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David Walters

@hiddenasbestos.bsky.social

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Working (solo) on "Thunder Helix" 🚁 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1906230 + Exploring some ideas for future projects! Come man Too Year!? Lazzy! Plz Releas AASP

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David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 4h

No, sorry. The AI DDoS kept taking down the whole website so I felt forced to delete it. Some of the manual is converted and you can download it as a PDF from the Discord.

David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 8h

I'll take the most bumbling stammering disorientated human voice over a robot voice. HTH. (I'm sure you sound fine)

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Joni Korpi @jonikorpi.com · 16h

If DDOS attacks are illegal, AI crawler spamming should be too. They’re wearing down the most useful parts of the web in their quest to produce the least useful.

Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah, we only had 1 week of break between AI crawler attacks. This one is even hungrier than the last one.

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Shallow @shallowthinking.bsky.social · 1d

Been mucking about with a first person testbed in Godot because I am easily distracted. Knocked together a short level with oldschool DOOM slidey doors, since you'll spot issues in a more structured gameplay environment that aren't necessarily going to show up in a more open sandbox. #blocktober

A screen capture of a 3D viewport in the Godot engine's editor containing a blockout for a game level. It is predominantly brown in colour which may indicate it is intended for a retro FPS game.

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downchasm @downchasm.bsky.social · 2d

they said it was impossible for a Genesis game to contain this much unrefined DOS Energy

what else have they been hiding from us?

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 2d

probably GG

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David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 2d

90 minutes of 6502 w/ C64 rom examples 😍
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lIc...

MOS 6502: 50 Years, Top 50 Instructions

YouTube video by 8-Bit Show And Tell

www.youtube.com

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David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 2d

Should have gone the Excel route and used X, Y, Z, AA

David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 2d

Looks great and feels warm 👍

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David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 2d

Not quite '#solodev with 15 friends' yet, but I did succumb to a buddy of mine offering up some better profile icons. Forgive my weakness but that camel is just 👌 to me as are the #pixelart Raven helicopters. #gamedev 🚁

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David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 2d

Ok, just finished the CGA conversion of the virtual keyboard. That means the whole front end now supports CGA mode. That's a big step forward - but it's not done yet. The in-game UI needs work as do all 3D meshs.

The Thunder Helix virtual keyboard rendered in the CGA palette of cyan, magenta, white and black.

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Anaël seghezzi @anaelseghezzi.bsky.social · 3d

So mayyybe it's possible to render in 4 colors, it takes 20% more cpu but two palettes of 16 colors are then free for sprites and background #SGDK #SegaMegadrive

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David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 3d

What I do need to care about with my renderer is no T junctions, and also my importer can't really handle N-gons. It's otherwise extremely tolerant of meshes that would probably make a high poly artist faint.

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David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 3d

I care not for topology in these 90s projects. Quads for preference (ease of use, less wireframe visual noise) but I don't use subdivs or even Gouraud shading so it matters very little to me if an explicit triangle is needed to ensure a twisted quad splits a certain way.

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David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 3d

Started modelling a Cessna style plane (around 600 tris atm). Been a while since I did any 3D modelling and I had fun with it. #lowpoly #gamedev #flightsim

A model aircraft viewed from the rear-right

A model aircraft viewed from front-right-above

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David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 4d

Links Awakening handles this in a fun way. You talk to some kids playing in town and they say something like "I heard you press [B] to block, dunno what that means though, I'm just a kid"

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David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 4d

This is probably well known, but I just discovered 3x speed YT is paywalled. This is so petty it's making me chuckle. (Jokes on them 2x speed is already way faster than my rusty old brain can handle.)

Youtube putting 3 times playback speed behind a paywall

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David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 4d

Well FWIW I downgraded back to VS2019 immediately that CoPilot appeared in 2022. I'm doing my part lol. I can't imagine that's a permanent solution but SFSG. Sad to hear of other IDEs succumbing to this madness :(

David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 4d

I've been using Visual Assist for decades now. It doesn’t need an LLM and its autocomplete dramatically speeds up my typing in Visual Studio. Why can't people just make/use tools like that 😭

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BadComputer @badcomputer.bsky.social · 4d

To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the SEGA Mark III console in Japan, Astro Climber will be released and available for free on 20th October. #homebrew #mastersystem

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David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 5d

I'm thinking of stuff like Black & White, also N64 games that would auto hide the HUD after showing you a changed value. I guess people(devs) wanted extra immersion in their fancy accelerated graphics

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Xor @xordev.com · 5d

"Lapse"
for(float i,z,d,h;i++<5e1;o+=vec4(3,z,i,1)/d)
{vec3 p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy),a;a.y++;p.z+=7.;a=mix(dot(a,p)*a,p,sin(h=length(p)-t))+cos(h)*cross(a,p);
for(d=0.;d++<9.;a+=sin(round(a*d)-t).zxy/d);z+=d=.1*length(a.xz);}
o=tanh(o/1e4);

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David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 5d

people really hated huds back then!

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David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 5d

God's gonna sit this one out.

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Shallow @shallowthinking.bsky.social · 6d

On Sundays we muck about and make Doom levels.

A screenshot of a custom map for Doom II (1994) with two imps approaching the player with obvious aggression that is surely unwarranted.

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