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Václav Vančura

@vancura.bsky.social

Design engineer at Red Hat. Previously: Microsoft, Xamarin, game developer, illustrator – and photographer, since ever. He/him, Prague, .cz https://vancura.dev • https://glass.photo/vancura #gamedev

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Václav Vančura@vancura.bsky.social · last mo.

I’ve been writing demos, games, and engines since the early 90s. I missed it – and wanted to make a game again. As I wasn’t happy with what’s out there for the web, I built my own engine instead: BLIT386: blit386.dev Take a look, tell me what you think :) #gamedev #webdev #indiedev #retrogaming

BLIT386

A palette-first retro game engine for the web. Change what a color means, and everything drawn in it changes at once.

blit386.dev

BLIT386@blit386.bsky.social · last mo.

I’ve been working on BLIT386 for a couple of months now – a palette-first retro engine for the web. The idea: you draw with numbered colors instead of RGBA, so redefining what color 3 means recolors everything drawn in it, instantly. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #webdev #TypeScript #WebGPU

Václav Vančura@vancura.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Three different companies. Three different hiring managers. Each one told me a version of the same thing when I followed up on my application: “OMG, I wrote you the declination email and forgot to click the send button, sorry bye.” vancura.dev/articles/99-... #DesignEngineering #JobSearch

99 Resumes – Václav Vančura

Ten months. Roughly a hundred applications. Fifty-three declined, forty-four never replied, and ten I walked away from. This is what looking for work at forty-seven looked like.

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Václav Vančura@vancura.bsky.social · last yr.

Yours truly will discuss the new design system I’ve been working on, how I created a celebration microsite (and how I failed twice), and what’s coming for Podman Desktop settings. Please join us next Thursday.

Podman Desktop@podman-desktop.io · last yr.

👋 Hey folks! Our next Podman Desktop Community Meeting is on Thursday September 25, 9-10 AM ET 🎉 Come hang out with us to chat about what’s new, share ideas, and see what’s coming up next. It’s a great way to connect with the community and get involved 🚀 👉 buff.ly/MgYbjsy Hope to see you there! 🙌

Václav Vančura@vancura.bsky.social · last yr.

I guess my body needs to make a game again. Tell me, is the Steam Deck good? Frankly, I am more a gamedev than a player. I enjoy creating worlds rather than playing games, but I would love to have a device that I can go to the pub with and brainstorm on.

Václav Vančura@vancura.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi! I am working on typography enhancements for @podman-desktop.io's Terminal: • Custom font selection & upload • Accessibility presets for dyslexia/low vision • Contextual typography controls • Dynamic adjustment during workflows Check out our design discussion: github.com/podman-deskt...

Terminal Typography Enhancement · podman-desktop podman-desktop · Discussion #13020

Hello Podman Desktop community! The Podman Desktop team is working on a comprehensive typography enhancement for our Terminal experience. We've heard your feedback about the need for better font cu...

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Václav Vančura@vancura.bsky.social · last yr.

Let’s continue with Windows, particularly WinUI/Fluent. Shadows are interesting: they appear to rotate in 3D around the X-axis. The top part of the shadow is closer to the window edge than the bottom part.

A high-contrast image of the Windows window shadow reveals that it's a bit rotated.
Václav Vančura@vancura.bsky.social · last yr.

High contrast themes in macOS Tahoe are quite unfinished, and I hope they will be improved. For example, traffic lights have two inner strokes: one normal 0.5pt stroke (used in all themes) and another HC-only 1pt stroke. See the image ALT descriptions for more details. FB18296718

A zoomed screenshot of macOS Tahoe traffic lights in high contrast light theme. The thicker inner strokes are much darker than the outer stroke, which makes the control look blurry. The Close button uses an almost invisible red, while the other two buttons are black.A zoomed screenshot of macOS Tahoe traffic lights in high contrast dark theme. This is even worse; two strokes actually reduce readability, creating a sort of poor-man's blur.
Václav Vančura@vancura.bsky.social · 2y ago

I should introduce myself. I’ve had a lot of roles, but the more interesting was as a Design Lead for Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio for Mac (though I worked on other Xamarin and Microsoft developer tools). In recent years, I switched to #gamedev. You can play a game we made on Steam for free:

Laserboy on Steam

Help Laserboy escape The Scientist's experimental vision facility without racking up a massive bill. 13 levels of mayhem and confusion in glorious CRT vision. Now with challenging new achievements!

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