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I’m at siggraph and I live here! Hit me up if you’re in Vancouver!

Making my slides for a lesson on normals:

and @ma.lloc.ca’s boarding paradise which has an awesome control scheme

some news from my computer: i spent too much time figuring out the math to do this

I've got a demo build of this game I'm working on! Psyched about this.

bsky.app/profile/cabb...

Heres another post of some fun stuff @ma.lloc.ca & I have beeen cooking up! If yall want to play shoot me a DM

Hit me up if you’ll be at SIGGRAPH!

I’ve got an Experience ticket but I also live here and I’m happy to show folks around!

The Accountant is a good movie because you can tell exactly when he’s about to Account. This is also true of The Equalizer.

I had never heard of Wachspress coordinates, and I have tried to independently solve this problem many times on my own! It wasnt the main point of this post but this discovery was extremely helpful!

Circular chart showing each secondary intercardinal direction with its number of appearances. NNE: 548, ENE: 1123, ESE: 889, SSE: 674, SSW: 137, WSW: 29, WNW: 14, NNW: 57

Total appearances of secondary intercardinal direction entries in the New York Times crossword

Such a good video game! I was just telling Ava about it! So many memorable locations and Glottis

Internet Roadtrip Let's take a streetview roadtrip

I made a streetview roadtrip simulator where we all vote on a direction every 10 seconds

Also we have to vote to change the radio station. Enjoy!

> neal.fun/internet-roa...

The inhabitants now move from the habitat to nearby farms. It used to be random.

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev

He’s bald??

We've implemented music and it feels like a whole new game. Check it out for yourself! store.steampowered.com/app/3172760/... #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #catfishgame #wideopensky

redwall behaviour

Noam Chomsky in 1988:

LA people don’t know Marshall McLuhan, what the fuck.

Scientific diagrams that look like shitposts:

Scientific diagrams that look like shitposts:

I honestly overlook how much game dev you can do in Unity without writing a single C# script, despite that sort of being the point of the tool.

In contrast, a couple of my coworkers have recently made simple code-heavy Unity projects without any code experience, exclusively using ChatGPT. So wild

My game dev journey was Roblox->Scratch->Processing->Unity, the Processing to Unity jump is a great approach!

Translate it by the offset from the desired pivot point, rotate it, move it back!

GitHub - MalcolmMacDonald/deadlock-discord-bot Contribute to MalcolmMacDonald/deadlock-discord-bot development by creating an account on GitHub.

I liked this workflow a lot!

Typescript is nice to write in, writing a little .exe is much more manageable than deploying source code to some server somewhere, and it's very convenient to have my bot running on a computer in my house.

Here's the repo :)
github.com/MalcolmMacDo...

For the screenshots, I used pptr.dev. It's not built to be compiled into an .exe, so I had to write a little workaround to make sure the app has a valid headless chrome installation to puppet.

Check out './src/chrome-installer.ts' in the source code for more info.

For the Discord API interface, I used discordx.js.org, which lets you cleanly separate out your bot's functions into files that are automatically included at runtime.

I built the bot in Typescript (using bun.sh).

Bun lets you compile to an .exe, so I made the project as a CLI tool. I put the .exe on my living room laptop, and I set it up as a Windows Service (using nssm.cc) so it launches on startup and runs in the background.

A screenshot of a discord channel with a message saying "Now you can say something like... I recently tried out [[Restorative Locket]] for the first time!". A discord bot responds with a link to the Deadlock wiki and a screenshot of a section of the linked page.

On Friday I built a discord bot in a day! (Github link in final post)

I've been playing Deadlock obsessively, and I wanted to have an easy way to reference items in a discord chat.

When the bot sees mention of an item, it shares a link to it's wiki page and a screenshot of it's description.