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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 24/08/2026

a test pong program is now running with O3 optimizations on the new out of order revision of the open source RISC-V processor I've been working on.

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 12/08/2026

Made a new tileset over the last few days. Here it is decorating the starting area! #godot

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 03/08/2026

16x16 systolic array I generated with a language I'm working on

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 20/07/2026

A logo design inspired by the systolic array architecture

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 11/07/2026

first frame of doom rendering on our custom RISC-V cpu design. this is so insane

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 27/06/2026

Epochs vs Loss on Mnist with AdamW 256 Batch Size Model is 784->128->relu->10

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 18/06/2026

We're doing WebGPU font rendering now 🔥

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 17/06/2026

Quadratic spline curve rendering on the GPU is a particularly interesting challenge. I'm approximating distance with the Newton-Raphson method which works most of the time, but breaks down with extreme curves.

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 14/06/2026

redesigned our CPU to be fully pipelined and our test pong program is working on it again!

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 04/05/2026

Last image before our Go Pro died on our high altitude balloon we (MIT Satellite Team) launched last saturday

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 24/03/2026

Implemented a cool glitch effect that I can but on an arbitrary mesh. It's like an object your mind refused to see. #gamedev

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 17/03/2026

What do your laptop stickers look like?

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 07/03/2026

this is a screen being driven by a program I wrote bit by bit in machine code, being executed on a RISC-V processor I'm designing. I'm freaking out right now

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 16/02/2026

This weekend I thought I might build something with HE at tree hacks but I didn't think I would figure it out in time. BUT, I somehow did it and I'm sure proud of what came out. 😊

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 07/02/2026

Pulled a server out of the trash at MIT and it works somehow :D

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 03/02/2026

Working on a new website design. Hoping to use it as a portfolio and place to post some blogs in the future.

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 22/01/2026

the personal compute cluster 🙏

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 15/01/2026

the debug indicators from our battlecode 2026 bot looks kind of like abstract art. it's kind of cool lol

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 08/01/2026

Some drawings I did recently #art

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 02/11/2025

i cant make art i cant make art maybe i can make art #art

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 07/08/2025

Don't worry he'll stand guard #pixelart

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 01/07/2025

I've been having fun practicing drawing. Here's my attempt at Frieren earlier today #art

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 18/06/2025

Someone suggested I should add something to shoot at

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 17/06/2025

Drew some underwear hanging on a line

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 16/06/2025

Here's a look at the lobby where you'll wait for you friends to join #pixelart #godot

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 01/06/2025

Death animation. Imagined it like an old cartoon where the circle closes around the character. #gamedev #godot

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 06/05/2025

10 minute #pixelart doodle. Practicing some bark

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 28/04/2025

Late night composition practice #pixelart

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 08/03/2025

Each of the three different locations have now been ported over. #godot #gamedev

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 07/03/2025

I'm just about finished porting the swamp to the new worldgen. #gamedev #godot

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 06/03/2025

I'm starting to port over the swamp location to the new worldgen. #gamedev #godot One of the challenges I'm going to face is trying to figure out what types of rooms a swamp should have? I'm thinking spindly with tighter corridors might be fitting?

Pixel art screenshot of a work in progress top-down video game. The location is a swamp.

Pixel art screenshot of a work in progress top-down video game. The location is a grove.

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 16/02/2025

Just finished this pixel perfect waving foliage shader today, I think it look reaaaaaaly cool! But I'm not sure if it is too subtle or intense? #gamedev #godot

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 13/02/2025

So the new world generation now works in multiplayer! Really excited to see how play testers are going to respond to the more interesting world. #gamedev #godot The syncing is actually just sharing a single seed, and everyone generates the world from the shared seed.

Two windows showing two clients connected to each other

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 09/02/2025

Still chugging along and improving the visuals. I added some more decorations to the edge of rooms. Hopefully it adds some more interest to the visuals. #gamedev #godot

A pixel art screenshot showcasing edge decorations scattered around a room

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 08/02/2025

Just added edge decorations that occupy space. You can see the trees no longer horrendously overlap 😅, and I think it looks much nicer! #gamedev #godot

Screenshot of pixel art styled game showing off tree sprites generating around the edges of a level

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 06/02/2025

I'm hoping decorating the outside edge like this will add a lot more to the visuals over the previous borders which looked like this

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 06/02/2025

Just got trees to start generating around the edges of the level! The current tree placement is very hacky so you can see they often overlap, which I'll try and fix tomorrow. #gamedev #godot

An in-game screenshot showcasing tree sprites generating around the edge of a level, pixel art

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 05/02/2025

Using the flood fill algorithm, I can now calculate edges around my rooms to (hopefully soon) add some edge decorations. #gamedev #godot

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 04/02/2025

Today I implemented edge flow field generation into my room layout tool. Using this, I will be able to decorate the outsides of rooms, and place different decorations at different distances. So for example, trees have to be at least 3 tiles from the inside. #gamedev #godot

A screenshot of the Godot game engine displaying a flow field surround a room layout

A screenshot from in game, displaying the same room layout to showcase where the decorations will be placed.

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 27/01/2025

Procedurally generating decorations works now 🥳 Every single thing you see here was procedurally generated except the player (of course) and the locations of the walls, that's hand designed by me, however all of the visuals and decorations are generated on top of that. #godot #gamedev

A screenshot of a work in progress pixel art game showcasing the decoration placement generation

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Outer Cloud @outercloud.dev · 26/01/2025

I want to try out a #gamedevelopment philosophy: I've been tired of managing custom resources in #godot, it feels slow. I think I'd much rather prefer just creating all of the content in code. I've started doing this with my state machine that used to be node based, but is now completely in C#

Usage of a state machine within an enemy script written in C#

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