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@dougftw.bsky.social

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Dad • Gamer • Geek • noob I'm building a video game and talking about the process. I do not tolerate intolerance. Current Focus: https://rebrand.ly/escape-now

A beautiful water view inside Central Park, NYC
A view of Bryant Park in New York City, from the 18th floor. The ice skating ring up!
Google "wired controller" and see what color is it thinks you would like. Mine are orange, blacks and purples.
two ducks sitting on a fountain
Dudley (A mini goldendoodle) is comfy in bed. Eyes closed and totally content.
My buddy Dudley, enjoys the morning by looking out the window. Dudley's a miniature goldendoodle, but not a tiny one. He's about 40 lb.
Derek Huffman, an American who moved his family to Russia to escape what he called "woke" America, has been sent to the front in Ukraine. Initially promised a non-combat role, he received minimal training in Russian and is now in active duty. His wife says, “He’s been thrown to the wolves.”
A screenshot of a post on Twitter x wherein the poster complains that since launching their SaaS product, and people realizing it was built with cursor... Weird. Malicious things have been happening on the platform and they have no idea how to fix it.
The "You Win" screen in Balatro. This was my first ever win. I used the red deck, on white stakes.
A screenshot of Godot's asset inspector showing the 3D terrain base I made in blender.
A collection of 4 screenshot showing the new version of my hospital as it currently looks in blender. Light tan color with a steel blue trim, 5 floors, an L shape, and a "tower" on the roof that holds the hospital sign.
An image of me, with my profile pic over my face, sitting at the desk in the Oval Office... In the people's House museum
A screenshot of blender of what I think may end up being a cool stylized hospital. It's not textured yet, but I think I like the shape. It's an L shaped building with huge roof-style overhangs on the top of the 1st & 4th floors
An in-game screen from the game "Test Drive", published by Accolade in 1987. I played this game on the Tandy 1000 PC sold at Radio Shack.
screenshot collection showing the two building models I made in blender working in Godot. Both Day and night time shots of each.
Screenshot from Github Desktop showing my last commit as 27 days ago.
Picture of the whiteboard app on the door of the fridge. The title says 2025 so far. Underneath 32 columns one for good the other bad. And the good column it says " found the whiteboard app" in the bad column it says, "Trump"
Side by side comparison of a real building & cutesy low-poly version I did in blender. More detail work than normal, but I enjoyed the process.
At last a screenshot of a building that uses the fancy window I learned to make yesterday. It's not styled yet, but the model is done.
A reference photo showing a cute building with retail on the street level and apartments upstairs that jut out over the sidewalk. Next to it is a blender model I made of one of the apartment sections.
Screenshot from blender showing a fancy window made by following a YT tutorial. It has a rounded top and two side door window panels below that.
A screen shot of a 3D model I made in blender that resembles a brownstone apartment building from NYC.
A screen shot showing a 3d model of a triangle building. The corners of the ledges bug me, but it’s otherwise pretty cool. I’m slowly starting to enjoy my time in blender.
A screen shot showing a side by side comparison of two 3D buildings being faded out. Mine looks consistently faded, but a Kenney building has some faces not begin faded at all.
A screenshot from the Godot IDE showing my blender building rendered appropriately and all lit up! Apparently the normals have been fixed!
A screen shot showing a building I made in blender. Lots of extruding was done. But it resulted in a cool building with no messy interior faces.
3 screenshots of blender showing the model, the interior faces, and menu option that won't select them.
A screenshot of the Godot IDE showing the Enter function of my game's "GameOver" state. The Commented line says: #TODO: Here because the playtest menus skip straight from pause to another scene and I can't unpause the pause during the pause because it's paused. Hopefully I'll be smarter after the playtest
Screenshot of the Godot IDE settings sceen. In: General > Display > Window There's a stretch category. The mode has an option for "canvas_items"
A screen shot of the Godot IDE showing where to click to hide the output panel.
A collection of 4 building made in Kenney's Asset Forge. Three sky scrapers and a cute little building I'm calling the Yacht Club.
Screenshot from the Godot game editor showing a 3D scene with a new fancy curved building. The thin pill shaped building is 7 stories tall and comes equipped with night time lighting.
Screen shot showing the meshlib settings and the collision shape reference.
Warning messages in the IDE that say things like: core/io/resource_format_binary.cpp:1083 - res://Assets/MeshLibraries/roads_set1_e.meshlib: In external resource #2, invalid UID: uid://dw4h63yojgptb - using text path instead: res://Assets/MapAssets/Streets/Binary_Collisions/bend_rd_collision.shape
A screenshot of a checkbox in the editor (while editing the Godot State Charts plugin node) that says "Track in Editor"
A pic of my dog Dudley (a mini-golden-doodle) wearing 2025 glasses.
Search results giving the following definition: In a geological context, crenulation or crenulation cleavage is a fabric formed in metamorphic rocks such as phyllite, schist and some gneiss by two or more stress directions causing the formation of the superimposed foliations.,
A screenshot showing the message that my Steamworks signup process is complete.
My Steam Replay Data showing 282 achievements, 44 played game, and a 17 day play streak. All well above the median. The title says: OK. I MAY HAVE A SLIGHT COMMITMENT PROBLEM.
The "Choose between 2 buttons" meme. Button 1 says "Work on high priority items and bug fixes". Button 2 says "Watch a YouTube video on traffic light logic".
A screenshot showing an Amazon notification stating that my shopping history indicates I might like... A large gold diamond encrusted dollar sign pendant necklace on a gold chain.
A working Godot Import thanks to the awesome Bskyers who replied with help!
Four screenshots showing a very nice looking model in blender that suddenly looks like shit the moment you try to export it.
Video showing the car hit a traffic cone with satisfying results.
Short video of my prototype game showing the car bouncing a traffic cone around. Until it glitches out and disappears.
quick video showing a traffic cone in game being hit by a car. It didn't fly off, or bounce around. It jiggled. It glitched. It disappeared.
My Codecks.io screenshot proving I was kinda productive today.
My current hand in the Codecks project mgmt app. It's full of bugs! Code bugs. I gotta go fix `em
A screenshot that shows a car drifting down a city street at night. Taillights, headlights, and building lights make the scene pop.
screen shot showing the brick much better aligned when wrapped around the 3D building.
In game screenshot showing a building with bring going in every possible direction.
Screenshot from Godot showing a styled building with some of the windows a different color.
A screenshot of my Godot scene showing Kenney's street models working in a GridMap and styled with a Atlas Texture
side by side screenshots showing that the duplication of model textures is no more.
A screenshot of the Godot file System inspector showing multiple copies of the same large image.
A screenshot from Blender showing one of Kenney's Roads but with an HD Texture Atlas applied.