loren schmidt

images, words, games, and other digital art. she / they. please support my work on patreon:

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

in case anyone missed it: the Hole Digging Game 1.0.1 is now out! it's a slow, gentle, goalless game intended to invite curiosity and reflection, featuring procedurally generated visuals + sound.

as of today, there's a mac version thanks to @sh0vemedia! https://t.co/lOD8ERx4ss

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

i feel like text mode roguelikes are could learn so much from ZZT flower field color work!

(also more people should use ⧯⧱⧲
(from Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B))

[Worlds of ZZT @worldsofzzt]

https://t.co/66dVtxp5ed
“Demon Attack” by JAM1013 (1996)
Published by: BladeWare
[XPLODE.ZZT] - “ed”
https://t.co/4bJUvjzkRk

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

a truth about humans is that they can be coerced to run in smaller circuits, smaller and smaller, until all their travels are confined to a circle a hand's breadth across and they believe they have no choices at all.

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

@heliofractal happy birthday! i can't wait to see what you're concocting. i have a vested interest because it has flowers and you can ride a horse(?)

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

some little warriors inspired by the Bayeux tapestry

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

wow this text generation bug goes hard

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

@vrnvctss thank you

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

working on new sprites for undead characters. left is a sepulchral crawler, which is a (mostly) noncombat unit. right are three designs for the sepulchral "spider", a sort of arthropoid unit well-suited for clambering quickly through tunnels.

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

@AbysmalDweller there's something really appealing to me about Angband variants! even if they're kind of too excited about hard counters.

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

an /extremely/ promising start in poschengband cut short by a high level unique which spawned in town, two missed firebolts in a row, and me being too stingy to teleport (monster had 0% health)

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

@AbysmalDweller oh i mean the rainbows were on purpose, there's just a calibration error haha

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

depth magnitude error

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

@AbysmalDweller yes! i got ships working recently, i'm excited to get to the part where you can actually see them at the player scale.

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

some recent work on sea and land travel on the world sim level

#screenshotsaturday

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

some recent work on sea and land travel on the world sim level

#screenshotsaturday

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

@steadydrift thank you!

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

@AbysmalDweller thank you so much! it's one of the types of art i love doing most.

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

seeding the houses of republican lawmakers with slime mold with 79454 biological sexes for the edification of the masses

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

working on new sprites for undead characters. left is a sepulchral crawler, which is a (mostly) noncombat unit. right are three designs for the sepulchral "spider", a sort of arthropoid unit well-suited for clambering quickly through tunnels.

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

some more work on sepulchral crawlers and "spiders", which i might call "striders"

also a [turret / assembler], (top), which is a stationary unit often serving as a turret, but which you can socket other spells into: it can deploy a bridge, light a room, buff you, plant flowers.

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

@travisberry thank you, that's kind. i'm here less since the takeover- i'm very active on blue sky. i really should be posting here more often though!

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

@SilentPrayerCG i like it but it almost never sticks for me unless i'm applying it regularly over a period of time! it really is neat to learn though

[loren schmidt @lorenschmidt]

synopsis post:

recently i've been working on a rendering prototype. it's a Wolfenstein style fan raycaster.

it has:
displacement mapped walls
terrain raycaster floors (entirely different tech, but texture matched).
(angle constrained) real time shadows