loren schmidt
@lorenschmidt.bsky.social
i make art, mostly with computers. currently working on an open world RPG with roguelike roots and an experimental bent. cat mom. she / her or they / them.
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loren schmidt
@lorenschmidt.bsky.social
· Nov 25
i am making an open world roguelike.
i have been imagining this world for years, and i want to make this game so people can go there and live many lives in it!
the game features whole-cloth, accessible design, deep mysteries, and a meticulous generated living world.
i have been imagining this world for years, and i want to make this game so people can go there and live many lives in it!
the game features whole-cloth, accessible design, deep mysteries, and a meticulous generated living world.
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I've finally put together a dedicated web page about the Village Building Game I'm working on! It
🟩 Reflects on the origins of this idea ✨
🟧 Touches on my gamedev history 🗒️
🟦 Describes my vision of this project 💡
🟥 Hints at the expected timeline 🕗
lisyarus.github.io/blog/project...
🟩 Reflects on the origins of this idea ✨
🟧 Touches on my gamedev history 🗒️
🟦 Describes my vision of this project 💡
🟥 Hints at the expected timeline 🕗
lisyarus.github.io/blog/project...
Village Builder Game
lisyarus.github.io
February 15, 2026 at 9:44 PM
I've finally put together a dedicated web page about the Village Building Game I'm working on! It
🟩 Reflects on the origins of this idea ✨
🟧 Touches on my gamedev history 🗒️
🟦 Describes my vision of this project 💡
🟥 Hints at the expected timeline 🕗
lisyarus.github.io/blog/project...
🟩 Reflects on the origins of this idea ✨
🟧 Touches on my gamedev history 🗒️
🟦 Describes my vision of this project 💡
🟥 Hints at the expected timeline 🕗
lisyarus.github.io/blog/project...
this is so self-defeating. these lil guys have batteries. who is going to do battery tests on all 19,000 e-ink labels in a walmart, the three employees they've got on duty at any given moment?
(5/11) Walmart, Whole Foods, and Kohls are switching to electronic shelf labels that can display dynamic prices. Kroger deployed them with Microsoft AI—a setup a 2024 Senate inquiry warned could enable “surge pricing” via facial recognition. (Kroger claims it will only lower prices.)
February 16, 2026 at 5:13 AM
this is so self-defeating. these lil guys have batteries. who is going to do battery tests on all 19,000 e-ink labels in a walmart, the three employees they've got on duty at any given moment?
ugg my font being square and like, no others having an aspect squarer than 1:2 is going to give me aspect ratio nightmares. maybe i just make all my text art for square and if someone wants to play with another font it'll just be squashed horizontally.
February 16, 2026 at 4:40 AM
ugg my font being square and like, no others having an aspect squarer than 1:2 is going to give me aspect ratio nightmares. maybe i just make all my text art for square and if someone wants to play with another font it'll just be squashed horizontally.
[food]
apple cake
apple cake
February 16, 2026 at 3:55 AM
[food]
apple cake
apple cake
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u+1fb00 - u+1fbff symbols for legacy computing actually gets so much more intense than this. if you use the mosaic tiles or sextant blocks, it cracks open a whole other amazing can of worms.
February 16, 2026 at 2:21 AM
u+1fb00 - u+1fbff symbols for legacy computing actually gets so much more intense than this. if you use the mosaic tiles or sextant blocks, it cracks open a whole other amazing can of worms.
this doesn't work in this font but in my 8x8 terminal font this would be a circle
February 16, 2026 at 2:15 AM
this doesn't work in this font but in my 8x8 terminal font this would be a circle
wait what if the solution to boats turning is that boats /can't/ turn.
February 16, 2026 at 1:25 AM
wait what if the solution to boats turning is that boats /can't/ turn.
something related to the weird pit edge trick also potentially is a solution for how to draw boats. you can have people, ground, etc. inside boats and draw the edges from the water side. but there are cases where you need impossible combos which aren't in unicode.
February 16, 2026 at 1:24 AM
something related to the weird pit edge trick also potentially is a solution for how to draw boats. you can have people, ground, etc. inside boats and draw the edges from the water side. but there are cases where you need impossible combos which aren't in unicode.
i figured out a scheme to do continuous edges around pits using u+1fb00 - u+1fbff symbols for legacy computing + box drawing.
there's only a /partial/ permutational set of edge lines.
🭼, 🭽, 🭾, 🭿
▏,▕, ▔, ▁
however, if you catch any upper left edges for both a pit or ground, you can do continuous!
there's only a /partial/ permutational set of edge lines.
🭼, 🭽, 🭾, 🭿
▏,▕, ▔, ▁
however, if you catch any upper left edges for both a pit or ground, you can do continuous!
February 16, 2026 at 1:06 AM
i figured out a scheme to do continuous edges around pits using u+1fb00 - u+1fbff symbols for legacy computing + box drawing.
there's only a /partial/ permutational set of edge lines.
🭼, 🭽, 🭾, 🭿
▏,▕, ▔, ▁
however, if you catch any upper left edges for both a pit or ground, you can do continuous!
there's only a /partial/ permutational set of edge lines.
🭼, 🭽, 🭾, 🭿
▏,▕, ▔, ▁
however, if you catch any upper left edges for both a pit or ground, you can do continuous!
i recently realized i don't have any playable species with osteoderms, which seems like an oversight.
