Loren Crain

@bluehexagons.com

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End of Blackjack is coming soon. Generalist developer: low-level, web, games, graphics, servers. Available for freelance work. https://linktr.ee/bluehexagons Antistatic dev | Photographer | SSBM Yoshi (Terral)

A screenshot of End of Blackjack, showing the USB-style ports on the board. Not used in gameplay, but felt necessary to include.
A photo of a lizard swimming in an aquarium
A photo of some little red jellyfish in an aquarium
A fish in an aquarium with a hexagon pattern on its side
A Steam review for Antistatic: "i genuinely don't know how i figured out about this game, and how i managed to play it for 25 hours (probably left it on in accident), but i'm probably one of the only people in the world who are still aware of this games existence. pretty fun game, especially with friends, and feels pretty nice to control."
A macro photo of a yellow horse fly's front legs and feet. It has funny toes.
The initial commit for the Don't Starve Food Guide was on Jan 31, 2013. 71 files changed (a lot of images from the game), 1,512 lines added.
A screenshot of the latest version of the Don't Starve Food Guide, showing the Chinese machine translation.
A screenshot of KDE Plasma on CachyOS, where the mouse has been shaken for quite some time. Plasma has a feature to help find your mouse cursor by enlarging it when you shake it, and continuing to shake will continue to grow the mouse cursor.
Clearsky screenshot showing me on the "Star Wars Haters" list, with this description: People who whine about “bAd wRitiNg” or “woke”, act like their opinions about media are somehow objective, or post negative and antagonistic comments replying to people enjoying the franchise. Acolyte or sequel trilogy disparagers in general.
A macro photograph of a honeybee on a flower.
An older screenshot of the Discovery page, showing the same ingredients as the newer example in the parent post.
Side-by-side light and dark mode screenshots of my Don't Starve Food Guide after the visual update
A macro photo of the underside of the fluffy part of dandelion seeds still attached to the dandelion, while it's still in the process of transforming. They look sort of like a forest of tiny flowers with long, slender stems, and feathers instead of petals.
A macro photo of a honeybee on a dandelion flower
Another house finch(?), this one with a seed showing in its open mouth
A photo of a house finch's wings and down from behind.
A house finch (?) standing on a signpost viewed from behind, looking back at the viewer
A bird taking a seed from a birdfeeder, mouth open
A photo of a bird hanging onto the side of a glass birdfeeder, looking at the birdseed inside.
A cute bird shaking off, viewed from behind.
The new End of Blackjack logo, which is a bit more dynamic and less gross-yellow than the original. Made by hand in Inkscape.
A yellow Yoshi uses a lot of dunks into down-B on a helpless Fox in Super Smash Bros Melee
A small portable HDMI monitor mounted to the lid of a cardboard box plugged into a running Raspberry Pi 4 inside of the box. A ball mouse and old keyboard are plugged in.
Lucy is my adopted cattle dog. She loves laying in the sun and coming up with grand ideas. Right now, she's working on a constitutional amendment to abolish the presidency.
A macro photograph of a roly poly I took a few years ago
A yellow fly of the dismal swamp (Diachlorus ferrugatus) unconvincingly pretending to be dead, probably so that I would stop following it around
A prototype of a card design for End of Blackjack, featuring a transparent back with components inside
Mantis God, a 1 HP card that deals 1 damage in a three-way split. From Inscryption, a fascinating deck builder.
End of Blackjack's reveal trailer, edited using DaVinci Resolve's free version. The audio is an ocean recording provided to the public domain (CC0) by Wolfgang Saus, also used as in-game ambience.
End of Blackjack by bluehexagons. Wishlist on Steam. Also coming to itch.io
A screenshot showing a 501MB file selected next to Discord's max 500 MB file size error message.
Phone photo of a mantidfly. It is not closely related to a praying mantis, despite the resemblance. I think of it like carcinization, but for the mantis form.
A photo of a Phob GameCube controller build, using spare and third-party parts. The right stick was 3D printed and felt awful. The clear shell and yellow buttons were cheap third-party options. The donor controller had T2 stickboxes, but I think I upgraded them to T3s later. The D-pad and Z buttons had random different tactile switches to see what fit.
Top: Google Maps photo of some railing along a wharf with a seagull perched on a concrete corner slab. Bottom: My photo when I visited this wharf. There's a seagull in the exact same spot.
The mantis holding a feed worm. "For me??"
A photo of the mantis held in hand.
A photo of my long-deceased pet Chinese mantis during its life.
Kelp in a tidepool, along rocks, with mussels and whatnot
A close-up photo of an ocean tidepool on the California coast. There is a beautiful blue and green sea anemone under some barnacle-encrusted cover. Taken on an Android phone.
A short clip of Super Smash Bros. Melee. My Yoshi (yellow) vs a Sheik on unranked online play. An unlikely sequence from forward tilt, to egg toss, to grounded Yoshi bomb.
A close-up photo of a small, yellow sunflower, taken on a Pixel.
A screenshot of a drive with a yet-undiagnosed technical problem. This was my working drive for my photography, and the only place I'd saved most of the final edits. I don't think there's much else lost if it can't be recovered.
A macro photo of an orb weaver spider on a tan-white stone. Some mossy stuff is in the background, too.
A (robber?) fly on a thick, braided metal (steel?) cable (cord?).
A macro photo of an arrowhead orbweaver spider. Visible are four center eyes in a square shape, and two side eyes.
An orb weaver spider making the journey across some carpet. Is that a staple?
A macro photo of the back of a jumping spider's head, with its two hind-most eyes visible.
A macro photo of a cool flower
A portrait of Lucy, sternly looking into the camera.
A macro photo of a red ant. This one is outside.
A macro photo of an ant opening its mandibles at the viewer, in front of the pupae pile.
A macro photo of some ants that stayed in my home during a weather event. There are many adult ants moving pupae around in a large pile.
A macro photo of a wing of a diachlorus ferrugatus, the biting yellow horse fly of the dismal swamp. They desire flesh, and will happily extract it from humans. Their wings are not directly used for this operation, but do assist it greatly.
A top-down macro photo of a millipede crawling across sand, focused on its head. It's leaning slightly to its left.
A dialog box with only close and OK buttons, that reads: You do not have a valid subscription for this server. Please visit www.proxmox.com to get a list of available options.
Close-up of a red and yellow sunflower, taken with a phone camera in natural lighting
A macro photo of a brown recluse spider's face, showing its three pairs of eyes.
A macro photograph of a Carolina mantis next to a screw embedded in a white-painted wooden beam.
A screenshot of Blender's "View" menu, accessed by default on my system by holding the ` (backtick/tilde) key.