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Nifflas
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Game developer and adaptive music specialist

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NPC dog traversal algorithm worked! The calculated jump vector to get the correct jump arc was flawless!

Only I had messed up another algorithm, so the dog went to the opposite side of the platform to initiate the jump

Wishlists would be super appreciated: store.steampowered.com/app/4090240/...
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Had a bug with Linux Mint that it didn't recognize the laptop was plugged in and the UI indicated it was on battery power

After a short debugging session I found the issue
A photo of an electrical plug not connected to the outlet
October 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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This is one of the funniest bugs I've had recently.

It was canvas scaling related, so when I started the game, I was greeted to this, perfectly filling the screen

Also, game has a steam page, if you want to wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/4090240/...
A screenshot of Rhythm Doggo, but the glowing text "Woof" fills the entire screen
October 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Oh no I'm becoming a Linux person
Photo of my potato laptop with Linux mint startup icon on an otherwise empty screen
October 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Have you ever wanted to listen to the Monty Hall Problem, in procedural music form?

If the answer is "Yes", see my upcoming talk at Roguelike Celebration on October 26, www.roguelike.club
A screenshot from my adaptive music software. Various fields describe the monty hall problem, but a lot of the behavior is customizable, such as whether the host is evil, whether the host is required to open a door, or even offer the player to switch to another door.
October 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Cafe, dog, coffee, chocolate ball, and AKO kola. I'm very Swedish today
Photo inside a moody cafe, laptop on table, dog on the floor. Coffee, Swedish chocolate ball, and an AKO kola candy
October 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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What do you reckon it would sound like, playing a sample, but skewing the playback head, so it reads a bit ahead in time for positive values, and behind time for negative?

...and what if I were to modulate the skew by an LFO? Or use a parabolic playback head?

Time to write some audio code
MS Paint image of a hand drawn waveform, with a tilted playback indicator
October 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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A difference between the architecture of my own music software and most other, is you don't assign synthesizer outputs to mixer channels, but assign individual voices of any synth when triggered

In this case, an expression gives the sound a 2% chance to play on channel 1 instead of 2
My weird adaptive music software, with modules and things. An expression named "Channel" says Pick(Chance(0.02), 2, 1)
September 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Final day this cafe is open for the season. Nice cafes is one of the most important things in my life
My dog in a cafe, very pretty. Some fake plants also some real plants, weather is cloudy
September 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Here's what I ended up with
The following code in Visual Studio: void DrawLine(Vector2 from, Vector2 to, float thickness, Color color) { int thicknessI = Mathf.CeilToInt(thickness); Vector2Int boundsFrom = new Vector2Int( Mathf.Max(Mathf.FloorToInt(Mathf.Min(from.x, to.x) - thicknessI), 0), Mathf.Max(Mathf.FloorToInt(Mathf.Min(from.y, to.y) - thicknessI), 0) ); Vector2Int boundsTo = new Vector2Int( Mathf.Min(Mathf.CeilToInt(Mathf.Max(from.x, to.x) + thicknessI), width - 1), Mathf.Min(Mathf.CeilToInt(Mathf.Max(from.y, to.y) + thicknessI), height - 1) ); for (int y = boundsFrom.y; y <= boundsTo.y; y++) { for (int x = boundsFrom.x; x <= boundsTo.x; x++) { Vector2 p = new Vector2(x, y); Vector2 pa = p - from; Vector2 ba = to - from; float h = Mathf.Clamp01(Vector2.Dot(pa, ba) / Vector2.Dot(ba, ba)); float distance = (pa - ba * h).magnitude; texture.SetPixel(x, y, ColorTools.BlendOver(texture.GetPixel(x, y), new Color(color.r, color.g, color.b, Mathf.Clamp01(thickness - distance)), false)); } } }
September 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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I'm basically after an algorithm that does this - preferably antialiased, but it's not a must.
A pixel art line with rounded corners
September 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Very weirdly tame bird appeared today. Recorded a few minutes ago with my phone.
September 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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3rd day of cafe & synthesis

Let me tell you the most important lesson about music gear: there is no "Best". Expensive doesn't mean better music.

