torcado

@torcado.com

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hi i make games and websites torcado.com torcado.itch.io

I think it's unfortunate that search engines have gotten so much worse, googling used to be a genuine skill. To be clear about my stance, I have no interest in policing others, this is entirely personal. I don't want to tell you how to feel about using ai. I love learning, and I love spending time learning. Part of that is appreciating who I'm learning from (even in small ways, like a forum user I'll see the name of one time). I would rather click through a dozen web pages of humans sharing their knowledge than read some generated aggregate of their words, even if that means getting the answer ten times as slowly. (not only out of principal, it's likely I'll come across surrounding info that may be helpful in other contexts, but that's not the point). I admit that my position is maybe unreasonable to people. Using ai for learning has its own problems (veracity of info, etc.), but the biggest imo is the danger in how easy it is to close the gap between learning and implementing. "ai taught me how to write an outline shader, so I put it right in". If any stage in that process feels gross to you, why not prevent it altogether by abstaining from the start.
A screenshot snippet of the linked blog post, showing part of the collision checking process
Oeuf-themed goodies including several egg-based stickers, a thank you note, and an egg origami instruction sheet and result
a snippet of a large single-image puzzle called Loopmaker
most recently, a flight i booked was delayed for hours and eventually canceled after my friends already left me to the airport. next earliest flight was 4 days later, united help was frustratingly unhelpful and ultimately transferred me to a delta flight in the morning. fine whatever, ill get a hotel. however i had checked my luggage for the delta flight. asked baggage help to call it for me, they said "it's coming" after asking about 4 different times over the span of 4 hours, me just standing there waiting. eventually i gave up and left to get a hotel without any fresh clothes or toiletries. shuttle area was packed with people and busses coming in and out. every single shuttle for the hotel i booked filled immediately before i had any chance to get on. there were no lines, and im too timid to push my way through. this was like 9 hours after my original flight, it got so late that i wouldnt have time to do anything at the hotel. so i just went back through security and tried to sleep in a corner for the remaining hours. (and after i got home, getting my luggage was another several day ordeal. very fun)
a video demo showing perspect, a figma plugin that makes perspective warps of vectors.
baby steps gameplay, getting on top of a precarious wooden structure
ghost bird is in the rat king dungeon and finds a lovely cake. upon picking it up, a 27 turns into a 28. ghost bird does a happy dance and leaves soon after
scattered planets above a saturn-like planet
A video showing Rat King, a roguelike where you play two runs at once. two rats crawl dungeons on either side of the screen, attacking enemies and picking up coins and buying items.
A video demo of Rat King, a broughlike showing two rats on side-by-side boards crawling individual dungeons, attacking enemies, and collecting loot.
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A blue ball in a tall tower bounces between a paddle and bricks, breaking them to ascend. the ball falls several layers, hits glass, then opens an upgrade tree menu.
"Windowkill Anniversary - Steam Deck Verified". Smiley with a party hat and balloons are shown in the background.