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I watched a couple of videos about Animal Well and now my timeline is all "How to design great Metroidvania levels" and "How to create great platformer tiles" type stuff. I don't know why it suddenly started feeding me good stuff, but this is awesome.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It has only occurred to me recently that my goal weight is actually within reach. (The goal is 180 pounds. I started at 375 and I'm currently at 208. So not close, but getting there.) The second I hit 187.5, it will be impossible to stop me from singing Stone Temple Pilot's Creep all the time.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Apparently my steam account was hacked. If you got a weird message from me, don't click the link. Very icky!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

My experiment with Zig as a build tool continues. Now I'm also using it as a package manager. (Sort of.) You can tell Zig to fetch from github (by release or specify a hash) and use those files in your build. An example of doing that with the spdlog library: github.com/jessechounar...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Been experimenting with using Zig as a build tool for my C code. If you've got Zig 0.14.0 installed and some free time (and feeling friendly), could you try building and running this? (It's just some old opengl code, nothing big.) It should run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. github.com/jessechounar...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Getting super excited for the Combo Breaker trip in May. Gonna go off of my diet and enjoy some awesome food. Anyone have recommendations for spots I should hit? It's in Schaumburg, so that's what I'm looking for, but I'm not opposed to a trip into Chicago after I get eliminated from SF6.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Played Citizen Sleeper for my game club's game of the month. While I enjoyed the experience, I still don't think I'm into the interactive novel kind of thing, but I'm glad they exist for those who love them. It's a really, really cool story. The illustrations and music are top notch too!

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Well, if nothing else, this sorting algorithm has a great name. github.com/lewj85/jesse...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

My favorite band is Bear Ghost, and I've been obsessed with Chappell Roan lately. Today this happened: youtu.be/ik25VV4KWm8?...

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

What the hell is this EA Origin junk in the Humble Monthly? Do not want. 🤮 Might as well be on Google Stadia. You feel like you have too many subscribers and trying to lose a few @humblebundle.com?

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

I made a prototype game, with a little dude running around a simple 3d map collecting coins in Godot in a couple of days. A friend urged me to try Unreal Engine before going all in on Godot. After installing it took about 30 minutes to get back to the same place. Gamedev tools are crazy these days.

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Okay, look... I've been on a diet for a very long time, so maybe that's part of it, but I'd try it.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Any docs on best practices for input handling in #godot? Most of the examples/tutorials just sprinkle "Input.is_action_just_pressed" around in different source files. I'd like to support input device swapping and button remapping.

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Got an email that they're scheduling my 30-year high school reunion for this summer. Did they really need to remind me how friggin' old I am?

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Haven't been making much progress on the games. Last weekend I spent tinkering with adding a new frontend gui framework and pretty shaders. Whoops! Think I'm going to switch to Godot and trying to just get some work done.

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