Notices by Sophie 🎲🧩🏳️‍⚧️ (sophie@dice.camp)

I wonder if I can find peace by changing my name to NOREPLY

If you’re looking for an excuse to roll some dice, I’m looking for folks to playtest my game Dice the Demiurge!

There’s a discord link in the following post if you’re interested

(I’m pretty sure the only reason we quit telling those facts was because they were overshadowed by the real fact that the guy was a humongous asshole. AFAIK not even close to a problem with Neo. LFG!)

Omfg I just realised something amazing and I genuinely think it can change the world for the better:

Chuck Norris facts can be told as Keanu Reeves facts.

Ok so here’s something everyone should be aware of:

Computer mice are facing you.
The wire is the mouse’s tail, right?

That means those things you push down on aren’t buttons,

they’re buttocks.

LMB= Left Mouse Buttock
RMB = Right Mouse Buttock

I've been meaning to make an updated version of this for a while so here it is, every numerically-balanced d20 layout!

Feel free to share, especially with any dice makers you think may be interested!

There is a more detailed explanation video by @henryseg for The Dice Lab (which use layout C, if you're curious!) https://youtu.be/Nh2H_4g6evc

#dice #ttrpg #DnD

ADHD!?

Ha!

Could an ADHD person do… THIS?!

*does nothing at all and is really frustrated about it*

Fun fact: paper forms have no validation requirements before submission.

This still isn't exactly correct but there isn't space for an essay.

So yeah, since I finished the vector editor I've been remaking lemmings in #picotron as a little hobby project.

It's nice to potter away at something that can't possibly become a work project, but I still get sucked in as if it was... so today is the last day I work at it seriously.

As of rn I have all the mechanics working (except metal and one-way surfaces) and 3 of the early levels.

Amazing FF7 trivia:

In the intro Barret swings his arm to beckon cloud off the train, I remember this gesture being in time to the music - but no modern version of the game has the timing right.

I was starting to think that maybe I was misremembering it after 2X years, but since I recently got a PSX again I put my CD in and checked...

Barret is fucking CONDUCTING the BOMBING MISSION!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEr_OUhfMS0

Saw that my epicycle clock was getting noticed a bit again, so I finally took the time to make it use vector graphics - you can zoom in and it still looks good!

https://sophiehoulden.com/randomstuff/epitime/

Fun bonus: Animated time offsets, watch it go spinny!

I have a bunch of bills starting to close in, but I also have a bunch of things on sale so maybe you’d like to help me out! ❤️

A bundle on itch (6 games + my dice app, $9.69)
https://itch.io/s/97696/itchio-summer-sale

My steam developer page (no bundle but everything is discounted):
https://store.steampowered.com/developer/SophieH

You can also support me on patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/SophieHoulden

If you enjoy things like this, consider supporting me on patreon!

I'm currently working on an epicycle art app, and a super in-depth jigsaw puzzle app!
https://www.patreon.com/SophieHoulden

quick evening update: 24 hour mode, and also a seconds cycle (it does not improve readability! :P)

https://sophiehoulden.com/randomstuff/epitime/

Why hasn't anybody made an epicycle clock yet? (yes there are clocks with epicyclic mechanisms, but I mean the display!)

For your consideration, one with just an hour and a minute epicycle, and also one with a seconds epicycle just for fun.

Honestly, I think this would be easier to read than a traditional clock.

What's that? Figuring out a mechanism so each hand spins at the end of the previous one? Eh, not my problem :p

I guess the only downside is the minutes in the middle of each hour will feel like they are going slower since the end of the hand isn't moving as fast?

honestly though who cares about those minutes? I want HD time at the start and end of the hour!

Okay, I have a working prototype (which spent way too long to make, why am I coding on an iPad???)

I have quickly realised that the hour markers are not in the wrong place because of a bug, I just misunderstood how the thing would work.

I’ll look into a fix tomorrow but for now (as you can see), it’s late. I need sleep.

Okay I couldn’t sleep so I just solved the issue. Rotation needs to be based on ‘parent’ epicycle rotations, which is not really a behaviour of epicycles usually but whatever, this makes a cool clock. I’ll fix it up with numbers tomorrow and share it.

I did it! I made an epicycle clock!

Check your loopy time here:
https://sophiehoulden.com/randomstuff/epitime/