iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

shweep @shweep.dev · 25/09/2026

i think i might boycott youtube at some point, not for any ethical reasoning but i think this might be bad for the brain yo

stop guessing what hooks you audience with video a/b testing you can test up to 3 edits of a short or video simultaneously. review the stats, pick the clear winner, and seamlessly lock it in as your video.

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shweep @shweep.dev · 21/09/2026

Ready to develop dig

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shweep @shweep.dev · 20/09/2026

went to an art game conference, was fun

Charlie MacLean and Emily Flinn on their exploration of games

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shweep @shweep.dev · 19/09/2026

went to a digital art exhibit, i think this is twilight

a CRT with a game, depicting Twilight therefore Twilight is art

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shweep @shweep.dev · 14/09/2026

im always like "whaddya mean the backgrounds are just made up of pigmented brush strokes only to show up for a single second?? 😮" every time. ill never get over it

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shweep @shweep.dev · 04/09/2026

Finally can record my snes. SaGa monster: *coolest sprite youve ever seen* *dies in one hit*

Romancing Saga 1 screenshot with elf lady in dragon cosplay???

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shweep @shweep.dev · 02/09/2026

im shaking in my boots.

unlimited saga - you call y-self hardcore

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shweep @shweep.dev · 27/08/2026

This is why Werner Herzog is one of my favorite directors

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shweep @shweep.dev · 27/08/2026

this movie has no chill, every time I think it's gonna calm down it just goes ham. EVERY SCENE IS JUST LIKE THIS, it's amazing

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shweep @shweep.dev · 27/08/2026

watched A Moment Of Romance (1990) I cannot find a single filler shot in this film.

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shweep @shweep.dev · 25/08/2026

redid starting room, actual lighting. #gamedev

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shweep @shweep.dev · 24/08/2026

Watched Wolf Children, i feel like how it ends was complete mercy from the director though when you think about it: it makes Jin Roh look like a happy ending.

Woman in raincoat next to tree, Wolf Children

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shweep @shweep.dev · 21/08/2026

I loved warren spectors interview/lecture series because he'll randomly pause just to gush about the Dragonslayer movie or some animation history.

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shweep @shweep.dev · 18/08/2026

start of a creepy pasta

SOMETHING CAN BE HEARD MOVING INSIDE THE ADAPTER despite this it has been fully tested and works properly - ebay listing

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shweep @shweep.dev · 17/08/2026

refactored it so followers and players are the same thing because why not

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shweep @shweep.dev · 15/08/2026

they now can be moved as if they were the player(cutscene), then be frozen to be animated(puppet), then put into fighting game character mode(combat). they'll likely cycle between these 3 states in the actual battle. nerd trivia: they repurpose lucca's north draw gun animation for side

lucca north drawing gun animation vs side, it's sligggggggggghtly different but less work i guess

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shweep @shweep.dev · 15/08/2026

took me a whole ass morning just to get them to take out their weapons, but with the music i can easily manifest the battle system without a single line of code

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shweep @shweep.dev · 13/08/2026

redoing the sprite drawing and uhhh, marle looking... big

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shweep @shweep.dev · 11/08/2026

syncing this up took more time than the original implementation itself probably

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shweep @shweep.dev · 11/08/2026

apparently secret of evermore basically had RPG Maker-esque eventing in 1994 for non programmers. still curious about what these tools looked like

NL: Can you tell us a little about the S.A.G.E. (Square's Amazing Graphical Editor) and the S.I.G.I.L. (Square Interpreted Game Intelligence Language) programs that were used to help create Secret of Evermore?
Outside the bijou

BF: SAGE was a custom Mac application that allowed you to edit all graphical components of the game, including tiles, maps, characters, animations, effects, that sort of thing. It was also capable of hooking up with some simple SNES test hardware so the artist could run around the map with a real character and test things. That also allowed them to see their work on a real NTSC television, whose colorspace is a strange and wicked thing, quite unlike their computer monitor.

Conceptually, SAGE wasn't terribly complicated. Typically, you'd collect a small palette of tiles on the left from the larger set available to the whole game, and then arrange those somehow in a large work area on the right. On a map, you'd have a palette of 256 16x16 tiles that you could place in various layers of a large gridded map, and have them sort in clever ways to make things like fences or waist-deep water. With a character/animation, you'd instead arrange a set of 8x8 and 16x16 tiles in a totally arbitrary manner, to minimally cover the area of the current frame of animation. Character/sprite tiles are at a premium on a SNES, so you must be very economical.

SIGIL was a simple, high-level scripting language. It could do full mathematical expressions and shuffle variables around as you might expect, but its core functions were higher concepts like WALKTO, TURNLEFT, WAITFOR, (go to) MAP, and tons of similar stuff for controlling scripted scenes, entrances/exits from maps, and game states. These could reference named map locations, triggers, animations, etc. that were set up in SAGE. All of this made it much easier for a novice to work in the language: you didn't need to be a trained programmer, and you usually didn't need numbers. At the same time, the tools were there for programmers to do more complicated things. SIGIL turned out pretty well.

