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• Post #3973758

  I just pushed v0.093 of #Narball that reduces CPU usage and improves control responsiveness. Narball at 60fps with 200 balls now uses less CPU than the task manager. #gamedev #optimization

• Post #3973757

  I'm on a plane going on a trip that had a technical glitch on the runway so they turned the plane off and on again. They say it's fine now, but if you never hear from me again, I died how I lived: at odds with faulty software.

• Post #3973756

  Bugs are just tiny land lobsters.

• Post #3973755

  I've been on a trip for a few days, hiking in cool places, seeing sights, drinking great coffee, and eating at nice restaurants, and it all feels very empty. It reminds me of an essay I read once in defense of bad coffee. When you drink good coffee you talk about coffee, when you drink bad coffee you talk about life. We've barely said anything worth saying in 3 days.

• Post #3973754

  I went to the beach. The water was very cold, but I made a sandcastle.

• Post #2342919

  Them (in my head) : #Narball is a silly game with no skill. Me: *Wins 1v3* . #indiegame

• Post #2342918

  I made a #tiktok account to promote #Narball. I find the format of an infinite scroll of random short videos very unpleasant, but supposedly that's where I have the best chance of being seen. https://www.tiktok.com/@worldfabric5/video/7637212604280098062

• Post #2342917

  I'm getting people popping in to #Narball, but it's always one at a time. I've tried to make this game more accessible than my last one, but there's still one requirement to play: friends.

• Post #2319008

  My game Narball is now available for free on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4404880/Narball/ #indieGame #videogames

• Post #2062516

  Two weeks until the release of #Narball. I thought about doing some pre-release influencer marketing, but I don't think I will. They'd just be playing with each other if they could find games at all. Exclusivity is kind of against the ethos of #WorldFabric anyway. I think I'm just gonna stealth drop it and see what happens. I can do streamer outreach after its out, and then they'd be able to play with their fans. I designed a whole new asynchronous event architect...

• Post #2062515

  Now that #Narball has an official #Steam release date approaching I'm getting hella #phishing emails. Would I like free help getting the word out? Absolutely. Do I trust anything that comes through any of the official contact info available on Steam? Nope. I can tell the links don't go where they say they go. Not sure who thought it was a good idea to put subdomains at the front. If any of these emails are real, I'll never know because this state of things is too depressi...

• Post #2062514

  There are a handful of known issues I should address before Narball releases, but I just can't find the motivation. I've been working on Narball for like 8 months, and that is too long for such a simple game. Don't get me wrong, it's a really fun game to play for a few hours with friends, but I've been playing it for months debugging time manipulation code. I can fix these minor annoyances with the interface when/if someone else notices them.

• Post #2062513

  I had a thought, "Can I use unit quaternion multiplication and exponentiation to create a matrix algebra I could build an attention transformer with?". I don't have any people around anymore to even pose such a thought experiment to, so I conversed with my local copy of Gemma4:26b . Long story short: probably. It would have some benefits, but it's impossible to remove the trig from the multiplications during training so it would be hell to train at any interesti...

• Post #2062512

  Wanda is sick, and I don't know if she's going to make it. I've been force feeding her hay powder slurry, but she hasn't eaten on her own going on 4 days. She's been fighting and hiding from me while I try to keep her alive, but it's clear she's getting weaker.

• Post #2062508

  I started a FAQ for #Narball . It's releasing on #Steam in just two days! https://steamcommunity.com/app/4404880/discussions/1/837249543665991444/