Decipher SciFi: the show about how and why
Isolated BS: 3D tracking, Doom on EVERYTHING, and game juice
3D tracking
Removing the manual work of 3d tracking in video production. CamTrackAR. Smartphone camera software processing innovations. Making creative tools more widely available. Grousing about Adobe’s overwhelming market-share and user-hostile subscription model. Hoping for a shift.
Weather AI
Dark Sky, the honestly best of all weather apps, was bought by Apple and have shut down their Android app. It is a sad day. Open government weather data APIs enabling innovation. Machine learning weather models. Hyper-local extrapolation and push notifications. Weather forecasting/reporting as a demonstration of probabilities.
Website search
We took the bullet for our website visitors and implemented a site search on DecipherMedia.tv in JavaScript! The result: we still do not enjoy JavaScript. But we do have search! Future functionality improvements. Here is our internal documentation. And a reminder that our whole site is open source and available on GitLab!
Doom on everything
Our continuing fascination in seeing Doom on more things. And the less it makes sense, the better! Doom on Windows 95 in Minecraft, because why not.
Game feel
Game feel the book. Creating a satisfying input/response loop when all you’re really doing is mashing buttons. Vlambeer on mobile game “juice.” The relative difficulty of providing good “feel” on mobile games with a uniformly smooth display as an input device. Putting overtime into the design of basic repetitive game mechanics, e.g. Mario or God of War. New frontiers in game feel.
Game programming for kids
A wonderful, simple, directly productive introduction to core concepts: Scratch! Proud parent moments.
Jesus news
Apparently The Passion is getting a sequel? The wackiness of ecclesiastical minutiae. Discovering more schisms in Christianity.
CamTrackAR: Apple App Store
DecipherMedia Site Search: DecipherMedia.tv
You Can Now Play DOOM on a Windows 95 PC Inside Minecraft: InterestingEngineering.com
Game Feel: GameFeel.com
Vlambeer - 'The art of screenshake': YouTube
Game Feel: Why Your Death Animation Sucks: YouTube
Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share: MIT.edu
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