Magic Chopstick Games official Twitter account. Makers of the Jardinains! series. Current project: An all new Jardinains! https://xitter.cf/t.co/QrGVzr5OaB
Joined August 2017
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Wait, what? It's almost #Jardinains! time already!?
The all-new Jardinains! is coming to Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android on April 1, 2021!
Break bricks, bounce 'nains, and have a blast with this modern reboot of a classic favorite!
Get it Thursday at jardinains.com!
For those of you who missed it last night, I recently made a nifty, lightweight locally similar tiler in #pico8
It takes an input pattern and randomly generates a similar-looking output. Very useful for procedurally generated levels in games. Play around with it, it’s fun!
Here’s another #pico8 toy: qdlst(), a Quick ‘n’ Dirty Locally Similar Tiler!
The original WFC algorithm is too heavy for the likes of PICO-8, so I’ve taken a few shortcuts to make it fast and lightweight. WIP, but it’s giving good results!
#indiedev
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Here’s another #pico8 toy: qdlst(), a Quick ‘n’ Dirty Locally Similar Tiler!
The original WFC algorithm is too heavy for the likes of PICO-8, so I’ve taken a few shortcuts to make it fast and lightweight. WIP, but it’s giving good results!
#indiedev
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Hello, everyone, I’m Tom! I discovered game dev on the family Apple ][, spent study halls in high school building shooters and RPGs on a TI-85, and have been creating as an indie/hobbyist for most of the past four decades. My hair has never been calmer. #WhatAGameDevLooksLike
If you’ve ever wondered what #cancer care looks like in the US #healthcare system, here’s roughly three months worth of insurance coverage information and bills.
About half this stack is bills, around $950 in total.
My family’s insurance is *very good* by US standards.
ALT A roughly 2” tall stack of paper, tri-folded, held in a hand and fanned out
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tfw you’re messing with shaders and randomly set some obviously janky values and end up getting the exact glitch effect you didn’t know you needed 🎉
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Thanks again to the good folks at @FragmentsofS for having me on tonight! Have fun!
Me, three hours ago: you know, now would be a great time to get some basic groundwork taken care of for my next game. Just the very basics…
Me, now: oh heck YES am I busily implementing my own custom permuted congruential random number generator and dice roll parser! 🥳
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tfw you need to re-run the hours-long build process because you forgot to increment the version number
👍😬👍
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International #Jardinains fans! I’ve just isolated and fixed a NASTY bug that took *forever* for me to figure out. (Turns out it was an edge case string formatting issue that only emerged on certain languages and system configurations. UGGGGGH)
An update is in the works! 👍😬👍
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I’m sorry, but this post is not about #games or #indiegame making.
This post is about America’s #healthcare system.
Specifically, it’s about American health insurance, distilled down to a single, repulsive sentence.
Thanks, @UHC. Cancer isn’t terrifying enough on it’s own.
ALT Text of a form letter from insurance company UMR detailing whether or not the insurance company considers a treatment to be medically necessary. The sentence “Services determined to be medically necessary are not guaranteed to be paid.” is highlighted.
I’m sorry, but this post is not about #games or #indiegame making.
This post is about America’s #healthcare system.
Specifically, it’s about American health insurance, distilled down to a single, repulsive sentence.
Thanks, @UHC. Cancer isn’t terrifying enough on it’s own.
ALT Text of a form letter from insurance company UMR detailing whether or not the insurance company considers a treatment to be medically necessary. The sentence “Services determined to be medically necessary are not guaranteed to be paid.” is highlighted.