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Ben Hickling // MNKY

@benhickling.bsky.social

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Artist / Game Dev / Current project: Ex-Zodiac (out in early access now!) - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1249480/ExZodiac/

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Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah, and I'm not 14 enough to drink it

Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · 1d

Did you see the giant ones they sell

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Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · 5d

Lunabonk

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Mechano - Wishlist Candy Rangers! @mechano.bsky.social · 23d

CANDY RANGERS IS OUT EVERYWHERE
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Candy Rangers Launch Trailer

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Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · Sep 20

Thanks, I'll take a look!

Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · Sep 20

I'm seriously considering finding out if I have it (pretty sure I do), just not looking forward to the waiting times. If the meds could help me be even a little more focused and productive, that'd be awesome lol

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Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · Aug 5

Favourite track in that game

Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · Jul 28

I hope so, it feels that way sometimes lol

Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · Jul 28

Sorry for the lack of updates, I'm still chipping away at the latest level for Ex-Zodiac. I've been caught up with other life stuff like looking for a new job after my previous position came to an end. Anyhoo, I should have something to show soon, hopefully!

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Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · May 31

Yeah, that's called VC capital money, they want their investments back eventually, which is what we're seeing now

Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · May 31

I imagine it's impossible to throw them away and you have to cut off the cat tags and stick them to your fridge

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Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · May 15

Dang, they're getting inventive

Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · May 14

I didn't know grackles existed until I went to Texas two years ago. My wife and I both thought a car alarm was going off until we realised it was coming from one of those

Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · May 8

This was done via automatic conversation in the interface, but in the code you could still directly set the rotation_degrees property? It made no sense, and I often feel the programmers on these open source projects just force their opinion on others because they think they know best

Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · May 8

I still don't fully understand why they removed the rotation_degrees property from the editor. They said it was because we using radians was fine, but then they gave into demands asking for degrees to be supported again-

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Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · May 8

So now I'm finally able to use the regular builds without any weird custom modifications, which makes my life a lot less stressful when it comes to releasing new builds of the game

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Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · May 8

Eventually I figured I'd try and do something about it. I decided to ask chatGPT if it could write a python script to fix my files. I showed it the format and explained what I needed. Thankfully I only needed to tweak it once and it did the job, completely fixing my issue

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Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · May 8

So my animation tracks were in degrees, but the editor wanted radians, even though it appeard to accept degrees, but not via the animation tracks (it's messy, and stupid, and unnecessary)

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Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · May 8

Unfortunately the 3.x to 4.x convertor didn't take into account the rotation_degrees animation tracks. The devs had removed the property, and now the only publicly available rotation property was one called "rotation" but this was technically in radians, but via the editor it was in degrees

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Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · May 8

The issue with the mac build was due to the custom build I was using. The only reason I was using a custom build was because the devs removed the rotation_degrees property and all of my animations used it, so I had to create a custom build where that property was still available

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Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · May 8

It should work, it was a custom build that was the issue

Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · May 8

Sorry, no can do

Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · May 7

Good news, she fixed the MacOS build, so now all 2.3% of you can finally enjoy the latest stage update! 🐒

store.steampowered.com/app/1249480/...

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Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · May 7

Still waiting for the Exact OST to get ripped/released

Ben Hickling // MNKY @benhickling.bsky.social · Apr 30

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