In case any of your tech-minded readers are interested: under the hood, SIGIL was tokenized into bytes, used reverse polish representation for expressions, had local/map/global scope for variables, and could run multiple scripts in parallel.

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shweep @shweep.dev · 11/08/2026

making cutscene tooling foundations, i feel like this aspect of game development is the least talked about and yet it dominates every game with a semblance of a story

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shweep @shweep.dev · 08/08/2026

i find chrono trigger on steam so sad because obviously there's no 1 way for how to convert snes games to widescreen, so the potential ways to mess it up multiply ie having so much random empty space that makes no sense when isolated in context.

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shweep @shweep.dev · 08/08/2026

taking certain liberties... doing an ff7 message box style to avoid having so much empty space in the widescreen. i am also too lazy to do the gradient effect

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shweep @shweep.dev · 08/08/2026

nintendo wii u / bestbuy partnership was the last time anyone put effort into the retail experience 😔

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shweep @shweep.dev · 06/08/2026

heartbreaking: one of your favorite games didn't normalize their directions aka SNES crono moves faster when moving vertically than horizontal

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shweep @shweep.dev · 05/08/2026

1 random detail is the running animations are usually just walks sped up with 2 frames changed (contacts) EXCEPT marle's side walk has unique frames with hair constantly up because of momentum. someone's looking out for marle

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shweep @shweep.dev · 05/08/2026

added marle, and jumping because uhhh ct had jumping right

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shweep @shweep.dev · 05/08/2026

animated multiple cronos,

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shweep @shweep.dev · 04/08/2026

Ass camera pics aside this games style rips dude. I now refuse to share a planet with people who told me to sleep on this because it wasnt called ct or ff7

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shweep @shweep.dev · 04/08/2026

Playing on ps3 (so more pixelated) but they clearly put effort in making the 3d models look good as if they were 2d sprites in just about every angle due to the proportions and distinct colors.

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shweep @shweep.dev · 03/08/2026

there needs to be like sports radio but for esports. i get why dads don't actively watch sports but still want a play by play because wtf at the grand finals GOML thumbnail.

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shweep @shweep.dev · 03/08/2026

went to a very misty beach

sunlight through mist in a tiny lake before the shore

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shweep @shweep.dev · 02/08/2026

crono walking around in guardia forest? seconds preventing moon walking with 4 sprite 8 direction movement? took a whole ass day 🥱 i should probably actually load up an emulator but it'd be funny to do this based off memory

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shweep @shweep.dev · 01/08/2026

i aint fucking around man, barely noticeable height increase from walking over rocks, nintendo hire this man

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shweep @shweep.dev · 01/08/2026

i do 3d cause im too vector 3 brained to do 2d

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shweep @shweep.dev · 01/08/2026

i am in deep post surgery pain... ehhhh why not try remaking chrono trigger in godot

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shweep @shweep.dev · 26/07/2026

made a game jam game for gmtk but got sick half way through so rip jagames.itch.io/naus-impact also rate if you can

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shweep @shweep.dev · 03/07/2026

Show me a cool physical game

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shweep @shweep.dev · 27/06/2026

*in dark souls text* rhino painted

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shweep @shweep.dev · 22/06/2026

oh you found the underground cousin

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shweep @shweep.dev · 13/06/2026

"DnD? My wife loves DnD, whenever she gets me to play, uh well, I get so confused on which die to roll for the damage. If it's the four sided or six sided one. Then there's the spells, geez, I tell ya it's a lot to take in. But say, where were you last night at the convention?"

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shweep @shweep.dev · 11/06/2026

AC syndicate's encyclopedia entries are the most flippant and condescending i've ever read. do they realize the only readers are people who look up wikipedia articles about motorboats for fun (me)

david brewster as written by a valley girl from the 90s

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shweep @shweep.dev · 10/06/2026

got these horror short story compilation zines in the mail, really neat, paper smells nice which is the most important part

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shweep @shweep.dev · 10/06/2026

also this guy is true mascot horror before mascot horror

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shweep @shweep.dev · 10/06/2026

watched the last ep of TADC in the theatre, overall the show reminds me of that one Voyager episode where human fear itself manifests in a VR program. Both I think work the narrative well without resorting to dream logic or being too abstract

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shweep @shweep.dev · 06/06/2026

I dont want to hear anyone complain about tank controls again (because this is awesome)

Explaining the controls of an underwater camera for the titanic wreck

Atari ass looking phone controller (affectionate)

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shweep @shweep.dev · 04/06/2026

saluting that one new zealand grandma that reviews every anime collectors edition game

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shweep @shweep.dev · 01/06/2026

Ran some mothership, 2 people somehow lived? PvP centric and mostly a blood bath as expected

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