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Kennedy Richard maintains OSS
@kennedyrichard.com
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Love people, tech and art. Many Python hours, some Rust, JS, PHP, more. Open-source maintainer of the Indie Smiths project and its apps/games: https://github.com/IndieSmiths Also a Business Administration graduate.

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Language support feature I implemented recently (it is not on the main branch yet because I'll only merge everything in a month or two when I release the first level of the game)

#gamedev #indiedev #indiebr #python #pygame-ce
October 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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2D camera tracking for the Bionic Blue game (open-source public domain serious game project in active development).

Playable content shown isn't available yet, but I hope to release it this month or next one, as soon as it is ready (intro level with a boss fight).

github.com/IndieSmiths/...
September 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Yes, take Panda3D for example. For many years it's been able to achieve PBR graphics. It is not about the tool, but about its holder.

One more point: people must realized PBR/photorealism isn't superior to stylized graphics either (nor inferior, ofc). It is just one possible art style.
An in-game image from the Panda3D engine rendered with photorealistic materials/lights. Accompanying text says: "Extensibility - Panda3D exposes all of its low-level graphics primitives to the application. Invent your own graphics techniques and rendering pipelines!"
August 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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🔥 A recent breakthrough in my Python/pygame-ce research and coding practice is a feature that I call level chunk management.

Demonstrated in the video and explained in the thread below. 🧵👇

#pygame-ce #pygame #Python

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June 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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🔥 University professor Pierre Chauvet shared a collection of Python functions/nodes using OpenCV for image processing that can be used in Nodezator (generalist Python node editor). Or used on your own projects.

Everything free and on the public domain. Links and more in the thread below 🧵👇

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Node graph demonstrating an image loaded depicting blood cells, then having the contours of the cells highlighted and their number counted. Node graph demonstrating the dilate and erode image operations. Node graph demonstrating a loaded image depicting a strawberry basked and then the same image reproduced twice, one in grayscale and another with the RGB channels inverted.
June 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Pesquisando mais até achei algumas imagens do livro.

P isso q seu desenho me lembrou desse livro. Vc usa cores bem claras, quase tons pastéis, só q + vibrantes e mais "pra cima", sei lá. P q lembro esse autor sempre desenha vegetação tb, como vc, mas ele gosta de botar muita gente tb e fica top.
Ilustração do livro "Desenho de Arquitetura – Técnicas e atalhos que usam Tecnologia", de Jim Leggitt. Várias pessoas no que parece ser um shopping ou exposição. Ilustração do livro "Desenho de Arquitetura – Técnicas e atalhos que usam Tecnologia", de Jim Leggitt. Várias pessoas numa praça de alimentação. Ilustração (esboço/croqui?) do livro "Desenho de Arquitetura – Técnicas e atalhos que usam Tecnologia", de Jim Leggitt. Esboço em preto e branco feito somente com linhas sem muita precisão mas que delineiam bastante detalhes: uma ponte com pessoas em cima a pé e embaixo em barcos, com várias anotações por todo o desenho.
May 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Até achei ele no sistema da biblioteca da universidade, do jeitinho q lembrava.

Parece q não vou ter de gastar uma grana, hehe

Altas tardes lendo e apreciando as ilustrações. A parte de tecnologia deve estar defasada, mas tenho certeza q a parte artística e dicas podem ser bastante aproveitadas.
Imagem mostrando resultados de um sistema de busca de uma biblioteca. A entrada mostrada refere-se ao livro "Desenho de Arquitetura: técnicas e atalhos que usam tecnologia" de Jim Leggitt.
May 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Vc n vai acreditar, moça. Essa conversa destravou mtas memórias, daí resolvi fazer uma nova busca c/ outros detalhes q me vieram à mente e n deu outra: finalmente achei o livro que procurava desde 2015.

Pq vc fez isso comigo, moça? N tem jeito, vou ter d gastar 💵 para obter essa preciosidade.
Capa do livro de Jim Leggitt intitulado "Desenho de Arquitetura: técnicas e atalhos que usam tecnologia". Além do título a capa mostra uma mesma ilustração dividida em 3 áreas. Cada área, da esquerda para direita parece mostra a mesma ilustração em diferentes fases, do esboço até a finalização.
May 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Decided to add Rust to my toolbelt because of the many interesting and critical problems it solves, so I set out to learn it last month. Here's what I managed to do so far (it is barely a prototype though).

