MenacingMecha

MenacingMecha, 2 days ago to random

have my game concept and assets all prepared for the Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 (https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2024)

will be using the fennel/love2D graphics test i've been posting recently as a basis to make something ECS-y

https://codeberg.org/MenacingMecha/love2d-bounce-test/

MenacingMecha, 4 days ago to gamedev

any folk have experience with #MailingList providers for small businesses? (#gamedev especially but all welcome)

looking for any and all input/recommendations/warnings

MenacingMecha, 6 days ago to random

🎬 watched Miller's Crossing (1990)

Ehhhh.

Hard to follow for the first 30 mins, has some great scenes splattered about, but doesn't set up a goal or meat to sink it's teeth into, so you end up just waiting through plot beats until it ends, which is always what you want from a movie.

While everyone else gives a fantastic performance, things are hampered by the protagonist being an absolute unlikable charisma void. I do not care for his plight. He is not interesting or entertaining to follow.

MenacingMecha, 6 days ago to gamedev

following up last week, here's a skip a private playtester sent me that - no hyperbole - I did not think was possible

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #GodotEngine #n64 #y2roll

video/mp4

MenacingMecha, 11 days ago to random

#love2d bouncy graphics test w/ #fennel

Small window featuring a naga bouncing and rotating in place, in front of the code driving the animation in Emacs

MenacingMecha, 24 days ago to random

🎬 watched Pass Thru (2016)

4th Breen movie, and we're back to DVD quality, because sure.

Probably the hardest to follow - despite having the least amount of abstract experimental content of all the post Double Down (2005) Breen movies - but I enjoyed it a lot more than Fateful Findings (2013). It's basically just I Am Here... Now (2009) again, but swap "god but alien but god" with "AI but actually Doctor Manhattan".

aetataureate, 25 days ago (edited 18 days ago) to random

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MenacingMecha, 29 days ago to random

any #love2d devs have any experience with the various 3D rendering libraries on offer?

been very impressed with the examples, and interested to hear if anyone's tried them or used them in games

• https://github.com/rozenmad/Menori/
• https://github.com/3dreamengine/3DreamEngine/tree/master
• https://github.com/groverburger/g3d

MenacingMecha, 1 month ago to random

🎬 watched Rollergator (1996)

This is some true lower rung iceberg shit.

Found it weirdly not hateable, despite there not really being anything to like?

Creature is boring and plot is both barely existent and very hard to follow, not helped by almost the entirety of the dialogue being completely drowned out by completely unfitting stock acoustic guitar that plays throughout the entire film. Literally. It never stops.

Excited to explore this director's filmography further.

MenacingMecha, 1 month ago to random

finally properly clicked for me what "lambdas capture their environment" means, as in "you can define things in-scope before the lambda is defined, and then those things will be captured in the lambda even after they've gone out of scope"

every example I tried to look at previously just ended up being like verbose syntax vomit

practical gdscript example:

var x := 1
node.example_signal.connect(func(): print(x + 1))

MenacingMecha, 1 month ago to random

🎬 watched The Dark Crystal (1982)

Very solid puppet fantasy adventure/wage gap allegory.

Have explicit memories of watching a scene of this on TV as a kid, getting scared and immediately turning it off. I'm not sure what scene that was on finally watching it, as I seem to remember the evil chickens in a white crystalline environment, but there's nothing like this in the film.

MenacingMecha, 1 month ago to random

🎬 re-watched Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

What a nice movie. Even the light homophobia is warm-hearted.

Watched this while I had the first aura migraine I've had in years (full vision had returned), and it was like chicken soup for the brain.

MenacingMecha, 1 month ago to random

watching a yt video essay where "i looked at a very old website, got a 404, so i used wayback machine and it worked" was delivered like a huge plot twist and got so irrationally angry

aetataureate, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

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MenacingMecha, 3 months ago to random

🎬 watched I Am Here... Now (2009)

Breen's back, running around Vegas as God (sorry, an alien) removing people's eyes, and occasionally cosplaying as The Nameless One from Planescape: Torment for a reason I cannot fathom. What's not to love?

While it doesn't reach the heights of Double Down (2005) (and it's structure is a lot weaker), it's still constantly entertaining, and time flew by when watching it.

There's a lot of directly saying themes and it is always extremely funny.

MenacingMecha, 3 months ago to random

🎬 watched Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Man, I thought this was gonna be a shoe-in, but I ended up not really liking it.

While I knew going in that there was a "life in wartime" setting, I expected this to just be a backdrop, instead of "actually just the whole movie". The balance is so off with the "little girl dark fairytail" that they feel like minor setpieces that don't fit right with the rest of the film. It is just misery porn where the main character doesn't get to do anything.