Engrams.dev

Fantasy console projects

2025-01-08T00:00:00+11:00

I added a couple of projects I made for the Pico-8 fantasy console in the past.

1Kommand — A missile command minification in 1024 compressed bytes (PICO-1K Jam 2022)
1k scroller — A classic text scroller (PICO-1K Jam 2022)
Pixwheels — A demake of Pathological (LOWREZJAM 2020)
Viper 313 — A top-down arcade shooter

⭐ Reorganized

Added a new "Interactive fiction" section and moved the relevant projects there, and move some projects to the "Other" section for things that aren't games.

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Website Migration

2025-01-05T00:00:00+11:00

My website has received some much needed attention. I migrated it over to Pelican, a static site generator I've been using quite a bit lately.

The reason I moved to Pelican is a matter of reliability. Every time I wanted to update my website, Jekyll would fall over with a fatal error, it curled into a ball on my floor, winching in pain. I would spend half a day to resolve the issue, only to repeat the process the next time.

⭐ New look

I also took the opportunity to move the style sheet framework over to W3.CSS, which I have come to like a lot. In for a penny, as they say, and I redesigned the layout too, which uses a CGA-like palette that resemble the DOS era.

📦 New host

I also migrated my website to Neocities, previously it was on Codeberg's static pages. The reason for moving was because my website felt lonely. We all know how that feels!

🚀 Looking ahead

For the future I plan to add support for project tags, to help group them together and make browsing more interactive.

I'll also be adding new projects I have been working on (I took up Free Pascal!), and add a couple of older projects I created in the past.

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Bass Löver Ported

2023-04-15T00:00:00+10:00

In 2017 I wrote code to generate lakes using cellular automata, I then began work to turn that code into a slow-paced fishing game. That took about two months. Today Bass Löver is getting published on Itch!

The game is turn-based and relaxing. There is not much to lose in-game. It’s an exercise in tranquility.

The code is open source, written in Lua for the awesome LöVE framework.

Wireworld Binary Adder

2023-03-11T00:00:00+11:00

I added Wireworld to the project list. This was one of my entries to the PICO-1K Jam back in Sep-Oct 2022, I decided it needs a home here. I also commented the source code of this tiny cellular automata (find it in the "Journal" section at the bottom of the project page).

There is an online version you can try in your browser (mobile works too!)

Hello Codeberg

2023-03-04T00:00:00+11:00

Good day and welcome!

I made some upgrades to this site:

The primary color changed from browns to cyans
Replaced material icons with SVG's
Added a new client-side search
Implemented a "News" layout (this article being the first to use it).
Under the hood, stripped superfluous blank lines from the HTML.

I have also started the process of migrating my repos from GitHub to Codeberg.

The process involves taking stock in a spreadsheet, reconciling latest commits of all branches in each repo, to make sure I won't lose any data - some commits were made on other machines in the distant past. I will archive 9 of the 55 repos, to preserve outside links and possibly noting the move on those repos. Then I will migrate those projects deemed worthy to Codeberg.

Projects fit for public consumption will also be put on Itch.io.

Stay tuned.

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This migration has been on my mind for a long time. I want to keep giving free software to the world, to the people of the world, but not to unsanctioned AI.

The prospect of any person finding anything I do useful, or a resource of learning, is exciting to me. The thought of any mega-corp taking hobbyist and/or labors of love from the masses for profit, without consent, feels wrong.

I realize everyone have different levels of investment in the projects they own or contribute to. Opinions will differ, and so will people's choices. I respect any person's decision regards to what they do with their code. As long as they have a choice!

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