Tom Francis

@pentadact.com

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Designer/writer/coder on Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. More on those and other things I write or do or be: https://www.pentadact.com/

A 3D bar graph where the smaller bars are closer to us, making them taller than the larger ones.
Merchant Ivory Productions is a film company founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant (1936–2005) and director James Ivory (b. 1928). Merchant and Ivory were life and business partners from 1961 until Merchant's death in 2005. During their time together, they made 44 films.
A git error message reading "fatal: you are on a branch yet to be born"
An F1 driver in a wheelie bin. (It's an ice bath but it undermines my joke to mention this)
Tweet from Katie Dippold where she's dressed as the Babadook but the party has more of a grown ups drinking wine vibe.
A glowing blue cocktail with a blue flame at Shameful Tiki Room, next to a candle in round red glass.
Restaurant bathroom. Three wooden chairs face the toilet.
My cat Jess, lying with no legs visible.
A pink recycling bin sealed with a "coming soon!" label
A screenshot in which an obviously Roman character is greeting me, and my response options include "I'm Roman and I've just come from the future. "
Tools.Wait(lifetime) StartSinking()
A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.
- The massager is shaking my view. - My brain is correcting for this - call this the Stabiliser. - The LED lights are flickering, and my brain fills in the gaps - call this the Persister. So what I think might be happening is: - The massager knocks my view up a little. - The Stabiliser moves the image down to compensate. - But the LED light is not on this frame, so there is no light to move down. - The Persister, meanwhile, remembers the light from last frame and draws it where we last saw it. - But since the rest of the image has been moved down, this is now out of alignment with the scene. The offset varies smoothly depending on where in the jostling process the light's frequency happens to be on or off, which is why different lights move in different patterns. With the single string of light that breaks into two, I think these are the same frequency but different phases. And so I'm seeing the same motion, but one circuit of lights is offset from the other.
Using a pneumatic massager for muscle pain, I was puzzled by strings of lights on an opposite building wobbling around in sync, while the rest of the view stayed static. When I turned the massager off, the wobbling stopped. If I point my camera at it and then massage the arm that is holding the phone, it replicates the effect - although IRL there's zero blurriness, which is freakier. As you can see, it's generally fairy lights that wobble while other lights don't. The most fascinating one is the square-bracket shaped lights, where the left corner wobbles in a different direction to the right corner, so that the shape breaks in two, but only while it's wobbling. Anyone know what's going on? I have to assume it's something to do with these lights having a frequency that somehow relates to the frequency of the massager jostling my eyes/phone, but that is barely less mysterious than having no clue at all.
Using a pneumatic massager for muscle pain, I was puzzled by strings of lights on an opposite building wobbling around in sync, while the rest of the view stayed static. When I turned the massager off, the wobbling stopped. If I point my camera at it and then massage the arm that is holding the phone, it replicates the effect - although IRL there's zero blurriness, which is freakier. As you can see, it's generally fairy lights that wobble while other lights don't. The most fascinating one is the square-bracket shaped lights, where the left corner wobbles in a different direction to the right corner, so that the shape breaks in two, but only while it's wobbling. Anyone know what's going on? I have to assume it's something to do with these lights having a frequency that somehow relates to the frequency of the massager jostling my eyes/phone, but that is barely less mysterious than having no clue at all.
My cat Jess, curled absurdly and sound asleep.
Sandwich board reading "the closest dentist in the world"
Screen grab of the brief view we get of the board, showing white in checkmate after only 2 moves.
Screenshot from a game called The Bazaar, showing a victory screen with my loadout, which includes a Dog and a Silencer.
My kittens Beth (black short hair) and Jess (tabby and fluffy), at arbitrary rotations.
Program listing reads: Table Talks Room 427, Sat. 3–4 p.m. Sign up to have an intimate discussion (up to six participants) with one of the creators who is participating in the room this hour. Space is limited, advance sign-up required. Shana Targosz, Cody Sisco, Diana M. Pho, T. A. Chan, Tom Francis, GregRobin Smith
Graffiti reading: "I'm so glad you exist!" With a reply beneath: "And I'm so glad you gave us this great grafito!"
A screenshot from Dune Imperium: Immortality showing a card named Chairdog. The art features a fluffy chair.
Key art for our five games
A short clip of a game prototype in which I chop a lot of cylindrical enemies in half with a battleaxe.
A speech bubble coming from the spaceship I've just blown up reads: "Adversity is the bouquet that decorates my life."
A note you find at the start of Blue Prince. It's your great uncle's will, laying out 3 rules for your inheritance that amount to 'when you fail everything will be reset'
Team photo with award. Left to right it's Steve Lee, Robert Arzola, Tom Francis, and John Winder. Sadly absent: John Roberts.
Custom arcade cabinet named RICE!! controller is a bowl with a chopstick mounted on a crank-like arm.
"Lemon, it's Tuesday."
A list of randomly generated tactical wizard class concepts, including such misfires as Wand Mage and Staff Operator.
Donut with bruleed sugar top, cracked by a bite, filled with cream.
Photo of my laptop with a Windows setup screen, displaying upside down
Store page for disc-shaped bases to put models on. Someone has crudely photoshopped a model helicopter on its side directly on top of a flat black base, as if it crashed there.
It's my cat.
Me holding my sleek black kitten, Beth.
Subtitle reads They're rotating (Dani laughs)