Oof. Being An Indie Dev I Have A Spare Stylus Just In Case Mine Breaks And I Have To Wait For A New One

A fun thing about computer skills is that as you have more of them, the number of computer problems you have doesn't go down.

This is because as a beginner, you have troubles because you don't have much knowledge.

But then you learn a bunch more, and now you've got the skills to do a bunch of stuff, so you run into a lot of problems because you're doing so much stuff, and only an expert could figure them out.

But then one day you are an expert. You can reprogram everything and build new hardware! You understand all the various layers of tech!

And your problems are now legendary. You are trying things no one else has ever tried. You Google them and get zero results, or at best one forum post from 1997. You discover bugs in the silicon of obscure processors. You crash your compiler. Your software gets cited in academic papers because you accidently discovered a new mathematical proof while trying to remote control a vibrator. You can't use the wifi on your main laptop because you wrote your own uefi implementation and Intel has a bug in their firmware that they haven't fixed yet, no matter how much you email them. You post on mastodon about your technical issue and the most common replies are names of psychiatric medications. You have written your own OS but there arent many programs for it because no one else understands how they have to write apps as a small federation of coroutine-based microservices. You ask for help and get Pagliacci'd, constantly.

But this is the natural of computer skills: as you know more, your problems don't get easier, they just get weirder.

Dumb bbkaz doodle for my soul

Tofupixel is providing a 30% off link to Pixquare, pixel art software for iOS that is similar to Aseprite. This is awesome because AFAIK there’s only one other good app for that (pixaki), but the interface does not resemble Aseprite and it still is missing some functionality.

UI maka me crazy

I know Snake’s just running back and forth and it looks boring, but I’m kind of proud of this tree, and the skid-out animation as he changes direction, both of which I did today.  Hopefully we’ll be able to get some actual gameplay capture gifs going soon, because Photoshop is kind of a PIA for showing off the animation in a real environment.  Things are still a bit glitchy on that end right now!

#metal gear solid #peace walker #fanfic

how my practice has been going

Consequences of your actions

Sure, I’ll come along for the ride.

Many apologies for this.

Just the most basic level possible to test out the platforms and sprites, and some backgrounds.   We know Mother Base is supposed to be hexagonal, but that geometry is way too complicated to depict in a 2D 8-bit-ish environment!   There will most definitely be a Hello Kitty AK-47.  After all, this is 1974 and that’s about the time when Hello Kitty first appeared.  

This is the real Tumblr right here. Sensual descriptions of pain plus entomology.

this from the guy who wrote the sting pain index, a scale he constructed after letting himself be stung by insects