Crate: crates.io/crates/shmup
GitHub repo: github.com/IndieSmiths/...
May 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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👋 Hello! I'm Kennedy. I present you:

➡️ Nodezator, a Python node editor, and
➡️ Bionic Blue (WIP), 2D platformer game

Both in the public domain here:

🌐 github.com/IndieSmiths

Indie Smiths is a personal project to promote and provide fun, learning & value with open-source apps, games and content.
Screenshot of the node editor called Nodezator. It shows a node layout with interconnected nodes displaying the image of a basket full of strawberries and an edited version of such image. An animated gif showing the Bionic Blue game. A pixel art 2D action platformer game where you control a bionic boy called Blue that uses a blue suit. In the gif Blue appears climbing a ladder than he jumps into higher ground where he charges an attack which he shoots at robots.
April 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Open-source maintainer working on many public domain projects. Among them is Bionic Blue, an action platformer. At an early stage and only have a demo for now, but serious game project in active development (despite many delays in the past). I work on it from time to time. github.com/IndieSmiths/...
March 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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New nodezator patch v1.5.4 available!

To install/upgrade:
⌨️ pip install --upgrade nodezator
(maybe use pip3 depending on your system)

Or follow instructions in the README file (including how to launch without installing).

Release notes: github.com/IndieSmiths/...
March 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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not my home, but i know my way around
An in-game map showing mountain ranges covered with snow and expansive plains. (Game: Skyrim)
March 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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True! To this day the piece of content that brought most views to Nodezator was a usability aid that was born from a silly thought!
February 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Only one hand appears at a time and you have to move the cursor near the socket you want, but this isn't a broad gesture at all, because a connection is only established when the user releases the mouse.

I. e., the user can move the mouse freely around the screen, like shown in this gif.
February 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Saved your suggestion, @cliftonb.bsky.social .
Message on GitHub discussions citing Clifton B.'s suggestion and containing additional comments on it saying "This will probably be more useful when the connections can be restricted between sockets of compatible types, this way their automatic connection is more intuitive".
February 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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This subthread on Reddit about the usefulness/reason for the "Call down/signal up" principle followed in Godot projects manages to be both informative, recursive and funny. 🤓😂
A small subthread of replies on reddit where people are replying to one another and each time a reply is made it further explains the explanation that came in the previous reply, until the last person finishes the chain by replying "And now I'm here to finish the recursion on the function why", followed by the command "return".
January 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Okay, this Mermaid example was both mean and funny at the same time. Kudos to the author 👏😂
An example using the Mermaid diagramming and charting tool to create a pie chart. The created chart shows things the fictional character Voldemort doesn't have, the biggest slice of the pie representing "nose".
January 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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🔥 New announcement regarding plans for the Indie Python project in 2025 and following years!

Among the plans, there's a new app builder application, a widget version of Nodezator for pygame-ce apps and both standalone and widget versions for the Qt framework!

Read more: github.com/orgs/IndiePy...
Just a vector illustration of people, puzzle piees and a light bulb representing "app building". The logo of the pygame-ce library. A stylized version of the Qt framework logo
December 23, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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The part of the graph where the model is defined only took me a few minutes to put together. By the way, the Python code defining the model is roughly equivalent to this: pastebin.com/p1A9v57b
Python code using CadQuery to generate the 3D model.
December 18, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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Here's the same visual exported as .stl, but several others formats are available w/ CadQuery.

In addition to being supported by several apps, the .stl format can be visualized online on a service like viewstl.com, as can be seen in the video below.
December 18, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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The library used here is called CadQuery (we also used cairoSVG as well to aid in SVG rendering as a PNG image). Here's an image depicting the whole graph.
Nodezator graph where the 3D model is generated, saved on disk as an STL model and displayed on the graph as SVG paths rendered into a PNG image.
December 18, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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I want to experiment with 3D modelling/design and advanced usages like CAD/CAM (for CNC), but for now I only managed to play with it a bit at the end of 2023.

Played a bit with a library I stumbled upon and been positively surprised. Here's a visual I managed to create with a few calls.
2D SVG representation of a 3D model created programmatically. The model resembles a rectangle with rounded corners, 4 small hones near each corner and a bigger, 5th hole in the middle.
December 18, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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Then, by the end of October 2023, I experimented with SVG rendering using various Python libraries.

Used Nodezator with pygame-ce and also with the cairoSVG library.

Full ~10 min video: youtube.com/watch?v=kMGc...

Text post (with source code): nodezator.com/posts/experi...
December 18, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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In September 2023, I managed to use Nodezator in conjunction with other Python libraries to render math notation as images.

Rendering math notation with ASCIIMath within Nodezator (uses py_asciimath and sympy libraries)

Read more here: nodezator.com/posts/render...
December 18, 2024 at 12:46 PM