jehosefatz

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

I like the *idea* of game jams. The reality doesn't work well for me - life intervenes and deadlines fly by. So, I tend to treat them as 'writing prompts' - brainstorming the theme as I would if I were participating. Later, I sweep through to pick out interesting ideas for adaptation elsewhere.

Some friends were discussing some things touching on Mixamo yesterday. Thought it might be a good opportunity to plug mesh2motion.org.

Does what what it says on the tin. And it's not the A-word.

ThingX

System dependency map ... well... mapped.
Placeholder starting area set up. Not particularly juicy, but there.
Rudiments of a keyring and mission system set up.

Working on some shaders, some of the tutorial missions to test systems, refining the HUD, and map management (visual).

I think the GDD is better for the time away. We'll find out next week when I start working it in earnest.

The day job company was acquired a few months ago. Doing my part in that has been taking up most of my bandwidth. Jumping back in, finally: doing GMTK jam this week to get revved up and taking the following week off. Last week, revisited the GDD for the game project I want to work on.

The last time we had a refresh cycle we tried to organize volunteers from staff to do the work and attest so that the shells could be donated, but General Counsel were not in love with that idea and it was nixed.

We wouldn't uninstall anything - once the drive is pulled, we still have to make it unrecoverable and fill out paperwork attesting that PII, PHI, and NPI have been destroyed. There's time involved and that time isn't free. The reality is that it's cheaper, faster, and less risky to ewaste them.

Well, they're kinda not wrong. My day-job company is refreshing 650 laptops. They're out of warranty, but about 2/3 of them would take Win11 (or Linux). However, just the time for the data destro and regulatory attestation (e.g. not loading an OS) make it a losing proposition, even outsourced.

If this is one of those 'choose the next item in the sequence' puzzles, I think I figured it out. I won't spoil it by posting the answer here, though.

Finally about to get back into a things. A little morning reading. Goes good with coffee.

digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/11/4...

nvm... I can do the same thing with a straight edge and the mouse. Not enough coffee today, apparently.

... think ditches that define a monastic enclosure or around a Bronze Age settlement or banjo enclosure for context.

Ok, Godot-verse.

I need straight-ish lines (straighter than by hand with a mouse) directly in Godot using the TerraBrush plugin to do terrain generation. I don't need strictly straight, parallel, or perpendicular.

Thoughts on good ways? Currently thinking towards a graphics tablet.

Rockin! I've been waiting on this one to drop.

Is this available somewhere or are you planning on releasing it?

I could defo use more zorp. Over-mashing the plurk button, apparently.

Upside of the day-job: I can afford luxuries that I've come to rely on like food, housing, heat.

Downside of the day-job: it's harshing, if not seriously curtailing, my gamedev mellow until probably the new year.

I love that toon.

I kinda wish we had #gamedev in high school *mumble* *mumble* years ago as an assist to teach math and physics. I just spent some quality time learning about orbital velocity.

Because I wanted to know.

And I enjoyed it.

Well, applying it and seeing the results, anyway.

Space... the final frontier.