Cubists Would Be Proud
Experimenting a bit with Dall-E3 to see its capabilities and asked it to generate a SVG/vector of a head with a hair cut. Got back this absolute cubist masterpiece: Asked it to analyze its output and generate a title for this work of art. It came back with Mid-Forehead Horizon. Sounds appropriate. The raster version […]
The First 50 Years
As my 50th anniversary is rapidly approaching, I felt it’s time to look back into my journey as a game developer. My/Piron Games GitHub now contains every project I’ve made as a solo dev that was releasable, made in the past 35 years. From the very first attempt back in 1993 to develop a PC […]
Nostalgia: A Piece Of Orbital Decay History
Found this photo of my old dev rig taken while doing the graphics for Orbital Decay. It’s from 27.01.2009!
Hello Online Safety Act. Goodbye UK?
With this flawed piece of legislation coming into effect this month, I’m currently considering geo-blocking UK from accessing my site.
Warbots – The Game That Never Was
Warbots is a game concept I was floating in 2007. Originally, it was supposed to be a hybrid between a casual game (Match-3) and a strategy game, featuring armed to the teeth robots, where matching tiles would result in the robots advancing or firing their weapons. Did the 3D modelling/texturing/rigging/rendering in Truspace 7 over the […]
The Year Of Reminiscing
I have recently open-sourced on the Piron Games GitHub most of the non-commercial projects I’ve worked on between 1992-1999 (and a few bits after, more on that later).
Fullscreen Mostly Working
Recently did some updates to WP theme JS libs (and Unity related html) and fullscreen should be working correctly for most of my games now. Cocos Creator made games, from Don’t Worry to Math Maze are working fine. Unity games (Snake Island, Last Ball and Bumper To Bumper) have been modified for improved fullscreen support. […]
Nostalgia: KStereo – A Stereograms Generator
Going though the stuff I made in the 90’s and found this stereogram generator. It was developed in 1997 in Turbo Pascal. One of my friends showed me a book of stereograms and I remember having difficulty seeing them (bad vision or maybe too good of a vision? 🙂 ). Found the maths in a […]
The Exception Inception
During handling of the above exception, another exception occured. — some random Python library Yikes.
Planet Maybe Rock
Imagine calling yourself “Planet Rock” and cutting “Comfortably Numb” short – right in middle of the guitar solo – for a commercial break.