Krafter

Programmer by training, but I am coming around to my roots as an artdoer. I dabble in both physical and digital art.

So far I was finishing only jam games while starting and abandoning various system games that were interesting to work on but never saw completion. Now, contrary to my history, I am obsessing over a narrative game, hoping to finish by next year. It's very retro and runs on my custom engine. Story assistants are welcome.

I love Ludum Dare, still the best jam event around.

Not much time these days for tooting and creative stuff. Since 28th June the protests are getting more radical and the police actions more brutal. We now have equivalent of ICE; masked, badgeless, armored "police" arresting protesters, often for no reason. Often the kids, students. Each neighbourhood has a council, each organizing blocades with purpose of putting strain on the police that now has to run around the city on 40 degrees Celsius, dressed in black armor. No love for police nowadays.

@aeva Thanks, today I found out about FFI the condition. Don't look it up.

@sinbad To expand with what you probably would agree with, this is not the fault of untyped languages but people trying to make them into something they are not. I find vanilla JS adorable for quickly building shit when code maintainability is not a big concern (or I'm working alone and it is up to me to decide what "clean code" means).

Today's theme is #tin . What an opportunity to do a tin roof.

#pixel_dailies #pixelart @pixel_dailies

64x64 isometric / orthographic pixel art of an old fashioned, corrugated tin roof covered with large patches of rust. Below it is a rugged and worn out white wooden wall.

"Fencer in the Sky". Today's theme was #fencer . Using my Air palette. Could be improved but I don't want to die on this tonight.

#pixel_dailies @pixel_dailies #pixelart

64x64 pixel art of what hopefully looks like an elegant fencer in the sky with a heavy, dusty cloud in the background. The fencer has blue skin, is in a fighting pose, and is equipped similar to a musketeer but the cut looks more like a modern dress with long neck and no sleeves.

@Jeffool Yes leadership selection is probably the biggest issue. Maybe if peeps could vote, first the game idea and then the lead designer. Or maybe something can be achieved by coming up with new titles and structures never seen before.

Why don't everyone on gamedev.place come together and form one big AA studio? Are we stupid?

#naive_ideas #idealistic_ramblings #jobs

She (1935) it appears to be a typical 1930s adventure movie but at the same time it is not, it does have something special about it. I felt a total of about 15 minutes of this movie was magical, done with great love and care. The scenography is pretty good during the whole second half. The story is about love with juxtaposing immortality and mortality, so has some vampiric romance elements to it. Of course there are plenty of flaws, as expected from a 90 years old movie.

Scene from the old technicolor movie, some sort of bronze age style of ceremony with a woman dressed in yellow standing by the throne at top of short flight of stairs. The others are in white or black dresses, some wearing metalic masks. Two men wearing modern clothes are at honorary place next to the throne.

@Cheff Any honest opinion has value. I too am not a fan. I guess they went for combining the gambler's thrill of TTRPG dice with a scripted CRPG. And it works, in multiplayer, because more humans means less chances everyone agrees to just load game on failed roll. I got 40 hours in it, all MP with a friend, I didn't touch SP. In the end it's just yet another silly CRPG that emulates rather than simulates the world, it's ok but peeps went crazy over it a bit too much, Larian has crazy PR skills.

@Cheff I'm not sure what the issue is. There are plenty of non-narrative games. Or, are you wishing for a narrative game that works for you?

Ok I said I don't need visual editor for dialogues and I still mean it, however a non-interactive graph renderer is a must to analyze the tree for any loose ends. I used AnyChart library here, the positioning of nodes is not great, there is some entangling, but maybe playing around with settings can improve that. I hope. If anyone knows another super-simple JS graph visualizer that has a good algo for node positioning I'm up for suggestions.

A dialogue tree rendered as graph, there is a bit of messy entanging at the middle.
Krafter boosted:
2025-06-24

Following another cancellation, I am looking for (remote) contract/freelance work. I am a game urbanist & designer (15 years experience), and can help with:

🏙️ game cities & urban environments
🪐 worldbuilding
🎲 game design & documentation

Contact me @ game-cities.com/about

#gamedev

The Yellow House (2007) pretty good for a TV movie. Based on the true event of two starving artists sharing a house for 9 weeks. It's mostly about Paul Gauguin trying to make Vincent van Gogh eat his stew, while Vincent claims Paul puts too much salt in it. Luckily, they have an infinite amount of absinthe. Before parting ways, they create art worth ~1.5 billion dollars. Of course, today we know the art pricing is a scam by rich people. Imho the actor who plays Vincent's brother steals the show.

Vincent van Gogh's brother, stealing the show

@stephann I never bought into this story, smells like hype miles away. I mean of course a C engine made for purpose of animating instances of same character will severely outperform a general purpose engine at doing just that.

@arzi Each character could temporarily get a special ability based on their class / temperament or whatever and you need to combine them well. For example, Seductive Glance ability, of course you'd need line of sight to make eye contact, idk how your engine actually works.

On top of the massive protests against the oppressive regime which are now entering their 8th month, the best among us have found the strength to protest against Serbian government's export of weapons to Israel. In return, Israel is providing the technology for spying on peaceful protesters, among other things. #eupol

Protest walk through a street in the Belgrade's center, with Palestinian flags and front ribbon that says "Israel is mudering children"

Just bought a new pocket notebook and found this nice quote printed on covers: "Writing is closer to thinking than speaking" - Joseph Joubert

One may get cynical about how this Joseph guy did not predict the internet, but for its intended purpose the statement is still true. When you consider that "thinking" does not have to mean "thinking correctly", nor even "diligently".

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