Emily

Big surgery next week :]

Turns out this slaps! Gotta trim some of the cruft off the sound, but it's great at picking up outdoor ambience, the sound of trains going by at night, footsteps, fridge doors closing, whatever. It's a little more work to make my own sounds, but it feels better than combing through sound libraries

vienna sausage in ranch is evil carrot in tzatziki

got a university surplus Tascam for like, nothing today. Excited to make my own game audio now, the test recordings I've done are better quality than a lot of the free audio libraries! I wonder how it does with stuff like nighttime desert ambience, or forest ambience.

flying the rat maps at half mast today His maps were so much fun, he was the first game dev of any kind I learned the handle of as a kid.

Really digging Galactic Racer, but it is making me wonder if anyone's managed to make a Lumen GI game that doesn't have lumen noise. I know there's a lot of devs sharing their particular recipes to minimize it, but even AAA games still seem to be unable to eliminate it.

when u check your phone at 3 am and the whole discord's in voice chat

For non-gamedev people - if you're modeling by hand, you have to really be fucking up for basic objects to come in far above 20k polygons. You can maaaaybe get to like 200k for a complex mesh, if you're working on high-end assets, but even when I go all-out I struggle to blow past 10k triangles.

Little dawn hike along the cliffside

I don't like the posterise node in shadergraph

wife and I doing some dark souls coop mod, and I love that fromsoft just gives you the zweihander immediately after the tutorial

computer, but bad

One of the most-important things I've learned doing solo gamedev is to keep a planner or something where you can write down ideas for future games. It's partially so I can keep track of the ideas before I forget them, but mostly it's so I can exorcise them and get back to my current project.

Obviously not a dragon, but I think it passes the screen test :)

my greatest enemy continues to be me from a month ago, deciding to put off doing PBR layers on all my textures until later

Finally! These tracks get their Bandcamp release! Newly remastered and including a never-heard-before intro track. Let me know what you think! silveralicorn.bandcamp.com/album/only-r...

I am just accumulating a big list of video games I want to make "some day" Half-life but nothing goes wrong and you just have a job with meters and an apartment and a boss Space game but you're a flight attendant SimCopter

I'll probably need to uproot most of these and replant them into their own things, but the basil seedlings are sprouting already!

lego cities skylines is my gta

I’m well on the way to getting music in game

herbarium status: 's all good smells real nice

Well I've fixed the worst graphical bugs, getting some performance issues now though I am pretty sure I know how to fix them. I will hopefully put the source code up soon, I don't know if it's polite to just fork it though!

Well! I actually took a big detour into 3D mode... now it has flipped tiles and hardware scaling!

I have a fully rigged and animated rat model (and a mouse) that I made for my other game, and i'm planning to make central to my space game, Poisoned Gravity so maybe I should just go ahead and retexture it this weekend to match the style of the new game so I can have a little rat to post

Got the rough idea for the hallways set up in Blender. Still need to finalize the layout, build some cutouts for sparse greebling, and figure out what I want to do about corners. Drawing some inspiration from Alien obvs, Event Horizon, TNG, and my pediatrician from when I was 8.

cool blender tips and tricks: 1 - Use shift-tilde for a first-person camera mode. Hit tab for collision and you can test out level layouts without exporting to an engine! 2 - Add 2-3mg thc to some tea so you don't feel high but do lose track of time and shrimp for 4 hours and hurt your hips. #tip

Sometimes with blender you spend like two hours with a calculator trying to rotate part of a mesh just right to join with another mesh, then you realize you can just build new geometry for the joint and it takes like 5 seconds.

every home cook has two sets of knives, the good ones you hang on the wall that cut like a dream, and the horrible shitter's knives you run through the dishwasher and don't want houseguests to know about.

office supplies in microgravity mysterious pens... who can say what brand they are at this texture resolution. Modeled this after the shitty velcro setups they have on the ISS

a nice evening in the desert, checking out the aftermath of those rainstorms we saw last weekend.

charging my camera battery for a trip to tha desert tonight. It's only gonna be 110 f

Tragic: the unique horror story you're enjoying is an unattributed adaptation of a 15 year old's SCP article

trying out blender with a vertical mouse today

there's no "I" E1M1 but there is a "me"

Cool hike today along a ridge looking down into the anza borrego desert

the epic of gilgamesh is the first literary example of the "gaycation"

Don't remember if i posted the chair animated and textured or not, but here it is! #blender #lowpoly

Just got a new keyboard and typing on it sounds like rain on the roof. Something I definitely miss living in socal for the last 7 years.

Little zoo trip