Clifford

I actually made a video game. That's wild!

Thank you @modretro.bsky.social for this great opportunity and all the support along the way!

Self Simulated is a fast-paced precision platformer for the ModRetro Chromatic and all Game Boy Color devices!
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Finally finished up the Repair Bay! The UI automatically updates as units get repaired and their batteries recharged. Once fully repaired all the units move back to the player's inventory allowing them to redeploy them on missions.

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Finished the front end of the repair bay!
Units returning from transfers or defending the main base will be put into the repair bay to be repaired before they can be used again.

Now onto the back end...

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Agreed on genAI; rather he stopped than go down this route imho.

Root cause of the prob still stands; the majority intentionally took what he actually made for free while he kept trying to find other rev streams to continue.

We need to actually support those that give to the community for free.

Didn’t have enough characters in my original post, but I also don’t agree with the fact that he’s putting out AI slop under his own name (in my opinion releasing nothing would’ve been better), my comment is rather about the fact that I can understand his reasoning.

What bothers me personally is everyone getting on their soap box complaining about this, yet how few people do you think actually paid him for what they used? If the intention was a passion project for no money, then who are we to complain that he’s putting out “good enough” music?

This will all be mentioned in the United Star Company's Employee Manual.

I wanted the error to be ugly for ✨aesthetics✨. Its purpose is really only to warn the player that the number they've input exceeds the number of units available and will only be able to transfer those.

Righto, so life has finally let up a bit so I can focus on SATTERM. I had to rewrite the entire cursor handling logic to be more versatile, which has now allowed me to create more complex UIs. Video below shows the unit transfer preparation screen.

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I honestly find it so difficult browsing second hand GameBoy (and Color) listings and not impulse buying them to give them a good home

It’s wild how little these have changed over the years compared to Google’s rendition.

LabFifteen Co., right? I’ve got their green glow in the dark ones on my GBC

That colour scheme is chef’s kiss 👌

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

I’m Starting To Worry This Industry Has No Respect For The People Who Work In It Once your stock options were fully vested, did you sell off all the shares in your humanity?

I wrote this column and I'll just say that the original headline was much meaner. The piece itself, though, is still very angry and very mean, I assure you.

Sums up my experience/feelings with the shitstorm that AI and LLMs have become. They fired 9000 people to give us better slop troughs.

hell yeah

Sincerely, fuck off.

It’s such a blatantly awful attempt as well 😂

Also, @signal.org I want to donate monthly. Which payment option incurs the least fees for you? I’m in the Netherlands and have iDEAL, Credit/Debit Card, PayPal and Apple Pay available as recurring payment options.

Some have moved over though for me and I’ll be eternally grateful. It’s an actual amazing messenger and really feels like it’s not pretending to be more than it needs to be.

Trying to move my family and friends over to @signal.org has just been such an utter p.i.t.a. 3 years ago they couldn’t try to escape from WhatsApp fast enough, now they just don’t seem to understand with Meta’s recent AI harvesting revelations being pushed into their apps

Absolutely horrendous. I love it.

Expanding on initially no CGB support: while all the code to support it has already been written, I wanted to initially have it feel like a full DMG game on a CGB, however I would manually set a single colour palette as opposed to the console picking it up from the bootstrap ROM’s palettes.

Life's been getting in the way, however I've added CGB support which initially I was a bit against doing.
Different UI elements get loaded into VRAM based on if a DMG or CGB is running the game.

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Ok, resized the image because I forgot that the original resolution of the GameBoy makes things look extra crunchy when social media gets a hold of it.

Work has officially begun on the Mine management window for SATTERM!

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Been mega busy with other stuff (including getting sick). Had a chance to work further on the UI for Satterm which now sports 5 individual layers to which UI components can be written to!

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Super happy with the display layering solution I added. It saves time on large UI redraws by just caching the previous state of the UI before a new window gets opened, all of which runs natively on the #GameBoy ! 🧙‍♂️

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Been running on powerline ethernet adapters for the last year and a half. Finally had enough and ripped out a coax cable to rewire the entire place with ethernet. Nice internet is nice.