Shawn Taylor

Hobbyist game developer, photographer, naturalist ~ they/them

Games & experiments:

[Shawn Taylor @mapsandappsATL]

i made a cave generator for #PROCJAM 2021 https://t.co/I38tFyfhfX

[Shawn Taylor @mapsandappsATL]

Cool visualization from @sam_learner where you can see how drops of rain on opposite sides of Atlanta end up in entirely different places (Eastern Continental Divide) https://t.co/5uHWfOjM8p

[Shawn Taylor @mapsandappsATL]

at first, i shied away from hugo because it uses go instead of a framework/language that i already know. but it doesn't really matter. it's just templates. simple.

[Shawn Taylor @mapsandappsATL]

gotta say i loved the riddle game at #RoguelikeCelebration

[Shawn Taylor @mapsandappsATL]

figma plugin is coming along good

[Shawn Taylor @mapsandappsATL]

i've watched most of #RoguelikeCelebration today, and it's been pretty fun. it continues tomorrow.

[Shawn Taylor @mapsandappsATL]

Cooper's Hawk at sunrise https://t.co/cUSoiaobZE

[Shawn Taylor @mapsandappsATL]

ah yes, the classic (hopefully accurate) commit

[Shawn Taylor @mapsandappsATL]

PoC of Figma palette matcher plugin: adjusts fills to match your pre-defined color styles

[Shawn Taylor @mapsandappsATL]

i got a new lifer moth tonight! https://t.co/SwP911dvl9

[Shawn Taylor @mapsandappsATL]

labyrinths are rad. i walked this one yesterday.

[Shawn Taylor @mapsandappsATL]

Figma plugin now logs the converted color. next up: mutating the selected fill.

[Shawn Taylor @mapsandappsATL]

i guess october is plugins month for me?
now making decent progress on my first ever Figma plugin
we'll see if i publish a Figma or VSCode one first

[Shawn Taylor @mapsandappsATL]

making decent progress on my first ever VSCode extension

[Shawn Taylor @mapsandappsATL]

@BradNitzWSB From Atlanta

[Frank Lantz @flantz]

https://t.co/G2fH0kKzZV

[Shawn Taylor @mapsandappsATL]

My fave games I played in 2020 (no particular order):

Good Sudoku
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Lonely Mountains: Downhill
Fall Guys
Ordinary Puzzles
Littlewood
A Short Hike
Flipflop Solitaire

[Shawn Taylor @mapsandappsATL]

@dawnknightx @TreseBrothers Thank you! I didn't realize how many there were until I counted them for this thread!

[Raphael Richner @JGamesCh]

Flash is coming to an end.

I asked more than 20 former Flash game developers what Flash meant to them.

Here's what they said: 👇(Thread)

[Christer McFunkypants Kaitila @McFunkypants]

fake it till you make it

is about overcoming impostor syndrome... but when taken literally, may be backfire!

you'll always feel like a fake! an impostor forever.

may I suggest

own it while you hone it