Ethinethin

Not that I celebrate, but today is the 6th anniversary of my Ph.D. defense. Doctor!

I wrote an assembler program that will take assembly source files and make binaries the program can run. So there has been a lot of debugging, meta-debugging, and meta-meta-debugging, as I have had to debug the assembly source, the code of the binary assembler, and the simulator itself.

I'm making a simulator for an artificial computer based on the DEC PDP-8, the world's first popular computer (released in 1965). I decided this would be a good way to learn about low level computing, and it is. I have made a lot of progress on it so far, source code @ github.com/ethinethin/D...

Voxel Borg Cube

#voxelart #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #startrek #borg

Those silly apes were such a short-lived fad. At the time, I made up a stream reward I called "fungible tokens" (ugly, procedurally generated animals). I rolled it out pretty quick, but it became out of date fast when the NFT fad died. The "blockchain" is just an ugly website: ethinethin.github.io

Hell yeah! I finished the new #NoMansSky expedition, The Cursed. I littered the stars with basic bases and silly messages in comm balls (the last one I left was just "Ed Balls"). I had never done derelict freighters before, so that was fun.

I've been streaming the new #NoMansSky expedition. The new content is fun, and some of the comm balls I've seen near portals have been hilarious. Even with the #MacOS visual glitch, the game is still a joy to play. I'd probably be done with the expedition but I keep getting distracted by other stuff

(And yes, thanks to Bing image creator for the hilariously terrible video thumbnail)

YouTube video by Easter Coding a dicey poker game in Love2d - part 1

I streamed the entirety of development for my game Dicey Poker on #Twitch, in six streams. The only stuff I did off-stream was testing and prepping executables. I put up re-streams on #Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=haPt... Only 17 hours, not bad for a finished project! #IndieDev #SoloDev #GameDev

Since the Aquarius update, No Man's Sky on MacOS has had a weird halo effect: any time there's light source, it burns in to the screen. You can get rid of it by pausing, but it reappears if there are any lights. I had hoped they'd fix it by now, especially with a new expedition. #NoMansSky #MacOS

I am a research scientist with hobbies in #GameDev, #PixelArt, #VectorArt, #Music, and more. I bounce around a lot of projects, so it's rare I finish something, but I am enjoying learning and improving. #Introduction

But I'll give it a try. Do we do introduction posts here?

Also there's no real "algorithm" to speak of over there so you have to actually use hashtags. I'm a little worried about Bsky because it looks exactly like "bird site" and they are already telling me to "tailor the algorithm."

I have been off the "bird site" since Leon took over, and settled in over on a mastodon instance. I really like the vibe over there, a lot more forgiving, helpful, chaotic, and very easy to find interesting people to follow.

Dicey Poker by EthinEthin A mash-up of poker and dice rolling

Check out my game, Dicey Poker, a mash-up of #poker and #dice rolling, for free on itch: ethinethin.itch.io/diceypoker #HobbyGameDev #HobbyDev #IndieGameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev