Nifflas

@nifflas.bsky.social

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Game developer and adaptive music specialist nifflas.itch.io

A wet dog in the rain at a cafe. She doesn't look super bothered by it tho.
Strange and weird visual glitches and effects, many of them based on cellular automation. Cuts of my modular synthesis and the plasma voice module making electric sparks in a gas tube. There are some short cuts where you can make out it's a 2D platform game with a dog and a scary orb
A close-up of Rhythm Doggo's main menu. Three items are visible, File A, File B, and File C. The first file says "Story Mode" while the other two says "Empty"
A cute dog, surrounded by circular swirly pattern
My modular synthesizer rack, consisting of a pico voice, pico vco2, plasma voice, wasp filter, airstreamer 4, a stereo mixer, VCA, ring modulator, pico DSP, timiszoara, two spring reverbs and a theremin module
A 2D platform game with a hovering orb doing an electric attack. A dog is running on the ground which spawns cellular automation patterns that visually have a techno feel to them
A 2D platform game, with a dog in a small room with some grass on the floor, and a door in the background
My modular eurorack synthesizer, consisting of a pico voice, pico vco2, plasma voice, wasp filter, airstreamer, a-138s mixer, a-130-2 vca, rides in the storm xdr ring modulator, pico dsp, xaoc timiszoara, two springs reverbs and a theremin module. Under a Minibrute 2S can also be seen (an analog synth). They're patched together with a lot of cables.
Video: The first half shows my adaptive music software, and the second shows a clip from the game where a dog is exploring a dark cave.
An actogram of the time of the day I work, on average shifting forward between 30 minutes and 1 hour every day.
A text saying "this is the sound it made" moving and bouncing around on the screen in sync with the sound, nothing else is present in the video
A man walks into a game arcade and finds an arcade machine saying "Rhythm Doggo", inserts a coin and gets transformed into a dog and enters the machine. Then there's gameplay footage of Rhythm Doggo where a dog is platforming to obstacles synchronized to the music
Photo of very neato outdoors cafe on the countryside, lots of plants and green. No humans in frame but my dog is sitting there
A zoomed in clip from my game's main menu, pixelated wobbly text saying words like "Quality, flashing patterns, language". There's also a wobbly but non-pixelated text saying "Fallback Renderer"
The video shows a simulation of Conway's Game of Life (looks like pixelated cells moving around and evolving)
A cute dog chilling on a carpet in a cafe looking forward me wondering what I'm up to
The post itself mostly describe the picture. It's a cell phone photo of my computer screen, where the googly eyes cover the dog's eyes in the painting shown on the monitor. The dog looks very silly that way
The final result! A photo of a dandelion with a fluffy dog's face
Screenshot of Krita, with a photo of a dandelion. A second layer is being toggled on and off, with a white fluffy dog that appears over it, like its face is about to be photoshopped into the dandelion
A photo manipulated version of Gävlebocken with the head of a dog, this time blended better than in the last image
A screenshot of Krita, which has a document open of a photoshop of Gävlebocken, the world's largest straw goat. A layer on top is being toggled on and off, with a dog's face layered over the goat.
A VCV Rack patch where a midi to CV device controls an envelope, which controls microphone volume
A screenshot of code in Visual Studio. For 40 lines it goes on like this (this is a shortened version): Ruff ruff = bowWow.BarkRuff("Bark bark ruff woof WOOF WOOF woof woof woof woof!"); CultureInfo barkBarkBarkBarkBark = new BarkBarkCulture("Waff");
My 2D game Rhythm Doggo, a dog is standing in a world of gloomy metal and plants. The screen is shaking, so is the background, but the background is not shaking the same way the rest of the screen is, which looks weird
My 2D platformer game Rhythm Doggo. A dog is running around in a field of flowers in a gloomy 2D world. The screen is shaking, a LOT. It's so disorienting
A screenshot of LDtk, editing my 2D platformer Rhythm Doggo. The level can be seen, and to the right, various nodes connected together in a network of connections. Comments say things like "Enter Trap Zone" and "Initiate Betrayal"
A screenshot of VCV Rack, a patch with lots of virtual cables between lots of different devices. Looks a bit like spaghetti
Video footage from my phone. A magpie is annoying a cat and trying to peck its tail. The cat looks mildly annoyed. My dog is very excited that this is taking place
