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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

i got all the plant information being loaded from data files instead of messily hardcoded in the source!

screenshot of text editor showing a bunch of plant growth stage information

xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

i got the wang tiling working!! now to model at least 2 more sets of things to get the capacity for more interesting shapes!

a big 3d hexagonal grid, mostly white and red

a 3d hex grid but sliced into something that looks like an evil skate park

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

[monster dick] i'm actually trying to fully Finish Out this model and that's a lot harder b/c there's all these ik constraints and flex bones and figuring out how to make any kind of unsheathing animation. i haven't even finished uv-wrapping it

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

[monster dick] and then i added a dick!! (i miss monsterpit)

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

i've been trying out 3d modeling

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

fairly sure i'm done with character sprites for now. on to plants or something!

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

i'm always a bit on-the-fence about how explicit or sexual i should make my game, but every time i hear about yet another platform categorically banning anything that dares mention sex the more weight i put on the side of 'it needs to be overwhelmingly obscenely explicit pornography actually'

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

shadowmapppp it's still glitchy and incomplete but i'm very proud that it's anything shadow-looking

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

anyway i got better day/night transitions + the radial light code working with the day/night palettes. so that's neat!

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

it _is_ very neat that this game has gotten to the point where i can genuinely consider what i want the underwater caves to look like. but.

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

i really gotta fix the culling thing where water surfaces get culled like any other tile when you're beneath them

screenshot of a pixel art game. the pc is standing in a flooded underwater cave, but there's a big oval of dryness around them.

screenshot of a pixel art game. the pc is weirdly levitating over a flooded cave, as if they're standing on an invisible surface over the water

screenshot of a pixel art game. the pc is standing in a flooded underwater cave, but there's a big oval of dryness around them. also, the water cuts off unnaturally halfway through the cave, leaving the rest inexplicably dry.

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

ported over some of my simple random dungeon generation code from haskell to javascript for my game. these aren't really exciting to look at & would almost certainly not be fun to play, but it's a start, considering that currently the 'cave layer' in my game […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

top-down screenshot of a dungeon layout. the rooms are all rectangles connected by lines. this one is a minimal spanning tree

top-down screenshot of a dungeon layout. the rooms are all rectangles connected by lines. this one is more sprawling.

top-down screenshot of a dungeon layout. the rooms are all rectangles connected by lines. this one has numbers on the rooms

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

(there are several steps involved to make that feasible since these layouts are stored internally as ascii art)

screenshot of a text editor. the skill tree is ASCII art with lettered nodes connected by '-' and '=' symbols

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

finally made it possible to learn skills through the skill UI. it still needs a bunch of polishing but the fundamental functionality is complete

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

in some ways code is easier than game design b/c code more clearly has a "right answer", whereas design is asking more ambiguous questions about intent and goal and vision

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

so i've finally gotten so much of the Engine Stuff done to where i'm now thinking about like... npcs & npcs scheduling & characters & writing dialog for all of that. you know, game stuff! instead of code stuff

game screenshot of a dialog box: "This is some dummy fallback dialog that's longer than the older fallback dialog! Thanks for talking to me! iii iii iii iii iii iii iii iii iii iii iii asdfa lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consequitor watever ii ii iiii"

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

finally gave proper material values to all the sticks and blocks so there are no longer weird white outlines everywhere. it's a step!! #gamedev

screenshot of isometric pixel art game. it's a flat desert landscape with some rectangular buildings and fences and pools of water

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

i have like a billion plant and building sprites drawn that i've never used b/c i haven't been able to think about how to actually lay them out as a coherent structure in the world yet. but i should probably do that soon, if only to make the game world look a little less flat and empty and […]

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026

i finally started working on this again and made another big step towards removing all the hardcoded spritesheet information. one day all of these will be data files and separate images instead of premade atlases in the mean time though i accidentally turned […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

isometric pixel art screenshot. the place where the pc should be is instead a mishmash of an inclined slope, a stick, and maybe part of a bush

isometric pixel art screenshot. the pc is like a red-toned jackalman or something

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

(the idea here is some kinda mashup of horticular, block'hood, and terra nil. some kinda 'gardening' sim with more of an emphasis on the sim vs. precisely arranging specific items)

