birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 5hIt's pretty wild, yeah. *Very* IBM -- overengineered, but there's kinda a logic to it. Limited in some pretty frustrating ways, but I think there's some cool things we can do with it. 100
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 9hProgramming EGA graphics in MS-DOS like it's 1991, playing with some parallax scrolling ideas. #MSDOS #MS-DOS #Gamedev 1214
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 23/08/2026One interesting thing I continually see in MMO devlogs is reports of designers going in with the intent to design systems to make people depend on one another, no-one can do everything etc, only to find out the hard way that *all the players hate that and want to be able to solo everything.* 000
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 11/07/2026open.spotify.com/track/6v4lc6...open.spotify.comSweet TreasureWave Meow · Sweet Treasure · Song · 2020 120
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I keep a file called "wtfamidoing.txt" for these purposes 000
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I am legitimately concerned that this might be part of the plan 000
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I'm sure we can get AI to do all those things, right? Right? That'll be fine, right? 000
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 10/07/2026This depends: is your goal to count correctly, or to get in more trouble? This is a very important distinction. 100
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 18/06/2026"Innovators, Outtervators, Elevators, Darth Vaders" 010
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Honestly I was discovering cool new stuff on Spotify -- for about a month after joining, then it just plays me the same stuff over and over 030
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Streaming Void Stranger now: www.twitch.tv/birdrun #voidstrangertwitch.tvbirdrun - TwitchI'm told this is brain melty? 000
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Quick, cast Magic Missile against the darkness! 110
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 16/02/2025The failure mode of any medium becomes its defining feature. Texture warping is the PS1's vinyl record clicks, pops and scratches. 000
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 09/02/2025In my experience it usually also means "You'll have a much harder time when you DO have to code something because we're trying to hide all the scary details from you", which makes everything that much worse. 010
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Quakenstein sounds way cooler than Boomer Shooter tbh 020
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Def not wrong and I'll watch with great interest 020
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Sometimes you need to let the file simmer, marinate for a while, for the full coolness to develop 000
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Maybe add a little curvature to the screen itself? Most of the old style CRTs are a lil round 100
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Gamers tend to be relatively early adopters for new tech and social media stuff in general, I suppose 032
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 24/11/2024jroweboy.github.io/c/asm/2015/0... Might be a useful referencejroweboy.github.ioMain is usually a function. So then when is it not?It began when my coworker, despite already knowing how to program, was forced to take the intro level Computer Science course at my university. We joked with... 010
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 24/11/2024I've done similar things on a microcontroller -- pulling functions over serial then calling in to them. If you're on a modern machine you may need to handle the write xor execute lockout in memory management or like.. a BUNCH of other potential failure points 010
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 23/11/2024So in C, everything is bytes, *including functions*, which means main can be a char array with raw machine code into it (and so can any other functions) 130
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Welcome to C. Everything is numbers. *Everything*. 071
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 23/11/2024"main is usually a function." Emphasis on *usually*. 2512
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Were the hitboxes ever *actually* smaller? Like maybe for fighting games where the characters are completely different, but I can't imagine that flying in any other kind of competitive game 000
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Ah, the CROTEL CCCCROCATOR, my favourite circuit. 010
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I hear some of the cloud apps show a fake hourglass 'working' cursor for a split second in response to CTRL-S, just to comfort the people who hit it instinctively and panic if the computer doesn't respond as expected. 000
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 16/11/2024You don't use music theory for arps? (quietly hides my notebook full of chords and chord inversions in semitone offsets for every song) 110
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Seriously, I want "new Gameboy game" in a scented candle. 000
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 03/11/2024Okay, this is the best use of this character 0120
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 03/11/2024"Whimsy" is an underappreciated metric for systems of measurement 010
birdrun.bsky.social @birdrun.bsky.social · 03/11/2024DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LmB... #doom #chiptune #8bit #idsoftware #nes #vrc6 #famitracker #msdosyoutube.comDOOM E3M1: Untitled [NES + VRC6 Cover]YouTube video by birdrun 021
