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YellowAfterlife

I write code for videogames, and this is a blog of mine.

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A fuzzy binary brush in Procreate

The kind of an aesthetic that the standard Ink Bleed brush has, but slightly less allergic to Paint Bucket. Continue reading →

Calibrating an external touchscreen display on SteamDeck

Things are never too easy with this little console. Continue reading →

Pasting images as WEBP on Windows

Are you tired of your screenshots uploading to Discord/etc. as multi-megabyte PNGs? Continue reading →

Clearlooks theme for GameMaker: Studio

A couple of recovered 2011 themes and some notes on GM:S themes Continue reading →

Preventing Windows from moving the cursor on touch

I wrote a macro to fix this certain quirk Continue reading →

Making Home/End work normally in Discord

With sufficiently poor luck you might have already noticed The New Thing in the latest Discord update: Home/End keys now navigate to the start/end of the current paragraph instead of a line. This is a tiny post about fixing that. Continue reading →

Making a binary brush in Procreate

As in, a brush that is pixelated (no anti-aliasing), but not pixel-art. Continue reading →

Running GM2024.11+ games on Windows 7

Games compiled with GameMaker 2024.11 or newer do not run on Windows 7 out of box, but that's a fixable oversight. Continue reading →

screen_redraw in GameMaker: Studio

Featuring more tricks that you probably haven't heard about, and not just for old GameMaker versions! Continue reading →

Taking desktop screenshots in Electron v35

This is a small post about how to use `electron.desktopCapturer` to capture a screenshot in the new realities of main/renderer process separation. Continue reading →