February 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM
i recently realized i don't have any playable species with osteoderms, which seems like an oversight.
wow this is really controversial!
my controversial tooth opinion: i understand and respect the evolutionary tradeoffs around specialized mammalian teeth, i really do, but gimme those old style continuously replaced early synapsid teeth. three sets is a weak premise.
my controversial tooth opinion: i understand and respect the evolutionary tradeoffs around specialized mammalian teeth, i really do, but gimme those old style continuously replaced early synapsid teeth. three sets is a weak premise.
Reject medical neo-futurism. Refuse compliance.
I Will Not Grow The Third Set.
I Will Not Grow The Third Set.
February 16, 2026 at 12:16 AM
wow this is really controversial!
my controversial tooth opinion: i understand and respect the evolutionary tradeoffs around specialized mammalian teeth, i really do, but gimme those old style continuously replaced early synapsid teeth. three sets is a weak premise.
my controversial tooth opinion: i understand and respect the evolutionary tradeoffs around specialized mammalian teeth, i really do, but gimme those old style continuously replaced early synapsid teeth. three sets is a weak premise.
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There is so much in this piece. The misuse of science, the fact that Epstein was proud of being illiterate, Epstein's ranch in New Mexico and the horrible things that occured there, and of course, the creation of a mostly men's club where Epstein funded intellectuals who would push his agenda.
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 1:00 PM
There is so much in this piece. The misuse of science, the fact that Epstein was proud of being illiterate, Epstein's ranch in New Mexico and the horrible things that occured there, and of course, the creation of a mostly men's club where Epstein funded intellectuals who would push his agenda.
can you change the write depth programmatically in a fragment shader, or is it stuck at the interpolated geometry value? because i have a grass shader idea...
February 15, 2026 at 2:01 PM
can you change the write depth programmatically in a fragment shader, or is it stuck at the interpolated geometry value? because i have a grass shader idea...
i'm doing 7drl and i'm scoping it so good this year.
February 14, 2026 at 8:41 PM
i'm doing 7drl and i'm scoping it so good this year.
octavia in a sunbeam
February 14, 2026 at 8:24 PM
octavia in a sunbeam
day 2 of not being able to post images with alt text in android
February 14, 2026 at 8:24 PM
day 2 of not being able to post images with alt text in android
you can track it to specific events because it's centralized. for instance, near the start of this is the fake high school bathroom story fox news ran.
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 14, 2026 at 8:22 PM
you can track it to specific events because it's centralized. for instance, near the start of this is the fake high school bathroom story fox news ran.
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Happy Valentine's Day from a spherical animal with one leg that travels by bouncing
February 14, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Happy Valentine's Day from a spherical animal with one leg that travels by bouncing
prototyping the new object view.
tentatively, under the hood, things you equip are in the named slot. but they're also connected in the object model instead of being contents.
this object view is not specifically an inventory, and could also be for containers, buildings in town, rooms...
tentatively, under the hood, things you equip are in the named slot. but they're also connected in the object model instead of being contents.
this object view is not specifically an inventory, and could also be for containers, buildings in town, rooms...
February 14, 2026 at 5:59 PM
prototyping the new object view.
tentatively, under the hood, things you equip are in the named slot. but they're also connected in the object model instead of being contents.
this object view is not specifically an inventory, and could also be for containers, buildings in town, rooms...
tentatively, under the hood, things you equip are in the named slot. but they're also connected in the object model instead of being contents.
this object view is not specifically an inventory, and could also be for containers, buildings in town, rooms...
hmm. accidental discovery, because i plopped my item test function over my menu.
if you start with a unicursal labyrinth (or any labyrinth which is topologically continuous), you can then place open rooms in it in arbitrary positions and they have guaranteed connectivity.
that's so simple.
if you start with a unicursal labyrinth (or any labyrinth which is topologically continuous), you can then place open rooms in it in arbitrary positions and they have guaranteed connectivity.
that's so simple.
February 14, 2026 at 5:23 PM
hmm. accidental discovery, because i plopped my item test function over my menu.
if you start with a unicursal labyrinth (or any labyrinth which is topologically continuous), you can then place open rooms in it in arbitrary positions and they have guaranteed connectivity.
that's so simple.
if you start with a unicursal labyrinth (or any labyrinth which is topologically continuous), you can then place open rooms in it in arbitrary positions and they have guaranteed connectivity.
that's so simple.
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I heard you like roguelikes with fewer bugs and grammar mistakes so I've released delve 0.5.4.
Also: emergency doors
#delve #roguelikedev
Also: emergency doors
#delve #roguelikedev
February 14, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I heard you like roguelikes with fewer bugs and grammar mistakes so I've released delve 0.5.4.
Also: emergency doors
#delve #roguelikedev
Also: emergency doors
#delve #roguelikedev
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Happy Valentimes day! Back in 2019 I compiled a "Sylvie Collection" of all my past released games in one download. The collection is now updated to include all games up to the end of 2024, and they're packaged with a new launcher program. Enjoy your life - Sylvie
sylvie.website/SylvieCollec...
sylvie.website/SylvieCollec...
Sylvie Collection, 2004 to 2024
sylvie.website
February 14, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Happy Valentimes day! Back in 2019 I compiled a "Sylvie Collection" of all my past released games in one download. The collection is now updated to include all games up to the end of 2024, and they're packaged with a new launcher program. Enjoy your life - Sylvie
sylvie.website/SylvieCollec...
sylvie.website/SylvieCollec...