Longform writing. I write about tech stuff and politics and stuff that interests me. Also fandom stuff, I guess.

This is probably how you got here!

I'm the technical supervisor for Befriendus and contributed a lot of non-art work, primarily menus, effects, and dialogue handling. The whole game also uses my Fansim Engine. I also personally produced the trailer, which is some of my first serious video work.

• itch.io
• trailer

I am the co-author of The Unofficial Homestuck collection, an archive application for reading Homestuck in 20XX.

• Github
• Online app (beta)
• Live Laugh Stuck interview
• SAHCon panel

An undertale-themed bullet-hell survival arcade game. Survive for as long as you can against waves of bullet patterns! A Pico-8 cart.

Longform writing. I write about tech stuff and politics and stuff that interests me. Also fandom stuff, I guess.

This is probably how you got here!

I wrote an incredibly long and in-depth history of the Hiveswap kickstarter project and subsequent game development fiasco. And then the more-subsequent debacle that was the response to that article.

My series on IP, what's wrong with it, what its problems look like, and an approach to thinking about the problem.

An undertale-themed bullet-hell survival arcade game. Survive for as long as you can against waves of bullet patterns! A Pico-8 cart.

I'm the technical supervisor for Befriendus and contributed a lot of non-art work, primarily menus, effects, and dialogue handling. The whole game also uses my Fansim Engine. I also personally produced the trailer, which is some of my first serious video work.

• itch.io
• trailer

A 60 second jam game. How much land do you need?

I am not a sprite artist.

A sourcemod for The Stanley Parable that turns the game from a narrative metacommentary to a wild sprawling collect-a-thon. It's got some let's plays and stuff on youtube, if you search for it. I also wrote a blog article about it, sorta.

• blog articles tagged 'tsp'
• youtube
• steam thread

A port of Namco High (made with Date Nighto's HTMLVN engine) to Ren'py in order to support modern VN features like save slots and translations. It's also an attempt to preserve a historically significant game as something actually playable.

This is hella unfinished and at time of writing doesn't even have a readme but it has a playable release and if you want to poke at it you're welcome to.

• internet archive

I've done some work with Portal 2 mapping and BEEmod, which extends the in-game puzzle creator.

I also made a few maps. Some of them are good, maybe? Link below.

• puzzles

I made this very pretty homestuck-themed Auduiosurf 2 skin. It features a bunch of planets and random generation.

This was actually one of the first Audiosurf 2 skins. I have a screenshot somewhere where it's the most popular workshop item.

A Rivals of Aether character manager. Rivals lets you customize the order of your workshop downloads, but its interface is terrible and I needed something that worked effectively.

• rivals

A package-based development environment for making volume-based Ren'py games, as well as a general-purpose API and asset collection focused on Homestuck visual novels. Befriendus uses this.

These were originally tools for modding and extending Hiveswap Friendsim and Pesterquest, but have since morphed into tools for creating standalone games.

• github
• extras

Here's my Psycholonials Let's Play with commentary I did back in July, for the game's one year anniversary. Comes with screenshots and a transcript, so you can follow along.

• uhc mod

Ripped and re-stitched versions of the video files from Not for Broadcast. A great aid to catch things you missed in your playthrough, since you can seek and search in it without having to replay long sections of the game.

Quarrentine project: a tool to convert images to Animal Crossing patterns by printing them by emulating a controller.

I'm not the maintainer, but I have a few contributions on ren'py, the python visual novel engine that everybody loves and writes for, which I think is really cool. I've even got a little Contributor tag!

• github

Superliminal is a really cool game! I love it a lot.

I played through it absolutely silently so people who can't play it can experience the game without a bunch of chatter.

• pc
• switch

I am the co-author of The Unofficial Homestuck collection, an archive application for reading Homestuck in 20XX.

• Github
• Online app (beta)
• Live Laugh Stuck interview
• SAHCon panel

A barebones spelling test program using browser text-to-speech. I can't believe I couldn't find something like this already.

• Source (GitHub)

A classpect "quiz" based on 0pacifica's classpect theory writing.

• Source (GitHub)

GUI tools for manually sorting pictures (and other files) into a directory structure.

I use this almost daily for sorting pictures and photos. It's much faster than explorer, and command line tools aren't good at visually inspecting images.

• My Pal Sorter

Real-time regex substitution of keyboard input.

A simple tool written in like 20 minutes.

My unix dotfiles and general configuration settings.

An AI notebook that uses CLIP classification to group your images indirectly based on image sets you provide

• minnower

Code contributions and support for algorithmic art projects:

Zoetrope, a CLIP-VQGAN image generation notebook

Looking Glass, a ruDALL-E image tuning notebook

• @ai_curio
• bearsharktopus studios

A glitch app that acts as a live code editor for the markdown style used on my blog.

• blog post

A collection of Pelican plugins I wrote for this very blog.

Has plugins for word count, reading time estimation, and archive-backed twitter embedding.

Related is mdexts, extensions for python flavored markdown. It has extensions for spoiler boxes and native HTML5 video embeds.

• mdexts

There's a ton of other stuff that didn't make it in here, if you look at my github activity you'll see more

I've done some work creating archives of various Homestuck stuff to safeguard against stuff like flash depreciation and hosting changes.

It's mostly just where it needs to be, rather than under some site of mine, but here are some links to sites that host it

• hsmusic
• flash
• hs^2

I'm not the maintainer, but I have a few contributions here, especially for storing post metadata to data files and not just raw images.

I have several collections up at the internet archive, including The Thrilling Adventure Hour, Flights of Fantasy, protest footage, and some Homestuck material.

A tool that connects to Blackboard (via your own credentials) and downloads and archives the material available to you.

I wrote this as a student for saving class notes, and figured it might be useful to others. Probably stopped working long ago. :(

• egiwithrobby

3D-printable candy machine using a mason jar.