Notices by Cheeseness (cheeseness@mastodon.social)

@peacememories @aral Do you have a link to where I can read more about Stract's use of AI/ML? It's not something I've been able to find more information on.

@aral In particular, the "10k short" optic (found in Settings->Manage Optics), which removes the 10,000 most popular sites seems like a cool way of surfacing stuff that wouldn't normally be visible

@aral Aral, are you familiar with Stract (a search engine that is F/OSS)? It seems neat and has interesting features, but I haven't had time to investigate if it is what it appears to be https://stract.com.about

@nixCraft I don't want to take this post more seriously than it is intended, but if it hasn't been seen, @icculus spent some time last year making an off-the-cuff simple media player in SDL that supports winamp skins (which I found to be an enjoyable watch) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6m6sxLnXksbqdsAcpTh4znV9j70WkmqG

@aral @lashman Thanks! It's slow going at the moment, but I hope things will pick back up before the year is out

Walkies

Spent some time refactoring SFX loading so that new audio can be added to/removed from events without making new builds, which will hopefully ease iteration on SFX moving forward now that I've brought @luminareth@twitter.com on board to help out. Super excited to be working with her again!

Assembly and Dig phases now have a first-pass end screen to them

Well, that's doesn't look right

Placeholder text is how I keep myself sane during development (also got around to implementing an opt-in version check)

I wrote a little popup system that generates UI based on a few bits of data. For now, I'm only using it on first run to ask which Assembly phase mode should be used, but I'm expecting to use it for other notifications, questions, and maybe tutorials.

Thinking about museum lighting options

Yeah, definitely needs to be bigger.

Thinking of adding the player avatar into the map phase background, and I'm just starting to realise that maybe past me took the shortcut of using exaggerated scale to control the DOF effect and FOV feel. Might need to make the avatar larger.

Players' avatars now wander around during the assembly phase too

Need to add some smarts in so that out of date/redundant destinations are ignored, and turns are a bit more smooth, but players avatars now walk around dig sites \o/

And here's the accompanying status update video covering major items from the past month or so's worth of development https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHfQCYo3cQc

Here's the mid-month #Bonesweeper status update for September. Avatar walkies, a bunch of misc work, and bringing @Luminareth@Twitter.com onto the project! https://www.patreon.com/posts/72011789

Dig end screen now has some dynamic camera movement

Been adding highlight outlines for nearby/hovered items in the museum to make interacting a little more intuitive.
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