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Nifflas

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Game developer and adaptive music specialist nifflas.itch.io

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Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 3h

Skills!

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 19h

My simulation shows that you do in fact double your chances by switching door...

in some configurations :)

(in other configurations, switching may be a guaranteed loss)

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 19h

I can definitely understand that!

Godot is looking pretty good these days, though I'm personally moving to either Monogame, Raylib or SDL3 (still in the deciding process)

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 19h

Have you ever wanted to listen to the Monty Hall Problem, in procedural music form?

If the answer is "Yes", see my upcoming talk at Roguelike Celebration on October 26, www.roguelike.club

A screenshot from my adaptive music software. Various fields describe the monty hall problem, but a lot of the behavior is customizable, such as whether the host is evil, whether the host is required to open a door, or even offer the player to switch to another door.

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 22h

Directly when I saw it, I got Hypnospace Outlaw vibes. Then I found out you can get the game bundled together with Hypnospace Outlaw on Steam, which by the way is a highly reasonable thing to do.

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 22h

Installing Blippo+

It was introduced to me by a streamer and I have to experience the whole thing.

It's TV from another planet, and I need to learn more about them. store.steampowered.com/app/3323850/...

Blippo+ on Steam

Blippo+ is a live-action, off-cable TV simulator. Channel-surf the stars and discover the staticky, radical world of Planet Blip through its soaps, sitcoms, news, weather, and talk shows. But don’t to...

store.steampowered.com

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 22h

It has too much tech debt tho, things break more often than I'm willing to put up with anymore, and every update is a gamble.

(For the record indeed it doesn't help that the company's leadership is behaving very dodgy either)

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 1d

They're so good! Homemade ones are my favorite tho, then I get to do weird experiments adding non-standard ingredients

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 1d

Cafe, dog, coffee, chocolate ball, and AKO kola. I'm very Swedish today

Photo inside a moody cafe, laptop on table, dog on the floor. Coffee, Swedish chocolate ball, and an AKO kola candy

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 1d

Oof! Unity has accumulated too much technical debt for me which is my main reason for changing after my current game. Will definitely not change to UE!

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 2d

That's such a shame.

visuals and music is the #1 reason I watch a tron movie. I re-watched Legacy just a week back and I already forgot the motives the various characters had. But those visuals :O

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 2d

Oof, I was fearing taking into the real world was a bad choice.

I'm also a fan of Legacy, it feels like watching a really long but great music video. I wish more movies tried that

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 2d

I'll report back when I've tested it, probably tomorrow

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 2d

If it turns out to sound really interesting, I may add the feature to my adaptive music software

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 2d

I shall not listen with loud volume, drastic skews will probably produce extremely loud very high frequencies

but I wonder if small skews would sound good?

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 2d

What do you reckon it would sound like, playing a sample, but skewing the playback head, so it reads a bit ahead in time for positive values, and behind time for negative?

...and what if I were to modulate the skew by an LFO? Or use a parabolic playback head?

Time to write some audio code

MS Paint image of a hand drawn waveform, with a tilted playback indicator

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 2d

I just played through The Holy Gosh Darn, very nice time travel adventure game. Also I always enjoy games that makes fun of Christianity since I grew up being taught to believe in it

Next up, Blippo+, I'm very excited about this one. I want to watch alien TV while I do level design.

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 4d

oof yeah, I was just thinking about this. Plus it's getting harder and harder to spot (sometimes it's super obvious but far from always).

I add before:2022 to a lot of searches these days, but 2022 is going to be increasingly in the past

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 4d

Definitely gonna see the entire thing

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 4d

Was watching on my phone and didn't see a progress bar. It took 2 minutes and 40 seconds for me to realize "wait I'm not watching a trailer"

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 5d

I'm in! Let me know when there's a thing I can do

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 6d

I definitely need to learn how to make videos on those that can grab people's attention

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 6d

For sure! Will definitely keep them in mind

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 6d

...how does one get a game noticed? What's the strategy in 2025? What are spaces where promotion (including self-promotion) of ones creative work is wanted, and not seen as something bad (which is why I'm terrified of reddit and some parts of mastodon)?

Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 6d

Back in the days, sites like jayisgames would write about a game I made, and many would discover it.

Then the internet started to become centered around a few sites, including but not limited to social media, where my work would be noticed.

Now with social media dying + slop infestation... (1/2)