@[email protected] Yeah, and the experience of using Bun matches his comments about pre-slop quality and attitude: it had a bunch of rapidly expanding, genuinely useful features that ran really fast... when they worked at all. And a bunch of table stakes things you'd expect to work but didn't, and occasional really weird bugs.

Not a bad tradeoff for rapidly exploring a new problem space, but I'd not recommend starting a production project with Bun - which is a bummer, because features like 'compile JS to a native binary across multiple platforms out of the box' are genuinely great.

@[email protected] Having some contacts in the Zig community and having used Bun on a couple of projects, it all rings extremely true to what I would have guessed from the outside. Andrew's tone (for me at least) manages to be both classy and honest about the frustrations which is an impressive line to walk.

Final session of my "Making 2D Game Assets" course today where we talked about recording sound for your game which is always great fun.

The final wrap up had some fun resources so I thought I might as well share it here as well!

Remember: the secret sauce of audio is always the same! Get as quiet a space as you can, and start by normalizing and reducing noise. Save that version before you do anything else, you'll thank me for it later.

How to create 100 distinct voices

This is a video from a voice coach on how to get started creating distinct character voices, starting with the easiest aspects to vary. youtube.com/watch?v=FVmAEezr...

Wing - Dopamine

We spoke about how flexible the human voice can be at creating sound effects just on its own. Wing takes this to world class levels, creating effects like this using only his voice, microphone positioning, and some reverb (the only effect allowed in the competitions he enters) youtube.com/watch?v=qlrpeYdm...

The Magic of Making Sound

This video gives a whole bunch of examples of Foley work. It does assume a certain amount of equipment you won't have available, but the basics are always the same: make sure you can see the video you want to match the sounds to, record the sounds, normalize and remove noise from your recording before setting the final volume you want. youtube.com/watch?v=UO3N_PRI... #GameDev #SoundDesign

Had a couple of days without #ADHD meds as I reset my sleep medication and times (summer holidays mean I can sleep with my actual circadian rhythm rather than taking a boat load of melatonin to try and shift it to match 'society').

And boy oh boy does it make a difference restarting them again. I suppose that even having taken them for years being unmedicated still feels my 'default' state from the decades I was undiagnosed - so stopping feels a drag but normal. Restarting after a break is kind of magical.

Random ask, but: I'm looking to buy some t-shirts with good art work on them. Previously I've bought a lot of pun or fandom based t-shirts, but honestly I've been burned by enough fandoms now that I'm just looking for nice art and decently ethical supply chains that I can buy in the EU without bankrupting myself.

Anyone got good suggestions of places to look, or even better artists I could directly support? Boosts for reach would be awesome, especially as I suspect I'm not the only person looking. #art #clothing #europe

Apparently Shandell, Elliott, and Grant woke up one morning and chose violence when picking their paper's title

tech.lgbt/users/Natasha_Jay/...

@[email protected] That should be Termux, sorry

@[email protected] Boox tablets will run termix if that's close enough? A real shell, but on Android

Using Ink in a #godot game? I built myself an Ink highlighter for Godot's script editor, and if you're feeling brave you can give it a try and help it get to a state where it can be published in the asset store (which would require at a minimum at least one Windows user telling me it works).

code.mavnn.eu/mavnn/godot-in... #gamedev #RandomSharing