Nova Storm @NovaSquirrel@computerfairi.es

I looked at how Bust-A-Move for SNES draws its playfield, and from what I can tell, the playfield is a software-rendered rectangle of 256-color tiles. That sounds like it would eat up a lot of space, especially in two-player mode, so that probably explains why it uses the smaller 4-color tiles for the background (to make everything fit).

Resizable, draggable window test in JavaScript, for eventual use in Tilemap Town. Still got a few problems to fix but seems mostly fine with relatively little code.

http://t.novasquirrel.com/test/stretch.html

@maple Yeah that happens at my house when the people I live with cook. The smell floats up to my room and then I want food.

@maple It shows correctly for me after clicking on it. If you're talking about how it's slow, that's just me leaving the delay at the default.

As a test I went and tried the Nova pixel art I did awhile ago with a jumping animation. Also added boobs since Nova's supposed to have them, though not confident I'm doing it right? I don't have any intuition for that.

Even for this simple thing I'm finding out that GIMP's really not the tool for the job for pixel art animation and I can see why people go for things like Aseprite.

I kinda want to get one of those Christmas catalogs and circle stuff just for the nostalgia even though I'll probably not buy anything from them.

I like just sitting down with a cookbook (or similar) with lots of pictures and just sorta reliving what it was like poring over books and just soaking up info as a kid without a computer.

RPG battle

@rainwarrior I would certainly appreciate a game where all the animal characters got way fluffier on snow levels.

I should give Super Mario Odyssey some credit with a theme-appropriate outfit per kingdom, so you can wear a snow suit if you want to. The description of said snow suit even pokes fun with "After decades of ice levels, FINALLY a good, warm jacket."

Amazing, with this newfangled technology "the coat" it's actually comfortable to go outside.

I bet Nova wouldn't need one though because platformer characters almost never bundle up for snow/ice levels.

@maple @rainwarrior so like Serious Sam coming with Serious Editor as a separate program which barely described most of the features and very much felt like a dev tool. I remember launching it from the game's Bin folder but don't remember if it actually made Start Menu shortcuts or not.

A very green Minecraft house. I feel like I should extend the stained glass columns out and maybe make some sort of cage bars thing? It looks nice just in the corners too.

Probably the worst football I've ever seen, but being able to chisel things sent my mind right into memeland:

Luigi: Hey Mario! Look what I made!
Mario: It's a stone Luigi. You didn't make it.
Luigi: It's a football. I chiseled it.

I only just now remembered I own a coat. Oh, that would probably make going on walks in this weather easier.

Just realized that SpinDizzy always having "National Horizontal Day" on a Thursday is probably some "taursday" pun in disguise.

Me: I should go outside while it's still day
Outside: 35°F
Me: never mind inside is good too

@Saxxon I actually don't think I've commissioned any nsfw art that wasn't some sort of reference

@maple you joke but "wow an instance run by a squirrel!" was the biggest selling point for me

I cooked rigatoni and shells together and somehow the shells got stuffed into the rigatoni several times