Know the power of cute nerdy femboys!
So Mikko Rautalahti on Twitter wrote a thread of how video game AI turned a mild player gaffe into a spectacularly dumb display of “logical” behavior [cw: language]. If I ever need to make AI-controlled characters that sophisticated, I think I might accidentally create a situation in which many characters decide the most logical course of action is to smooch each other.
Or maybe it won’t be an accident.
(x-posted from the itch.io Community)
Signs of Life is a puzzle game where you’re given a math equation where all the numbers are known – but the signs are missing, and you need to fill them in!
Or, I should say all the digits are known – you can leave a space unfilled and let the digits be one big number.
You can play version 1.4.1 right now on pikadudeno1.com. v1.5 will be released both there and itch.io soon, and the game will be considered 100% complete when v2.0 is released later this year.
Right now, I’m working on improving the account system (which is optional to use, but you can carry your game data across devices if you do) so that you can log in from in-game and use your itch.io account. Once that’s done, I’ll put the finishing touches on v1.5, including mobile support.
v2 is an ambitious project where I plan to include:
I hope you’ll enjoy Signs of Life, now and in the future!
I released an extremely polished browser extension, Random Bookmark From Folder 2.0 (Firefox, Chrome, source code). It’s basically an entirely new product, as nothing except the icon could be ported from the legacy Firefox version. As a Web developer, I think it’s a wonderful piece of frontend engineering, and I learned a lot that I’d like to share.
Continue reading “Things I learned making Random Bookmark From Folder 2.0”
This is a post about Steel-Fairy Pokémon, because it’s my blog and no one can make me not dedicate a post to Steel-Fairy Pokémon. It’s a fantastic defensive typing with 10 resistances, 2 immunities, and only 2 weaknesses, but what I really want to talk about are some amusing coincidences concerning Pokémon with such typing.
There are exactly three species of Steel-Fairies – Mawile, Klefki, and Magearna. It so happens that each one specializes in a different category of move:
This may bring to mind the RPG character archetypes of Fighter, Mage, Thief. In fact, according to Pokemon Sun’s Pokédex, Klefki is literally a thief (source).
If a fanartist would do me a favor and draw Mawile, Magearna, & Klefki as a Fighter, Mage, & Thief adventuring party, I’d love that~
I’ve posted about specific improvements I want to make to my Web apps before, but I have some overall goals for all my Web Wonders that I’d like to write down now and get down throughout 2018.
Here’s all the above in table form, because I’m nerdy like that. Items marked with ◐ are planned for completion by the end of June.
| Released | Mobile friendly |
Progressive Web App |
Fairies❤️ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Signs of Life | ✔️ | ◐ | ||
| Wackyland | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| Zapster Solitaire | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| Wacky Bingo | ✔️ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ |
| Cookie Hunt | ✔️ | ◐ | N/A | ◐ |
| Logo Creator | ✔️ | ◐ | ◐ | ◐ |
| Magic Puddle | ✔️ | ◐ | N/A | |
| Reverse Metronome | ✔️ | N/A | ||
| [New game!] | N/A |
Kagamine Rin & Len were released 10 years ago today! To celebrate their birthday, I’m posting more outfits I’ve put together in Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX since my last fashion post.
Continue reading “Miraian Fashion: Rin & Len 10th Birthday Edition”
These days, user interfaces will often need to accommodate not just precise pointing devices like mice, but also touchscreens, which means larger, less compact target areas. It’s another constraint on design, but something interesting I learned recently is that interfaces designed to better for touchscreens can also be aesthetically better as well.
This is the UI I made for accessing a given DeviantArt user’s profile, gallery, or faves in Deviant Love 2.x:
It was designed to take the minimum amount of vertical space needed to look good, and it certainly fits that goal. But since a goal of Deviant Love 3.0 is to support touchscreen users, I wrote 3.0 Alpha 1 so that mouse users continued to get the same compact look, while touchscreen users got this (with additional UI for Deviant Love’s subaccounts feature):
And I found I liked the UI I had created for touchscreens quite a lot. It needs better vertical rhythm and possibly other tweaks, but overall it strikes me as prettier and friendlier, to the point where I want Deviant Love looking like this regardless of the input device. For Deviant Love 3.0 Alpha 2, I’m going to change it to work as such, and see how well it’s received.
When programming in JavaScript, Promises are an elegant way of handling values that will be available after some asynchronous operation completes. One trick I particularly like is making Promises for a user-retriable operation that will eventually resolve with the proper value, no matter which try is the one that succeeds.
I’d really like to do more web development than I’ve been doing; influencing society for the better through pleasant user experiences and lovable browser games is a major dream of mine. But so much of it felt like a huge slog, and that was pushing me away. I recently made some changes to address the pain points.
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10 years ago today was the release of Hatsune Miku. I find it incredibly heartwarming seeing so many celebratory tweets getting retweeted on her English Twitter that are full of pure love and adoration for this girl. She’s lent her voice to so many songs and stories, and brought together a creative community like few characters have. I hope to one day create a character of my own who can inspire love & beauty like Miku can.