thomastc

Making games under the name Frozen Fractal.
Portfolio and devblog: https://frozenfractal.com

Currently working on Around The World (working title), a game about naval exploration and discovery. #indiegamedev #gamedev #godot

Public Key

npub1t7f6ku29cg9ssc0ha5540exlkntjyzc4792rwkszgw0e47kwsrkqv9dtp0

NIP-05 Address

thomastc_at_mastodon.gamedev.place@mostr.pub

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs9lyatw9zuyzcgv8m7622hun0mf4ezpv2lz4phtgpy88u6lt8gpmqe6htw8

Author Public Key

npub1t7f6ku29cg9ssc0ha5540exlkntjyzc4792rwkszgw0e47kwsrkqv9dtp0

Show more details

Last Notes

2024-08-09 15:34:05

New blog post is up! Procedurally generating languages, and words in that language, using a hybrid approach I've not seen anywhere else before.
https://frozenfractal.com/blog/2024/8/9/around-the-world-19-constructing-languages/
#gamedev #procgen #language

2024-06-11 14:57:09

By the way, @npub1ede…nsaa, what's the official Godot Engine hashtag? Everybody including me just keeps using both #godotengine and #godot, and it seems like a waste of good characters. Maybe you could proclaim one or the other to be the One True Hashtag?

2024-06-09 09:51:46

- reply

@npub1g53…v0hh I remember that game! I don't think I ever got very far, but now I can try again 😀

2024-05-24 08:56:55

- reply

@npub1aw2…8vv5 Ah, so the DDG outage was not just me. I took the opportunity to try Kagi instead. It worked nicely and without cruft.

2024-04-01 11:01:30

The most unrealistic part of #startrek is that all engineers always know exactly how long a task will take, and they are always exactly right.

2024-01-27 19:32:27

- reply

@npub1aw2…8vv5 No spam in my Isso instance so far, somewhat surprisingly. Probably just luck because I don't think it actively filters anything.

2024-01-27 19:11:12

- reply

@npub1aw2…8vv5 Btw if you ever want to host the comments yourself, try Remark42. I went with Isso but am not entirely happy with it, mainly because Python tends to break upgrades as well. (You'd need a VM again of course.)

2024-01-27 19:05:37

- reply

@npub1aw2…8vv5 Re Jekyll vs. Hugo: this matches my experience. After some years it became almost impossible to upgrade anything in Jekyll, so eventually I migrated the whole shebang to Hugo. Love the speed, maturity and backwards compatibility. The docs could be better, but could also be a lot worse.

2024-01-16 22:14:54

- reply

@npub1aw2…8vv5 @npub1xcs…rpjj Oh, that is excellent! And very recognizable too.

2024-01-15 10:11:12

- reply

@npub1sdk…0kgj You just have to suffer the data mining processes of social media companies. Fedi might not be as immune to this as we'd all like.

2024-01-02 16:01:54

- reply

@npub1mc3…nkdg In the future, use 29 February. I bet you'll get approximately 4x less birthday spam.

2023-12-21 20:15:31

- reply

@npub1aw2…8vv5 Just be glad that this isn't one of those dozens-of-gigabytes monstrosities that pass for "games" these days.

2023-12-20 19:27:18

- reply

@npub1aw2…8vv5 Offsite to BorgBase, using borg of course.

2023-12-20 12:12:15

- reply

@npub1z2q…02kr Nostalgia indeed. I can still hear the voiceover in my head. EXTRA BENZINE! EXTRA GELD! But yeah, from a gameplay perspective, A2 Racer was pretty awful :D

2023-12-11 00:44:58

- reply

@npub14yq…rfl3 Does it get better if you manually compute deltas between global_position of the InputEventMouseMotion? Those are in root viewport coordinates but I'm not sure if that's before or after viewport scaling.

2023-12-05 15:09:43

- reply

@npub10r2…w6yx Epic fail.

2023-11-17 12:34:32

- reply

@npub10r2…w6yx It missed the case where the moapps is inside the pme range, I think 🤔

2023-11-17 12:32:49

- reply

@npub10r2…w6yx Now I wonder what algo you asked for...

2023-11-15 10:02:22

- reply

@npub10r2…w6yx From my reading, this Ben person was still essential to the process. And though he's not an experienced programmer, he is clearly technical-minded.
Whatevs. I don't think programmers will be redundant overnight, but I do believe that the field of programming is going to change dramatically.

2023-11-15 08:44:13

- reply

@npub10r2…w6yx Did you read the article through to the end? The title/intro are a bit clickbaity, but it gets more nuanced towards the end.