hammyhavoc.com
Composer for interactive game scores, TV and film
—such as All Walls Must Fall (Steam, Nintendo Switch) and Manta.
Dev. Dolby Atmos ninja. Music as The Orion Correlation. CEO of @splitanatom.com, @previousmagazine.com. AuDHD soul.
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hammyhavoc.com
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It's wonderful to see you return to Ecco the Dolphin, Ed!
I know we had a heated convo a couple of years ago about the waste of water with AI and NFTs as I felt it betrayed the environmentalist message of Ecco, but I am so glad to see you announce a third one, mate! I know it'll be excellent. :- )🐬
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Yes! 100% with the 'POSSE' methodology all-round—'Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere'. YouTube embeds work!
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I'm gonna need a studio recording of your best rendition of "Kookaburra sits in the ol' gumtree" to commemorate the 'straya tour. 'Folk Goes Prog Vol. 1' when?
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If you get stuck or want/need pointing in a good direction, give me a shout. Always happy to share knowledge and help, and we can try and stick some of that knowledge on pain points in the public domain for others to benefit from.
I guarantee you do far more complex things all the time though!
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No tutorials off the top of my head (though likely tons on Google), but I promise you that game dev is infinitely more difficult than setting up a blog—largely intuitive and self-explanatory. :- ) I think you'll do just fine and realize you were overthinking setup—it's weirdly simple these days!
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The quality for what you're both doing is absolutely there, 100%, but the discoverability for how you both present it doesn't do the work justice. Deserves a ton of eyeballs on it.
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Yes, there's RSS feeds, but the search engines don't value the content due to how Google et al algorithmically weight social media and any site that is known to be a UGC platform, so likely won't rank well on search engines.
Dropping keywords regarding sci-fi Unreal assets etc? Could be effective.
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Like, can't stress enough how important ranking for stuff is on Google and mopping up relevant traffic for people searching for what you're doing. Discord too much of a walled garden in that regard.
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GitHub Pages or Cloudflare Pages is free with no ads—point a domain at it, et voila, no attack surface, you own your content, it's all versioned, it's quick and easy. Can do Jekyll etc—folder of Markdown files, and Bob becomes a close relative. Could generate an RSS feed via Actions as an example.
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Nobody:
Fragile: I'm Fragile, but not that fragile.
Andrew: I'm fragile, but not *that* Fragile.
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Also gonna take this opportunity to tell @gamedevmicah.bsky.social he should blog on aggressivemastery.com and put up an RSS feed. Devlog stuff absolutely fucks.
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You should take a look at some of the "indieweb" style blogs that are seeing a big resurgence—people loosely document what they're doing, provide info that might be useful for others etc (ranks on Google). I'd subscribe to a proper RSS feed of content beyond us all collectively shitposting. :- )
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The feline equivalent of installing Windows 95 from 13 floppy disks.
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Speaking of intensifying levels of nerdiness—do you blog anywhere properly? And does it have an RSS feed? Working on something cool to try and support people doing stuff I love.
Same questions to you too, @soliloquis.bsky.social!
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These are hot. CC @bryandesrosiers.com
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If it wins, you'll finally be able to smugly respond to the meme of "it's good, but is it sugoi?"
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What passions and interests do you have outside of illustration? Art is already nerd stuff BTW—I tease, I tease.
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We are truly living in the future lol!
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Re sweeping the frequency spectrum, do it at a few different signal levels as tape takes signals quite differently depending on how hot they are.
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If you wanted to nerd out, use a signal generator and sweep the frequency range up to 20kHz, and see what the graph looks like from the tape, but keep in mind you won't get perfect results if your AD chipset isn't decent.
Can check your AD accuracy with a loopback of taking the DA to AD via cable.
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My other thought is that the programme material you're trying to record to tape might need a compressor and limiter on the signal as some stuff can be extremely dynamic. Tape does funny stuff to transients, it's why smashing drums through it can sound interesting—lossy compression almost lol!
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The end quality usually lives and dies by the tape itself (they vary hugely—cheap tape is cheap for a reason), likewise, gain-staging the signal properly as the preamp probably sucks if it's a consumer-grade tape recorder and nothing aimed at professional use, ergo you don't want to amplify input.
