This is a little post about how to give your Haxe-Neko (or just Neko VM) executables (made using nekotools boot) a custom icon on Windows.
Continue readingIntroducing: An icon converter!
Click to open the tool!
I made a web-based icon converter tool! You can check it out and/or read this small post I wrote about development.
Continue readingUsing HTML5 accelerometer and gyroscope in 2020
Click here to see for yourself.
While looking to do some experiments with device motion data in HTML5, I found that there were no existing demos that would work on iOS 14. So, having spent a few hours figuring it out, I decided to write a tutorial with an up-to-date demo.
Continue readingArt [mini-]FAQ
Click for a full comic and having expectations set accordingly
With 10th month of 2020 almost over I am finally getting around to posting art as intended in last year's roundup.
Continue readingGameMaker: 2.3 syntax in details
With GameMaker Studio 2.3 update out for a bit now and 2.3.1 beta just released, it seems like a great time for a blog post going over the numerous syntactic additions.
This covers the syntax itself, how it works, and what you can do with it.
Also included is a list of breaking changes and how to get around them.
Continue readingChanging window alpha in Unity3D
GameMaker: smart floor/ceil functions
Simplest possible predictive aiming
This is a blog post about aiming ahead to hit moving targets! It has interactive elements.
Continue readingIntroducing: A pixel font generator!
I released a new tool today! It takes pixel font "tilesets" and converts them into actual TTF fonts! It is also 100% web-based, meaning that you can try it out right now. And this post details the development process for it. Also it doesn't have a catchy name for now since I've not come up with a good pun yet.
Continue readingGrid-based contour traversal
This is a small post about the algorithm I wrote for the recent pixel font tool to establish paths of shapes and holes on the image.
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