Use whatever inspires you, and gets you creating
Photo from a cafe, a delicious black coffee on table, Nintendo 3DS with Korg DSN-12 and a cute dog on the floor
August 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Another dog, synthesis and cafe morning. I love videogame console synthesizers and the world needs more of them.
Cafe table with a coffee, a Nintendo 3ds with Korg dsn-12, headphones, and a cute dog on the floor
August 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Dog, coffee and Korg DSN-12 on the cafe. Prefect way to start the day
A photo of exactly what the post says. The dog is chilling on the floor, and the app on the 3DS is virtual analog synthesis music making software
August 11, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Quest completed!
The botanical garden in Uppsala, a weird sculpture of a face is in the center of the photo
August 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Like this? Which government or organization do I write to, in order to apply for funding?
A crude MS Paint image of two jet engines blowing air horizontally into space to counteract Earth's spin
August 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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I wrote a tool that tracks when I work. As a side effect, I now have enough data to finally visualize my sleeping pattern, since it's surprisingly hard to describe with words (I've tried many times).
A diagram with "My working hours" vs "When society expects me to work" In "my working hours", work is sporadic and chaotic, pauses all over the place, and the day constantly offsets so I fall asleep later and later each night, constantly rotating the day. The "When society expects me to work" shows regular working hours (8 hours per day with a lunch break, and weekends off)
August 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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It's time for me to share the recipe for my newly invented drink, "Welcome to Pain Heaven". (The company of a dog is recommended for the full experience, but do not let the dog drink it. The dog is only for company)

Let's dig into it! [Thread]
An outdoors table, and a dog is in frame. On the table is, a box of Cacao, Vanillin sugar, salty licorice sauce, oat milk, a jar of "Lethal Dose Hot Sauce" and one of "Bushman's Dynamite"
July 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Me writing code today
C# code, declares a list of QuestSettingsBase. The list is named questSettingses, and under is a foreach loop that says "foreach (QuestSettingsBase questSettings in questSettingses) {" Under is a picture of Gollum from Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies
July 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Sometimes when I fix a bug but I know it's a bug that doesn't affect the stability, I leave the bugged code in and run it depending on a bool check

This means I can re-enable a lot of the in-development bugs by flipping the bool

Only question now, what should I do with that ability?
C# code that evaluates if the player attempts to jump. There is bugged code in there that actually looks pretty alright on first sight, but one line is commented with //Unintended super OP coyote wall jump
July 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Anyone good at mathing?

I'm terrible at actual math, I only know it through code.

I'm looking for t, but unlike the other formulas this website gives me, it's saying the entire thing equals to zero, not what I assign to t. I don't know what to do with that info.
Math stuff for finding a time value from acceleration, initial velocity and displacement
July 3, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Syntax Error? Why is this a syntax error? Has the compiler bugged out? There's no way this is my fault!

...wait, oh no
The following line of code displayed in Visual Studio: public ínterface INavigator {}
June 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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@compulsiongames.bsky.social I've been up to shenanigans, and found many strange and wonderful things!

(don't worry, nothing needs fixing though, it took a lot of effort finding spots to break out of bounds, it was really difficult)
A screenshot from South of Midnight. A boat suspended in the air, viewed from the bottom of a lake bed Hazel from South of Midnight standing next to a deer, out of bounds Way out of bounds in South of Midnight, strange waterfalls, and a house on a floating cliff A house standing on top of a lake like it's solid, and electrical pylons
June 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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So, it's time to see what lies beyond the edge of the world. Turns out we just fall while the darkness engulfs us. After these shots, there were only a dark void. I probably should have screenshotted it, but the last image is one I drew in MS Paint to illustrate what it looked like
Hazel, falling in a blinding brightness A strange negative glow emitted from the main character While falling, the screen gets darker and darker A image that's just completely black pixels
June 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM