe I was just really missing having a dog to pet at that point.

Either way you can play it on Downpour here:
https://downpour.games/~Hyphinett/dog
And check out the original here:
https://hyphinett.itch.io/dog

godotengine, to random
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How is everybody doing on this Monday? ☕

Any exciting plans for the week?

BreoganHackett,
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@godotengine Get some more work done on my survivors survival game hopefully :3

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lisyarus, to random
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Seen some perlin noise in the wild

BreoganHackett,
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@lisyarus might it be more accurate to call it Brownian noise here? Considering Perlins algorithm is only one approach to digital noise generation and the concept of Brownian noise originated from the study of fluid dynamics.

Nifflas, (edited ) to random
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Best superpower? The power of...

A: 50 Wilhelm screams
B: Movies referencing other franchises owned by the same studio

BreoganHackett,
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@Nifflas I will scream 49 wilhelm screams and gasp the final on my deathbed.

noneuclideandreamer, to random German
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Genuary Prompt 29: Signed distance Function

Also: Monthly High-Resolution Render for Patrons of Level Square and up (25600x14400)

Octrose Pattern achieved by the Cut-and-Project Method:
An 8-D Lattice cut by a skew plane lying through it a 2-face gets projected onto the plane iff its dual 6-face intersects the plane. To check this I take all the 5-faces bounding the 6-face and check their signed distance to the plane.

BreoganHackett,
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@noneuclideandreamer This image fills me with warmth. There's something really pleasant about the colour distribution and facets. Great work!

BreoganHackett, to random
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Shout out to the Utah teapot statue in Smithfield Dublin. It fills me with joy to see real light rays trace its checkered surface!

eniko, to random
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Me: having an anxiety dream about not having attended class all semester

Also me: graduated college 10 years ago

BreoganHackett,
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@eniko anxiety dream? I think this is just maybe a thing I practically did irl at one point 😅

kevkev, to gamedev
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Turned my skate game into a snowboard game. much easier when the feets are glued to the board :D

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BreoganHackett,
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@kevkev the world is yearning for a new SSX imo! I think snowboarding is a good direction in developing your tech and you can come back to skating later.

grumpygamer, to random
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Real or The Onion headline: "Wealthy Dad Surprises Child With Tree House He Can Airbnb For Passive Income"

BreoganHackett,
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@grumpygamer this probably lines up with at least 90% of the tiny house people's life stories

martian, to reactjs

"Overreact", the open-source React/HTML/CSS game engine I'm building now supports basic 3D stuff.

It's still very alpha, and pretty light on documentation, but I'm liking where it's heading! :-D

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BreoganHackett,
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@martian ooh love how the tileset looks!

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