Zack Mulgrew

Human man. Programmer by day... and also by night. Working on a top-secret SNES-inspired platform game.

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@AxiomVerge have you seen “Super Metroid: Axiom”? It looks… awesome? https://t.co/QoI3r6Qfe6

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I just spent the last hour+ debugging a test failure. The root cause was a single space. That was fun…

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@stefanpenner BuT hOw ElSe WiLl I gEt 100% CoDe CoVeRaGe??!?!

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@LeCassette I’ve been anticipating this for so long! Excited to see you’re still creating. I was worried there was nothing left but silence…

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@gabrielcsapo Grogu did not help.

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@DaveRapoza LET ME SHOW YOU SOMETHING!

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I removed a single feature from a product I work on that clocked in just under 30,000 lines of code. Satisfying diff.

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@gabrielcsapo I imagine it would be slightly better than an old Tiger Electronics game but only black and white.

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Just got back from the @bit_brigade show. They played the Castlevania and Mega Man 2 sounds tracks in full. Totally awesome.

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Someone recently asked me to describe what “good” code looked like. I think this tweet says what I was trying to say but couldn’t articulate nearly as well.

[Marco Rogers @polotek]

I'm gonna try to make another statement without judgment. But I think it's hard to do so and I expect people to be in their feels.

A lot of devs don't have a phase where they get their code "production-ready". As soon as they get something "working", they ship it as-is.

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@stefanpenner Pretty good. I got a bunch of stuff done, went for a walk, took my kid to the park. Not bad for a Monday.

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Just ordered a new laptop from Framework. I will install hipster Linux on it. This is either a great idea for boosting my game dev productivity, or an expensive procrastination.

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@AxiomVerge Random AV lore question. Spoiler alert.

In AV2 when Indra is stuck in drone form, was she tricked into using the GateBreaker on herself? If yes, is that the same kind of device that was used on Katrahaska?

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@BotEquippedWith Story of my life…

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@not_runspired Too real.

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@PirateHearts Thanks for the explanation — it’s very helpful. I’ve attempted something similar in the past and had mixed results, especially in cases where there are multiple possible intersecting lines (e.g. at the top of a ramp connected to a flat plane). Maybe I’ll give it another shot.

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@PirateHearts Can you share any details about the ramp collision response implementation? Every time I’ve done it there have been issues where the object gets stuck or tunnels through. It’s like a recurring theme of failure for me :(

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@tssf I really like those NSFs. They’re great! I think they’re actually my first introduction to your music.

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@nathanhammond It’s 1 warmer.

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@jesseleite85 “Accidental”.