FLYINGJESTER'S PROFILE

I am the Jester.

I make games using JavaScript, C, C++, Mercury, Java, Assembly (amd64 and UltraSparc) and Python. I used to use Sphere a lot, but I'm more into C/C++ and Mercury nowadays. I still use JavaScript and embed it sometimes, and I usually use Python for build systems and system management.

I wrote TurboSphere, which is a recreation of the Sphere Game Engine with a number of major improvements. I'm not really working on it anymore.

I'm surely going to finish making a game someday. I mean, sooner or later, it's bound to happen. Right?
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turn-based strategy game of war and city building

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What are you thinking about right now?

So I take it he's played Zelda II? The one which is top-down but turns into a platformer when you're inside a house or temple, and has RPG elements?

I have a couple friends like that. When I say I do programming and work on games, they seem to think that means "Yes, I will do all the work on your totally unique realtime 3D AAA MMORPG which you believe is revolutionary and of course will succeed, and of course I have lots of other programmer friends who will help!".

Fortunately I am not related to any of them.

Streaming the McBaconJam trio in about 15 minutes. Join me here: https://gaming.youtube.com/c/7thlittleleopard7/live

Twitch has a setting to save everything you stream, and there at least used to be youtube integration. But certainly fair enough with the latency.

What are you thinking about right now?

Sounds like a fairly smooth way to describe having lost excitement about something.

I'm over the interest.

I've made dice-bots for IRC before, and I highly suspect I wasn't the first to do so.

Need help with GIMP. Outlines around monster graphics.

Ah. So the background is not actually transparent to begin with?

Try using the magic wand tool to select the background, and turn up the strength. This will select more colors that are relatively farther in color from the one of the actual pixel you picked (so things that are related to the background color, but blended with the actual character's colors, too). I would try turning it up and see if I can select basically all the background, including that extra outline, before it starts eating into the actual image I want to preserve.

If you can at least get close that way, you could then select or deselect any remaining bits with the lasso tool.

It looks like the actual issue is simply that the image was created without real transparency and without a hard border defined, so the colors were blended with the white background. Which is unfortunate.

What are you thinking about right now?

There's a fine line between being realistic and cynical.

I prefer to be surrealist. I just leased a giraffe, and so this big government of the US requires me to take harmonica lessons!

Streaming the McBaconJam trio in about 15 minutes. Join me here: https://gaming.youtube.com/c/7thlittleleopard7/live

Not Twitcherino?

What are you thinking about right now?

At least Facebook never secretly downloaded executables that listen in using your microphone and send what it hears back to its servers without ever notifying you.

Google did that with both Chrome and Chromium, on Windows, OS X, and even Linux. That really happened.

Need help with GIMP. Outlines around monster graphics.

I suspect it's because of compression artifacts. That's usually why I see such things.

I would use the magic wand tool to select very similar colors, and select the outline (you can change how strong it is), and then delete it.

Saving as PNG or GIF is best. I usually use PNG, but for very small images (say, 16x16 or 32x32) GIF is smaller in filesize.

What are you thinking about right now?

Deactivating your facebook account is probably a good choice for almost anyone, really.

I've somehow managed to never even get a facebook account.

What’s Your All-Time Favorite Chocolate Bar?

Because the US is afraid of everything. Hide your wife, hide your kids!