First look at my skateboarding video game I’ve been working on. I’m using Unity 2D. I just jammed a few tiles together from Sonic for the environment. The character is an AI-generated rotoscope of me skateboarding. Still very early in development!
Quick & dirty visualization of my vampire text adventure prototype. Here I’m experimenting with using Stable Diffusion to generate concept story boards, and stitching them together in a really simple text adventure. I’m using a custom fork of python-text-adventure as a base. You can see various images that are displayed depending on the Place or Event.
I remade an old skateboarding game I created back in High School. The original game was using a custom Direct 2D engine that I ripped from some Game Programming for Dummies book. 😂
In keeping with the spirit of the original, I chose a light-weight engine: pygame. It’s basically a wrapper around SDL for Python. This was a great exercise in not overthinking engineering. I certainly wasn’t trying to create “maintainable” systems when I built the original game.
It’s always good to see my name in the credits of the latest Unreal Engine release (tehpola). 😀
As of now, I’ve made 9 pull requests to Unreal Engine myself, and encourage other developers to do the same. Of course, mistakes have been made - and were eventually corrected. You can check out my pull requests on GitHub.
Skateboard, OneWheel, etc. Exploring the universe. Looping. Featuring Miguel, Kyle, Jake, Tyler, and Nate. Thanks to Maggie for filming and fan girling. With special guests Mimsy, Pixel, and Quin! Give them all the pets.
Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Chicago, Florida. Fewer tricks. Still working on the style. Having a good time.
You could call this a video scrap book
I built an application that syncs the stage lights in Beat Saber with the smart lights in my house. Currently it supports Hue & Wiz lights.
You can find the source code for Club Saber on GitHub.
Face Blur Identify Face Shader Swirl Dark Photobooth is a photobooth application written in Python with a twist. It uses facial recognition and scraped data to show user a representative profile of how they are tracked and categorized by big data and AI. Created as a sort of art project, I had a lot of fun learning about how facial recognition neural networks work, and how to work with computer vision tools in Python, my programming language of choice.
I’ve implemented an extension for Mopidy that allows me to use my Raspberry Pi as an alarm clock. Depending on the day, a different song from my library will play. It’s written in Python, using apscheduler for the alarm, and tornado for the web UI. Check out the source code.
To celebrate my 34th birthday, I put together this video of 33 skateboarding tricks I did while I was 33.
Throughout my life skateboarding has been a great way to remain active, challenge my fears, and meet and interact with cool people. I think I’ve made the most of the past year with its challenges, and this is a reflection of that.
The music is “Side Quest” by Aesop Rock from Spirit World Field Guide.
After we wrapped up work on the previous remaster, we began work on updating the sequel. However, our time on the project was limited, and it would take a while for the remaster to be completed and ultimately released. But having just completed the previous remaster, and having the lessons learned from the previous project fresh on the brain, we got a lot done in a little time.
In that time, I improved the Path Validator tooling.