James Baicoianu

Overall yeah, standalone is lower friction, PCVR suffers from the PC gaming problem where keeping it in working condition requires ongoing work, but if your system's all set up and headset stays plugged in it's way easier than putting on the Quest and typing in a URL (and finding the battery's dead)

The WebXR experience for PCVR is pretty great, you're just browsing around like normal and can seamlessly switch from 2d to VR and back. Unfortunately the industry has mostly abandoned that in favor of more convenient standalones, but those 100% kill that, and the friction of switching is too high

I see those dance moves and immediately think "that's weird, those should be penguin flippers"

Oregon Trail, The : MECC : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive The Oregon Trail is a series of strategy computer games. The first game was originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971...

10 years later and change, and the Oregon Trail emulation at the Internet Archive is closing in on 14 million plays.

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Catching a dome show “Microverse” in the @fivars.bsky.social theater! #vr #microverse #fivars

"wow, nice desk!"

How does ROLLBACK NETCODE work, why is it so difficult to program, and why is it the gold standard for fighting games? A whirlwind tour of different solutions #pixelart #gamedev #AnimationVERSUS

The setup: you have a video game with couch co-op and want to add online multiplayer. Easy, right...?

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Worth noting that the Brave implementation mentioned in that thread was removed some time last year

This is what my house looked like the day my son was born. He came two weeks early.

It was overwhelming. We got drywall up and then stopped work and lived with no floors or doors for 6 months.

I know the hopeless feeling well. It gets better, I promise.

Irony poisoning is a real thing and I'm tired of seeing my friends succumb to it 😞

Honestly think a lot of our modern problems stem from the fact that gallows humor and ironic shitposting are, for many people, indistinguishable from real beliefs the speaker might hold. We end up shocked that our friends might think that way, and it then attracts the kind of people who really DO

I'm getting Journeyman Project vibes from this. Not quite the same, but somewhere between Myst and an FPS with RPG elements

Looking forward to the minigame where you have to go back and forth haggling with the Cuban embassy and the Soviet attache to secure a transit visa as part of your escape plan

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I had help from @textfiles.com with the name, he's been poking me for years now to finish this project up 😅

I grew up with both Doom and Quake mapping, although I haven't done it in decades. I'd love to build this same sort of web viewer for .bsp files, it's definitely doable - maybe one day I'll find the time.

I've been working on this for Doom WADs - it only works with oldschool Doom wads though, not newer gzdoom format wads. Clicking the play button on the level preview loads the wad in a web port of Chocolate Doom

Still a work in progress but if you wanna try it out it's here bai.dev/doom/doomscr...

A boy and his dog in the hills above Marin. The boy excitedly points out that he has found a hill that looks like a butt. Mt Tamalpais rests gently in the background.

Nice. Yeah I was up in the fire roads above Marin the other day, those hills are really happy after all the rain we got earlier this year

Nice, though I can't tell if this is at the Windows XP hill or the Marin open space

I played the hell out of this game as a kid, and I still remember the traditional meanings of different types and colors of flowers because of one of the puzzles

See? I knew we wouldn't have to wait long.

WebGPU/WebXR integration is ready for developers to start testing in Chrome canary! Available on Windows and Android with a couple of small example pages to get you started.

Please give it a try, file bugs, and give us feedback!

#WebGPU #WebXR

I've got a similarly weird comment in my engine, at some point in development I was getting XR frames with no head pose data and had to handle that case

I feel like there should be legally mandated standards about axis normalization on stock graphs. Yes yes, orange man bad, etc, but .6%? We couldn't have found an actual drop to illustrate this?

Introducing Slow Roads 2.0 - procedurally-generated, scenic roads for endless driving zen. Built with @threejs.org to run in your browser - no installs, no ads, just roads.

Play free at slowroads.io

#threejs #webgame #javascript #procedural #webgl

View from my parents' place in northern Valencia, from an hour ago. They're just outside the evacuation zones....hope it stays that way 😬

In the end, giving us all supreme agency over what we consumed didn't really remove the ability for others to direct our collective thoughts, we just made it easier to capture people's attention with highly targeted bullshit.

We may be worse off now because of it 😭

In my 20s I was driven by the idea that everyone consuming the same media at the same time from a tiny set of options was bad, it constricted the range of human thought to what others wanted us to think.

Now I see the discordant result of removing that. Everyone's off on their own weird tangent.

Few things more inspiring than the TRS-80 MC-10 software emulation library at @archive.org - over 800 programs, some rather recently written, trying to squeeze every glowing drop of potential fun and old-style computer joy out of a powerless computer system.

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