Brianna Townsend

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✨ C/C++ developer✨ she/her ✨ creator of unfinished video games ✨Current endeavor is a dungeon crawling roguelike with into-the-breach-inspired combat set in a hand-crafted world. It's called Chronicles IV: Ebonheim and you can read all about it on my blog! <a href="https://blog.brianna.town/chronicles-iv-ebonheim" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://blog.brianna.town/chronicles-iv-ebonheim</a> also federated at <a href="https://blog.brianna.town/" class="u-url mention">@britown</a>Wishlist it on Steam today! <a href="https://chrongame.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><s

Posts

Post #4394385
Does anyone know of an old internet flash cartoon that was maybe called "Sour"?? My other half was remembering it and trying to find it. It was an abstract song in a flash video and some of the lyrics were something along the lines of "While I was enjoying some acid" and "you injected me with green goo" Cant seem to find it in search if anyone can help 😂
Post #4213132
I continue to wonder if I can do some of the transient dialog in little on-screen text bubbles like Shadowrun had...
Post #3925308
The Meg is alt-history science fiction about a theoretical universe where shiny rich tech companies build things that actually work and don&#39;t instantly combust
Post #3925307
after some napkin math i think the final game is only like 30x bigger than the demo so that shouldnt be hard
Post #3925306
richtext macros for semantic inputs that display the mapped platform input :D
Post #3925305
4 years and 59 thousand LoC later, the dungeon milestone has been sent out 😁
Post #3925304
My replay viewer is not strong enough to withstand somebody leaving the game running in a browser all day haha I made it skip large gaps in the input recording but it still has to simulate every frame to not diverge, maybe for sufficiently large gaps (5k frames+) I can treat it as no game state change and just skip the frame count forward because it&#39;s turn based and it won&#39;t diverge?
Post #2577690
My understanding so far with the Project Blue data center in #tucson: 1. City council unanimously voted no to it being built 2. Amazon pulled out but the contractor decided to build it anyway 3. It was discovered that they were using municipal water illegally which was shut off and they were charged for the water they stole 4. The water they were stealing was for dust control 5. Now they&#39;ve been served a violation notice for generating too much dust, constituting $10k/day it goes unfixe...
Post #2174160
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@britown/116302870444824762 In case you missed it last month, I was pretty proud of this write-up for the new NPC Behavior system which uses monte-carlo tree search and attempts to give a layman&#39;s (me) explanation of the multi-armed bandit problem #gamedev #indiedev
Post #1716415
Our hot water heater is an antique, 35 years old and still running, these things usually get replaced once a decade and are notorious for exploding before. She&#39;s still humming along without complaint and is being honorably discharged tomorrow Thank you for your service 🫡
Post #1716414
sure, bluesky might be a toxic twitter-2 brain-melting psychosis array but have you considered that it also doesnt fucking work at all?
Post #1716410
time for chronicles has been limited since I got sick and then swamped with work. I&#39;m also attempting to adopt a new policy of posting things I&#39;ve done instead of posting about not posting more, a policy I intend to enact, uh, after this post. I hope everyone is as well as can be ♥ #gamedev
Post #1716409
many don&#39;t know this but if you work constantly all day every day then when you get to friday you&#39;re really tired
Post #1716408
Chimp Empire on Netflix is amazing because like there&#39;s the central chimps and we meet them first and so they&#39;re the good guys and then they get attacked by the Westerners who are definitely the bad guys but then we meet the bad guys and find out they&#39;re good too and actually fuck the Centralers but then you realize neither group is inherently evil and you are forced to wonder if maybe there exists in all chimps the chimp who loves and the chimp who kills
Post #1716407
transporting actors to infinity to treat them as non-existent the way gamedev god intended
Post #1148575
#gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #ultima
Post #1136203
Oh good morning Javalina in my goddamn backyard #tucson #arizona #justdesertthings
Post #1074131
OUT NOW: Dungeon Puzzle Sweeper! The perfect game to play at the airport or under the dinner table this holiday season 🎄 It auto-saves, is optimized for mobile, and has online leaderboards! This little remake has been kicking around all year and I wanted to finish up the rest of the presentation and get it out there. Free on itch!! https://britown.itch.io/sweeper Please boost and tell your friends! #gamedev #indiegame #itch #release #minesweeper
Post #904722
I also beg the other developers on the team to not make obvious mistakes or commit egregious security vulnerabilities so AGI must be here
Post #815225
NEW BLOG POST You weren&#39;t doing anything on a Friday afternoon were you? Here&#39;s 4 thousand words about the new and improved Chronicles behavior planning and how I leveraged reinforcement learning techniques used by Chess and Go algorithms to make my baddies smart and efficient. Enjoy! https://blog.brianna.town/the-bigger-better-chronicles-npc-behavior-system #gamedev #indiedev #blog
Post #681317
Chronicles IV: Ebonheim is a Fantasy-DOS-Era Hacklike that I&#39;ve been building solo from scratch in my spare time since June, &#39;22. This game is filled with all of the things I love about games! It&#39;s the most excited I&#39;ve ever been about a project! I maintain a devlog index at https://blog.brianna.town/chronicles-iv-ebonheim or you can follow @britown@blog.brianna.town in your Fediverse feed! Wishlist on Steam Today! https://chrongame.com #gamedev #indiedev #cpp
Post #609958
Ok new short blog post this time with less obnoxious og:image thumbnail cached forever by the fediverse https://blog.brianna.town/quick-update-rss-edition
Post #609957
Happy #ScreenshotSaturday ! Since your memory of the map saves between runs, the map also remembers where you&#39;ve died and indicates the last place you died too! #crpg #roguelike #ultima #gamedev #indiegame
Post #609956
kamala harris, who told reporters Iran was our greatest enemy and threat to the country, and who promised the most lethal military in the world at the DNC, is now wringing her hands in front of crowds about how she predicted all of this. we know!
Post #609954
There&#39;s this thing where you might be getting hit for 2 but you have something that reduces that damage type so youre only going to take 1, the preview above the baddie is 2, but the healthbar result preview is -1. this is confusing. you could flip it so the baddie preview is how much theyll inflict after defenses and show 1, which would match what the healthbar preview shows, but then you wouldnt know that normally that attack does 2 and it only does 1 because of gear. this is confusin...
Post #545517
I would like everything to please stop
Post #545516
The girls in the groupchat have until the end of this eye appointment to decide on the frame pictures I sent them they are 👏 on 👏 notice
Post #545515
Finally back to making content for this dang playtest, the laptop has been good for doing a little bit of fussing on a sprite or map when I&#39;m comfy and don&#39;t have the time or energy to sit at the PC for a length of time. Speed increased to a trickle but that&#39;s better than the dead stop
Post #545511
found a regression, tracked it down to a line of code that was commented out with the added comment: &quot;idk why this was here but im sure ill find out eventually&quot; today is that day!
Post #545510
Charge is a self-push that can be used defensively, offensively, or disastrously. Wishlist Chronicles IV: Ebonheim! https://chrongame.com/ #WishlistWednesday #indiegame #gamedev #roguelike #ultima #crpg