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@spiralganglion.com @jimmyhmiller.bsky.social @todepond.com I love the podcast! So many ideas dancing...

An auditory bonus is that when Ivan and Jimmy are talking, I can imagine I'm listening to a secret Severance episode in which Mark and Dylan (respectively) talk about programming.

The other day I realized that -1 is the "i" of real numbers

#math

I'm curious too, I'm from Argentina so perhaps I lack some sort of holiday context or something

PSA: if you need 64-bit integers saved/restored in Godot, don't use JSON, or if you need JSON, use strings instead of int values.

#gamedev #godot

From victim to Karen in 1 tweet

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The unreasonable effectiveness of Sokoban as a puzzle game design idea pump

...unfortunately, the consequences will not only be «look how the MAGAs are suffering and regretting it, haha» but there will be repercussions for the entire population, and the rest of the world.

I must admit that seeing the US suffer the same kind of dictatorship that they themselves established in my country (and in many others in Latin America) gives me a certain morbid pleasure...

Do you mean pushing many boxes instead of just one? If so, I don't think the change in position of potentially infinite crates would be possible to represent, although perhaps there is certain ways if you make some guarantees about the initial condition functions... but not sure.

YouTube video by Puzzling Gamedev Supertasks versus Transfinite tasks in the infinite Sokoban board

Supertasks versus Transfinite tasks in the infinite Sokoban board

youtu.be/9e0lVCZ0U7w

#recreationalprogramming #transfinite #sokoban

YouTube video by Puzzling Gamedev Supertasks versus Transfinite tasks in the infinite Sokoban board

Supertasks versus Transfinite tasks in the infinite Sokoban board

youtu.be/9e0lVCZ0U7w

#recreationalprogramming #transfinite #sokoban

Very nice conversation!

My latest hobby: resizing the defrag program's window looking for secret messages in the fragmentation map.

The left should read «Martín Fierro»:

Los hermanos sean unidos
porque esa es la ley primera;
tengan unión verdadera
en cualquier tiempo que sea,
porque si entre ellos pelean
los devoran los de afuera.

echolocation or echocolation?

it's a script that "glues" grep and awk to read the file with the levels generated so far and build the histogram according to the property I specify (size or pushes in the example)

Did I tell you I love histograms?
#gamedev #procgen

Another side effect is that the code is three times less understandable. Time to rewrite it in Rust?

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wheels = more speed for the rapture

I hope players find this funny like me :)

#gamedev #godotengine

I improved my level generator, and now the levels are three times better. The downside is that the generator is three times slower. Perhaps eventually I'll get it to generate zero levels per second, but of infinite quality.

#procgen #gamedev

"Roguelike" + "Escape Room" = "Escape Rune"

#gamedesign #gamedev

me too

having dreams about it doesn't help

Not promising anything but I had some ideas...

#gamedev #procgen #puzzle

I watch jon blow streams sometimes to see progress on the new game/engine/language, but lately it's increasingly sad to see him and his echo-chamber of sycophants turn slowly into a cesspool of nazi shit

(the noise was added by @bsky.app , I don't know why)

Almost appreciating JavaScript lately.

#recreationalprogramming #gamedev