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Leonardo Giovanni Scur

@kroltan@functional.cafe

#Brazillian game developer, orbits around tooling, frameworking, and tech art. #Linux user.

Systems to serve humans. #NoAI

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Joined April 03, 2018

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https://kroltan.me

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · Jun 27, 2026

Replying to @pixxl@mastodon.social

@pixxl@mastodon.social @dysfun@social.treehouse.systems @davidgerard@circumstances.run old enough eggs do

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · Jun 03, 2026

Metal Pan Rising works pretty well on my computer

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · May 11, 2026

Replying to @venya@musicians.today

@venya@musicians.today Very likely, thanks! https://functional.cafe/@kroltan/116557160450081801

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · May 11, 2026

Replying to @nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social

@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social No no, almost certainly PC, with only the slightest chance it would be on the PS1.

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · May 11, 2026

Replying to @nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social

@nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social S3D does seem like the most likely candidate so far! Thanks! https://functional.cafe/@kroltan/116557160450081801

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · May 11, 2026

Replying to @sikeSapi@bark.lgbt

@sikeSapi@bark.lgbt Looks extremely promising! Since I used to get games by dumpster-diving "download aggregator" websites, a free game makes total sense. And open source makes it likely it uses non-packed assets for modding! With all due kindness to the authors, it also looks about the right amount of jank.

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · May 11, 2026

Replying to @loadhigh@bitbang.social

@loadhigh@bitbang.social 99.9% sure on a desktop windows XP computer. Other 0.1% would be a PlayStation 1.

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · May 11, 2026

Replying to @abban@mastodon.ie

@abban@mastodon.ie Hmm interesting, it might very well be that, but I don't remember it having cutscenes and I feel like the graphics were maybe even more primitive. Seems like a neat game anyways! The modding point is unclear, it might be that it just had open .OBJ files in the installation directory or something. EDIT: Even more promising, I was reading reviews on GOG, and one of them commented the AI enemies don't move around, which does sound like something I may have experienced.

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · May 11, 2026

Looking for an obscure game:

Worms-like (turn based deathmatch);
3D;
Deformable heightmap terrain;
Played somewhere in late 2000s/early 2010s;
Very low production value;
Likely official modding support, probably involving OBJ model files.

I'd rather not use the centralized forum platform where #TipOfMyTongue exists.

Also accepting hashtag suggestions if I'm missing any useful ones.

I remember it having different characters/buildings, one of them looked like one of those Hoth turrets from star wars, the truncated cone with a flatish disc on top where the gun is. Unclear if it was a mod or I'm just dreaming that though.

Have a nice week!

Edited due to typo, it was 1am sorry lol
Edit2: probably enough boosts, it's exceedingly likely it's Scorched3D.

#game #videogame #gaming #HelpMeFind

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · May 03, 2026

Replying to @grono@mastodon.com.pl

@grono@mastodon.com.pl I played it about 2y ago, I liked the general setting and the visuals are great. It was also surprisingly usable for that era, not much UI clunk and I knew what to do. But when I got to the second map, I trailed off. I felt like the combat was simple but overtuned, too many enemies to get anywhere, it felt like mowing the lawn. Great game, just not for me.

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · May 03, 2026

Replying to @grono@mastodon.com.pl

@grono@mastodon.com.pl Looks like the starting town of Divine Divinity?

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · May 01, 2026

Replying to @khaleer@mastodon.gamedev.place

@khaleer@mastodon.gamedev.place I don't know, but the product is definitely an Unity clone. Entities with Components, same component lifecycle callback name convention, editor window layout, etc etc etc

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @YoSoyFreeman@mastodon.gamedev.place

@YoSoyFreeman@mastodon.gamedev.place oh no, I meant strictly from the technical standpoint, not a business model thing. I see them as being angry about the Unity software itself. Re. the last point, I know that you can use the engine to export standalone games, not tied to the platform. But it's hard to ignore that the primary use is still the platform.

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @YoSoyFreeman@mastodon.gamedev.place

@YoSoyFreeman@mastodon.gamedev.place I see. I have a different way of looking at it: You can really feel how angry at Unity they were, to the point they just remade it """properly""", as in actual decent coding standards and well thought out APIs. Except the way they've gone about it was to go bullet-point by bullet-point down their complaints list and shoehorn Unity features into Source 2, without regard to why Source 2 did things its way.

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @mogwai_poet@mastodon.social

@mogwai_poet@mastodon.social Day 1991 of being grateful Pix exists and is a national banking standard with legal protections rather than just Some Schmuck Holding Your Money.

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @YoSoyFreeman@mastodon.gamedev.place

@YoSoyFreeman@mastodon.gamedev.place What is this about?

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · Apr 28, 2026

Replying to @jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@jupiter_rowland Just like, surprise, surprise, Mastodon's alt-text police is not blind. I'm not "Mastodon's alt text police", I'm a human who thinks the text box will be misused, and is clunky to use for all sorts of people, authors included. I believe that user-agents should make accessible all the metadata in a post, exactly because of the diversity of the Fediverse as software. Just like someone can make an object whose understanding depends on the exact date of posting, even backdating. Or an object that gets frequently edited. Or an object that is referenced by a sock-puppet account. Except for professional Web accessibility experts, literally nobody on Mastodon seems to know what alt-text really is for. Exactly. Most people (intersectionally even!) are not accessibility experts. At the very best they have some sense of "hey I should probably describe this image" since the text field is prominent, but virtually nobody will read an accessibility spec. For my own example, as I cannot speak for others, I often add "impressionistic" details to the alt text of photos, just because the image itself can have qualities beyond just the objects contained in it. Which a sighted person will obviously perceive, even if maybe in a different way than I wrote down. I think that's a very dogmatic view on the feature. Its a free text field, and if the internet taught us anything is that people will use free text fields for anything. But let me tell you something: [long list of places that don't have an alt button] Most of the services you listed rarely even have an useful alt text: A lot of blog/static just plain don't;Corporate social media often has erroneous or incomplete machine-generated text with no machine-readable disclosure;Comics, famously XKCD, but many others I've met along the years, have absolutely unrelated alt text; Let alone would have use for easy access to it. If anything Mastodon is the place where you can most reliably find useful alt text on the internet, by volume if not by ratio. My character limit is over 30,000 times higher than on Mastodon. No I don't think people put text in the alt box exclusively because of character limits, I've seen plenty of people, myself included, who put stuff there despite a generous limit on the instance. I cannot speak to ableism or not, but I'm grateful that "people on the internet put the text, but on the wrong box" is the problems we get to discuss :)

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · Apr 28, 2026

Replying to @jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@jupiter_rowland I don't like putting a human solution to a software problem. I understand and appreciate the need for accessibility, but also at some point able people will just not follow all the conventions, or even just make divergent judgement calls. (Is this an image description or an explanation?) Make a feature request to your preferred application/s for hands free alt text access. I have an idea of a jank way to do it on the web interface, but I don't know your requirements.

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Leonardo Giovanni Scur @kroltan@functional.cafe · Mar 26, 2026

Replying to @dynamite_ready@mastodon.gamedev.place

@dynamite_ready@mastodon.gamedev.place I read that to the tune of the Limbo Of The Lost's ending song. (CW 2000s CG, a bit crude, and an insane game)

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