Plagiatus

@plagiatus.net

Game Dev | Full Stack Dev | Uni Lecturer | Minecraft Mapmaker I create things. Mostly stuff I enjoy or that fill a need. And then I share those things with the world.

Decided not to go with the joints solution for #ProjectFlipDot for now. I tried a different method to print two-colored dots and it worked out a lot better this time. I also fixed the mistake I made with v6 concerning the flip size. Yay. I also did some first electronics tests, but without success.

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Plagiatus@plagiatus.net · 6mo ago

Since I need to combine two differently colored parts to be able to properly print them, I've also done some tests for joints. It was sort of successful, but I'm not that happy with the results. Will need some more tinkering.

v3 of #ProjectFlipDot. I like the one closed off side, but the other side is still too tight and too flimsy at the same time. I also tried printing it in 2 colors, as the final product would be, too. Baseplate was really bad, so I resorted to making it white and painting it black with a sharpie.

A Flip Dot module, turned so it only shows the white side.That same flip dot module, but now it's showing only the black side. You can clearly see that the base module was painted black with a sharpie, while the flip part was printed directly in black.

v2 of #ProjectFlipDot is 2 steps forward, 1 step back. I made the dot modules tileable and tightened the flip guide, but I overshot on that regard and now the dot requires a lot more force to be flipped. Promisingly there doesn't seem to be any bleeding between the magnets.

Four 3d-printed flip dot modules, arranged to show they are tileable. Roughly square shaped with corner cut off for the base plate and half of that for the flip plate. The flipping parts have holes in them, two of which are filled with a magnet.The same four flip dot modules, this time pushed together to show how nicely they fit together.

For an art project of mine I need a flip dot display. Unfortunately they are near impossible to come by, let alone in an affordable manner, or in the correct size. Thus in the new year I'm starting #ProjectFlipDot - my attempt to make my own affordable flip dot display.

For reasons mostly out of my control I decided to redo my website - this time myself and from scratch, because I can't be arsed to use #Wordpress anymore. It's just a static page anyways, so I might as well.

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Sneak preview for the next #tunnelrats update. Update 1.1 will target MC 1.21.5 for now - maybe also 1.21.6 if mojang didn't break too much. But unfortunately it's not just an MC update I need to work on for the next update... 😉

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After a week of #GDC2025 I'm very exhausted but very grateful to have had this opportunity. Met lots of cool people, learned lots of cool things, saw lots of cool stuff! (There is so much going on! Attached is the event schedule for just Thursday afternoon. And don't forget about the Expo Hall!)

Arrived in San Francisco for #GDC yesterday, my first time in America. I'm really excited to be here and to meet people and to try the food and and and... Let me know if you got a recommendation of what to do and especially where to eat!

Alrighty then - here is the result of this careful refactor. So far it's untested, but since I changed it everywhere I can start testing now. Wish me luck....

Screenshot of a git commit on github. It indicates that 76 files where changed, 412 lines added and 369 lines removed.

I've been thinking about streaming 🎥 my #mapmaking process - at least for the public projects. Figured I could start right now. Realized I am doing a big rewrite of the storage structures atm that not only requires all my attention but is probably also super boring to watch 😆 #indiegamedev

Why did nobody tell me that I can write my own type definitions for #DHP? This is a #gamechanger for my mapmaking process, especially in data heavy projects! Thank you merak48763 on the Spyglass Discord Server, you just made updating my project a lot better! 💚

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Phew. I realized earlier today that I didn't look into my Plagiatus email inbox for over half a year. I just finished going through those dozens of emails and replying to all of them. For most of them my reply will be too late, but maybe it still helped some of them.