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Love these! CC @bryandesrosiers.com
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Which typewriter?
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If the shaft itself isn't broken off and you've lost the cap, should be this one: syntaur.com/Part-9825-En...
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Think it should be this as it's a data encoder and not a pot for the synth circuit itself: syntaur.com/Part-7597-En...
I'm sure you can fix it yourself easily, but if you're unconfident or unsure, feel free to drop by next time you're in Liddypoo and I'll have it sorted in a few mins for ya!
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Do I spy a Monologue with a missing PGM/value knob?
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This thing is gorgeous.
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Muskrat really is a piece of garbage.
Just been reading en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alterna..., and the section on antisemitism says it all. The amount of neo-nazi shite they're involved with is nauseating (has its own section too—wtf).
It could not be any more in our faces at this point.
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Yes—I had considered that the sockpuppet alt accounts he interacts with on X may well be bots.
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Really innovative. CC @bryandesrosiers.com
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This is super rad and scratching my THPS-like/Aggressive Inline-like itch. CC @bryandesrosiers.com
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Fair enough! I wholeheartedly agree with that—writing something coherent definitely takes a lot more time and skill than people realize. IMO, that coherence and cohesiveness are what's blatantly absent from LLM output, but a lot of folks seem to overlook how glaringly obvious that is to pro writers.
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If you already know the above, ignore me! I'm sure you've already had a play with outliners, but just in case you or anyone else hasn't, there ya go, potential new workflow to get some writing done and out the door. :- )
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You can get similar functionality out of Obsidian (Markdown note taking app), but you'll need to add some community plugins to really turn it into something sensible.
Anyway, example workflow:
- atomic notes relating to a game
- view and rearrange them in a single doc-like view despite being apart
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One of the best things about WordStar was being able to move blocks of text around and rearrange them quickly and easily, you could also add bookmarks to jump throughout the doc with a single key.
In modernity, similar functionality is in most outliners.
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Apparently there's a fan-translated EN version if anyone's JP isn't up to snuff.
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I'll replay the whole franchise. Something I've never done is replay it in Japanese, but I really should. Ace Combat 3 comes on two discs in Japan and has 52 more missions than what we got in the West, branching narrative (wtf) and animated cutscenes.
Not enough budget to localize all apparently.
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This is the kind of universal accessibility feature that should be in every game. One of the best implementations of this that I've seen though, I use it quite a bit as it's a very deep game in terms of systems. Just had to share! Brilliant.
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On Switch, you hit `-`—taken to your tutorial menu, but most excitingly, any time you are presented with a new concept, you get the name of that concept next to a `-` in the HUD, so if you happened to not understand or accidentally skipped it, just hit `-`, boom on latest tutorial item in the menu.
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Coming back to this thread as I wanted to tell you how excited I am! I'm currently writing a very detailed article on @rudolfkremers.bsky.social's Bioframe Outpost game, but something that has really leapt out at me is that any tutorial info is always available with a single button-press. Genius.
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"not a very visual person"—meaning you don't much care for visual media? Or that you struggle with imagining things in your head?
Trying to contextualize it with you being an author and don't want to misunderstand. :- )
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They're definitely an acquired taste, IMO, but people do like them (~7% of YouGov respondents said their favourite ice cream is a Twister).
Do I like them? Sure, I'd eat one if the ol' blood glucose wasn't a concern, but don't think I've ever gone out and bought one, only ever been given one.
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Pineapple ice cream, lime fruit ice outside, strawberry fruit ice in the middle.
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Whole other level of cool—wow. CC @bryandesrosiers.com
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Well, that's one—whey—to spend the evening.
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Wow! Love these. The proportions and paintwork are lovely. CC @bryandesrosiers.com
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This is fucking brilliant.
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I've heard rumblings of that before, but never known anyone to successfully pull it off. I always wondered if that was the stuff of full-height 5.25" HDDs or 8" as they were probably a little more forgiving.
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The 120GB Maxtor DiamondMax *were* shite in terms of reliability, but they wouldn't have it that their platter running at some weird angle in-use then getting knocked around whilst hot in the car was what killed 'um.
Needless to say, they thought PC gaming sucked and stayed on consoles forevermore.