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noé

@celechii.itch.io

hehehehe yeah this is what it's all about ok noé go to sleep

screenshot of a prototype game showing a bunch of unicode characters and their names, like Grime Boy, Rat Girl, Reliving Feathers, Obsidian Night, "Both Arms", Poison Coil, Cosmic Indifference, and Lucid Sleeping

November 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM

noé

@celechii.itch.io

ouagh i should stop uploading my art stuff at unholy hours but whatever i got brainworms for a little grid-based turn-based tactics game so here i am at 4am lmao

November 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM

noé

@celechii.itch.io

bluesky is going to absolutely decimate this but this is what it looks like outside

a snowy back alleyway. snow is piled on top of clotheslines, fences, balconies, trees, roofs, and railings. everything is brighter than it should be, and colour is found where it probably shouldn't

November 11, 2025 at 6:40 AM

noé

@celechii.itch.io

baby catboy who loves me

noé sitting on a couch holding her black and white cat in her arms on his back with his belly up and looking up at her with big beautiful saucer eyes

November 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM

noé

@celechii.itch.io

accurate integer linear interpolation my beloved... after days and days i've finally come up with an algorithm to do it without any floating point calculations using the bits in the unsigned integer used to represent the percentage t from a to b

a picture of a laptop screen showing the algorithm for integer lerping

October 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM

noé

@celechii.itch.io

one of the first things that caught my brainworms is how nice and intuitive the selector felt! choosing an option requires you to position the center of the selector within the vertical bounds of option which makes it feel so natural to associate with a direction and mitigate any friction selecting

Screenshot from 1000xResist showing the dialogue wheel selection calculated by checking if the height of the selector's center is within the vertical bounds of the option

October 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM

noé

@celechii.itch.io

AH!! finally found a screenshot with the dialogue selection in it and i swear this is the last bit for now that i'll gush about for now cause i've been at this for over an hour lol. it is SO simple seeming but the way it works makes me so giddy

Screenshot from 1000xResist showing the dialogue wheel centered around the player character with 3 options: stop, this, and now. The selector indicator is hovered over the first option, making the option text expand, grow, and have its background turned to a lighter grey instead of black

October 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM

noé

@celechii.itch.io

also i can't stop there because the cutscene dialogue box positioning is so nice too and i'm SO curious about how it's implemented because their pivots+anchors can change on a line-to-line basis which is a HUGE amount of work to do manually while accounting for potentially very long localized lines

screenshot from a 1000xResist cutscene showing a character named Fixer saying "Watcher, we've been lied to."

October 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM

noé

@celechii.itch.io

the first being that world-space dialogue boxes are positioned to be anchored relative to a character's position so they usually stay perfectly clear of the character while you swing the camera around, keeping cleanly within the screen bounds even if the offset should put it off screen

screenshot from 1000xResist showing a character standing with a dialogue box positioned above and to the right of a character's head. a dotted red line is drawn on top to show the positioning of the box relative to the character, implying a world-space anchor converted to screen space with a constant offset

October 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM

noé

@celechii.itch.io

it only LOOKS like it might be the case because when the dialogue typewriter starts, that lower accent detail disappears while the dialogue box is resizing and the typewriter is running, so it's harder to judge the distance until it's fully expanded. the 9-slice region probably just something like:

screenshot from 1000xResist showing a dialogue box split up into 9 segments by 4 green lines that are mostly skewed off to the left

October 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM

noé

@celechii.itch.io

first i wanna gush about the dialogue boxes because they're SO well done. i spent so long looking at the distance of this section of the dialogue box thinking that it sometimes is wider and sometimes is thinner and wondering how that was done, but i think it's actually not the case??

A screenshot from 1000xResist showing a sci-fi dialogue box with the bottom being broken into two steps with a short angle between them. A two-sided red arrow has been edited over top to stretch between the distance of the inner step to call attention to its width.

October 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM

noé

@celechii.itch.io

actually i'm gonna go off on a tangent here cause knowing that #1000xResist was made in unity activates the terminal game developer disease that makes me stop and wiggle the camera around to appreciate how things are implemented and i NEED to talk about my speculations to spare @lexfeathers.ca lmao

Screenshot from 1000xResist showing two characters standing in an ominously-lit cave, looking at each other. The character named Knower says "Well, what do you make of it all?", and the player has 3 options which are "more to learn", "she keeps secrets", and "storytime is incomplete"

October 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM

noé

@celechii.itch.io

LMAO @sunsetvisitor.studio GOT ME

this scene has you thoughtfully reading each character's lines looking for secondary meanings, but then you look at this girl's screen to see it's fucking UNITY AND GKHHHHHHHH

screenshot from the game 1000xResist showing a character sitting at a desk typing at a laptop and saying "To view my own insides, from the outside!" and on the laptop screen is a screenshot of the game in the Unity game engine

A closer screenshot showing more detail of the texture on the laptop screen. Unity is open in light mode with the scene view as the center pane in wireframe draw mode, project window as the bottom horizontal pane with the folder size set to large, the hierarchy window docked to the left with a ton of game objects expanded and one of the lower ones selected which seems to have a post processing component on it visible from the inspector window docked to the right side of the screen.

October 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM

noé

@celechii.itch.io

at long last... girlfriend vacation has enabled me to put a bunch more work into finishing my RNG tool for unity... implementation is done, visualizations are now done, and unit tests are half done... public release is IMMINENT >:)