chopp
@chopp.frag.academy
hi!!!!!!!! idk artist/gamedev. i like the blue hedgehog if you couldnt tell.
does anyone know where five nights at dog facts comes from ive had it on my computer for so long
Found the source for the infamous hyper realistic screaming sound used in Mort the Chicken
SM64 OPTIMIZATION DISCOVERED: as it turns out, the N64's CPU has a unique obscure instruction called "MMAR". this instruction was specifically designed to process all of mario's movement code in one cycle. the retail game DOES NOT use this instruction, as GCC opts to compile it all manually instead.
the secret dark truth is that big game doesn't want to make more genre titles so they keep shoehorning games into ones that already exist until they become way too broad
"Metroidvania doesn't describe anything to someone who isn't already familiar with the games it's drawing that name from" now ask someone who isn't deep into the video game weeds what the difference between adventure, action-adventure, action RPGs, and character action games are
?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! i don't know how that's possible
can't even go to the beach without something poking you. man. i hate it here. get punched.
so i reverse-engineered the code that draws InstallShield's famous background gradient and text and reimplemented gist.github.com/whitequark/2...
sometimes i know it's just nostalgic, because objectively it's kind of a mess. but i love the look of these washed out photoshop-glowing-text anime girl album art banners. this one is from 2002. look at it.
Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.
companies bankrupting themselves trying to make games that looked like this
this is the type of videogame that we think you'd see under a microscope. a paramecium is playing this right now inside a petri dish
this is th efucking gaming of all time
the dark woke secret truth is that making a video / callout posting at all is harassment