Notices by Jim Stormdancer (mogwai_poet@mastodon.social)

Send Me to Heaven uses your phone's accelerometer to measure how high you've thrown it. There are leaderboards.

"Some users reported scores as high as 40 meters (131 feet), which Svarovsky discovered was the result of players firing their phones into the air with slingshots."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_Me_to_Heaven

I've seen a number of people confused about this, so I did some research. Here are the most important answers:
- The moose want to lick your car because it has salt on it
- It's bad for the moose to lick your car because it will become accustomed to being around humans
- To stop the moose from licking your car, drive away

@foone

I'd just never thought it through it until now. Instead, I thought things like "it's too bad there aren't a nice integer number of weeks in a month, but at least there are in a year!"

What other things I know would fall apart as soon as I thought about them even for a moment?

I just found out that there aren't exactly 52 weeks in a year. There are about 52.14.

And, like, of course there aren't? If there were, the days of the week would line up the same with the days of the month every year. Except that they'd change on leap years. (Which have about 52.29 weeks.)

Trying to plan my PicoSteveMo game in advance. Which Stephen King story would be best adapted as first-person sokoban?

You may have seen the Balatro Discourse, which consists of people looking at a screenshot of code that is straightforward and getting angry that it's not more complicated.

I'd just like to posit here that a straightforward solution is an *excellent* default and you should have a really solid argument for the advantages of a complicated solution before you choose it.

On the way to GDC. Here's what the top half of my face looks like today #selfie #eyecontact

I am currently between gigs. If you are or know someone who ought to hire the Frog Fractions Guy, let me know. If you are or know someone who wants to fund a game made with my design sensibilities, let me know.

The Frog Fractions Cinematic Universe bundle is $5.22 during the Steam Winter Sale. Imagine! A whole universe for just $5.22!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15726/Frog_Fractions_Cinematic_Universe/

You guys, you guys, the director of Babe: Pig in the City has a new movie coming out and it looks pretty good!

https://youtu.be/XJMuhwVlca4

Alternate reality How It's Made, depicting subtly impossible manufacturing processes for nonexistent products. Now that the WGA strike is over I can finally get back to being annoyed that this show doesn't exist.

So insert's still a thing, huh? A whole-ass key on the keyboard that just exists to confuse and frustrate people, we're still doing that?

That was just a little joke. Here's my real list

I did the thing. 25 games to understand me as a human