aevaanyone make anything recently?
ghosttie@ghosttie something I've had a bit of success with recently that I've discovered on accident is to give myself really low bar art assignments. so like that sculpture I posted pictures of yesterday the assignment was "make a sphere with a aluminum foil core and get the clay surface to be as smooth as I can get it". the rest just Emerged and it was magic
@ghosttie so like, it's hard to Just Simply Make Something in these trying times, but Just Simply Make Something Beneath Your Abilities can be a good way to trick yourself into making something. Doesn't work when I'm exhausted, but them's the breaks.
Bill@FloppySalmon @ghosttie not all the time, just simply pick an hour every week to not be completely capsized by exhaustion and challenge yourself to feats of herculean will power like "draw a boob smoking a cigarette"
@FloppySalmon @ghosttie and i know you're thinking "that's impossible!" or "what good is a boob smoking a cigarette!" but if you keep at it little by little you'll eventually surprise yourself by drawing a boob smoking two cigarettes and then you will experience true self actualization (until the high of creation wears off then you have to do it again)
@FloppySalmon @ghosttie i'm pretty sure this is how art therapy works
ROTOPE~1 ⭐️@aeva yep! I recently told an AI to recombobu*explodes*
@rotopenguin 🤔 sooo you made a mess?
demofox@aeva Super early but it has controller support :P (custom 2d engine. Kenney asset pack til i make something fun worth custom art)
@aeva im thinking a simple incremental rocket game, to get a first title out there.
But feature creep includes using verlet physics and having people build their rocket frame and attach stuff to it. Also maybe some kind of 2d kerbal lite type missions or something 😂
But feature creep includes using verlet physics and having people build their rocket frame and attach stuff to it. Also maybe some kind of 2d kerbal lite type missions or something 😂
Nikita Lisitsa@demofox @aeva Yaaay! Rockets good
A shameless plug (it's hilariously stupid but idk maybe it could inspire you to something): https://lisyarus.itch.io/andromeda-delivery-service
ferunando@aeva does a quick edit pass on a 2016 very-short-story counts? things are still very very slow moving in here...
edit: if it counts -- https://journal.gureito.info/fiction/2016-07-23-notice-of-termination.html
@aeva I'm still torn between working on a toy language compiler (fun, hard, feel like doing that rn) and feeling guilt about not working on the game (fun, hard, kinda ok with doing that rn but compiler is more fun)
@aeva Something like that: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lisyarus/116286245414955370
Syntax-wise a mix of Rust and Python, semantics-wise somewhere halfway between C and C++ (at least that's the end goal)
Also easily embeddable with a small compiler, which is why I'm writing it myself instead of e.g. using LLVM
Nikita Lisitsa (@[email protected])
Attached: 2 images Rewriting my toy language aarch64 compiler using the new IR as an input. The compiler code decreased in half (1.5k -> 700 loc), and its logic got way simpler. Still not an optimizing compiler, though, and lacking structs, arrays & pointers 😅 Left: test program Right: IR output
Josué Boisvert 
@greenmoonmoon @aeva True, that's pretty much why I'm still doing that :)
Paul Hebert@aeva I'm still spending most of my free time on my daily word game, Tiled Words!
It just won the Playlin Player's Choice Award for daily web games which was neat!
I've got a few big features in the works (user accounts + user generated puzzles) but don't have as much time as I'd like to work on them!
@paulhebert oh cool! congrats on the award :D
@aeva thanks! It was a fun surprise 😊
Ela - TechnicalOtter@aeva does a breakthrough in my research count? If so, yes.
@technicalotter sure does! what did you discover?
@aeva Still early days as it’s opened up a whole new set of questions but the summary is island has good idea for public transport network akin to modern thinking about 10 years before it took off elsewhere potentially maybe.
Either way it makes me very happy
@technicalotter awesome :O
@aeva oh also some garlic bread. Exposing my true trans colours here
@technicalotter delicious :)
Ratsnake Games 🔞@aeva a dress!
i just sewed the left part to the right part! now all i have to do is connect the center part... oh wait
@ratsnakegames oh coooool :O!
@aeva it's fun but i keep fucking up in very stupid and annoying ways
8Bit | 
| 🍶🦊@aeva I put a first person spectator mode into my marble game because apparently I want to make players get sick while also never stop feature creeping.
@aeva And you, aeva, what have you been up to lately?
@lisyarus i've been learning how to work with polymer clay. my goal is to practice fundamental techniques until they feel second nature, and to make at least one thing every week. i've also been researching what all i need to do to work with ceramics. it's been surprisingly effective at helping me calm down from anxiety.
@lisyarus i've also been working on getting mollytime ready for its first official release. it's in the excruciating "the first 90% is done, now all that remains is the next 90%" phase, but I'm hoping to have a public release ready sometime this year
@lisyarus the racing game is on the back burner for the moment while i ponder how i want to go about designing the levels, and figuring out if there's a way for me to be comfortable publishing the source code without feeding the ai machine with new training data. i may end up self hosting a private p4 server or SVN or something for it and hope this all blows over eventually, but idk how to admin either of those things, so development is blocked on that atm.
gkrnours
Lesley Lai@aeva Super early prototype. I am working on a self-host meetup alternative for my group (after surveying various alternatives and haven't found anything really satisfying).
I kind of feel gulty to not working on anything graphics/game or programming language related (since those are what I am more interested in), but actually learned a lot since I haven't done this kind of web backend projects other than in university courses
Nina Kalinina@aeva git with vegan recipes I cook
Ronflaix@aeva Working on my engine when I'm not investing my free time on that modded Factorio game. I might investigate GPU particles next for absolutely no sensible reason. How about you?
@Ronflaix been learning how to make polymer clay figurines and slowly picking at my code projects. (more verbose details here https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/116286783985429522 )
Erin@aeva I'm getting so close to a local maxima for a sloppy-joe-entirely-inside-a-bun (like a Texas "kolache" or a dumpling sorta) recipe I based on a more-complicated Alton Brown recipe. Trying another variation tonight probably
Julian Fietkau@aeva I'm in the process of creating and holding an “intro to web dev” course for CS undergrads.
We've gone over HTML & CSS and where to find tutorials & references. They got an assignment to make a small static website. I showed them Neocities and Nekoweb for inspiration and assigned https://another.rodeo/artisanal-web/ by @tbaxter for at-home reading.
Soon I'll see their results, and I'll finally get a gauge of their willingness to engage with creative vibes outside of React and its orbit. I'm excited. 🙂
