Zacharyejohnson

Twisted Metal 2, PlayStation (1996)

The whole point of MAGA is corruption. Gutting the IRS creates hundreds of billions in corruption for the wealthy.

DOGE cuts will increase the deficit.

Drool of the Killer is a creepy and charming hand-drawn horror adventure where you go for a swim in a haunted swimming pool called TAMMY!

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Candles Update 26: Kyle’s Guitar

So I have the shade up and running. But for the shade to fulfill its purpose, I need notes: musical notes. So I hopped into Apple’s Garage Band and I tried to grab some notes.

Shhh–this is a secret, but there’s a chord we’re focused on. The notes are F, C, C#, and G#. I used to play this chord in high school, having no idea that it was an actual “thing”, or that I would reuse it for the basis of a puzzle 20 years later.

But for Kyle’s Guitar, I need more than these four notes. For this to be a “puzzle”, there must be “wrong answers”. I’ve decided to include every guitar note for all six strings within the first 5 frets. Not including playing a string open, that’s 30 notes…well, something like 12 notes in 3 different octaves…whatever.

I played every note in Garage Band and exported. As I was editing the audio to include one note per track, I remember that guitars break the tuning pattern between G and B strings–so there’s some note sharing. I think I’ve set it correctly. We’ll see…

Next step–make a playable guitar. My writer suggested using an interface. Since I had a guitar 3d model available, I opted to use that.

First, I duplicated the in-scene model and childed it to the player. I start the game with it deactivated so that it may be activated later. The model I downloaded had to be blown up to 1.5x size to be “realistic”. But because the guitar cannot get too close to the camera without clipping, I had to blow it up to 4x to sufficiently fill the screen.

To “pick up” the guitar, I’ve set a new check for the tag “Guitar”, and I can make the call in PickThingsUp:

Then in my guitar script (which is actually on the player):

Looks like I need to delete that PickThingsUp reference…

Here, I grab the necessary scripts. You can see the two functions to “pick up” and “put down” the guitar. All pretty straight forward–but I ran into a weird bug. In the if statement, I found that when holding the guitar, if tried to put it down…it uh, didn’t work. I’m not sure why this is happening, but since I’m using the same button to pick up the guitar and put it down, I thought I’d make sure to never allow the two actions in a single frame. The script was working fine previously, but the next day not so much. This seems to fix it. Next, I’ll be trying to build a canvas-based UI that lets the player click on notes…and we’ll see how well I’ve picked out notes for the game.

Driver: You Are the Wheelman, PlayStation (1999)

Resident Evil 2, PlayStation (1998)

Birth of Biohazard

Behind the Scenes of バイオハザード / Resident Evil (1996)

Why not advocate for 3rd party bullshit? If you vote blue no matter who then they have no reason to meet your requests. Maybe pursuing ranked choice voting would help?

““The Democratic Party brand is at its lowest in two generations. Do you recover from that by voting for a very destructive budget that does violence to all the values and people you claim to protect?” said Raj Goyle, a former Kansas lawmaker and Democratic strategist. “It makes no sense.””

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Angry Donors and Protests: Democrats Think Chuck Schumer Has Set Them Up to ‘Lose Fast’

To be clear: I am not advocating for some third party bullshit. I’m advocating to elect and empower more AOC Democrats than Fetterman and Schumer “Democrats”.

What in the blazes?!

Firegirl is a beautifully animated 2.5D firefighting action platformer where you battle blazes & save lives!

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Castle on the Coast is a charming old school 3D platforming adventure with a parkouring giraffe!

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