hey, i’m orteil! i made Cookie Clicker. it was an accident
happy 13th birthday Cookie Clicker! as is tradition i did some baking just 2 batches (12 cookies) because i got sleepy. they were really nice i’m actually so good at baking cookies it kinda rules. tomorrow i’m making the rest (~34 more) sous-chefs: kind & diligent egg suppliers:
unconvinced i’ll ever find “the vitamin” that makes me all better so i can get real work done but i do expect they’ll elucidate whatever my deal was post-mortem, after which what i did manage to accomplish with my life will be regarded on the level of Beethoven composing despite being deaf or Gordon Ramsay cooking despite being british
how does something like Pokemon evolve over thousands of years? once the construct of capitalism wears off, what’s left of an omnipresent world-spanning franchise? personally i think it’s gonna get religious. it’s gonna get syncretic
i believe an important kind of creative process is “i didn’t know that wasn’t allowed”
i started noticing it years ago but i’m a little let down by how much in AAA games seems to rely on “tell don’t show”. Sims 4 takes you on magical multi-steps adventures through text boxes. No Man’s Sky has your character go through all kinds of technomystical nonsense and it’s just text boxes. Paradox games are riddled with events that are just text boxes but…
as a french kid i was very confused about Superman’s archnemesis being constantly referred to as “the former wrestler”
controversial stance but i do wish i could live forever. i certainly live like i’m going to live forever. i take my time. realistically however my lifespan is dreadfully limited and there are things i’ve “been meaning to do” that i will never get around to. the Emoji Movie came out almost 10 years ago. in all that time on any random day i could’ve decided to sit down…
by 2050 all the original King of the Hill episodes will be lost media, only survived by their youtube poop versions. another 200 years and these will be considered canonical
i know you’re already typing “of course the cookie clicker guy would post that” but i really do have a fondness for exponential automation bootstrapping scenarios. one of my favorite old minecraft modpacks had stuff like solar panels and replicators. what you do is you painstakingly amass the components to create your first replicator (which involves rubber farms, ore quarries,…
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i believe this song is what being a single-celled organism must feel like. i just feel 10 microns wide listening to it
more game dev reminiscing while i go insane in the code mines. i’m 90% sure i’ve made a very similar post before including this preamble and i’ve decided i do not care okay so a thing that defined my childhood as Kid On The Computer (in the Dedicated Family Computer Room) was scouring through shareware CDs and finding things that let you make things. music, particle effects,…
orteil42 : i wouldn’t say i love programming. but i do feel inexplicably drawn to programming. and to making things complicated for myself it’s weird to think that since i’ve coded in javascript for over 20 years now and have released tangibly successful projects with it by all metrics i should qualify as some kind of language expert. and i do know how to make a lot of things…
i wouldn’t say i love programming. but i do feel inexplicably drawn to programming. and to making things complicated for myself
i sometimes miss being a completely naive novice programmer when i was like 13. never cache anything. recalculate everything every frame. endless faith in the computer. this thing can update 786,432 pixels 60 times per second surely it’s got time for my bullshit
orteil42 : orteil42 : developing audio software. i fix a bug that’s been bothering me for a while. doing so i also lay down important infrastructure for later features. i feel accomplished with my tangible progress. ctrl-f “todo”. 146 hits i need to keep going until i at least have something to show off on here. so far it makes music. i can add tracks and place notes and edit the…
orteil42 : developing audio software. i fix a bug that’s been bothering me for a while. doing so i also lay down important infrastructure for later features. i feel accomplished with my tangible progress. ctrl-f “todo”. 146 hits i need to keep going until i at least have something to show off on here. so far it makes music. i can add tracks and place notes and edit the…
developing audio software. i fix a bug that’s been bothering me for a while. doing so i also lay down important infrastructure for later features. i feel accomplished with my tangible progress. ctrl-f “todo”. 146 hits
orteil42 : i strongly feel there should be a bart simpson emoji
i strongly feel there should be a bart simpson emoji