asciiwave.bsky.social
@asciiwave.bsky.social
gamedev & synthesizers
// currently working on GRIST: a hyper-capitalist nightmare
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2164660/Grist/
// currently working on GRIST: a hyper-capitalist nightmare
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2164660/Grist/
So my ascii engine has a big-text mode, and you can get some really lovely effects overlappings glyphs. So far in Grist i've been pretty strictly authentic to the "could it run in a genuine terminal?" ethos. But artistically, I think I'd like to explore these possibilities more.
November 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
So my ascii engine has a big-text mode, and you can get some really lovely effects overlappings glyphs. So far in Grist i've been pretty strictly authentic to the "could it run in a genuine terminal?" ethos. But artistically, I think I'd like to explore these possibilities more.
spending this weekend falling in love with every electronics trainer i set my eyes on
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
spending this weekend falling in love with every electronics trainer i set my eyes on
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Hey #PitchYaGame, I'm making Crabmeat, a first-person point & click survival horror game where you're a prisoner tasked with crabbing for priceless Southern King Crabs to pay off your debt to the Feudostate.
#survivalhorror #horrorgame
#survivalhorror #horrorgame
November 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Hey #PitchYaGame, I'm making Crabmeat, a first-person point & click survival horror game where you're a prisoner tasked with crabbing for priceless Southern King Crabs to pay off your debt to the Feudostate.
#survivalhorror #horrorgame
#survivalhorror #horrorgame
Learning that the rerelease of King Crimson's "3 of a Perfect Pair" has a dance remix of Sleepless by Francois Kervorkian. I don't want to be rude to mr. Kervorkian but it's not a great track, and the dance remix i did of Man With An Open Heart some 15 years ago is much better.
November 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Learning that the rerelease of King Crimson's "3 of a Perfect Pair" has a dance remix of Sleepless by Francois Kervorkian. I don't want to be rude to mr. Kervorkian but it's not a great track, and the dance remix i did of Man With An Open Heart some 15 years ago is much better.
Had a weird moment where I realised how much my game is inspired by Frederick Pohl's Gateway, then deja-vu at having thought before, then an unfolding where I realised that like Gateway I also want to talk about "between the runs".
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Had a weird moment where I realised how much my game is inspired by Frederick Pohl's Gateway, then deja-vu at having thought before, then an unfolding where I realised that like Gateway I also want to talk about "between the runs".
alright yeah i'm daft, but i've been hand-coding palettes, and often drawing art without the right palette loaded then only seeing it correctly at runtime...
now i have a palette editor, and finally i can save/load palettes for easy wysiwyg recolouring.
now i have a palette editor, and finally i can save/load palettes for easy wysiwyg recolouring.
October 31, 2025 at 3:12 AM
alright yeah i'm daft, but i've been hand-coding palettes, and often drawing art without the right palette loaded then only seeing it correctly at runtime...
now i have a palette editor, and finally i can save/load palettes for easy wysiwyg recolouring.
now i have a palette editor, and finally i can save/load palettes for easy wysiwyg recolouring.
found the forgotten sketches folder, so much gold
October 31, 2025 at 12:54 AM
found the forgotten sketches folder, so much gold
an acquantaince is sharing stuff on fb and yeah ok actually this is bad stuff. articles are all-
Headline: "Government announces plans to tax everyone 80%!"
Body text: "is what some people suggest could be the outcome of tax reviews across the globe!"
Who reads the body text? no-one, lol. ;_;
Headline: "Government announces plans to tax everyone 80%!"
Body text: "is what some people suggest could be the outcome of tax reviews across the globe!"
Who reads the body text? no-one, lol. ;_;
October 28, 2025 at 4:16 AM
an acquantaince is sharing stuff on fb and yeah ok actually this is bad stuff. articles are all-
Headline: "Government announces plans to tax everyone 80%!"
Body text: "is what some people suggest could be the outcome of tax reviews across the globe!"
Who reads the body text? no-one, lol. ;_;
Headline: "Government announces plans to tax everyone 80%!"
Body text: "is what some people suggest could be the outcome of tax reviews across the globe!"
Who reads the body text? no-one, lol. ;_;
convinced that most CRT shaders have been created by people who have never actually seen a CRT screen.
October 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
convinced that most CRT shaders have been created by people who have never actually seen a CRT screen.
when you forget to bounds check damage reduction...
October 24, 2025 at 5:20 AM
when you forget to bounds check damage reduction...
Reposted by asciiwave.bsky.social
Reminder that this website has NO ALGORITHM
a like is nice, but if you want others to see a post, you gotta repost it. Art especially.
a like is nice, but if you want others to see a post, you gotta repost it. Art especially.
October 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Reminder that this website has NO ALGORITHM
a like is nice, but if you want others to see a post, you gotta repost it. Art especially.
a like is nice, but if you want others to see a post, you gotta repost it. Art especially.
