Category: Developer Conversations

  • Sandstorm Effect Triggers

    Next up, a series of very similar looking videos that show the dev progress of a sandstorm effect as we try to narrow it down to stop hurting me. After each video link I’ll be posting the relevant chat log between myself and Shinmera the dev. I’ll add a total elapsed time for the effect…

  • Fog Implementation Trigger

    Moving right along, I’m not hunting for examples anymore, but I’m not passing up the ones I come across either. With that in mind here is an example of two view modes of the same image.A dev friend of mine is working on err…something related to the fog implementation I think? Anyways, said dev posted…

  • Penny Arcade Website

    This post covers changes made to the Penny Arcade website on March 19, 2022. Penny Arcade have a new fancy site that launched today. Every time I mouse over a button, a white flashing effect appears around the edge of the button. My epilepsy is not amused. I’ve sent them a polite mail asking them…

  • Valve Photo Sensitve Issues

    This post regards an advertisment posted in March of 2022. Turns out that Valve also don’t know how to act around photo-sensitives. Their store page currently has a “fancy” banner going for their “Simfest”. Don’t know what it is about, but I do know that making me think they are trying to kill me is…

  • Why I Do This

    So a couple of days ago I was doing some testing on Waves of Steel and I ran into an issue that messed with my head. I’m not really in the mood to go hunt down the specific animation at the moment, but I’d like to take some time to talk about why I do…