Nifflas

Been using Linux for almost a year now on my laptop. I'm beginning to doubt my plan to fully switch to Linux, unless the Linux community can come together and make 1-10 options that work instead of 100-1000 that doesn't. Can barely connect to a wifi when in central town because...

...the menu that lists available wifi networks closes itself if any change in the list occurs, which is frequent in the center of a town. Meaning, I can only connect to a wifi in a less dense area. "how install another wifi manager" is not something I should need to google, ever

I'm thinking of old grimoires listing demons of hell and their sigils. I don't believe demons are real, which makes me think 1: someone must have had LOTS of fun coming up with these, and 2: they're kind of like SPCs, aren't they? I hope in the distant future...

How to implement security features right is incredibly frustrating to ask or search for. There's a bulk answer going "don't try to invent your own solution, do it the standardized correct way" Yes, that's why I asked. I'm not going to hack something together. Jesus Christ, stop explaining this.

A recurring thing that is incredibly frustrating with programming is, "if person doesn't know a specific thing about X", people assume "it's a beginner who knows nothing about X" Programmers can be incredibly quick to think others are nowhere near their skill level, without any reason to think so.

Maybe someone happens to know? Working on twitch integration The OAuth process gives my game an access token. It's meant to be usable between multiple sessions. How do I actually store this on the computer? Even if I encrypt it, the encryption key needs to be stored on the computer too.

I'd like the game to be able to (with the player's consent) pin the game's available twitch commands to chat, but that means I need to request a token for sending chat messages, not just reading chat That makes it orders of magnitude more dangerous if someone unauthorized were to access the token

A song in my adaptive music software typically have 70 multi-choice settings, and which configuration of those settings depends on exactly what's happening in the level A huge time saver is, I can copy the current game state, and paste it into the music software, and pick up the work from there

With custom tooling, I've discovered that the clipboard is incredibly powerful. Copy/paste stuff between software. Want to copy something, use that data a bit later? Paste it into notepad temporarily. Save to a file if needed. When I phase out Unity, I'll center even more of my workflow around this

I just added Randu to my "bad utilities" code, so I can use it for music What are other fun bad algorithms? They should do what they're supposed to do wrong or inaccurately However, because I actually use these, they: * Must still be 100% stable, no crashing/infinite loops * Must be efficient

wait why is everyone talking about my private key?

playing silent hill townfall, was really expecting to love it since I liked silent hill 2 remake so much Unfortunately, I'm not into the stealth. Makes me wonder tho, how to do make a non-stealth horror game without emphasis on player violence towards enemies, yet engaging encounter mechanics?

...what if the radio could be tuned to stop the enemies? like, dodging enemy attacks while finding a radio configuration that just suddenly makes them frozen in time, until you leave? there got to be new approaches to this than the mechanics we've settled on for horror

playing silent hill townfall, was really expecting to love it since I liked silent hill 2 remake so much Unfortunately, I'm not into the stealth. Makes me wonder tho, how to do make a non-stealth horror game without emphasis on player violence towards enemies, yet engaging encounter mechanics?

There's plenty to do still but completing the development of Rhythm Doggo is definitely closing in. I've done lots of adaptive music with unusual tech before, but never anything as complex as this game. Also, getting into modular synthesizers had a major effect on how the game sounds. So...

...write a sort-of-engine like thing with the simplest integration layer possible. So, I can convert my games to work with any particular engine if I rewrite the integration layer for it. Means using only a tiny subset of the most basic features, but I've accumulated enough knowledge to do this.

There's plenty to do still but completing the development of Rhythm Doggo is definitely closing in. I've done lots of adaptive music with unusual tech before, but never anything as complex as this game. Also, getting into modular synthesizers had a major effect on how the game sounds. So...

Mission accomplished! The puppies in my game are no longer adult dogs with the recordings pitched up. Maybe I should have held off and made this change as a patch after the game's release, so I can market it as: Now With Real Puppy Sounds™