Rutherford

Screenshot from Marathon (2026)

Screenshot from Marathon (2026)

Screenshot from Marathon (2026)

Screenshot from Marathon (2026)

Manifesting a singleplayer game with this art direction
Simply gorgeous

very upset that I can’t play marathon this weekend but at least I might get my famicase done

grill 3–4 good roma tomatoes & an onion, rough chopped; add to a pan with a tin of peaches in syrup (plus about ⅓ of the syrup), 1–2 finely diced fresh jalapeños, half of one of those tiny tins of chipotles in adobo. season, simmer until it all kinda melts together

update: the peach chipotle salsa (as it ended up being) has mellowed very well. I made myself a sandwich with most of what was left over & a very blue Montgomery cheddar. 11/10

threw together what i thought would be a low-effort imitation of a peach habanero salsa I vaguely remember having about a month ago, half the ingredients substituted (including the habaneros)

Reader, it is one of the best things i have ever made

begging the people who make toasters and the people who make washing machines to talk to each other about how long a minute is

I wonder if this is partly a problem of pure RNG vs ‘secret bias’ (things like coyote time, enemies’ first shots always missing).

[classic-style] teleporting should feel random, but maybe accuracy could be slightly fudged if the player’s health is low, etc

flavor text. nice

achievement unlocked: capable of listening to a podcast while kerning (only took 14 years of practice)

it’s 2026 and people are still making websites with that stupid laggy smooth-scrolling that feels like trying to run underwater

This is entirely true (also my strategy for pricing WIP fonts).

16 bucks is 10 bucks and that’s how I could afford rent in 2020

new year new m̸e̸ linux distro

A small bowl with a single scoop of dark red sorbet. Warm lighting, dark wood tabletop, cosy vibes, etc

I made mulled wine sorbet & there’s nothing on the calendar for the next week. Merry christmas

Thanks! They are, although stance (crouch/standing) is managed by the *hand* state to keep movement more fluid

Animations use a separate AnimationTree state machine, but that’s vanilla Godot

starting to feel much more comfortable programming complex systems. Had an idea yesterday for a kind of Dishonored-style character controller based on parallel state machines

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev

I spent over a year designing this font license (& almost 5 years refining it), with gamedev as a primary use case.

Just about every indie foundry I know is actively trying to improve this stuff, despite Monotype repeatedly setting the font industry’s collective goodwill on fire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you want to make your own:

630g mandarin juice (~1.5kg mandarins)
120g sugar
20ml campari
~3.5g pectin

Mix about 200ml juice with the sugar and pectin & heat to about 85°C to thicken it. Remove from heat, add the remaining juice, chill. Add campari, strain any pulp, churn in ice cream machine.

things I have caught myself saying in the last ~24 hours:

“I’m gonna play about an hour of dwarf fortress and then I’ll go to the club”

“please can you remove the zombie blood from the coat rack”

“we’re out of mandarin campari sorbet. It’s the end of an era”

you can just claim any font is better for dyslexia. no one checks. I think we should all agree the best one is Zapfino and be done with it

this is funny but also the first time I saw the phrase “You are Becoming” I had to physically walk away for a minute to appreciate it

A scoop of pale brown ice cream topped with pieces of homemade dalgona.

drowning in paperwork this week but I made a muscovado & dalgona ice cream, which has been a huge morale boost

Monotype once again giving our whole industry a bad name

In high school I wanted to know how fonts get made and no one knew.

At university I wanted to know how fonts get made and they told me to go to The Hague and speak to a man named Erik.

In The Hague they told me the basics, and I realised ‘how fonts get made’ is gonna take a lifetime to figure out

Everything is wrong. This is not straight. This is too high. This is in my way. We must put them right.

A handful of key glyphs (lowercase a, asterisk, ampersand, capital R, superscript 1, percent sign) from MD Thermochrome, showing the visual language of the typeface. It’s a dotmatrix-style typeface made from circles and rounded horizontal lines, which grow and shrink to form the multiple weights.

A selection of icons from the typeface, highlighted in red, interspersed with words describing them (or described by them) in white.

Available now: MD Thermochrome v0.4 adds over 100 new icons to the typeface, all of which respond to weight and italic angle just like every other glyph. Legibility not guaranteed

www.futurefonts.com/mass-driver/...

The moving finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on — the AI only helps a bit.
Just let me know if you have any Q’s,
Or if I can adjust the vibe of it.

found some astonishingly cheap pineapple quinces this morning, so today I have been making quince cheese. Remarkable how much this has lifted my mood

Pixel art sprites of mushrooms (above) and their harvested ingredients (below). Each sprite is 16x16 and uses only two colours plus black.

mushroom sprites

#pixelart

implemented an action log & connected up the health bar. I don’t want to go overboard with text effects, but:
- combat actions are colour coded
- more important actions (like attacks) are brighter than others (like harvesting)
- older messages are dimmed

(also health bar lag)