Crinklewott 💕 @thingywott@awoo.space

using every fiber of my being to not boost like 20 more Extremely Good bunnies

why are so many of them so good

i like to shift the hue of my shadows, but this is the first time i've completely abandoned the original color in something like this i think?

in this one, i tried to experiment with the shading a bunch! so the shadows in here are actually completely different colors than what they were~

for example, did you notice the shadowed part of jirachi's head doesn't even have yellow in it? it's purple!

also, the shadows for anything white are actually just light blue..!

and yet, i don't think they look out of place at all!

i decided to actually color this one..!

#abdl

and the music are just imf files! which are id (software) music files, which can be played in adplay without any modification!

it's the same format used for the music in wolfenstein 3d and a bunch of other games that played adlib music at the time

so! the levels are all basically straight-up arrays!

and now that i can just select files, i can easily get the right ranges for the visualizer~

they!

#abdl

it's cool the month of "can get sasha from animal crossing as a switch icon" has begun, because i was able to get sasha from animal crossing as a switch icon finally!

i'm sorry, but if anyone qrts some hateful shit that wouldn't have been in my life if you didn't for an "epic dunk xD", i will probably block you

i can't emphasize enough how much giving harmful ideas a platform to dunk on them is counteractive, and hurts the friends you have that the corrosive rhetoric targets

oh no, they are planning on adding qrts to masto

even the possibility of the introduction of a feature that only really gets used to signal-boost corrosive ideas and Discourse onto people's feeds without consent makes me extremely uncomfortable

the fact that it also allows for abusers to harass people through blocks is even worse

what are they even doing

alright! imhex pattern repo created!

oh! also the game itself is playable online here if you were curious what it was! (you can also get the data files in the sidebar!)

since it was a DOS sidescroller, that means it didn't have access to particularly advanced video hardware, meaning that smooth scrolling was Very Hard

also music was only through a special synth card (from ad lib)

and every other sound used the PC speaker (the thing that makes your computer beep sometimes)

also, a lot of old game formats are excellent practice since they are so simple!

• maps and images are often basically just bitmaps, so you can just visualize it immediately by spitting out an rgb8 image of file bits
• custom archives often have headers that contain literal file seek locations with sizes
• other metadata is often just bitpacked into guessable partitions if you know anything about the game
• compression is pretty much absent in most cases

it's basically free

i should really make a git repo for all the times i randomly decide to make imhex understand the most obscure game formats imaginable

i didn't think i'd get the urge to do this more than once, but here we are!