Blambo

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  1. Gooood I love Drive so much. That's a really sick piece, and I'm interested in seeing how it would look if you dropped a little teal in there.

     

    So I've been painting on and off for this month, and I feel like I've settled into a process that feels right for me. Here's some stuff I made in chronological order:

     

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  2. I really want a companion version of this painting depicting Sean after he's held in his pride and been like: "hey, good fight Danielle, that was fun" and then turned and spat out blood.

    sick triptych idea: black eyed sean to the left, junior mints in the middle, sean spitting out a tooth to the right

    unfortunately space


  3. Whoa hey, yeah it's been in the back of my mind for a while but I haven't actually done much. I feel like I'm not skilled enough in painting, designing and programming to seriously consider doing this at the moment (yeah that's a BS reason to not do it but I've got other projects to keep me engaged and improving).

     

    But I keep thinking about it, mostly because I'm interested in exploring the aesthetic flow of adventure games, like how pacing and framing works in a content controlled but timing variable space. I mean, I would really love to keep making this but I feel like any work I do towards turning it into a full project would be better suited to do with a team or partner. There's incidental benefit from making more scenes and paintings though, and I'm still doing that! I just didn't consider any of the new ones to be worth sharing so far.

     

    But I'm really humbled and surprised that you're inspired by any of this, especially since you're actually making an adventure game. I might actually pick this up again sometime soon, if only to treat making new scenes and such as painting exercises. Thanks a whole bunch, I'm a big fan of Dropsy!


  4. Yeah I figured it was something in a big ol opaque box.

     

    I mean the units of radians is pi, so I thought it was intuitive that sine cycles based on some multiple of pi if it's a function related to the angle in a unit circle. I need to brush up on some basic trig haha


  5. I'm by no means an expert code guy but I can give it a shot.

     

    I think what it's doing is storing data for a sine wave in an array for it to be interpreted later by something that loops through the data[] array, and interprets gain to make sounds.

     

    The phase is the point on the sine wave measured in radians, which increases based on the frequency and sampling frequency (not sure what either of those things are, I'm assuming frequency has to do with pitch?). At every increment of phase, the sine of it is taken and multiplied by the gain, which means that every value on a sine wave with the amplitude of the gain is being put into the data[] array at a resolution determined by the frequency and sampling frequency.

     

    Pi is in there to make sure that the phase doesn't increase over 2pi, at which point it'll reset to 0 so that it'll repeat that same section of the sine wave and keep the value of phase in check (I think it doesn't matter that much because sine is cyclical).

     

    Hope my explanation wasn't too incomprehensible.


  6. Long time relationship turned into a long distance one today, with an 8 hour difference and spotty internet connection. Feels weird.


  7. Going to post some doodles here, rather than spam the game jam thread.

     

    Another cowboy.

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    @SuperBiasedMan: Digging that old school colour palette. Were you around during those era of graphics? I always wonder that about artists who can nail a certain aesthetic, I would always have to research something to even get it sort of right.

     

     

    Sick cowboy! As in he looks poorly. I love pixelly high res art! This specifically reminds me of the game "Gods Will Be Watching"

     

    This isn't new stuff from me but your cowboy reminded me that I have some animations for a dream project:

     

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    There's huge readability issues in the mockup but it may look better in motion.


  8. I'm in NG+ with around 5-6 million soul memory and i'm kind of shocked at some of clumsy, ill-equipped builds people are playing with that deep into the game.

    There was kind of this difficulty curve where i started being matched against people who were super on the ball at the end of NG, but now into the separate matchmaking pool for NG+ and beyond, it seems like it has fallen off pretty steeply.

     

    Actually I played a lot like that in the first game, as a really badly planned bumbling character who somehow stumbled his way through the whole game twice


  9. Yeah I'm really surprised at how much painting is more "knowing what stuff looks like" and less "follow these steps and things look better". But I'm going to dedicate all of my free time to figuring out best practices and teaching/learning methods to make it all a little easier.

     

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    yay i arting


  10. My undergrad enrollment deposit deadline is today. I have a choice of either going to my local state university and risking a sophomore year transfer to the school that I wanted to go to but wasn't admitted, or going to a more expensive out of state private school. I'd be doing CS at either.

     

    The former choice is obviously smarter (especially because I always hear the undergrad school you go to doesn't matter) but I feel strangely opposed to this idea of being so close to home while experiencing something that should feel liberating and empowering, while watching friends go to ivies and pretending to congratulate me. Which is a really dumb thing to care about but it's still there and weird.

     

    I realize that a video game podcast forum is no place to whine about the charmed life I've lived up till now, but this decision feels weirdly momentous even though all signs point to this being a non-issue.

     

    edit: man lol im a big ol baby


  11. I know Google is big on net neutrality, I wonder where Google fiber will land in regards to this if it does go through.

     

    Weird that we have to rely on one or two idealistic companies to uphold public business ethics