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hell yeah!

to live and die in l.a. is a rare example of a car chase being used to develop the story instead of only being an exciting action sequence. but its also a really great car chase!

all we needed to cap it off was a Spider remake

lol still on the Silmarillion and I was not ready for Fingolfin to have a shonen anime fight with Morgoth, fucking flash stepping and Morgoth creating anime craters when Fingolfin blocked blows

I now believe the defining quality of a roguelike is to degrade the definition of a roguelike

thatll teach you for trying to use violence to solve your problems

love how even though you have them bound to f5 and f9, you have recreates the “accidentally pressed quicksave while dead” problem 😅

(i might be talking complete nonsense here ofc. i arrived in the middle of your blog series and have yet only skimmed this one post—i will be going back to the first PRISM one to catch up now!)

…i think its an interesting possibility for the riddle to act as a key: e.g. if the answer is a phrase (or place name?) whose four words are strongly connected together, and each in order fits one of those (so broad) “not this” categories, confirming the entire phrase like the pins in a yale lock.

my first instinct with “NOT A ROCK, NEVER HOT, NOT FRUIT, NEVER LOCKED” was “oh, thats STONE COLD something something”. ofc “stone cold killer” is unhelpfully the only phrase that comes to mind for those two words; but… 1/2

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same approach should work for footsteps. you could cram it into a vec4 if you use xyz for position, z sign for left/right footstep, and remaining z bits for a 1-bit-less-precision angle

how do you get info about heat sources (for which i presume cpu is the originator of that data) to your shaders?

vagueness of "send to the gpu" is because exactly how you best do that depends on the engine and/or choice of dx/vulkan/gl and/or minimum gpu generation that you are targeting.

put the footstep info into a buffer that is either mapped so both cpu and gpu can access it, or is copied up to a gpu buffer each frame.

then the shader can access the data from that buffer.

for deciding whether the footsteps should be making snowy noises or not, do a render into a tiny target from a camera looking down from the ankle position, and sample that and send it back to the cpu. you can tolerate the little bit of latency that needs before selecting the footstep sound to play.

what if you dont? for rendering snowy footsteps, move that into the shader too (just send the info on footstep positions+directions up to the gpu).

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i think it was the great screenwriter william goldsmith who famously said there are only three stories in all the world. a man goes on a journey, a stranger comes to town, and people fighting their way up and/or down a high-rise building

the hands are fine: clara never knows what to do with her hands irl

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@electrondance.com is my comment on 'marmite prince' stuck in moderation hell? it was i forget how many days ago, but it hasnt shown up on the site yet.

saw someone the other day describe Blue Prince as an antifascist game 😬

yeah same! it was just so odd