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by smrq 6y ago
Fans of Loom might want to check out Brian Moriarty's earlier masterpiece, Trinity. It lacks the beautiful EGA graphics, of course, but the atmosphere of the game feels very similarly moody.
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by smrq 6y ago
There is no way a puzzle with such a narrow solution path is anything but handmade.
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by smrq 6y ago
Seconding those demoscene vibes. I'm into it. Not really sure what you call it either. Not ironic enough to be vaporwave, not 80s enough to be synthwave... well, whatever it is, it probably ends in wave. Is demowave a thing? Regardless
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by smrq 6y ago
I've been writing music for, god, almost 20 years by now. My current project is to actually write an album , as opposed to individual songs. It's coming along, slowly. During quarantine I picked up a few things. I grew up on SNES
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by smrq 6y ago
Hmm. Did you just make an equal but opposite statement, while cautioning against making just such a statement in the very same sentence? (I have no opinion on the argument, never having used either language. I just found the rhetoric funny.
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by smrq 6y ago
With all due respect to Jon Blow (and I respect him a whole lot!)-- I don't think he'd be able to do what he does if he didn't make a boatload of money off of Braid.
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by smrq 6y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one!
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by smrq 6y ago
Personally, I can hardly think of a better first project. The electronics are dead-simple and the hardware is so much up to personal preference that you can just tinker until you are happy. (I built my first keyboard about 7 years ago as my
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by smrq 6y ago
First off-- Orca is incredible. It was just the piece of software I needed to get unstuck from a music-making rut and actually release a couple of new tracks. It's constrained, of course, yet has enough depth for serendipity, which is
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by smrq 6y ago
You might want to internalize the parent comment, because it's entirely possible that some of your team members are not taking it that way. I'm on the receiving end of such feedback often. I know that it's coming from a genui
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by smrq 6y ago
Strange; I grew up with 3rd and I have the impression that 5th is much less prescriptive than its predecessor (I'm ignoring 4th entirely as an anomaly; I never played more than two sessions of it so I don't have any insight about
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by smrq 6y ago
But you might want to pop the trunk containing your jumper cables if your battery is dead.
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by smrq 6y ago
Five years ago I might have agreed with you. I think it's pretty telling though that the techs you just listed have now been around for longer than Angular or Gulp were ever popular (at least according to my recollection). Seems to me
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by smrq 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the real Glados voice effect is mostly pitch correction and formant shifting. You can do it with Melodyne at least (which, to be fair, is also computer magic-- just a different kind than this one!) I just found a video
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by smrq 6y ago
I knew the punchline for this one as soon as I read the first line-- because the first time I saw this joke I couldn't stop myself from laughing hysterically for ages. I tried telling it to my girlfriend to explain just what the hell w
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by smrq 6y ago
You just took away multiple hours of my productivity today. This group is absolutely amazing! I've already watched this cover of New Order's Blue Monday three times today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANIDBu4B9
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by smrq 6y ago
The SNES is totally unmodified. Apart from the fact that what should be housed in a cartridge is instead exploded across breadboards, nothing here is anything but vanilla by SNES standards.
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by smrq 6y ago
Having inherited a Tailwind project, I agree that the class strings are write-only.
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by smrq 6y ago
That's just, like, your opinion, man. There's clearly a market for, say, JRPGs, and that market is comprised of people who fully disagree with you. Ultimately what you're saying is "there's no need to make games I
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by smrq 6y ago
Depending on what you interpreted the OP as requesting, this is either a great recommendation or a hilarious dig against utility-first CSS.
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by smrq 6y ago
Inbox? Hangouts? Play Music?
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by smrq 6y ago
Perhaps you missed my original comment where I explicitly referred to using a 12TET pitch + offset? What you claim I missed is literally what I said.
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by smrq 6y ago
Since I knew someone on HN would be pedantic about this, I looked it up before I posted anything: > NoteOnEvent Struct Reference > Detailed Description > Note-on event specific data. > Pitch uses the twelve-tone equal temperamen
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by smrq 6y ago
Good thing he took it out, then!
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by smrq 6y ago
I won't pretend to be an expert on the subject, but I think it's more a synth problem than a DAW problem. VST, for example, deals in 12TET, so the best a DAW could do to support alternate tuning systems would be to translate each
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by smrq 6y ago
Even if that was possible (no idea), I don't know that it would help. Graphics processing works on GPUs because it's a massively parallel task. With audio, increasing buffer sizes for more parallel processing will inherently inc
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by smrq 6y ago
Thanks, I hate it!! I try and keep myself insulated from this kind of garbage YouTube but sometimes it starts to leak into channels I used to love. It's made me unsubscribe more than once. The formula is so recognizable now that I assu
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by smrq 6y ago
Hack idea: a keyboard that records this data (speed of typing? force of key presses, maybe approximated by keyboard vibrations?) paired with an app that tweaks font settings accordingly. Definitely way more effort than it's worth, but
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by smrq 6y ago
I wasn't sure whether I was reading parody or mild Time Cube insanity until I got to this bit.
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by smrq 6y ago
Sans paywall: https://outline.com/SCKWwz

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