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@neauoire @rek that’s really neat.
i am worried abour the little main character’s forehead tho. are they bumping into the doorframe every time they change rooms?

Devine Lu Linvega

The days are getting longer, looking forward to casting off in the spring and sailing north again.

Devine Lu Linvega

Having the opportunity to re-write Oquonie to uxntal is so wonderful, I sometimes have to pinch myself to force me to look back and really take in that I get to spend my time programming in a made-up language that maps perfectly to how I reflect about interactive art and design.

The game features a conlang by which the characters communicate, and it seems fitting it would be programmed in something nearly as bizarre.

Desktop screen capture showing a text editor with Uxntal code, and a small viewport from the game. 

Oquonie was 200mb in 2012, and will be 140kb in 2023.
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Nasty Flying Freak

@neauoire mind==blown, and Oquonie looks absolutely gorgeous in 2bit pixelart

Knut

@neauoire While being amazed at the rewriting in uxn project, I bought the already existing Linux version and started playing.
Only a little later did I realize that I was playing a 2014 game on a 2007 computer (Thinkpad X61).
Even that version is already very portable.

Glyph

@neauoire this really feels like looking at a screenshot from an alternate universe — what text editor is that?

Devine Lu Linvega

We've been reading Edward Abbey's The Journey Home, there's a whole passage in it that is a log of his working in a fire watch tower. It's funny to see his thoughts being so similar to that of long distance sailors.
#theLibrary

Jason

@neauoire I wonder how many writers took that gig (fire watch)?

Kerouac writes about it in at least two of his books.

Δῃάνειρα

@neauoire I often dream of being on fire watch. Hilariously, both when I sleep and when I think of my ideal work.

Devine Lu Linvega

Blocked out the whole lobby area and animated room transitions.

Devine Lu Linvega

It looks like we're actually doing this.

So nearly 10 years ago we made this game for iOS called Oquonie. And this year we'll rewrite it for Varvara to be as small and portable as we can possibly make it. After running a couple of tests, it seems like we'll be able to port the whole thing without too much trouble.

100r.co/site/oquonie.html

A strange dinosaur-looking fellow in a broken room with a low table.
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floatvoid

@neauoire do hiversaires next. would look amazing in noodle/moogle gfx

rezmason

I'm real happy to see this, pals! 😊 How's the asset conversion gone so far @rek ?

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Lizbeth

@neauoire @felinae great domain too, love the lovecraft reference ;)

Kurt B. Kaiser

@neauoire @felinae I love the simplicity of gopher. I wonder why Drew backed away from it. It needs 100r fonts, though heh. Nicely done!

manifoldslug

@neauoire @felinae kudos, it looks pretty sweet:>

how did you get the font to work? does it rely on unscii being present on the client's machine, or is it delivered somehow?

Devine Lu Linvega

Our friends on SV Muktuk are sailing back to Japan, they will be at sea for the next few weeks!
muktuk.de

R E K

@neauoire I thought our 4433 nmi (8,210 km) from JP>Canada was long... their passsage from Mexico>JP is 7,300 nmi (13,500 km)....!

a graphic of planet earth, with a red line running from Mexico to Okinawa, marking the planned path of the sailboat Muktuk.
Devine Lu Linvega

[hundredrabbits/Left] FEATURE REQUEST - OpenAI GPT Integration (Issue #170)

:eccehomo:

Devine Lu Linvega

Coding with proportional font is lovely, but sometimes you just want a part of text to align properly dammit

Andy Alderwick

@neauoire Would it be a good compromise to have just the digits all the same width in the regular proportional font?

Karol Belina

@neauoire changing the font based on the file contents is an absolutely genius move

Job

@neauoire Time to implement your own version of elastic tabstops?

nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabs

Edit: replied before I saw the video. Your solution looks a lot easier to implement :)

klangspiel

@neauoire wow, I didn’t expect the look to work so well in pixels but it has retained its beauty

Devine Lu Linvega

I had made this little tool to change the wallpaper tile, a-la Mac, but I wondered if I could just point it to any asset whatever, and it looks like it can be used to modify any aspect of the GUI.

rostiger

@neauoire Holy crap, it's getting better and better!

Devine Lu Linvega

@tbsp the glyphs looks great :D I'll add a way to toggled them on/off. I've done a few changes to them, just to help with readability. How would you like to be credited for this?

Duncan Mak

@neauoire
Are you using the same font from Smalltalk in the white window?

Devine Lu Linvega

"Whitney is no respecter of rules. One of the scariest things I ever did as a young man was following him through central Toronto on a bicycle. " #apl
archive.vector.org.uk/art10501

Devine Lu Linvega

Yesterday, @wim_v12e introduced me to something that blew my mind, and I'd like to tell you about it.

Reversible computing is a model of computation in which time is reversible.

The first condition is that an input and output be uniquely retrievable from each other. Microprocessors which are reversible at the logic gates level can potentially emit less heat than irreversible processors, and someday that may become more economical than irreversible processors.

wiki.xxiivv.com/site/reversibl

Yesterday, @wim_v12e introduced me to something that blew my mind, and I'd like to tell you about it.

Reversible computing is a model of computation in which time is reversible.

The first condition is that an input and output be uniquely retrievable from each other. Microprocessors which are reversible at the logic gates level can potentially emit less heat than irreversible processors, and someday that may become more economical than irreversible processors.

Devine Lu Linvega

The promise of reversible computing is that the amount of heat loss for reversible architectures would be minimal for significantly large numbers of transistors. Rather than creating entropy (and thus heat) through destructive operations, a reversible architecture conserves the energy by performing other operations that preserve the system state.

An erasure of information in a closed system is always accompanied by an increase in energy consumption.

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