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Brad P. Taylor
@lardratboy.bsky.social
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Past lives include, LucasArts, Humongous Entertainment, SillyBytes, Beep Industries, iWin. I like tinkering and playing games. Husband, Father, Nerd and Game Programmer
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Brad P. Taylor @lardratboy.bsky.social · Oct 21
#introduction post, if you want to hear about my past at working at Humongous Entertainment and LucasArts on the SCUMM system/tools etc, I did an interview a couple years ago about it ( podcast about game tools from the past century :) soundcloud.com/talkiefile/h...
Holiday Show: 3 - First uSweat Then uSmell! Ft. Brad P. Taylor
This is a replay of the original episode. You can watch/listen to the original airing and experience other cool and wacky Holiday fun by visiting YouTube and searching WindowsTV's 2022 Holiday Hangout
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When you've worked in the game industry as long as this week's guest as a designer, programmer and SCUMM engine expert - you've seen some stuff!

Let's chat with LucasArts and Humongous Entertainment legend Brad P. Taylor!

@lardratboy.bsky.social

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Let's Chat with Brad P. Taylor - LucasArts and Humongous Entertainment SCUMM System Expert!
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January 9, 2026 at 3:01 PM
lardratboy.bsky.social
Took a fork of the boxed in matching #game and made a #slot machine / digital #fidget toy, very early build. Thoughts? codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
[GAME] Lattice Slots - gameplay experiment
An offshoot of BOXED IN, only it's a match 4+ based slot machine, probably best played on desktop for now....
codepen.io
December 16, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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I've got a #favor to ask, please help me pick a better set of colors for my latest fidget toy, I was just informed me my colors look #bland.. Anyway in the settings menu there is a ... button which lets you choose colors the game blocks, collective mind I need your help. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
[GAME] boxed in match 3+ or 4+
now has chiptune sfx and moore neighbor swap or swap anywhere matching mechanic...
codepen.io
December 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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new #mobile friendlier build of Boxed In #game #update #refresh codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
[GAME] boxed in match 3+ or 4+
now has chiptune sfx and moore neighbor swap or swap anywhere matching mechanic...
codepen.io
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
lardratboy.bsky.social
some fun colors for your feed
9 spheres, clipped to -1,-1,-1 to +1,+1,+1 with gradients
October 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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The latest iteration of 'eight neighbors' can be found here, please give it a whirl and leave feedback. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
[GAME] Eight Neighbors
a mobile friendly version of eight neighbors with a gemini assist instead of claude...
codepen.io
October 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
lardratboy.bsky.social
lovely gradients for your timeline.
nine spheres clipped to volume -1,-1,-1 to +1,+1,+1 - shader https://www.shadertoy.com/view/W3lyzB
October 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Gaming Legend Rebecca Heineman Could Really Do With Your Positive Vibes Right Now
Heineman's career in games stretches back over 40 years
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October 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Lovely gradients for the day :-)
data extracted from .sog file upper bits of the position means, tool used https://codepen.io/lardratboy/full/NPGQPJq
September 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I updated both my phone and the computer on the same day and for once apple didn't screw my display setup #goodday wow we do live in the future. Not sure I like the latest glass look (old man shakes fist at sky
September 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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sketchfab.com/lardratboy/models 3D projections of games, shader outputs, screen grabs and random data files if you find that sort of thing fun let me know I'm looking for #feedback on the tool I built/used to export them.
3D models by lardratboy
View 3D models by lardratboy
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September 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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some color for your timeline
asymmetrical patterns with lovely colors
August 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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toying with dataprism and projections, choose the data type, endianness and projection mode and discover something about your data :-)
experimental projection mode for dataprism point cloud data as (col, row) = z % sqrt(2^q), floor( z / sqrt(2^q) ) - normalized color at col * 2^q + x, row * 2^q + y. q is quantization bits
August 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Just what you've always wanted - a tool to 8 fold mirror point clouds, best used with smaller data files (small is defined by your GPU) codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
colorful point cloud from image -> B2PLY https://codepen.io/lardratboy/full/GggvVjz -> int8 -> quantized mirror https://codepen.io/lardratboy/full/OPyPReb -> ply
August 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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July 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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'Eight Neighbors' - my latest gameplay prototype is ready to play. #Claude, #Gemini and I have been collaborating on this puzzle #game. If you play it please let me know what you think.

codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
[GAME] mobile version of eight neighbors
a mobile version of eight neighbors with a gemini assist instead of claude...
codepen.io
July 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
lardratboy.bsky.social
3D or 2d projections of a flat data file - if that is your type of #nerdything go try out my latest tool update. It now supports even more data types, more projections, more fun. Use fractional chunks sizes (0.0625) on old game data/ROM files it is a hoot. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
Image of colorful points from stereographic projection of data. tool used https://codepen.io/lardratboy/full/QwwrXKb
July 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Looking for users and #feedback for a chrome extension. Audio Log is a chrome extension that keeps a log of browser tabs that have played audio, that's all it does nothing fancy just pure utility.

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/audio...

the code is here

github.com/lardratboy/A...
Audio Log - Chrome Web Store
Shows a history of tabs that have played audio.
chromewebstore.google.com
June 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Updated my chunked bytes to points tool - added tanh normalized float 16/32 support, updated ply exporter, added quantization. Give it a shot if you like looking at reasonably big data files and exporting them as point clouds.

codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
June 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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curious shapes in motion (controls: mouse movement, left click pan, right click zoom)

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interesting shapes with colorful gradients - https://www.glslsandbox.com/e#75464.130
May 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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#Claude + #methehuman produced something fun to play with, try it out on numpy files, uncompressed data, #gamedev assets/rom files etc - if you try it out let me know if you find have any #feedback

codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
May 23, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Fresh from #Claude4 here is an updated UI and improved ply exporter. #threejs continues to surprise, my m2 mac 32GB can stay interactive up until about 90M points; if you have a beast of a rig I'd be curious what is the upper range of points this thing can handle. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
bunch of colorful points from an uncompressed spz file
May 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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computers are #bonkers - also #javascript + #threejs is way more #capable than I thought. Try your own moderately large hunk of data, and let me know how capable your machine is. (oh yeah I added .glb export)

codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
Chunked bytes to points
load big glob of data and look at chunks of it as point clouds...
codepen.io
May 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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I love looking at encoded data as points, wish I had the ram and compute power needed to do this 20+ years ago. (try your own data codepen.io/lardratboy/f...)
colorful display of ~98MB of data from moondemo.(a) viewed by https://codepen.io/lardratboy/full/QwwrXKb
May 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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B2Ply - exploring data or images as point clouds is my latest tool/distraction. Maybe you will find it entertaining as well.

codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
B2PLY Tool to export bytes and images as .ply point clouds
B2PLY tool to export bytes and images as a .ply (point cloud)...
codepen.io
April 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM