GorillaOne

@gorillatactics.com

Lead Engineer. Experienced Designer. Game Development Mercenary. Two decades of experience. Master of short statements. www.gorillatactics.com

Gave the timeline editor a glowup. GM's running TTRPG games will be able to make player facing and GM Only events, to remind them of what's happening in the game world (or session) as time progresses! Sign up for alpha at loreframe.app

My TTRPG world building app loreframe.app is almost ready for alpha. If you want sometime tailor made for worldbuilding sci-fi campaigns, and also has a really cool terminal app that players can explore and learn about your world with, goooooo sign up.

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More work on the topographic map generator. Now we have hero landmarks (mountains, craters, etc.), meta features (mountain ranges, etc.), the ability to control min/max elevation, ocean levels, etc. You'll be able to get maps like this in my world-building tool loreframe.app

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When players are exploring your world lore, why should they get access to it all at once? Give them the access their characters would have to a computer system. But show them the redaction so they know they are missing something, and want to hunt. loreframe.app

Image of an 90's inspired sci-fi monitor with orange text, most of it redacted and visible as orange bars. The bottom right of the monitor has the logo text "Overprint Vector".

Claude Code Desktop's latest update pins your last message (no matter how long) to the top of the viewport. How did the person implementing this not immediately get punched by the nearest UI/UX designer, or anyone who had even tried it once?

An image of the Claude Code Desktop application, mostly blurred out, with a red box taking up approximately half the output view area representing the users last pinned message. Dumb.

I'm posting a lot about LLM agent usability lately, so I want to take a moment to post the caveat: the current slate of commercial LLM's are built on _stolen intellectual property_ and the fact they haven't even gotten a slap on the wrist is a tragedy.

One area I find Agent LLM's pretty useful is in rote boilerplate. I know this has been said before. But if I have 30+ accessors + OnRep functions and GetLifetimeProps additions to make, instead of having to write the program myself to add them, the AI will do it pretty quick. SUPER easy to verify.

I'm seeing a slate of well thought and written articles about the dangers of LLM usage for coders, and I'm a bit surprised this wasn't all self evident. 1) Just because you are good at programming doesn't mean you'll be good at managing programmers. This applies to "managing" LLM agents.

The hype around LLM Coding Agents is unreal. I've not seen the benefits materialize for skilled workers. When it's a passion project or unskilled (i.e. you don't know the tech stack) it's neat you can stand something up. Something wobbly.

There is nothing wrong with being required to show an id to vote: but if that's the case the government should automatically supply all citizens with a voter card for free when they come of age. Otherwise it's just shifting the cost of policy into the individual, which is bad.

Hardlight Station is back…with a Vengeance! 200+ pages of corporate intrigue and survival horror for @mothership.bsky.social lands on Kickstarter March 3rd. Click below for the launch trailer and get notified the moment we go live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mag...

Coming soon: Dying Hard on Hardlight Station: Anthology Edition

Return to Hardlight Station in this hardback Mothership RPG anthology, featuring expanded locations and new adventures in Sector 1365.

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Some work on my rappeller. It lets the user attach themselves to the ship and rappel down into the clouds. Right now you can place it and interact with it, where it will then move your character into the rappelling position.

I haven't posted politics on this channel. Hell, I barely post at all. But it's important to say that it's never good for the US when the president can unilaterally go to war with another country. It wasn't good when Obama was bombing Libya, and it isn't good with Trump kidnapping foreign leaders.