Why did I choose so much pain by going with 2d isometric 🙈

Just discovered MSAA and sample alpha to coverage. To think i spent months trying to Z Sort my shader instanced geometry with my non instanced geometries - an impossible problem. #webgl #opengl

Color grading 2d assets to make them fit into the environment is pretty difficult I've found out the hard way. Lighting direction, luminance can make the assets not blend together. Also no shadows to help blend the transition between different objects 🥶. 2d isometric is a pain I choose 😄.

Harmonized the art styles of some assets and colour graded them to fit the world. Trying out different sizing, wanted some enormous assets like the tree to show some grandeur, but it looks nicer on my super wide screen monitor. alteria.cc #games #indiegames #gameart #gamedev #indiedev

Color grading my assets and getting them to match the biome and each other. 2D doesn't have a lighting physics so alot of post processing needs to be done. alteria.cc #alteria #gameart #digitalart #indiegame #art

The ring was inspired by Stargate. And the monument from the Singapore war memorial. The tree for different factions was inspired by the raintrees in my country and the babao tree. I tried to choose trees which represent the different factions. alteria.cc #alteria #gameart #indiegames #gamedev

Biome changes when reach near the beach. I need to tone down the rocks. alteria.cc #gamedev #alteria

I didn't intentionally design this, somehow by shear luck the procedural generation created this landscape with "feng shui" elements. alteria.cc #alteria #mmo #mud #gamedev #art

Hi all, I've decided to make Alteria Free 2 Play! Check it out at Alteria.cc The goal was to bring back MUDs in a more accessible way. Join the discord here for help if I'm around discord.gg/wReSebQRWu See you in game! #gamedev #alteria #mud #mmo #solana

Hi all! I am pleased to launch Alteria, a 2D MMO/MUD on pre-technical preview today in line with #TOKEN2049. Please check it out at: alteria.cc See you in game! Ps. It's a metaverse game so you will spawn in your geographical region. #gamedev #token2049 #mud #mmo #solana

Your words do matter. It can kill or heal. Destroy or build. Divide or unite. Hate or forgive. If God spoke the universe into existence, you can certainly destroy someone with words.

Gundam seed is a story of the cycle of hate and revenge. It teaches us that humans are very tribal in nature - we care not that we kill others from another tribe, and we care only when someone from our tribe is killed. This leads to the never ending cycle of revenge. #gundamseed

When you first start programming, you try to find packages for everything. When you are older, you try to remove packages. All packages are security vulnerabilies

When AI lies to you and you know because you are an expert in that subject - you think it's dumb. Yet when AI gives you an answer in which you are a novice. You think it's smart. Question: how do you know it is not lying to you?

I can't believe community was 14 years ago, I am old

Learn to code using free tier of ai only. It makes you a better dev. It forces you to actually think about what to use AI for and what not to (to keep within your daily limits) It ensures that you are coding 70% of the time and not brain dead. #ai #coding

Computer games are so much better than doom scrolling. If you are a parent, make sure your child plays computer games rather than social media. Best genres for children: rpg (eq & creativity) and strategy (IQ). #games #socialmedia

When I was young we were told to recite our pledge (most of us just did so without thinking). "regardless of race, language or religion, to build a democratic society based on justice and equality". It's only now that I realize that Singapore is one of the exceptional few.

Haven't posted in a long while, was working on a particle effects subsystem, hope to show soon!

I just discovered soft pastel color schemes and now I want to redo all my art assets 😂.

Kids are pretty good at drawing these days! #art

Everytime I listen to a British podcast or video I need to do it at 2x speed. I realize my country is speaking 2x normal speed.

CEOs say that 50% of their code is written by AI. But what they don't tell you is that, 50% of the code is being rewritten by a senior engineer after reviewing the PR. 😂

What happened to pixelmator, apple bought it and no updates or improvements for more than 6 months...

Procedurally generating biomes, tiles, decorations, elevation using multilayered noise #gamedev #indiedev #gameart

Typescript is so much better than json 😂. Instead of creating .json files, create .ts files. You get json and type validation at the same time

Tamil sounds a little like Korean

Gamedev is literally trying to create an alternate reality - you need to program everything - physics, weather, collisions, personality, artificial humans. You are in a sense trying to be "god" in your artificial world. And it's friggin' hard

Pushing the limits of how many decorations can be shown. It's still quite smooth using instanced geometry

Did some major changes to the UI, linguistics engine, combat system. Combat now has 3 timers: Busy - for the actual action, Focus - for ability cooldowns, Exhaustion - actions such move and attack Directed dialogues styled like disco elysium #mmo #mud #gamedev #indiedev #alt.eria