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Why did I choose so much pain by going with 2d isometric 🙈

Just discovered MSAA and sample alpha to coverage. To think i spent months trying to Z Sort my shader instanced geometry with my non instanced geometries - an impossible problem. #webgl #opengl

Color grading 2d assets to make them fit into the environment is pretty difficult I've found out the hard way. Lighting direction, luminance can make the assets not blend together. Also no shadows to help blend the transition between different objects 🥶. 2d isometric is a pain I choose 😄.

Harmonized the art styles of some assets and colour graded them to fit the world. Trying out different sizing, wanted some enormous assets like the tree to show some grandeur, but it looks nicer on my super wide screen monitor. alteria.cc #games #indiegames #gameart #gamedev #indiedev

Color grading my assets and getting them to match the biome and each other. 2D doesn't have a lighting physics so alot of post processing needs to be done. alteria.cc #alteria #gameart #digitalart #indiegame #art

The ring was inspired by Stargate. And the monument from the Singapore war memorial. The tree for different factions was inspired by the raintrees in my country and the babao tree. I tried to choose trees which represent the different factions. alteria.cc #alteria #gameart #indiegames #gamedev

Biome changes when reach near the beach. I need to tone down the rocks. alteria.cc #gamedev #alteria

I didn't intentionally design this, somehow by shear luck the procedural generation created this landscape with "feng shui" elements. alteria.cc #alteria #mmo #mud #gamedev #art

Hi all, I've decided to make Alteria Free 2 Play! Check it out at Alteria.cc The goal was to bring back MUDs in a more accessible way. Join the discord here for help if I'm around discord.gg/wReSebQRWu See you in game! #gamedev #alteria #mud #mmo #solana

Hi all! I am pleased to launch Alteria, a 2D MMO/MUD on pre-technical preview today in line with #TOKEN2049. Please check it out at: alteria.cc See you in game! Ps. It's a metaverse game so you will spawn in your geographical region. #gamedev #token2049 #mud #mmo #solana

Your words do matter. It can kill or heal. Destroy or build. Divide or unite. Hate or forgive. If God spoke the universe into existence, you can certainly destroy someone with words.

Gundam seed is a story of the cycle of hate and revenge. It teaches us that humans are very tribal in nature - we care not that we kill others from another tribe, and we care only when someone from our tribe is killed. This leads to the never ending cycle of revenge. #gundamseed

When you first start programming, you try to find packages for everything. When you are older, you try to remove packages. All packages are security vulnerabilies

When AI lies to you and you know because you are an expert in that subject - you think it's dumb. Yet when AI gives you an answer in which you are a novice. You think it's smart. Question: how do you know it is not lying to you?

I can't believe community was 14 years ago, I am old

Learn to code using free tier of ai only. It makes you a better dev. It forces you to actually think about what to use AI for and what not to (to keep within your daily limits) It ensures that you are coding 70% of the time and not brain dead. #ai #coding

Computer games are so much better than doom scrolling. If you are a parent, make sure your child plays computer games rather than social media. Best genres for children: rpg (eq & creativity) and strategy (IQ). #games #socialmedia

When I was young we were told to recite our pledge (most of us just did so without thinking). "regardless of race, language or religion, to build a democratic society based on justice and equality". It's only now that I realize that Singapore is one of the exceptional few.

Haven't posted in a long while, was working on a particle effects subsystem, hope to show soon!

I just discovered soft pastel color schemes and now I want to redo all my art assets 😂.

Kids are pretty good at drawing these days! #art

Everytime I listen to a British podcast or video I need to do it at 2x speed. I realize my country is speaking 2x normal speed.

CEOs say that 50% of their code is written by AI. But what they don't tell you is that, 50% of the code is being rewritten by a senior engineer after reviewing the PR. 😂

What happened to pixelmator, apple bought it and no updates or improvements for more than 6 months...

Procedurally generating biomes, tiles, decorations, elevation using multilayered noise #gamedev #indiedev #gameart

Typescript is so much better than json 😂. Instead of creating .json files, create .ts files. You get json and type validation at the same time

Tamil sounds a little like Korean

Gamedev is literally trying to create an alternate reality - you need to program everything - physics, weather, collisions, personality, artificial humans. You are in a sense trying to be "god" in your artificial world. And it's friggin' hard

Pushing the limits of how many decorations can be shown. It's still quite smooth using instanced geometry

Did some major changes to the UI, linguistics engine, combat system. Combat now has 3 timers: Busy - for the actual action, Focus - for ability cooldowns, Exhaustion - actions such move and attack Directed dialogues styled like disco elysium #mmo #mud #gamedev #indiedev #alt.eria

Pixelmator please fix: - some actions cannot be "undo" - some actions automatically saves the file even when I did not save This has caused quite alot time wasting if you make and error and you can't under and pixelmator saved the file without you saving #pixelmator #digitalart

Only advance

After alot if asset preparation you can mix and match different armor parts! #gamedev #indiedev #alt.eria #mud #mmo

The updates to spotlight and shortcuts are a game changer and how AI should be integrated into the OS. I don't know why everyone is focusing on liquid glass

Important quote from 3 body problem for anything hard you are doing: "always moving forward" or "always keep advancing" The secret to writing a 1000 page book is to write 1 page every day. The secret to making a great game is to make a part better everyday

Added some wave motion to the waters via shaders. Also made is slightly translucent so that you can see the river bed Chill by the wind and waves. #gamedev #indiedev #alt.eria #mmorpg #mud

Something seems a little off but not sure what, I think the head style does not fit the body, perhaps a taller frame

I should be programming, but I spent half the day cutting out hair (maya natsume from tenjou Tenge) #gameart #anime #gamedev #alt.eria

This is how I ended up splitting the head for female characterss. The head includes the front and back hair and the ears. Only the bangs and the back are separated. But it gives quite a few combinations #gameart #gamedev #indiedev

This is why game assets for female hair is a science by itself. Note the ordering between the hair, ears, armor, head #gamedev #gaming #art #indiedev

This is a classic CS graphics problem

Drawing and cutting out the different parts of anime female hair is it's own branch of game art assets.

My right brain is telling me to redo all my art assets, my left brain telling me to get on with programming

This is my third iteration redoing my cutouts. Making a composite equipment system that is able to mix and match was not as simple as I thought. The trickiest parts were the arms and gloves boots and without boots as I need equipped vs unequipped gloves and boots. #gamedev #solodev #spine2d

Making 2d look 3d is so much harder than making 3d look 2d 😂

Added a combat clock to show incombat status as well as cooldowns. Trying to achieve a mix of neverwinter nights and dnd turn based without being too rigid. Movement only requires cooldown when incombat. #gamedev #indiedev #mmo #mud #alt.eria

Here is the character creation screen. You can create some wacky color combinations! Implemented with some shader magic and careful hue partitioning. #gamedev #indiedev #rpg #mud #alt.eria

What I realize is that when changing skin tone, change the saturation for light and dark skins, not the luminosity - because that is where the texture is!

When to release that is the question

I feel like I just touched the surface of digital photography. And the ocean is deep. Started with steganograpgy and got sucked into a rabbit whole of gamma correction, srgb, linear light, hsl, luts, bought pixelmator in the process. 🥶 realised my games colours are totally out of wack