Alex Austin

Alex Austin

@crypticsea.bsky.social

Designer/Programmer of Bridge Builder, Pontifex, Gish, Golf?, A New Zero, Sub Rosa, Skate or Don't!, Stunt Derby

2.1K followers291 following780 posts

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Question: where do folks buy their game assets, besides Unity Asset Store? I looked at itch before but tbh found search/browsing really difficult (tho maybe it's better now). Would love some alternatives that don't lock me into a specific engine ecosystem.

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three things we need to survive the AI slopification: 1. Steam/Netflix/Spotify/YouTube/social media all have to aggressively downrank AI content 2. social movement for human art 3. a global world order government to disallow training on human data without consent, enforced by space laser or similar

programmers are the biggest fools, they'll buy in to a new way of coding that promises to make software 10 times faster, more reliable, more powerful, only to end up with bloated code that's slower, less reliable, and makes their job worse (obviously i'm talking about object-oriented programming)

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I'm trying out something new in Unity with the Universal Render Pipeline (URP). Does it not have a "out of the box" additive blend material for a sprite? What am I missing? I just want a cool shot sprite (regular blend), with a hot glow sprite on top of that (additive).

I can't believe this worked basically first try, I added to the target angular momentum around the up-axis when jumping and managed to do a 360 dunk (after a few attempts)

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How do computers calculate complicated trig functions such as tangent? I took a look at Intel's 8087 floating-point chip under the microscope to find out. The chip combines two techniques to evaluate the tan function quickly and accurately: polynomials and an algorithm called CORDIC...