Huh. I guess I need to add an upper limit to the number of rocks that will be added to the playfield in my wireframe asteroid game.

I finished a test run and accidentally left the window open. The game happily kept landing thousands of additional asteroids […]

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@ike It’s such an obvious development too, and it’s going to consume everything. Photoshop is a high value target, but no piece of software will be immune. The people looking at PhotoCraft and saying it’s not a 1:1 replacement today are not seeing the trajectory.

GTA VI will have recompile […]

Very cool experimentation space, and very similar to the movement lab I'm playing with for my asteroids game. Lots of sliders to fiddle with while playing to find the right feel. https://patkerr.co.uk/2d-vehicles/

I've been spending some very late nights and a few very early mornings on something I'm super excited about.

Here’s a teaser image. It’s made for — and absolutely pops on — high dynamic range screens, but it turns out I have zero handle on how to actually […]

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#inktober Day 8: Stinky.

Fascinating read with lots of great interactive animations on how early machinists dealt with imperfections in their tooling.

How Machines Learned Precision:
Accuracy from Iron in the Industrial Revolution
https://glinscott.github.io/how-machines-learned-precision/

Spider-Noir was a lot of fun. But I’m a sucker for all the noir tropes, so every long shadow, smoke-filled room, and Dutch angle made me smile. And that’s before we even get to Cage’s zany performance.

The Outstanding Cinematography Emmy Award is well […]

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#Inktober Day 6: Ogre

Finished #CrusaderNoRemorse, and I’m pretty sure it was the first time I’ve ever done so. As I pick up old games from my childhood, I’m realizing that I wasn’t too hung up on actually finishing anything when I was young. I remember playing Crusader a lot, but […]

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#Inktober Day 4: Cactus

Plus timelapse

@mossyfoot Whats the HTPC interface of choice these days? 20 years ago I built a Meedio box, i'm sure the landscape gas changed a lot since then.

#Inktober Day 3: Miniature

This is definitely a 90’s office building. Pink and teal walls, glass block partitions everywhere.

#CrusaderNoRemorse #RetroGaming

#Inktober day 2: Relic.

Meh. 🫤

Here's my #inktober apple. Mostly just scribbles trying to remember how procreate works.