Marching at the Speed of Light Posted May 27, 2025 Tags: trip-report the-map diary A Trip Report I have a history of growing and collecting unusual forms of entheogenic life. For a period of time, I had a formidable collection. Amongst the plants in my green room were: Several strains of Banisteriopsis Caapi (the Ayahuasca plant) Psychotria Viridis - A DMT candidate, traditionally used in…
Picowars Credits [Spoilers] Posted January 7, 2024 Tags: the-map diary Heyo! 👄⚫ <Om nom nom nom nom) 🚹 🦵🦵🦵 So a while back I created this PICO8 game Picowars and it did pretty well. Some people liked it wow! I even still get around a dozen people playing it daily which is pretty awesome if u ask me. Better than I would have originally thought! I’m even going to be a panelist at PAX East 2024…
Paradox - Minijam 113 Entry Posted August 25, 2022 Tags: gamedev overworld paradox project There’s a new sneaki boi in the bushes and its name is Charnel Fontaine It likes typing on terminals, inventing evil super intelligences, and pushing big pink heads around on the floor to solve puzzles. Sometimes it gets lonely, so it travels through time to hang out with its past self. This is the story of…
Tears Posted December 10, 2020 Tags: fiction short-story The four armed, four legged, four eyed, four ribbed, two mouthed god-dess Allahweh floated alone through the void. Desperately alone; s-he was the only thing in the void. Tortured by hir loneliness, s-he sought to create companionship. However, being the only thing in the void, s-he knew that s-he would have to use hirself as the matter from…
Discourses on Infinity Posted September 24, 2020 Tags: fiction the-map This is a place for me to share fictional discourses and scrawlings on topics related to infinity. Remembering the joke Player 1 : Thats sounds a bit like ██████, except with ██████ there’s no “I” at all, just a big joke, a secret that you can’t be permitted to know since it ends reality . Like realising you’re just watching a…
A Mastodon Hashtag Boosting Bot Posted August 24, 2020 Tags: fediverse oss project Over the weekend I dove into the world of Mastodon bot building and came up with a simple customizable script that reads the global Mastodon timeline, listening for new toots tagged with specified hashtags, and retooting them as they show up. My use case was to use it to connect with the gamedev community on…
AI Pathfinding In a Platformer Posted July 4, 2020 Tags: gamedev overworld project In order to learn the Godot Game Engine I decided to challenge myself by implementing the A* Pathfinding Algorithm with a caveat: instead of pathfinding on a top-down grid, the world would be a 2D platformer with jumping, gravity, and collisions. The result is okay . It’s not the most scalable and if I pathfind on…
How To Play Picowars Posted June 25, 2020 Tags: picowars Play the full game HERE What’s that! Picowars is an 8bit homage to one of the greatest Nintendo games of all time. Advance Wars. That may just be my opinion, but it’s the right one. Picowars is a turn-based strategy game where the objective is to build up an army from your bases in order to capture more properties on the map and eventually…
Bacon Strips Posted May 15, 2019 Tags: the-map poetry You’re hallucinating now. What you’re seeing isn’t real. What you’re seeing is fake, as in, it is not part of reality. We determine reality. We will tell you what is real and what is not. We will graciously show you reality: Here, hold this. “Hold this”, as in, contract the muscles of your arm and hand in such a way to grasp it. “It”, being the…
Flashback Posted April 14, 2018 Tags: diary the-map As I sat watching, the illusion began not falling apart… but becoming clear. The millions of microscopic bugs that make me up began to remember that they are individuals, and not just One person named Lambda. They de-synchronized from each other, and stopped playing the game. “I’m falling apart”, I thought. “WE’RE falling apart”, we thought. It…