Tada! The website gets a slightly newer coat of paint with a background, some updated styling and some 88x31 buttons! Most of them are just from various collections of buttons, but this one:

I made this one myself! I figured it’d be a good opportunity to try and expand my understanding of Pixel Composer.

Its been a long time! A bunch has happened!

I’m a linux user now! Thats not the only reason but its certainly part of the reason I haven’t posted in so long, and between migrating systems and just forgetting how to upload content it just took a long time for me to remember how to even use this site in the first place…

For the last few months I picked up Obsidian again and resumed my diary keeping, something I found really useful back in 2023 and then stopped because adhd makes maintaining any sort of habit a nightmare :)

Voilà!

Most of my cohost posts now live here! You can find them in the Cohost Archive category or just by scrolling back through the posts, they’re all marked with their original upload date and marked with “co-” at the front so you can tell which’s which! Wanting to preserve this one somewhere was like half the reason I bothered at all with this :D

I spent about half a day writing a script to scrape my cohost export and generate hugo pages based on the contents (as well as do a few other things like certain links into hugo shortcodes and replace cohost cdn references with local references) and here’s the result! Everything you see here is like 99% generated output, literally the only bits I did by hand were apply new tags where relevant and redirect replies to their matching page here instead of cohost.

You occasionally like… impuslively decide you wanna do a new thing, and then you get so entranced in that thing that you forget to sleep or do anything else until you finished doing it?

or phrased another way, do you have adhd?

Anyway at time of writing its 5:20am and I just spent the last 8 hours learning enough Hugo to put together this new website. Why right now? No idea.

Original tags were: gamedev, gamemaker, gameMakerStudio, ludum dare

seeing people in the lead up to ludum dare 53 say they’re no longer willing to download submissions as executables because “what if its malware :(” and insist “every engine nowadays has web export, you should be exporting to web” has lead me to finally grab a subscription to gamemaker’s indie tier just so i can access it’s html5 export. i’ve heard a lot of rough things about GMS2’s html5 support over the years, various ways it breaks/doesn’t work as expected, but it seems a lot of that stuff has been fixed since then so if all goes well i should be able to support web for at least ld53, who knows if i’ll maintain my sub after that or if i’ll only sub for months with a jam i care about in it.

Original tags were: twitter death, mastodon, twitter, mammoth website

initially when twitter was supposed to explode and everyone was claiming to migrate to mastodon i didn’t bother making one because i was like “ehhh i don’t like (some minor gripes) about mastodon, its not going to replace twitter for me, i’m just happy with cohost” and for a while it was fine because lots of people who claimed to leave ended up sticking around on twitter anyway.

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Original tags were: gamedev, hotas, Steel Battalion, Mechs, Mecha, shit i dont need to buy but want to so badly

right as i felt confident i’d gotten over this and could go back to not thinking about flight sticks, i discover steel battalion

YOU’RE TELLING ME WE HAD THIS BACK IN 2002??? THIS IS RAD! HOW DID I MISS THIS?? now i’m thinking about buying sticks and making something like this again!! this is absolute proof that its exactly as cool as i was imagining it to be how could i not try to make this?!

Original tags were: gamedev, gamedesign, programming, rant

every 6-8 months i’m possessed by the desire to try and make something akin to 0x10c and considering A) how many games there already are about programming and B) how many failed attempts there have been to remake 0x10c (one reddit post counted 21), i feel like it has to be an instinct certain kinds of game developers just innately have, similar to how certain kinds of dev just really want to make their own dwarf-fortress/imsim style magnum opus.

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Original tags were: Rainworld, rain world

YES!

Someone made a video recapping the rain world devlog and its FILLED with exactly the screenshots and gifs from the thread that I lamented going missing! I dunno how they got copies of them all, but I’m so happy to see that they’ve been preserved, I was so scared so much of that history had gone missing.

falling down the rabbit hole of “what if i made a space game” to “space games with flight stick support are cool” to “how much do flight sticks even cost” to “oh thats totally affordable, i need to buy a flight stick” despite the fact i play zero games that would benefit from me having a flight stick

i love being suddenly overtaken by a strong compulsion to buy a gadget i have literally no use for