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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · 18h

Why does it seem like the N64 had so many snowboarding games? 1080, Snowboard Kids 1+2, Nagano, Twisted Edge, and this, unless I'm missing one?

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks!

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · 17d

Pico1K Entry submitted! Came in at 1020 compressed bytes in the end, and was a ton of fun to make. Check it out on itch at sizescape.itch.io/qball

My high score is 348, let me know if you manage to beat it! :D

Thanks @liquidream.bsky.social for hosting this jam!

#pico8 #pico1k

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · 20d

Hitting up against the limits again for #pico1k. Added in a bunch the features that I wanted, and the game's starting to really come together. You can finally actually lose a run, and playing the game is cutting into my dev time, always a good sign. :D

#pico8

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · 21d

Making good progress on #pico1k!

Moved all of the sprite assets into code, smoothed the animations, and shrank a bunch of the logic code down, made it down under 1009 bytes compressed.

Now time to enter my favorite loop--each byte I remove gives me more bytes to add new stuff in. :D

#pico8

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · 26d

For #pico1k this year, started on a prototype of a weird idea I had: what would happen if you crossed qbert + jezzball? The resulting game is decently fun, and the very rough prototype came in at 1762 bytes, should be able to make it fit in 1k! #pico8 #arcade

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · Jul 26

Visited the SF Bay Model today, and this fine fellow is what the Army Corps of Engineers is trying to pass off as the sun.

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · Jun 25

Messing around with #pioc8 fillp constants is always fun for making these retro feeling demos.

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · Jun 23

Getting back in the #pico8 tweetcart seat, a bit of a sketch of an idea tonight, inspired by a demo I half-remember seeing, but can't find right now. I think it looks pretty neat.

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · Jun 18

Da King

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · Jun 10

If you think hating I²C is fun, wait until you try hating I³C.

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · May 30

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r=sin::o::for o=rnd(3)\1,128,3do for d=rnd(3)\1,128,3do pset(o,d,0)e=o-10n=d+21for f=0,1do i=t()-f/2if((4*r(i/2)+16*r(sqrt(e^2+n^2)/70-i/8)+3*r(e/(100+10*cos(n/9)))+cos(n/(31+6*r(e/10))))\3==0)pset(o,d,2-f)
end end end flip()goto o

#pico8 #tweetcart

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · May 12

sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · Apr 7

Starting my next #crossstitch, maybe gridding on a 5 stitch count is overkill, lol

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · Apr 7

Finished, ironed and mounted! Procrastinated these last few steps a while, but it makes a big difference.

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · Feb 20

Mission mode has more levels like that, but they're more challenging, especially to get platinum on some of the later levels.

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · Feb 20

I'm a big fan of the whole series, and if you only played the main story of Pikmin 3, you missed the best content in the game--the mission mode is what makes that entry one of my favorites.

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · Feb 19

But who... or what is calling? #crossstitch

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · Feb 15

Finished my first 4 cross stitch kits and finally washed and ironed them! Happy how they turned out, but now what do I do with them? I probably should figure this out soon, since I already got more. 😀

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · Feb 13

Ecosia isn't really a search engine--it's a reseller of Bing search with a different marketing angle.

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · Feb 5

Making friends is a lot cheaper than making enemies. USAID and the State Department spend money today so DoD doesn't have to spend 100x that in the future.

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · Jan 17

Not the OP, but ads algorithms try to get you to go to other people's sites, e-commerce algorithms try to get you to stay on the current site, and click "buy", e.g. in the TikTok Shop.

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sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · Jan 16

Maybe extremely cold take? Pikmin 3's Mission Mode is better than story mode. The focused challenge and tight optimization loop is so fun.

sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · Jan 6

Listening to NYT #HardFork top 100 tech rankings and it's absolutely deranged. Putting sundials and the Vine app on the same list? And somehow Juul is 20 ranks above boats?

sizescape @sizescape.bsky.social · Jan 4

Threw my journals from last year into Google's NotebookLM, and the generated Podcast is so positive, it's almost unbearable. Thank you, AI overlords, for being my own personal hype machine. ✨