Ian Badcoe

Trying out lighting.
I like the mystery and discovery of what's behind the darkness.
#gamedev

Haha oh myyy, I misunderstood - I thought that was a fancy inventory grid^^
But that sounds fun!
Looking forward to what you come up with around that :D

I am thinking the loops are loops of track and you are a train which can never stop, but you control points which switch you from one loop to another...

A large square broken down into smaller rectangles, each rectangle is only an outline and spaced from its neighbours, so that its edges form a separate loop inside the bigger square...

Loops...

...yes, this **is** the start of the layout system for an unconventional RogueLite.

#Loops #Rectangles #Topology #PGC #EventuallyPGCThough #GotToAddSomeMoreComplexityNow

I guess your question was rhetorical, then, I did wonder :-)

Good luck with the talk!

A square divided into smaller squares and rectangles. The basis of the division is repeated binary splits at constrained random points on the longest axis and it looks vaguely Japanese...

Weirdly, there is something hugely satisfying about this sort of binary space division...

#GameDev #Geometry #Rectangles #VaguelyJapanese #WildGeometryApproachWithCare

I'm not the most massive expert, but I usually reckon on, say, 1-3 minutes per slide. But when I practice the talk, I almost always cut even more...

Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Close-up of packaging labelled "Steel Bistro Set Green" with the words "Steel Bistro" highlighted.

Now I have the title of my decadent cyberpunk novel...

#WeAreAllLivingInTheSteelBistro

The palm of my hand with a small, circular plaster applied to it...

I need either a) to get a proper cover for the dataport on my hand, or b) to learn that when improvising a tool to make holes for bulbs in the front lawn, that the tool won't have a proper handle and may well cause a blister if wielded enthusiastically...

Yeah. It's definitely one or the other...

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#Sheffield #gamedev #yorkshire

One day you just can't get something "right", so you go back and study anatomy to help you figure it out. *That* is when you actually learn it, when it's most useful to you. So the path isn't linear, it's iterative. You go, you create, you learn, you create more, you learn more.

A "wheely bin" prominently labelled "shared bin..."

#Bin #SharedBin #PublicAmenity #GoogleMaps #Location If anybody is wondering where it has got to...

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gfU49akppR2gJ4VZA

unread, unthreaded posts. So basically I find there is no way I can get/stay on top of it, and no easy way to find the content I want, and what happens is after a couple of days, without thinking, I stop looking... I will join that one and check it out, but I'm not optimistic...

@pedronunes.net Me neither! The trouble with discords is I usually bounce off them quite hard... I guess I'm more up for text chat than voice and Discord strongly tends towards being a pile of 20 unread servers, each containg 20-40 unread channels, each with an unknown number of [cont]

Trans Representation Jam 25 A game jam from 2025-06-14 to 2025-08-31 hosted by Hatoge, sleepyboydev & cdrch. Welcome to the Trans Representation Jam 2025! This is an annual two months long Jam celebrating Trans Representation in...

...and I am in a game jam at the moment, this one:

itch.io/jam/trans-re...

Which is great for having met a load of young devs... but jams are by definition temporary things... I guess I need to keep looking...

Well I guess I'm a hobbyist now... and like you I do watch for threads on here, wish-list people's projects and try to play their demos... Reddit I have never really grokked, if it comes up in search results I scan a conversation, but I can't imagine spending serious time on there...

a continuum from solo amateur up to v. small professional studio...? [4/4]

chat?

Do you form teams? How closely do teams work? - Support from a distance? All on the same project? Just lending a hand when needed?

Other structures that work?

How does the mix of code/art/sound/design work out? Do you ever reach the point of needing a producer?

Does it make a [2/4]

...think that would give you a different (but sinister) simplification where the black region slowly fills-in any complexities as it becomes complete.

I do like, zoomed in, how individual trees get a self-shadow on the left...

Could you (you've got me overthinking it now) create a simple mesh to cast the shadows and get a mid-ground that way?

It's I bet not your desired style, but if the shadow were black (or at any rate far darker) then I...

Or even, use one in the distance and fade the other in as the view gets closer (IDK what views you're planning?)

You can always keep the other one the back burner in case you change your mind later...

I think you have A and B the other way around this time?

I still prefer the colours of the (now) right-hand one, but the shadow algorithm of the left...

I still think the right one is technically more accurate, but it looks more complex and harder to understand...

Sorry, the last sentence should read "I think _A_ ..."

A large plastic utility bucket with variously coloured plastic plant pots in it...

The old bucket-o-pots looking good these days...

I prefer the colour of A... As regards the shadow generation, I think B is more correct but looks off because we aren't used to seeing planets with trees a significant fraction of the radius in height...

My current problem is I have a subtle bug in the polyhedron generation which only shows up in curved grids :-(

This is interesting, I've been trying to build geometry from Voronoi polyhedra, and one way to seed them is to place the generation points on a grid, and one thing I've tried with the grid is mapping it onto a cylinder or torus...

Anyway, bottom line, I'd enjoy at some point talking over our experiences and comparing notes...