been difficult to focus on anything but in an attempt to get my brain to zone out on something that isn't real life I was able to figure out how to fix the UVs around the poles of the sphere. much better now. adds 12 new vertices to the final mesh.

here's the implementation I ended up with https://git.dthompson.us/chickadee.git/tree/chickadee/graphics/mesh.scm#n437

wrote some generators for basic 3D meshes like planes, tesselated planes, and cubes. then I tried to make a sphere, because how hard could it be, and now I have to learn what an "icosahedron" is.

I haven't done gamedev stuff in months but the algorithmic deity at youtube started recommending Freya Holmér's videos to me and they are incredible. really great information about shaders and math for gamedev. check it out if you're into this sort of thing.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7M-Wz4zK8oikt6ATcoTwBA

@spectrumgomas both guile 2 and 3 work. sounds like you have some bad compilation state.

"arch linux"

trying to write a simplistic tree shaker for guile so I can create binary releases that have only the modules needed to run a specific program. nearly working but of course something strange and hard to understand is happening.

I got a prototype working. for my test case (my lisp game jam entry) I was able to reduce the compressed download size by 8MB and the uncompressed size by 39MB. not bad at all.

back on twitch for a bit https://www.twitch.tv/davexunit

the lisp game jam has begun! if you're typing characters that aren't parentheses then I will be extremely disappointed in you!

https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2021

just in time for the spring lisp game jam, chickadee 0.7.0 is out! https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2021-04/msg00032.html

guile-sdl2 0.6.0 released https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2021-04/msg00031.html

@ekaitz_zarraga it's not your typical online play! you never encounter other players or anything. but stuff you do in the game has an effect in other players games and vice versa, and it's all beneficial.

@ekaitz_zarraga I think it would diminish the experience. a lot of the great moments happen because of the online features.

@ekaitz_zarraga it's a good game... that a lot of people didn't like and apparently didn't sell that great. I don't make it all the way through many games but I put a lot of hours into death stranding and loved it.

hope the rumor about sony rejecting kojima's next game and microsoft picking it up isn't true because I don't like xbox

I just learned about a metroidvania called Blasphemous and holy hell it looks good. The pixel art is very much my aesthetic.