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

i've been wanting to work a little more in the realm of Game Design vs. graphics & ui programming so the current thing i'm working on is a very rough mechanics demo for a theoretical game. everything is just a square b/c that's very easy to render. it's […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

current #procjam progress: i got mountain shadows

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2025

still working on my #procjam project, tho i haven't been doing as much as i hoped

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

kind of inspired by twitter.com/DLGNCE/status/130186684… . at least in that it's fake plants on a grid

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

working on "plant" "simulation" right now

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025

actually i think it looks better with a really subtle rotation

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025

it's not a real videogame until you have radial light overlays

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

not sure if this polar transform will be in any way useful but it's pretty wacky to look at

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

then it became a scary reality

isometric game screenshot; monochrome red bg with cyan starburst lighting

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

yknow theoretically gifs are a good format for my game b/c 32 colors, but in practice gif is still a very bad format. and also all the social media sites convert gifs to video these days anyway

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

i finally fixed the upwarp when you jump into a ceiling! it used to teleport you up to the floor above due to bad wall/ceiling collision discrimination. now you just bonk on the ceiling, as is proper

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025

i do think the fediverse as a concept has been kinda hamstrung by positioning it as 'twitter but worse'. where's the rss-style client

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025

i'd feel better about bsky banning everything if the onboarding for anybody trying to use the fediverse wasn't "okay here's how to be a sysadmin" OR "just pick w/e small instance you like; it'll be gone in a few years anyway when the admin gives up" OR "use mastodon.social but be aware a bunch […]

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

i threw together the start of a 'stop the darkness' clone. (flori9.itch.io/stop-the-darkness) idk if i'll keep working on it b/c i kinda feel like i ought to come up with my own mechanics

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2025

tzaphiriron.sidemoon.net/code/wildm… here's the map viewer in the off chance anybody actually has a wildmender map they want to visualize

tzaphiriron.sidemoon.net

unofficial wildmender map viewer

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2025

so over the past few days i decided to try to reverse-engineer the wildmender save data file format. there's still a few values that are mysteries to me, but i managed to extract the heightmaps, water values, biome cells, and all object data. i'm pretty sure […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

as always, reminder that splatterhouse (2010) has a sequence where the main character fists a giant dog monster with full camera exposure, and that game was rated M. because. you fist it as part of an execution kill where you rip out its intestines. but god forbid there's anything _sexual_ in […]

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2025

started outlining what a water shader would look like given my rendering pipeline and it's some 9-step process involving roughly four or five new buffers, two new shaders, and several new kinds of noise synthesis. rendering translucency: not even once

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025

for the record i added an 'alignment' switch + relaid out the tree to be more legible. graph embedding is important

a pixel art 'upgrade tree'. all the elements have been widely spread out and no longer overlap

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025

ah yes upgrade trees that's what you want them to look like

a screenshot of a pixel art 'upgrade tree'. there's a mess of overlapping labels by all the upgrade nodes

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2025

anyway i made a tumblr post about some actual mechanical concepts for my game eccentric-nucleus.tumblr.com/post/7… i gotta actually dig into all the code. tho given it's all game state it would almost certainly be much simpler to code compared to all the rendering stuff […]

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2025

rendering glitches are one of the best forms of screenshot imo b/c they destroy the illusion of coherency games work so hard to create. this is almost the same as a normal screenshot just a few critical values were dropped. it's 99% right!

isometric pixel game screenshot. the landscape is all grey and there are scattered clumps of bright orange/yellow tiles

isometric pixel game landscape. it's all grey-blue and there are streaky lines of orange lines

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2025

there's still a bunch of weird collision issues but it mostly works! i can now stand on top of a building! (which means i can construct arbitrary buildings with multiple floors and enter and exit them as necessary, including potentially basement/underground […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

screenshot of an isometric pixel art game. there's four houses in a desert. there's a spaceman sprite standing on top of one of the houses.

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xax @xax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2025

@migratory i had not! it is interesting that some convex polyhedra seem to _not_ have that property, b/c it seems like only a sphere wouldn't have it, but, obviously geometry gets very complicated so really who knows

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