Photo of decoration for stairs outdoors. It's a big stone sphere at the side of the stairs
Dog in a park, lying in grass, tongue out, black and fluffy
Some red small sheds, trees and green grass. And snow. It's snowing on it all.
A patch in VCV Rack. Lots of modules connected together with virtual cables
My game, Rhythm Doggo, a 2D platformer. A dog is standing in a dark smoky world, and the screen is shaking really fast
2d platformer game, a lot of robots are running around in a room, as well as a few dogs. In the background, red patterns are morphing that looks almost like writing in an unknown language
2D platformer game with a dog. There is grass and flowers, and patterns emerge out of the grass upwards, with pixels falling down from the pattern. A bit difficult to explain because it's very abstract. The name "weeping trees" describes it best
A custom cellular automation tool that generates weird animated patterns. This pattern creates abstract shapes that wobbles around, while creating raindrop-like shapes that goes downwards
Dogs and robots running around in a 2D platform game. Suddenly, nonsense glitches shows up covering most of the screen
A sample browser, navigating a folder structure and playing robot sounds when the mouse hover over various buttons
A modular rack, mounted above a Minibrute 2S, containing the following modules: Pico Voice, Pivo VCO2, Plasma Voice, Wasp Filter, Airstreamer 4, Mini Stereo Mixer, Dual VCA, XDR Ring Modulator, Pico DSP, Timiszoara, two Doepfer spring reverbs, and a Doepfer theremin Lots of cables are plugged into the synth
A MS Paint pie chart labeled "my version control commit descriptions". About 38% has the description "Neato" and 48% "Workadorka", then there's 4% labeled "Gibberish" and the final 1% says "thoughtful description of what I actually committed to the repo" Note: I'm too lazy to check if the percentages add up to 100%
A bit of C# code, which handles a mysterious orb. There's an early return if the orb has vanished, and the word "return" is marked in pink
2D platformer game footage. A dog standing among flowers, grasshoppers and bats in a moody place. The dog is barking and trying to play with the critters. Cellular automation stuff is also happening on the screen
A video of my music software being used. Modules connect to each other and send music messages. Then, I draw a face on one of the modules.
A screenshot of VCV Rack, audio input modules on the left, audio output modules on the right, and audio going from left to right. The patch is set up to do what the post describes.
A MS Paint drawing. On the left side, a math teacher pointing with a stick on a blackboard with math. On the right, a summoning circle and the devil is in the center
A webcam filming electric sparks from my Gamechanger Plasma Voice rack module
My dog, Hotdog, facing the camera, looking like she's operating a Minibrute 2S
My dog, Hotdog, standing outdoors in a snowy landscape. Small fluffy and cute.
There is no image in the video, only the sound of my dog barking
A modular rack, where the Plasma Voice module is generating sound. A xenon filled gas tube makes sounds as it sparks, and above the tube is googly eyes, making it look like a face. The following text appears in sync with its "voice" I put googly eyes on my plasma voice. That's the entire video. But wishlist Rhythm Doggo on Steam :)
Video footage of a modular rack, a Plasma Voice is generating the talk audio and visible electrical sparks can be seen. The following text appears: This is a sound design test for my game, Rhythm Doggo It is the only videogame that can transform the player into a dog Wishlist it on Steam 🐶 Or else 🐶
A orb in a 2D platformer with a weird cellular automation pattern as an eye, and spherical particle patterns rotate around it
A modular rack with a Plasma Voice, two Pico voices, a wasp filter, an airstreamer envelope, two spring reverbs, a VCA and a stereo mixer
The picture of the optical illusion. A ruler is photoshopped into the picture, and the text "Otherwise" is written on the ruler
A part of my level in the LDtk level editor, with a node system where nodes are connected through arrows
A strange cellular automation algorithm that's drawing strange animated abstract pixelated shapes and patterns
My weird cellular automation software, pixel graphics of an animated abstract circuit board-like shape with wires growing. It looks bonkers
A strange cellular automation animation tool with lots of weird buttons and controls. Pixelated patterns that resemble something like a church window / rain combo animates in the background
Conway's Game of Life animated on the walls in my 2D platform game Rhythm Doggo