#notgamedev

[valeofpoppies]

Rendered some expressions of my oc Contessa. This is my favorite face rig I've done.

[some-writer-dude]

I have so many game ideas and don't want to make a single one right now.

[videvblog]

Testing The new Theme 123

Trying to learn how Tumblr themes work so I can write my own stuff..

[vkstech]

indigoBox Studios is a Chicago-based software development collective home to Carpe, Snowshoes, and more

My studio just launched it’s website, where we have all of our different projects, from a smart scheduler to a cool Windows UI ovehaul. It doesn’t have any of my games up there at the moment (as I haven’t really published anything except the In Clouds Christmas demo type thing), but check it out to see some of my other projects! 

[trueyomic]

I've updated my site to have a presskit(). It still lacks a trailer though... I've also given each of the games' pages an itch.io widget so the games can be downloaded directly from their respective pages!

[sirmivorint]

Dramatic potato

[porcelainpigproductions]

Long time no see! I’ve been swamped with school, but on the bright side, I can feel my programming power levels increasing. Slowly but surely.

Anyway, today I bring you the result of some independent mucking about with graphs and implementing them in Processing.

The first .gif simply A) generates an increasing number of nodes each time, randomly spread across the plane, B) connects all of them with edges, and C) draws them. Super simple stuff, but worth writing.

With that under control, I thought, “Hey, why not implement a way to find the Minimum Spanning Tree?”

And so, using Kruskal’s algorithm (which in turn needed me to implement QuickSort to sort my Edge objects and hacking in a crude disjoint-set forest), I produced the second .gif, which is creating a randomly placed graph of 3-17 points, finding the MST, and drawing it for us.

Here’s the code if you want it (But be warned: it’s honestly pretty bad. Not even false modesty. It’s bad.): http://pastebin.com/FxRNdwre

This was my first foray into writing a program from scratch that has tons of moving parts. I feel like I’ll be able to return to my game projects significantly more confident than before after all that I’ve learned.

Eventually™.

[vkstech]

Upgraded to an SSD & Never Going Back

So I just upgraded my laptop to a 500 GB Crucial SSD that I picked up during the Amazon Day sale, and let me tell you, I’m never going back. So far, it’s been an absolutely amazing experience. Boot up times are better, Unity loads stuff faster, and every program is up an instant, from Chrome to Spotify.

On the sad side, I’m dual booting Ubuntu and Windows, and had to reinstall both OSes to get that to work well (it has not been a past few days).

And to top it all of, games load faster. If you’re on the fence about getting an SSD (or any computer upgrades actually) feel free to throw me an ask and I’ll give you some advice.

(And sorry for the lack of development, I had to take a few days doing preparation and then the drive replacement, setup, reinstalls, etc.)