potch 🕹️ GDC

packing for GDC day 2 I fumbled and spilled a bag of plastic gems everywhere, and for a fleeting moment understood what it's like to be sonic the hedgehog

hi! which hill bit are you on?

picture of me, in the yerba buena gardens- a man with a beard, glasses, sunglasses on his head, and a red teeshirt with a giraffe on it

hanging out in da gardens- come say hi!

wandering around GDC like a lost and confused fawn

Gonna be commuting up to SF this week for GDC- would love to meet up with mutuals or followers who are in town!

Grocery circular mailer from a local mexican market "Mi Tienda Supermarket" advertising their Lent specials, but the word Lent uses a wood texture font that looks like the logo from the musical Lent

absolutely losing it at my local mexican market using the Rent font for their Lent mailer

hello

Big Pharma Doesnt Want You to Jnow about Cat Purring on your Chest

he smashed it!! loved seeing the audience alternates in the credits too

finally tucking in to this, so excited

working on my new playdate game - making a simple level editor twitch.tv/potch

gonna stream some gamedev in a few!

it's okay you won't be held responsible

tech people “use a controversial tool and find some value in it without having to stage a weird off-putting self-reassuring philosophical public defense campaign about it” challenge

yeah, given the goal a proper score would probably run dithers at several levels, then run a blur kernel and look for even-ness

this is gonna end up a blog post for sure with visualization!

I'm computing "energy" for each cell pairwise with every other cell- the energy is based on both spatial distance and how close they are in value. My goal is tiling so I'm doing toroidal distance as well. Loss function is total energy.

The magic of adding random noise to black and white images. YouTube video by Stand-up Maths

a continuation of my general long-standing fascination with dithering algos and in particular inspired by this recent video youtu.be/kT4p1GXq4HY?...

Screenshot of a terminal program showing a pretty-printed matrix with highlighted values and statistics: iterations per second, closest value pair, best score, and which values have max/min "energy" pressure from nearby values

nerd snipe of the week: trying to use a basic genetic algorithm to find a "minimally adjacent" dithering matrix

A set of pixel art road road signs with jagged edges and basic colors, in a medium scale- roughtly 48 pixels in size.

I feel like this pixel art feels very Nintendo DS coded. maybe GBA?

that's probably true for long-term impact, but the early perception and range anxiety was and remains very real! People love to worry over the 1% case- hence the low US sales of more affordable, entirely adequate range BEVs in the US in favor of more expensive 200+ mile range models.

my posts draw from a broad, yet deeply respectful anthropological survey that includes my cats and partner

some people cut their bangs,,, others start a new stardew save

power's out for scheduled maintenance which is annoying BUT gives me a chance to try running essential stuff off my ev battery! (ioniq 5 v2l mode)

random Object with a yellow glow outline and a controls prompt overlayed with the text "(A) INTERACT"

aw jeez

Hiding From The Light, by clearcoat 5 track album

my very talented pal Kirby made a whole ding dang EP and it rocks and rips clearcoatav.bandcamp.com/album/hiding...

I'm sure the block layoffs have nothing to do with cutting all their failed crypto/web3 efforts and dressing it up in an efficiency and future-forward story!

the question is what am I gonna do with the other 23 hours (I have put myself in the hospital within about 43 minutes and now need a way to pass the time)

The balancing on the email mechanic is completely fucked. You're meant to reply to emails, but when you do so, you're punished by almost immediately getting another email in response which then needs to be replied to. The player is disincentivized from engaging with the core gameplay loop.