spunos @spunos.itch.io · 21/11/2024This year’s time between the last day in a hammock and the first day of snow: two months and two weeks 🥶 010
spunos @spunos.itch.io · 17/11/2024Man, the developer's commentary they added to Half-Life 2 is a lot of fun. They're not just explaining, for example, how the graphics work - they show how they work by casually changing how the game is rendered. In real time! 010
spunos @spunos.itch.io · 11/11/2024I do enjoy making pixel art, it's very zen to just noodle away at a piece one pixel at a time while watching a stream or w/e on the other monitor. Here are a couple of old ones that I've made. Crossing my fingers that they don't become too blurry after uploading... 140
spunos @spunos.itch.io · 06/11/2024This game is genuinely relaxing to me. Here's a screenshot of my proudest achievement: 000
![A screenshot from Half-Life 2, showing the game rendered only with normal maps. The captions from the developer commentary read: "[Gary McTaggart] Half-Life 2 was developed during an exciting time for graphics, as the first programmable shader-supported graphics cards were hitting the market. Using this technology, we became one of the first games to implement normal maps, a technique that enhanced the lighting on surface geometry. The normal map described the surface's roughness, allowing each pixel of a polygon to be lit in a way that made surfaces appear bumpier and more detailed than was ever possible in Half-Life 1."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vzhiqxnsenpg4wvds2l7wrpe/bafkreidqakltoophfrevloee73bxmn3pjg3kvnhtt7o3ooe5ulptnxifhe)
