major milestone in block game development: the first actual gameplay! you can go around and hold the left mouse button on blocks in order to break em

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i can now overlay a block breaking decal on blocks, and it works on blocks with shell texturing and even nominally on objects like ferns and flowers

i draw the block's faces again using the stencil buffer, then draw the breaking decal with depth read/write off, masking using the stencil buffer

the way it works for ferns/flowers is i just draw all faces of the breaking pattern block, and any pixels outside the object model are masked

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Hey can someone make a Firefox addon that replaces the names of tech billionaires by prefixing them with "Serial liar and perpetrator of investment fraud"

For example "Sam Altman Wants 250 Gigawatts of Power. Is That Possible?" would become "Serial Liar and Perpetrator of Investment Fraud Sam Altman Wants 250 Gigawatts of Power. Is That Possible?"

Or "Serial Liar and Perpetrator of Investment Fraud Sam Altman’s OpenAI Is Officially the World’s Most Valuable Startup at $500B"

added an outline to the 3d cursor so it's always visible

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oooohhhh what if i made it jiggly??

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testing customizable thickness/opacity for the 3d cursor. think being able to set this to whatever you want will be nice for accessibility

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fun fact: in order to draw the cursor as translucent i had to use the stencil buffer, because the boxes that make up the "lines" overlap at the corners, so without the stencil buffer it'd be more opaque at the corners

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refined the 3d cursor a bit. pretty happy with it. the thickness will be user adjustable. it also shows through terrain, but slightly dimmer where it's obscured by the terrain

also showing "mouse pointer mode" where you can mouse over anywhere on screen to interact with blocks, and you mouselook with the right mouse button

thinking of keeping this as a toggleable mouse mode. thoughts?

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Hey can y'all show @St1ka some love? He's currently being targeted by the right wing outrage grift machine. He runs a YouTube channel covering retro games of all kinds including surprisingly good bootleg games you've probably never even heard of: https://www.youtube.com/@st1ka

I'm really tired of terrible policy proposals being shot down due to public outcry and then they just keep trying it over and over until they can either sneak it through or people are too exhausted to put up a fight anymore. Stuff like chat control comes to mind. Doing that shit should be considered a crime

btw in case you spotted it a few days ago as test audio for my devlog feed on my site and liked it: this is the theme music for my YouTube channel and it was made bespoke for me, using the latest in newfangled OPL3 FM synthesis technology

it's called Whatcha Playin 90s Kid and i *love* it. please enjoy

You know it says a lot about the state of tech that my first thought was that YouTube had put me in a nonconsensual A/B test where it gaslights you by putting random recommended videos in your subscriptions feed as if you had subscribed to them

Like, doesn't that totally sound like something big tech would do?

i'll forgive it this time since it was spreading awareness of a thieving AI slop channel but i hope this doesn't become a trend to put other channels in peoples sub boxes

bonus points: watched the video to see if kbash was in it. he was not lol

wowww youtube has a new feature where, i guess, multiple people can collab on a single video?

so anyway if someone you sub to collabs on a video in this way it will just shove a channel you dont even recognize into your subscriptions feed. amazing ux, truly excellent, no notes

i'm sure this won't enrage users who, unlike me, aren't driven to spend 5-10 minutes trying to figure out where the fuck this video in their subs feed came from

if you're new here on fedi from #Bluesky (or recently returned from bluesky) and you want some help kickstarting your account, link me to an introduction post in reply to this post and i'll give it a boost for you

i have updated the block game site's FAQ with important new information

anyway now you can send that link to your friends who aren't on fedi and who would be excited about a game such as block game >_>

well, that ate up my entire day. on the other hand, setting up an entire landing page with lightbox and dynamic social feed built from scratch in one day is pretty good time

okay the block game site is live! https://enikofox.com/blockgame/

particularly proud of the feed of mastodon posts below the FAQ :3 it handles images, video, gif, audio, and "unknown" media. and it even handles polls!

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