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One fool interested in fiction, literature, game design, programming, accessibility, linguistics, philosophy, erotica, animation, music, roleplay.

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It's quite silly how your armor might have a feature on the right which refers to your score on the top left, other features that might let you affect your damage threshold will be at the bottom or on your cards, and finally your HP and armor slots aren't side by side. Makes you look all over.
A partially filled Daggerheart Character Sheet, with portions highlighted and lines drawn between them to illustrate how the information needed to determined the outcome of receiving an attack is scattered all over the place. There's a line going from the Evasion on the top left to the Severe Damage Threshold a bit lower, then to a Class Feature way down, then to an Active Armor's feature halfway up on the right, then circling back to the Armor Score at the top left, then a bit lower to the Minor Damage Threshold, back up to the Armor Slots, and finally down to the HP. (We could detail the exact contents and layout of the character sheet, but that would be mistaking the forest for the trees.)
September 12, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Went ahead and "fixed" the Daggerheart character sheet.
Portion of a character sheet for a tabletop roleplaying game. Some text is in a blue manuscript font to imply it was filled by the player. The top row reads: 0 < [MINOR DAMAGE] < [1 MAJOR DAMAGE] < [2 SEVERE DAMAGE]. The numbers 1 and 2 were filled by hand. Underneath the minor, major and severe boxes, tiny text reads: Mark 1 HP, Mark 2 HP, Mark 3 HP. Below are four rows of gauges. On the left is a column of tiny boxes labelled "Max" which have been filled by hand, followed by a column of names for each gauge. Together, they read: 0 ARMOR, 5 HP, 6 STRESS, 6 HOPE. The gauges themselves are each made of 12 boxes laid horizontally, except for the HOPE gauge which has only 6. The first two boxes of the HOPE gauge were struck by hand. The intent is unclear; the player has either earned two HOPE or spent two HOPE. Finally, below is the word GOLD followed by four lines to write individual digits, each with a tiny word underneath: CHEST, BAGS, HANDFULS, COINS. The number 250 was filled in leaving the first line empty, meaning the player has 250 gold coins, or 0 chest, 2 bags, 5 handfuls and 0 additional coins.
September 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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I'm using a dasharray of "54 18" and a pathLength of 72 for the HP gauge, and "9 1 9 1 9 1 9 1 9 1 9 1 9 1 9 1 9 1 0 30" for a pathLength of 120 for the MP.

It's way less math generating a dasharray for a circle than computing a path for a sector of a ring, haha. 😅
Set of gauges that form 3/4 of a ring (missing the bottom-left corner). The inner half of the ring is a continuous green gauge, while the outer half is divided in 12 segments. Each segment is two-thirds blue, with an orange outer edge. The colors are not flat, but made of soft radial gradients.
April 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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I've been wanting to recreate the Kingdom Hearts HUD in SVG for a while and I finally got around to it.

I'd like to make a web interface where you can properly run a gauge simulation, to demonstrate how the Charge and MP gauges behave.
Atop a white canvas, a colorful set of gauges that curve upwards and to the right, forming three quarters of a ring before extending leftwards until the end aligns with the left side of the ring. The outer half is separated in 11 segments, the first 9 of which are filled in blue. There is a thin orange band sitting atop the outer edge of the blue gauge, extending partway into the 10th segment. The inner half is not segmented and is almost entirely filled in green. The effect is subtle, but the portions filled in green, blue and orange are not flat but rendered with soft radial gradients.
April 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Watching @stephenge.org's brain expand as he's working out the Tunic language is fun! youtu.be/OZ_knU2XErY

I had to pause the VOD to share how I figured out the runes myself, see the attached diagram. Big spoilers for Tunic, duh.
Stephen Georg smiling at runes from the game Tunic. The image was edited with notes and diagrams showing similarities between the shape of certain letters from the latin alphabet and certain runes, providing a solution for one of the game's last secret puzzles. The rune for the [t] sound is shaped somewhat like a T, and the rune for the [d] sound (which is similar to a [t] but voiced) is the same rune upside down. Also, the rune for the [h] sound is shaped like a lowercase h, and the rune for the [ð] sound (voiced th) is like the runes for [d] and [h] combined. The runes for the [s] and [f] sounds are shaped like $ and lowercase f respectively, if we're being very generous. A stranscription of a line of runes has been drawn over them to exemplify the similarities, and reads: "ðe softest feaðer".
March 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Decided to boot Resolve on a whim.

Yikes. I really did put a ton of effort into editing this. Feels so wrong throwing all of that work away, but alas, by the time I was done editing it, I no longer agreed with my own script.

Happened too many times, really.
A screen capture of the DaVinci Resolve 18 video editing software. The opened project is called "ggb-catherine-critique" and the timeline has around a hundred clips in it.
December 5, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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I can also make a version without disconnected parts, at the cost of weight distribution and vowel precision.
Presumably the same text written in runes, only the runes on the left were changed so they don't have floating segments. Even the dots underneath meet the points of V shapes.
September 4, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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I found a cheeky way to write my name in Tunic's writing system... while preserving the two and four pips from my avatar :)
Text written with the runes from the video game Tunic. Of note: the runes appear to form two words, and there are two dots under the first word and four dots under the second word.
September 4, 2024 at 11:39 PM