Brandon Ecroso

While I'm on a rant about Childhood Education, let me introduce to you the ultimate parent hack: writing your own software.

Working on multiple projects, and game jams, allows me to work out solutions across projects faster. No need to worry about breaking existing code if it's a new project. Djelvian Escape/Stellaxy Stories mouse code worked perfectly.

Once I find it, that's high priority. If it's still being played, I feel an obligation to update it with QoL features at a minimum. Good thing I have exactly the code for this :)

I legit don't know where the source for Cell Defender is. I saw some recent reviews mentioning full screen and realized I 100% did not fix the mouse controls in the previous update. Oopsies.

Adding a heatmap to see the render cost of each pixel is cool and very handy! I should get rid of those red-hot spots 🤔. I already have an idea for reducing the ray-travel cost in empty spaces. What optimization trick comes to your mind?#raymarching #indiegame #indie #render

I'll always support indies making smaller games. nobody actually plays them, but they're the very best level-up for your dev skills

Shorter Distance + Rendering further Looks cool, but missing something (besides joining chunks)

The more I experiment with the terrain view, the more I'm unsure of how I want to approach it. Making it the same is easy, but no fun. Moving between them is.. awkward at best. Sleeping on it.

Today's task: Terrain

The fun way as taken about 5 hours so far, tomorrow we return to fix file io errors

Quite an eventful day today, I have a list of things I'd like to do on stream. -Stack eclipse images -MC Plugin (but the fun way) -Playing a mystery game -Dev time

@BarjiYT Sometimes the screen is flat on a table, so I can understand Z up in some cases.

How is this even a debate?

300mm lens + 100000iso was not enough to capture the lunar eclipse clearly, next time I'll be ready with the tripod!

Man I'm watching Tech YouTube videos from ~10 years ago and they feel like a window to such a radically different world. People used to care about shit.

@tsoding Some still do :)

@caballerobrah Only every time.

Ever go back and look at old code you wrote and think “wow this was kind of genius” and “no way I could do this again today” and “what the heck was I thinking?” and “this is awful” all at the same time?

Closed playtest of the new version 0.5 is out this Sunday 3pm UTC! Still a few slots available and you have 48 hours left to join. discord.com/invite/Hj2UgH7… #9point8 #spacesim #spacegame #playtest #indiedev

anything that's like "here's a link to my game! please try it out!" often turns people away. similarly, looking for engagement like "hey guys, what are your top 10 games", can be seen as trying too hard. my advice is just to act like you're already a famous developer. what would Shigeru Miyamoto tweet? I think he'd share cool little thoughts and opinions, engage in interesting topics, and every now and then share sneaky previews of a new game. people appreciate that kind of honesty, like they're engaging with a real person, rather than the marketing department for a game

@tomfleet Hi Tom, try this: x.com/i/status/20198… I've recovered 2 SSDs this way now.

Well, this is new. PC wont turn on today. Remove the lid, and am met with a strange sight. One of my NVMe drives has... Warped?! This was absolutely not like this when I installed it. Nor serviced it a few months back...