Land of the giants

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Now with actual motion, dern you Bluesky and your GIF settings✊🔥

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Being a solo dev means being a technical artist too, and it can be really satisfying 🎨 Making a lil' fx using logarithmic curves and perlin noise to create procedural incense smoke

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NOW we're cooking with vector art gas 🔥

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Wave Function-based background set is starting to really shape up now that I wrote a custom SVG importer and converter to 'Shapes' drawing data 🔥

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Next step for Realm building: merge patterns. Different realms have to built in certain spatial groups in order to merge into larger, more powerful versions of themselves. 'Shapes' gives me a nice little "constellation" style display for that in the Former UI.

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Next step for the wave function background: some real architectural primitives. Much better foundation for building some good environment art.

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Having some fun with wave function collapse to generate procedural mountain polygons under the Realms

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This is hands-down one of the best books a game designer can read — for knowledge and insight, and for inspiration. With chapters including “Colonoscopies and Board Games” and “Quantum Tic-Tac-Toe,” you can’t go wrong. Time for a re-read!

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First playtester approved! And he even found like a dozen bugs 😂

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One nail at a time ❤️A project can seem impossible when looking out across a huge space of to-do, but you get there. Every nail you drive is one closer to done.

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Even for everyday programmers there’s sometimes no substitute for getting the problem space on paper 📝

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