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ghosttie, 23 days ago to random

I think it shows an unexpected level of self-awareness that they've chosen to use a pig as the icon of Copilot

ghosttie, 24 days ago to Game

As soon as I see these kinds of lines on the ground in a screenshot of a #game, I'm immediately favorably disposed toward it

ghosttie, 25 days ago to random

In 2024 referring to a phone as a telephone is an act of rebellion

ghosttie, 26 days ago to random

Markdown is regex for people who have to write something

ghosttie, 27 days ago to gamedev

Spent all of my #gamedev time today trying to get SIMD working to speed up sprite painting and I just get a black screen

I can't tell if that's because I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to vectorization (and there's a total lack of documentation or examples) or because the vectorization in C# doesn't get translated to WASM

It's also really hard to debug because either you get raw WASM or what VS brings across from the browser which I don't fully trust

ghosttie, 29 days ago to random

I've got a question - why isn't there an option to turn off Google's "AI Overviews"?

What do they gain from forcing it in everyone and costing themselves a bunch of money generating nonsense every time someone does a search?

ghosttie, 30 days ago to random

I like how the metaverse didn't happen

Facebook evaporated billions of dollars on it and then just... nothing

Even autocorrect is like "that's not a word"

ghosttie, 1 month ago to random

I have a weird desire for a piece of clockwork, small enough to fit in your pocket or hold in your hand, that vibrates strongly once a second. Like a pocket watch but without the clock face and with much stronger vibration.

I kind of want to hold it when I'm talking, to help remind me to slow down and enunciate.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to exist.

ghosttie, 1 month ago to gamedev

Not sure whether I want to use isometric or 3/4 perspective for my game

It's a big decision because I'm not good at art so it'll be painful if I have to redo it all a different way

It feels like it's really common for people who play games to want to make them. Usually coding is a big barrier, but I taught myself coding and so my big barrier is art...

#gamedev
#indiedev

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

ghosttie, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Pronunciation of the "g" in RegEx:

ghosttie, 1 month ago to random

I kind of want to make a survival game where you have a fullness meter, and you starve to death if it hits 0 but if you eat past 100% you explode and there's 💩 everywhere

ghosttie, 1 month ago to gamedev

OK it's kind of stupid compared to everyone else's #screenshotsaturday but it took me 8 days to get working

I can now push pixels from C# in WASM to a canvas in the browser 🙌

And other people do entire games in a week... 😅

#gamedev #indiedev

ghosttie, 1 month ago to random

I know all the "smart" devices are evil but... I still kind of want my rice cooker to tell me when it's done without having to go down to the kitchen to check...

ghosttie, 1 month ago to random

I can never remember the definitions of "yak shaving" or "bikeshedding"

I know they're generally negative, but I can't remember specifically what they mean

I've looked up the definitions a lot of times over the years, but the information just doesn't stick

ghosttie, 1 month ago to random

Is there any way to make an Android app without sticking your face in the blender that is Java and Android Studio and made up stuff like whatever the hell Gradle is?

Let's say I just wanted a 2D canvas to draw on, maybe some touch events, maybe (if you're feeling generous) the ability to play sounds

ghosttie, 1 month ago to random

Every time there's a Steam sale I have to remind myself that the problem I have isn't that I don't have enough games, it's that I don't have enough time to play games...

ghosttie, 2 months ago to random

So if you remove the browser from the equation is there any point in WebAssembly?

Is it just platform independence because you compile whatever language to WebAssembly which then runs it on the local hardware?

ghosttie, 2 months ago to random

"Eyeballs" is sexist, use "eye ovaries" instead

ghosttie, 2 months ago to random

There are two types of games:

1. Any progress since the last save will be lost.
2. Your progress has been saved.

ghosttie, 2 months ago to random

I'm kind of surprised that email never went deny-by-default

Just assume that all email is spam unless specifically allowed

ghosttie, 2 months ago to random

After the surgery I'm only supposed to eat "soft foods" - that means marshmallows, right?

Right.

ghosttie, 2 months ago to random

I have surgery tomorrow so I've taken the day off work

It's kind of weird to be looking forward to being knocked unconscious and cut open because at least you're not at work...

ghosttie, 3 months ago to random

I don't think I'm ever going to be able to remember my phone number.

It's just numbers!

ghosttie, 3 months ago to random

Hydrogen is short for Hydro Gennifer and is named after Archimedes' girlfriend