loren schmidt

in case anyone missed it: the Hole Digging Game 1.0.1 is now out! it's a slow, gentle, goalless game intended to invite curiosity and reflection, featuring procedurally generated visuals + sound. as of today, there's a mac version thanks to @sh0vemedia! lorenschmidt.itch.io/dig

i feel like text mode roguelikes are could learn so much from ZZT flower field color work! (also more people should use ⧯⧱⧲ (from Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B))

a truth about humans is that they can be coerced to run in smaller circuits, smaller and smaller, until all their travels are confined to a circle a hand's breadth across and they believe they have no choices at all.

@heliofractal happy birthday! i can't wait to see what you're concocting. i have a vested interest because it has flowers and you can ride a horse(?)

it's my bday so here some more screenshots from my new game which i intend to bring to some form of completion during this year of my life

some little warriors inspired by the Bayeux tapestry

wow this text generation bug goes hard

@vrnvctss thank you

working on new sprites for undead characters. left is a sepulchral crawler, which is a (mostly) noncombat unit. right are three designs for the sepulchral "spider", a sort of arthropoid unit well-suited for clambering quickly through tunnels.

@AbysmalDweller there's something really appealing to me about Angband variants! even if they're kind of too excited about hard counters.

@lorenschmidt I love Angband, it really does like to throw some unexpected curveballs

an /extremely/ promising start in poschengband cut short by a high level unique which spawned in town, two missed firebolts in a row, and me being too stingy to teleport (monster had 0% health)

@AbysmalDweller oh i mean the rainbows were on purpose, there's just a calibration error haha

@lorenschmidt I love this so much, I would do this on purpose

depth magnitude error

@AbysmalDweller yes! i got ships working recently, i'm excited to get to the part where you can actually see them at the player scale.

@lorenschmidt Is this part of the roguelike?

some recent work on sea and land travel on the world sim level #screenshotsaturday

@steadydrift thank you!

@lorenschmidt these sprites are incredible wow

@AbysmalDweller thank you so much! it's one of the types of art i love doing most.

@lorenschmidt I love your sprites, they are very well designed ❤️

seeding the houses of republican lawmakers with slime mold with 79454 biological sexes for the edification of the masses

some more work on sepulchral crawlers and "spiders", which i might call "striders" also a [turret / assembler], (top), which is a stationary unit often serving as a turret, but which you can socket other spells into: it can deploy a bridge, light a room, buff you, plant flowers.

@travisberry thank you, that's kind. i'm here less since the takeover- i'm very active on blue sky. i really should be posting here more often though!

@lorenschmidt I hate the twitter algorithm now. I was just thinking about how you do the coolest shit and I haven’t seen you in forever and it turns out you’ve been around I just don’t see it.

@SilentPrayerCG i like it but it almost never sticks for me unless i'm applying it regularly over a period of time! it really is neat to learn though

@lorenschmidt i have one idea, but I've tried something like that and it didn't worked main issue it's my lack of math knowledge. neither school nor next stuff where i learned, failed to explain how it's actually useful and interesting can be.

synopsis post: recently i've been working on a rendering prototype. it's a Wolfenstein style fan raycaster. it has: displacement mapped walls terrain raycaster floors (entirely different tech, but texture matched). (angle constrained) real time shadows