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Josh Leap

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Follow for normal gamedev. Did tech art for My Friendly Neighborhood. Making a Lovecraftian text editor called Tentacle Typer. RTing helps me out.

store.steampowered.com/app/1537490/Tentacle_Typer/
Joined May 2018
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Prototyping a writing challenge in this text editor. As long as you never stop writing you wont get sliced in half by a laser. #gamedevelopment | #indiegame
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My Friendly Neighborhood, a survival horror game with a heart. 96% Positive on Steam, 1,100 reviews 9/10 on Screenrant 84 on Metacritic Polygon Recommends Award This is my shot to get enough traction on a game to start a studio with. :) Go check it out! mfngame.dev
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I made an experimental GPManaTee.
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gpt4 has jokes
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I badly need someone I know right now who has either dealt with their Google account being compromised or knows someone at Google. There's no way to contact them and the recovery page won't work.
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I'm only 5 minutes in and I love it. Check out the Tentacle Typer demo on Steam if you like to write, but also want to be a Lovecraftian monster tickling the ivories at the same time. It's the ultimate multitasking experience. @LeapJosh #indiegames
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Cool threads. Makes me want to some share dark magic I've got for getting more than 255 "shades of grey" out of a 32bit texture. Treat all 4 color channels like they're a single thicc color so you get 2^32 unique shades for packing. 4294967296 > 255 :D 1/ xitter.cf/tech_art_tyler/status/…
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You could use this technique to make a shader that shows an animation for solving an elaborate maze that's 132 years long@60 frames per second with no duplicate frames. So that's fun and definitely useful. 4/
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Could pump up the jams on regular 8 bit greyscale noise textures by doing a few passes of some kind of smoothing algo and the ~ddx, ddy~ intrinsics into all channels. Overkill for most things, but really helpful for things that need more continuousness than 255 provides! 5/5
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If you want a "viewer" that shows you greyscale again, it's as easy as dividing the index by white. 3/
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Say you want to generate a heightmap for a ramp and you're tired of 255 shades of grey is giving you stairs. Open up the whole colorspace with a shader like this. It looks like predator vision with a head injury but it's fine. 2/
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Josh Leap@LeapJosh26 Oct 2022
A new Tentacle Typer demo has launched on steam. So you can write spooky .txt documents, trick-or-treat by mail and so forth. I've made substantial combat improvements. #gamedevelopment | #WritingCommunity
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A new Tentacle Typer demo has launched on steam. So you can write spooky .txt documents, trick-or-treat by mail and so forth. I've made substantial combat improvements. #gamedevelopment | #WritingCommunity
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If you want, DM or tag me on what you write, best words will become canon. Just imagine. store.steampowered.com/app/1…
Tentacle Typer on Steam

Tentacle Typer on Steam

Tentacle Typer is a Lovecraftian text editor RPG experience. You're a giant tentacle monster with a magic mechanical typewriter, and you're trapped in a steampunk mansion. Psychically rouse elaborate...

store.steampowered.com
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BOOM, #1 MOST POPULAR UPCOMING LOVECRAFTIAN SOFTWARE IN THE WORLD. Let that be a lesson, you can win any race if you work hard and you're the only person on the track. #gamedevelopment
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Good idea, I think I overdid it. xitter.cf/PartlyAtomic/status/15…
Landon ⚛️ (@PartlyAtomic) profile pictureLandon ⚛️@PartlyAtomic23 Oct 2022
Gamedevs, add a lil notepad to your save screen for players to note their current goals so they can be reminded when they pick the game up again in a month.
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This quarry rewards you for writing by throwing motivational mining equipment at you from space. #gamedevelopment | #indiedev | #gamedev
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Made it so the hardware mouse cursor turns on when you're in writing mode. This has made everything 125% better. Why did I wait so long.
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Josh Leap@LeapJosh17 Oct 2022
Some .txt files people have shared with me have been 100-200 words each. Novels have 70,000-120,000 words each. I'd wager we all wrote ATLEAST one deranged novel worth of text in about two weeks. What a joyous accomplishment.
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Fun Facts: The Tentacle Typer Demo was downloaded almost 4,000 times. The average playtime was about as long as the demo takes to complete. Awesome.
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Some .txt files people have shared with me have been 100-200 words each. Novels have 70,000-120,000 words each. I'd wager we all wrote ATLEAST one deranged novel worth of text in about two weeks. What a joyous accomplishment.
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