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Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social · 16h

It's the installer download address that Mac IDE opens, but you change the file extension to .deb

Not quite sure why it's separate from the regular downloads server.

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Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social · 1d

hm! Though the function returns the source image if it's small enough (L29-31) and the threshold seems to be around 1MB, so pixel art images are most likely transmitted in source quality to the server.

Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I know that much, but there's a little more - images with dimensions above 2000px get down-scaled; if you open the original image in a new tab and change @jpeg to @png, the CDN serves you a slightly lossy PNG, but not lossy in the same way that served JPEG (or @webp) is!

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Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social · 1d

And another compression test image because there's no way to send posts to nowhere without making a new account, is there

A pixel-y drawing of a bird sitting on top of a construction sign. Lines above the bird imply that it's making a sound. This version is slightly cropped and scaled 8x

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Spacewing War 2 - Wishlist Today!! @alcalico.com · 2d

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Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social · 2d

Having a closer look at what's going on with image compression around here

The same tiny beast, but at 8x scale to avoid JPEG artefacts

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Illuminated @illuminatedcomics.bsky.social · Jun 24

Osso Duro! 10 pages, 1 of 3 🧵
Also on the website:
illuminatedcomics.github.io/ossoduro/
#comics #HumanArtists

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cammy @cambreaker.bsky.social · 5d

rc car prototype for my quake 1 engine game :3
#quake #modding #gamedev #indiedev

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wigglercola @wigglercola.bsky.social · 6d

Uncharted Frontier is out now! i hope u have lots of fun playing it
wigglercola.itch.io/uncharted-fr...

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Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social · 6d

Turkish developers, by the looks of it? Perhaps folks aren't quite sure what makes for the cozy game phenomenon and are doing a bunch of different prototypes/mockups to see what gets wishlists/attention and thus is worth developing further

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Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · 8d

Panel 1: Top-down-ish perspective of Shen pushing his shopping cart into a checkout aisle. He is looking up at a sign attached to the aisle, that reads "EXPRESS LANE - 12 ITEMS OR LESS"

Panel 2: Shen picks up two bags of carrots in his shopping cart, saying "Aw jeez. The carrots are in two bags, so I think I technically have 13 items."

Panel 3: Shen rubs the back of his head, smiling with a twinge of nervousness but also clearly accepting the situation. He says "ah, well, I'm sure they'll understand..."

Panel 4: Shen is blindfolded and on his knees in front of the wall in the parking lot behind the store, with his hands tied behind his back. The cashier, still in apron, is pointing a rifle at him.

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Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social · 9d

That is so, though the GPU will most likely survive loading a little texture and freeing it up as soon as you've copied its pixels into a buffer. If image dimensions were in thousands of pixels, perhaps having a native extension decode pixels straight into a buffer would win you some milliseconds.

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Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social · 10d

Don't have to do it that way in semi-recent GameMaker versions, you can get RGBA data from a surface into a buffer and then peek around it as you please, like so:

$Code snippet: function scr_test() { var spr = sprite_add("test.png", 1, false, false, 0, 0); var width = sprite_get_width(spr), height = sprite_get_height(spr); var surf = surface_create(width, height); surface_set_target(surf); draw_sprite(spr, 0, 0, 0); surface_reset_target(); var buf = buffer_create(width * height * 4, buffer_fixed, 1); buffer_get_surface(buf, surf, 0); var peekx = 3, peeky = 4; var ofs = (peekx + peeky * width) * 4; show_message($"Pixel at {peekx},{peeky}:" + "\n" + $"Red: {buffer_peek(buf, ofs, buffer_u8)}" + "\n" + $"Green: {buffer_peek(buf, ofs + 1, buffer_u8)}" + "\n" + $"Blue: {buffer_peek(buf, ofs + 2, buffer_u8)}" ) }$

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Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social · 10d

There's a handful of localization systems for GameMaker now, you get to pick what you like (or what might work with tools that you already use) github.com/bytecauldron...

Flat (no sections/groups) systems like pictured work well for little games and less well once you have hundreds of strings.

GitHub - bytecauldron/awesome-gamemaker: A curated list of awesome libraries, snippets, guides, and projects for GameMaker.

A curated list of awesome libraries, snippets, guides, and projects for GameMaker. - bytecauldron/awesome-gamemaker

github.com

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Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social · 11d

A quick drawing depicts:

A massive sword is stuck in the ground.

A smug-looking white cat is sitting atop of its hilt, tail twisting around the grip and hanging over blade.

A speech bubble points at the cat and reads "Peace was never an option"

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Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you!

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Vlambeer @vlambeer.com · 12d

Nuclear Throne localization is going exceptionally well! Update 100 hitting in December.

A localization spreadsheet with 4 cells, saying “BAM BAM”, “POP POP”, “PENG PENG” and “PIUM PIUM”

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Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social · 12d

Drawn a gator for a Pathfinder thing

A token for a somewhat smug-looking alligator, snout poking out of the token frame.

Functionally this is a mix of various pf2e crocodiles and alligators to match level/size/action variety requirements.

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Kimo 🌞 @kimo.games · 16d

While the world is burning, I have mastered ultimate fish simulation technology
#gamedev

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Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social · 16d

The latest stable has a Linux installer even though it is not linked on the releases page, like so

download.opr.gg/GameMaker-20...

download.opr.gg

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Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social · 16d

You could, but you'll have to find/make an editor for this binary format they're using (perhaps [...string lengths][...strings without delimiters]) and re-apply your patch after each update, which is higher-effort than a CSS snippet

A screenshot of Discord's en-GB.pak in a hex editor

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Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social · 17d

Unlike many other elements of potential interest, these menu items do have IDs assigned to them, so you can just
div#user-context-ban {
&:before {
content: "Behead";
}
> div[class^="label"] {
display: none;
}
}

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🎴squp @squp.bsky.social · Sep 20

💃💃💃💃💃💃 #memamorkin

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Vadym, friend of eggbug @yellowafterlife.bsky.social · 19d

If that's still a thing, I've had similar in some tool on Ubuntu (not FA, apparently?) and that turned out to be system simulating a click before each tablet pen stroke.

Linux version of FA doesn't seem to have the tablet dialog like Windows does¹, but it does still have that mystery checkbox²

"Select Pen Pressure API" dialog in Fire Alpaca that's accessed through "menu: File ➜ Stylus Pressure API Settings".

The dialog shows options as PC + Pen Tablet, Tablet PC, and Touch PC + Pen Tablet.

"menu: File ➜ Brush Environment Settings" spotting a checkbox labelled "Check if there is a problem with HUION Tablet"

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JM93 @jm93.bsky.social · 20d

I drew a font that's supposed to resemble something you'd see in a 90s cartoon/anime depicting a computer monitor.

Found this really useful tool for converting spritesheets into fonts: yellowafterlife.itch.io/pixelfont

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