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surfacedfox
@surfacedfox.bsky.social
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Maker of games and interactive media 🔹 Also solving IRL problems using game tech.

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surfacedfox.bsky.social
I participated in #LudumDare58 this weekend, and made this cute little game where you play as a cat collecting balls of yarn while being chased by a dog who wants to collect YOU!

Play it here: ldjam.com/events/ludum...
October 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
surfacedfox.bsky.social
i've just been using my mail client for it (thunderbird)
October 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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June 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
surfacedfox.bsky.social
What in the doot dooting damn?
A screenshot of modded Skyrim featuring a bunch of skeletons singing in a carriage
April 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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god what is it this time
April 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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www.tumblr.com/fleaful/7791...
The character below being sprayed with a showerhead, wiped and cared for
March 31, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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metal gear solid 5 took notes from bf3 for sure
February 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
surfacedfox.bsky.social
Soooo I have a NSW now! (thanks @nyhilo.bsky.social aaaaa)
January 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Yep, we're back in ADS-B range
Screenshot of the graph as it switches from MLAT to ADS-B. Note the drop in speed as soon as it gets detected again vs. the relatively stable altitude.
January 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
surfacedfox.bsky.social
And yeah! Interestingly, the ADS-B coverage map shows us two things:
- Coverage seems to be in line with common flight routes and densely populated areas
- MLAT in parts of SWANA, and resuming ADS-B as it neared major air travel hubs in the region, viz. UAE, Qatar, etc. (4/4)
January 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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So my friend's flight here switched from a pretty variable altitude and speed to a flat straight line, which made me curious about this whole thing. (3/4)
Graph described in text in the post above The plane's location on the world map. The origin and destination have been redacted to ensure my friend's privacy. At some point, the plane's heading stops being variable and becomes a direct, straight line on the map's graphic.
January 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Multilateration (MLAT) nodes calculate this by triangulating the location and heading via aggregating info from *the latency* between communications received by ground towers. (2/4)
A diagram showing an airplane transmitting Mode-S signals over to 4 theoretical towers with delays of 2.0001s, 2.0003s, 2.0005s and 2.0007s, which are aggregated by a server to calculate the location 29.7324, -95.4355.
January 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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If you see this, post an archer.
A picture of the Thief standing stone from Skyrim. Those born under the sign of the Thief are thought to take risks and evade harm; and is an archer, symbolized through the player learning stealth related skills including archery 20% faster on activating it.
January 22, 2025 at 6:31 AM
surfacedfox.bsky.social
Figured it out. It was kewpie mayo. :>
A picture of the iconic teardrop shaped bottle of Kewpie Mayonnaise, with a loaf of sliced bread in the background. Unlike regular mayonnaise, Kewpie tastes creamier since it's made with yolks only instead of the whole egg; has some secret spices and salt proportion. It also has an Umami aftertaste because of the MSG.
January 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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It's actually really fucking simple, it's so simple it's almost dumb but it's fucking amazing, SKYRIM'S FIRES (that aren't particle fires) ARE JUST A SCROLLING TEXTURE
Skyrim's fire texture. It's a vertically long fire texture. gif of the fire effect in action.
January 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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This was my home (unity actual picture/render splashes again when)
January 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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God these godot addon demos just keep beckoning me to make skyrim 2
(by which i mean my own unique fantasy game, heavily based on almost a decade of hyperfixating on what the game does great and what folks actually love about it and the tools used to make the game)
Picture of a scenery rendered in the Godot game engine. This one is a sample screenshot of the Sky3D addon.
January 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Hey, I remember reading about this in my CS book in elementary school! For whatever reason I never expected it to look like *that*. I thought it was like, a silicon or mental construct the way a BIOS is heh. This is amazing!
A picture of a card of EEPROM manufactured by Mitsubishi. Attached to it is a tumblr reblog with the following text: EEP ROM is some masterful typography. It's cute and technically accurate! See at first we had mask ROMs: this is where you have a chip that's designed from the start to only have some specific data on it. That's why it's Read Only Memory: it's memory, but you can only read it. This is what, like, NES games were built on: the game is on the ROM chip, and can't be changed. Then someone figured out you could make the chip so that it starts out blank, then you can program it once (like burning a CD-R), so we called these Programmable ROMs: PROMs. And then another clever engineer worked out how to make them re-erasable, by using ultraviolet light that causes the bits to weaken. You have to take out the chip, expose it in a special box (you can't just have a flashlight, because UV light will give you skin cancer and sunburns on your eyes), then program it and put it back in. But hey, it's erasable and reusable now! This is how a lot of games were developed for cartridge consoles: you'd have a special cartridge that has exposed chips, which you program and put back in the console to test. This new erasable and programmable ROM was obviously called the Erasable Programmable ROM, or an EPROM. But then a very clever trick was figured out: if you use quantum mechanical effects you can trap charge in a tiny cell and get it out using quantum tunneling, which means you can erase it in-situ! Now you have a reusable (for a while) rewritable chip, so it was called Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory: EEPROM! But by putting a space in it, they made it an EEP ROM, which is a much cuter name. BTW EEPROMs are what flash memory grew out of: this is a 1985 SD card.
January 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
surfacedfox.bsky.social
Yeah.
Graffiti on the back panel of a bus stand, with the spellings of two words reversed- the text "fassion is my pashion" is sprayed onto a panel with the two words given a red squiggly underline, similar to how incorrect spellings are highlighted in word processing software.
January 5, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
Artwork of Scott Pilgrim holding a non-descript pokemon while jumping up with a celebratory punch in the air, with the caption "Brekky Acquired" in the centre. I.... don't know if that's a Pal from Palworld either, or if the implication is that the creature here is the brekky in question, but that's the vibe
December 12, 2024 at 6:15 AM
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Something I really love is how accessibility allows completely new demographics to experience games. I remember when I first saw "high contrast mode", I wasn't sure who it was for-- and then...
Screenshot of a YouTube video with the title: Guy Born blind Plays The Last of Us Part I 1: The Beginning. The thumbnail shows the "high contrast mode" in action, with the environment being greyed out, and primary characters being tinted blue. Gameplay relevant objects and obstacles are marked with prominent edges that stand out from the otherwise grey background.
December 11, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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vs. 24.8.1
November 1, 2024 at 5:39 AM
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AMD? Yeah, bad drivers. Can repro on AMD's 24.9.1 and 24.10.1, but it accumulates the lighting properly on 24.8.1
November 1, 2024 at 5:36 AM
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fuckin love mushrooms. wild ass eldritch creatures that will literally figure out something crazy. communicate with each other through a complex network. literally cause other creatures to hallucinate. brilliant af. and they just figured out to eat plastic. Plastic eating ocean mushrooms.
a colony of the recently discovered fungus, P. album, colonizing a fragment of plastic
September 3, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
a picture of renowned mathematician Rene Descartes formatted alongside the quote "who give a shit"
August 20, 2024 at 3:31 AM