grapefrukt

@grapefrukt.com

.1x engineer. makes games: holedown, subpar pool, rymdkapsel & twofold inc https://grapefrukt.com

I'm late to the party with this one, but the bundle is still up for a good few days! I've got a game in there too!

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 6d ago

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To commemorate the 842nd anniversary of the Erfurt Latrine Disaster, when sixty noblemen drowned in shit, we're having some thematically appropriate chocolate mousse.

A photo of a glass with layers of chocolate mousse, raspberries and whipped cream.

am i being silly or is the steam "sales & activations reports" site just not working right now? i came in to the office to knock out some quick tax stuff and this isn't exactly helping!

this is a bit of a niche skeet, but GOOD LORD do i appreciate having a build server set up. making the game magically appear on my devices without having to use a single braincell is extremely worth the effort it was to set up (and maintain). total luxury!

a progress bar showing a build in uh, progress

making the playfield vary in width should be straightforward. i just gotta update the places these are used at to pass along a second parameter. (spoiler: it is not easy and it is used in 50+ places)

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i found my playdate in a drawer and the game i made for it three years ago (and never released) and it's actually kind of good? do i have it within me to actually get that out the door this summer? mayyyyybe?

i had a think about this while biking to work and i would say my main gripe with node based things (in this case unitys shader graph) is that the minimum visual size of an operation is too big as compared to its text counterpart. here i'm doing uv += float2(time*2, 0) this lil wrangle takes 4 nodes!

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Robin-Yann Storm@rystorm.com · last mo.

Whenever someone mentions that blueprints and visual scripting can become a big noodle graph of confusion, all I can think is: Oh yeah, all those .cpp and .h files with references, public and private values, definitions, are so much easier to track, and no bug ever occurred because of that, right?

I went to the countryside and did a little game jam last weekend. Finally got around to make a proper game out of all the oscilloscope stuff I got figured out years ago. This is snek, two player versus, one button per player. Eat the other players tail to win.

i put a temperature sensor in my office and now i'm cursed with the knowledge that the temperature drops by like 2 degrees at 05 each morning. why? why?! (i don't need to know why, it's all a trap set up to keep me from doing anything of value with my life)

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i needed a bluetooth proxy in my garden because of reasons. it's hilarious how absolutely tiny that little microcontroller is compared to the enclosure and power brick. i didn't even attach it to the enclosure, it's light enough that the cable holds it just fine!

a tiny microcontroller inside a waterproof enclosure alongside a 5V power adapter.

my dropbox subscription is about to renew and i would very much like to not pay them anything. the feature i still use that's non-negotiable is the fact that it can sync photos from my android phone without me having to do anything. is there a self-hosted thing (or things) that'll do the same?

this is 100% undiluted hilarious to me. funniest way to do karaoke bar none. now, wonder if i can score a period correct monitor to display this abomination?