newobject
@newobject.bsky.social
check out ballionaire! : https://store.steampowered.com/app/2667120/Ballionaire/
press/inquiries : ballionaire [at] proton [dot] me
seattle, wa
ブラム!
press/inquiries : ballionaire [at] proton [dot] me
seattle, wa
ブラム!
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Hey chat did we just invent casting hand shadows in video games?
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@harada-tekken.bsky.social This is the most politely gathered gathering I have ever witnessed..
December 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
@harada-tekken.bsky.social This is the most politely gathered gathering I have ever witnessed..
Incremental games with a skill tree — if you inevitably obtain the whole tree via the end of the game, vs only a fraction of it, which feeling does it create?
1. “I had fun because I got all the upgrades and felt godlike”
2. “My choices felt meaningless because 100%ing the tree is inevitable”
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1. “I had fun because I got all the upgrades and felt godlike”
2. “My choices felt meaningless because 100%ing the tree is inevitable”
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December 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Incremental games with a skill tree — if you inevitably obtain the whole tree via the end of the game, vs only a fraction of it, which feeling does it create?
1. “I had fun because I got all the upgrades and felt godlike”
2. “My choices felt meaningless because 100%ing the tree is inevitable”
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1. “I had fun because I got all the upgrades and felt godlike”
2. “My choices felt meaningless because 100%ing the tree is inevitable”
?
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
My favorite version of my favorite Christmas song
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
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December 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
My favorite version of my favorite Christmas song
Me saying “see ya later” in the dolphin voice from In The Company Of Men every time I flush the toilet
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Me saying “see ya later” in the dolphin voice from In The Company Of Men every time I flush the toilet
Been racking my brains trying to figure out an algorithm to generate these Foldology puzzles. If this was a dev interview question I dunno man I guess i don't get the job.
December 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Been racking my brains trying to figure out an algorithm to generate these Foldology puzzles. If this was a dev interview question I dunno man I guess i don't get the job.
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In a world where certain shows call themselves "game awards" but at the same time are afraid to show much gameplay at all, here's my highly personal, unapologetic TOP 5 GAMES OF THE YEAR from my highly personal, unapologetically gameplay-focused perspective! Enjoy! 🎉
December 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In a world where certain shows call themselves "game awards" but at the same time are afraid to show much gameplay at all, here's my highly personal, unapologetic TOP 5 GAMES OF THE YEAR from my highly personal, unapologetically gameplay-focused perspective! Enjoy! 🎉
despite having a math and cs degree, i'm gonna go to my grave not understanding:
* partial derivatives
* fast fourier transform
* dynamic programming
* chinese remainder theorem
* partial derivatives
* fast fourier transform
* dynamic programming
* chinese remainder theorem
December 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
despite having a math and cs degree, i'm gonna go to my grave not understanding:
* partial derivatives
* fast fourier transform
* dynamic programming
* chinese remainder theorem
* partial derivatives
* fast fourier transform
* dynamic programming
* chinese remainder theorem
Ok! So AI is good for doing tedious shit you don’t want to do and that your customers don’t care about, because it’s generic. Got it! Let’s boil an ocean off now.
December 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Ok! So AI is good for doing tedious shit you don’t want to do and that your customers don’t care about, because it’s generic. Got it! Let’s boil an ocean off now.
Love that @bysameng.com name checks @increpare.bsky.social in this Skate Story interview :)
youtu.be/MiW0wlSV01Y?...
youtu.be/MiW0wlSV01Y?...
December 18, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Love that @bysameng.com name checks @increpare.bsky.social in this Skate Story interview :)
youtu.be/MiW0wlSV01Y?...
youtu.be/MiW0wlSV01Y?...
Ughh why you gotta do Monty dirty like that 😭
Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Ughh why you gotta do Monty dirty like that 😭
Gonna rip off an existing IP for worldbuilding in my next game: gnosticism
December 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Gonna rip off an existing IP for worldbuilding in my next game: gnosticism
Y'all -- check out DOGPILE!! This an incredibly fun (and deep!) Suika-style game brought to you by some of the same folks who worked on GUBBINS! (bless🙏) Beautifully human-made whimsical art. Really fresh gameplay.
(Fun fact: Gubbins was a significant influence on the look of Ballionaire!)
(Fun fact: Gubbins was a significant influence on the look of Ballionaire!)
December 10, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Y'all -- check out DOGPILE!! This an incredibly fun (and deep!) Suika-style game brought to you by some of the same folks who worked on GUBBINS! (bless🙏) Beautifully human-made whimsical art. Really fresh gameplay.
(Fun fact: Gubbins was a significant influence on the look of Ballionaire!)
(Fun fact: Gubbins was a significant influence on the look of Ballionaire!)
Oh yeah, happy Ballionaire 1 year release-aversary! We're at Overwhelmingly Positive right now, too! Hooray!
December 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Oh yeah, happy Ballionaire 1 year release-aversary! We're at Overwhelmingly Positive right now, too! Hooray!
... in fact, I'd go so far as to say that imagining almost anyone as a child is a great way to help build empathy for them. We're all just "ruined" children anyway, as far as I'm concerned.
So true. Something I've found that works is to visualize yourself, as a child, outside of yourself. A lot easier to be kind to yourself when they are "someone else", ironically.
December 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
... in fact, I'd go so far as to say that imagining almost anyone as a child is a great way to help build empathy for them. We're all just "ruined" children anyway, as far as I'm concerned.
I miss commercials that were just the business owner, maybe their family, maybe some customers. Awkward and ineffective, but human and relatable. Commercials are too smooth nowadays. Need to start populating them with earnest freaks again. On exception is Dell Computers, they should use an agency.
December 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I miss commercials that were just the business owner, maybe their family, maybe some customers. Awkward and ineffective, but human and relatable. Commercials are too smooth nowadays. Need to start populating them with earnest freaks again. On exception is Dell Computers, they should use an agency.
Accidentally came up with this effect for showing the player a certain radius around them without rendering ugly transparent circles: effectively, it's a glass ring at the player's feet, with a strong distortion effect as its shader:
December 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Accidentally came up with this effect for showing the player a certain radius around them without rendering ugly transparent circles: effectively, it's a glass ring at the player's feet, with a strong distortion effect as its shader:
There’s no such thing as a kind of game that’s “easy to make”. There are only games that are less hard to make
December 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
There’s no such thing as a kind of game that’s “easy to make”. There are only games that are less hard to make
I wonder if Army was profitable this quarter
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I wonder if Army was profitable this quarter
Hey chat did we just invent casting hand shadows in video games?
December 4, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Hey chat did we just invent casting hand shadows in video games?
*tentatively pastes a picture of an airduct into google slides*
Don't make me re-ignite the immersive sim discourse
Don't make me re-ignite the immersive sim discourse
December 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
*tentatively pastes a picture of an airduct into google slides*
Don't make me re-ignite the immersive sim discourse
Don't make me re-ignite the immersive sim discourse
Here's a thing I would do: set a slider on bandcamp to pay $X a month and have bandcamp specifically spread that money over whichever artists I listened to.
December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Here's a thing I would do: set a slider on bandcamp to pay $X a month and have bandcamp specifically spread that money over whichever artists I listened to.