loren schmidt

but that dark, dark saturated blue is neat. i feel like i'm not done with that yet.

it ended up different than what i anticipated! it's very soft and turquoise.

i think in the final game the player color + interface color will be configurable, and i might have the wall colors vary per area, and the remembered map area colors be configurable? but all blue for now.

that's exactly my theory about this color! it /might/ be out of gamut but i think maybe it's more that it's doing very specific things along the ramp from dark to light.

this seems weird, but i find not knowing where map edges are contributes a lot. and letting maps be weird gangly unpredictable shapes is very compelling.

right now i have the classic 1 map, 1 screen setup in text mode (sprite mode scrolls). but periodically i wonder what would happen if some, but not all maps, were significantly (2x?) to monumentally larger.

i'm inclined to agree with all of those.

messing with colors more

i broke a few utility spells in recent refactoring, and i am in the works fixing things right now. basic map traversal is going to be pretty great once i'm done with this!

Laura is brilliant. if you need a writer who's both very technically sharp and an extremely devoted artist, please consider hiring her!

oh to be a tetrachromat and have a setup with higher color depth

that's kind of close to the feeling? i don't know, it may be untranslatable.

me too, the only reason i'm messing with them is that i suspect the blue in my head can only be represented by doing certain things along the brightness ramp and i'm losing leverage if it's that dark.

text mode screenshot of a map, mostly remembered (currently not perceived) in a slightly overbright blue-green, blue of cyan, against true black and a blue-green black.

periodically over the course of this project i have tried to capture a particular (impossible?) set of blues. i'm considering this. right is previous.

by coincidence i was just trying to figure out why lizard people seem to be associated with two pronged spears.

that's nice to hear! i'd have to switch carriers but that feels like less of a gamble now.

for anyone else reading, pinephone is also an interesting alternative, with its own limitations.

i would probably be going with that were it better supported here!

(there are bigger issues with the company itself, which is actually my primary reason for not wanting to recommend the OS to anyone)

a few recent issues:

they're getting rid of the ability to freely install software

they've had two recent updates which tanked battery life on older phones (their phones, specifically).

they seem to be backing off from their open source commitments.

aww yeah!

it's a really well made font in addition to being a really neat project!

there are so many problems with android

pretty good monospace unicode support too

it looks like one of the better options, though seems carrier limited where i am (continental USA)

i have been trying various ones but julia mono is hogging the results on my end.

cropped text mode screenshot showing a rectangular room

isolated room

wall

the responsiveness really is terrible in a lot of contexts! and i can't count the number of times one drop of water on the screen has fouled input completely.

yeah despite being very choosy i've had only one which i was ok with and it was a compromise.

and i don't think it had to be that way. it was largely the artificial lack of repairability and trapping people in marketplaces i think.

i understand, i did tailless u in a font i made