Stars (standard) vs Dice (new) to show the "number of rolls a character can make in a skilltest."
are the dice readable? i like it being more explicit about connecting the value to rolls, but for consistency every other time you see stat scores they are displayed as stars.
are the dice readable? i like it being more explicit about connecting the value to rolls, but for consistency every other time you see stat scores they are displayed as stars.
October 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Stars (standard) vs Dice (new) to show the "number of rolls a character can make in a skilltest."
are the dice readable? i like it being more explicit about connecting the value to rolls, but for consistency every other time you see stat scores they are displayed as stars.
are the dice readable? i like it being more explicit about connecting the value to rolls, but for consistency every other time you see stat scores they are displayed as stars.
realized that every game i want to play these days can be run on linux, and the sole piece of windows only software i run anymore is Cubase, of which i'm A: still on a 10-year old version, B: don't use as much more than a glorified tape-deck. I should be fine to replace with reaper..
October 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
realized that every game i want to play these days can be run on linux, and the sole piece of windows only software i run anymore is Cubase, of which i'm A: still on a 10-year old version, B: don't use as much more than a glorified tape-deck. I should be fine to replace with reaper..
The dark souls of chips
October 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The dark souls of chips
happy wednesday
October 22, 2025 at 4:45 AM
happy wednesday
I'm curious - knowing nothing, what would you think "Score" indicates here?
![Image of a skill test box from a game. It reads:
Skill Test: Agility 5+ x1
Unit Score
[S] Britton *
[A] Creech *
[D] Redding *
[ESC] Cancel](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yrtag2tb242c6bpikeszawji/bafkreieagjybv5733cpmenlapj2cmzejwr3tp2hj4wlbfvpsdzjrlwehp4@jpeg)
October 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I'm curious - knowing nothing, what would you think "Score" indicates here?
Every now and then i'll do something in debug which just tickles my brain in exactly the right way. eg checking the clear function on this window was working correctly. part of me would like the whole game to look like that, although i know it would get tiring fast - i might use it as an effect tho.
October 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Every now and then i'll do something in debug which just tickles my brain in exactly the right way. eg checking the clear function on this window was working correctly. part of me would like the whole game to look like that, although i know it would get tiring fast - i might use it as an effect tho.
Tv has three HDMI ports. Two are right angled inside the recess. Third projects straight out the back.
All fine and dandy until someone pushes the tv flush with the wall and HDMI 3 snaps.
Second time this has happened 🤦♂️
All fine and dandy until someone pushes the tv flush with the wall and HDMI 3 snaps.
Second time this has happened 🤦♂️
October 21, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Tv has three HDMI ports. Two are right angled inside the recess. Third projects straight out the back.
All fine and dandy until someone pushes the tv flush with the wall and HDMI 3 snaps.
Second time this has happened 🤦♂️
All fine and dandy until someone pushes the tv flush with the wall and HDMI 3 snaps.
Second time this has happened 🤦♂️
Wanna thank Sam Altman personally for making me feel gross now when I'm writing "game AI"
Going to have to call them CPUControllers or some shit, JFC.
Going to have to call them CPUControllers or some shit, JFC.
October 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Wanna thank Sam Altman personally for making me feel gross now when I'm writing "game AI"
Going to have to call them CPUControllers or some shit, JFC.
Going to have to call them CPUControllers or some shit, JFC.
When playing some orders the text clears too quickly to read what they do - specifically, ones that don't require any further interaction like picking a target. Experimenting with leaving text in the log instead of clearing it, at first it was bad but some simple formatting is getting somewhere.
October 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
When playing some orders the text clears too quickly to read what they do - specifically, ones that don't require any further interaction like picking a target. Experimenting with leaving text in the log instead of clearing it, at first it was bad but some simple formatting is getting somewhere.
a gang??? of tripods.
what's the collective noun for deathbots?
what's the collective noun for deathbots?
October 20, 2025 at 2:27 AM
a gang??? of tripods.
what's the collective noun for deathbots?
what's the collective noun for deathbots?
opened a block of tempeh that was past its use-by date, and while what i ate was perfectly fine i decided to freeze the rest of it.
i recommend cutting it into portions before you freeze it.
i recommend cutting it into portions before you freeze it.
October 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
opened a block of tempeh that was past its use-by date, and while what i ate was perfectly fine i decided to freeze the rest of it.
i recommend cutting it into portions before you freeze it.
i recommend cutting it into portions before you freeze it.
every single pixel update is now an AI feature. Who wants this. Why are they so desperate to fill out phones with this.
October 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
every single pixel update is now an AI feature. Who wants this. Why are they so desperate to fill out phones with this.
Occasionally wonder if I should have gone with petscii ...
October 16, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Occasionally wonder if I should have gone with petscii ...