hogsy

hogsy, 4 months ago to random

Just had the idea to introduce the concept of brushes to my engine, with the ability to save and instance them. Will probably add an ability to have different types, so for now can go with a geometry type and I can just migrate the geometry in the current world I'm using for testing over to that, and then look at adding other types later (perhaps ones that work akin to more traditional brushes).

hogsy, 4 months ago to random

Finally vomited up some thoughts on The Game Awards from the end of last year.
https://www.hogsy.me/2024/01/thoughts-on-game-awards-2023.html

In summary, I think I pretty much felt the same way about it as I've seen many others feel.

burgerbecky, 4 months ago to random

To paraphrase Dr Seuss: Don't cry because Jennell is gone. Smile because she touched your life. I wish that one day, she may touch my life again.

hogsy, 5 months ago to random

You know, my first work experience was for a company that had a load of spreadsheets that needed to be translated in bulk. I worked there for a day throwing together a solution, though was bottlenecked by the fact that the requests to Google to translate were getting rate limited.

Anyway, let's just say the owner of the company chewed me out on the first day for not having a ready-to-go solution for it. And that was that.

Still makes me miserable thinking back on it.

gamingonlinux, 5 months ago to random

I'm pretty outspoken against AI writing and I think it's lazy as hell to use it to make articles. Other creators reached out recently to note that "SteamDeckGaming" has been using it.

I asked them directly, and they admitted to it.

As an independent creator I think it's incredibly lazy, and ridiculous to try and pass it off as your own work. It's literally crushing the whole idea of any kind of actual journalism to use AI to write the articles.

deus_ex_txt, 5 months ago to random

JC DENTON:
I don't have time for games.

hogsy, 5 months ago to random

If you're still using Twitter, which I know some unfortunates are, keep in mind you're using a platform that's now actively and openly being used to distribute child porn, and seems to have absolutely zero interest in doing anything about it. If that's still not enough to stop you using it, well, that's a fucking damn shame.

hogsy, 5 months ago to random

Curious. I noticed in Ghosthunter on the PS2 (using PCSX2) that if I set 16:9 in the settings of the game and then load a save, or start a new game, it seems to reset back to 4:3.

Tried a few different things, such as choosing 60hz rather than progressive, but didn't make a difference. Wonder if it's a legitimate bug, or the emulator is fucking something up somehow. Will try on real hardware shortly.

256, 5 months ago to random

screenshot from the Ubuntu 5.04 CD (2005)

hogsy, 5 months ago to random

Just implemented experimental package support for Haven Call of the King. The only thing that's missing is handling multi-level directories because I couldn't for the life of me deduce how it's determining that, but otherwise, works fine.

Not going to waste any more time on it.

https://github.com/OldTimes-Software/hei/blob/29ff0cfe0d298187e6197e77ac5a5e375c38e0ad/extras/package/package_haven_dat.c

hogsy, 5 months ago to random

The R* source code leak has been quite interesting to me from a historical perspective, from seeing left-overs from back when the engine was still called AGE and being developed by Angel Studios. Not going to show anything specific for obvious reasons, but there's documentation on the 'AGE Physics Library' and 'testmesh.cpp' (old code with a reference to Oni 2 content).

hogsy, 5 months ago to random

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hogsy, 5 months ago to random

Well, I've played all the others, so the time has come to play the original trilogy.

hogsy, 5 months ago to random

Here's hoping 2024 is finally the year of Beyond Good & Evil 2 🤞

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hogsy, 5 months ago to random

Been getting really damn tired in the afternoons, which is impeding my ability to focus. Urgh... Slightly light headed too.

hogsy, 5 months ago to random

The state of journalism these days.
https://gamerant.com/insomniac-leak-suggests-ratchet-and-clank-rift-apart-was-a-financial-flop/

The leaked documents have dates associated with them. So when they made the original report here, they were looking at what other people were saying, and using that as a source, rather than looking at the documents themselves.

I appreciate they didn't want to risk getting illegally obtained material, but I feel like if you're not willing to properly research something, you probably shouldn't publish "news" about it at all.

hogsy, 5 months ago to random

Got to reveal my Tonic Trouble fan project today, Tonic Detox.
https://youtu.be/ceNc8qmFDFw

You can read more about it below.
https://www.hogsy.me/2023/12/tonic-detox-is-announced.html

hogsy, 5 months ago to random

There's nothing I love more than people asking me for knowledge, and then finding out things themselves and refusing to document it.

Not going to name names, but this is why I'm not responding to requests any more.

damianogerli, 5 months ago to random

This is the first screen of the English demo for Ghostbusters: the Adventure Game. Apparently an Italian team is asking for money (!) on KS for this crude AGS point and click title.
Not only the project doesn't have the rights (obviously) but also clearly doesn't have someone who speaks decent English and can help them.

hogsy, 5 months ago to random

I've heard there are issues with the mastodon.social instance? I'm not really in the loop as I'm sort of in my own bubble and keeping away from drama, but does anyone know if it's worth considering migrating myself over to a different instance? And if so, what would be recommended?