Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos

@azilyn

Join me, party & class mechanics sickos. My exploration/adventure JRPG will rule the night. 🌙 Night owls rise up 🌙 ~✨She/her ・ LGBTQ+✨~ Corpo dev by day ・ Gamedev by night Tired mom, but I persist. 🚫 AI bad. Human good. Professional teardown of LLMs.

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Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· 27d

Prepping my case for "don't throw LLMs at this problem" at my job. I hate my job.

A screenshot of code from a VSCode markdown file. It reads:

### Loss |
- |i LLMs are lossy
- Discarded most of the data they trained on.
- || Using an LLM for a task is double lossy.
- User translates task to human language
- |- Mid-session compaction makes it triple lossy.
- LLMs discard context mid-session.

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· 29d

Bastion is 15 years old. This was the first indie game I ever played.

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Jul 9

Do accurate alt text for a favorite game's capsule art, but make it fun to read.

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Jun 30

My "raccoon"

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Jun 22

Quite possibly my favorite cocktail I've ever had. (Gin/honey/lemon) The honey jar presentation absolutely swayed this opinion.

A gin cocktail served in a glass bear honey jar, with a straw through a sliced lemon positioned as a "lid."

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Jun 18

Happy pride! These two ladies and their kids hung out with my wife and our kids at the cove today.

A photo of 2 adult lady ducks swimming with 3 baby ducklings.

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Jun 12

I'm usually disappointed in these, but Balthier is top tier. I'm not actually Balthier by any stretch. More Ramza than anyone else in FF, but he wasn't in the list.

A screenshot of a "Discover your Soul Type" Final Fantasy fan quiz result (https://ff-resonance.vercel.app/)

My quiz result matched me as Balthier from final fantasy xii.

The full character description reads:

"You are someone whose lightness is a practiced art over something much heavier.

You choose the sky over the lab coat. You choose motion over inheritance.

The wit is real—you are divinely, delightfully clever—but it also keeps people at the right distance.

But you went back to the Bahamut.

You went back knowing what it meant, and you did not flinch.

The leading man always survives—
Not because he's invincible, but because he has decided the story isn't over yet."

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Jun 8

Well now I want an entire souls-like where we play as the OG Sword Saint.

The original artwork for Cidolfus (Thunder God) Orlandeau, from Final Fantasy Tactics. The original game named his unique class "Holy Swordsman," but later re-translations call it "Sword Saint."

Art by Akihiko Yoshida.

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Jun 3

Posting Ikumi Nakamura because the only thing I want in my feed about yesterday's show is hype for this amazing lady.

A picture of Ikumi Nakamura, head of studio UNSEEN and director of upcoming game Kemuri.

Picture is from an old e3 stage presentation.

She has a delightful smile and is making an animated stage gesture.

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Apr 7

Same! I love them so much it was one of the first things I made for mine. I'm going for something a little more BoF3 with mine, where it's a screen used semi-regularly during play.

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Apr 2

Project: Gorgon is such a trip.

A screen shot of the social restrictions settings tab in Project: Gorgon, an indie mmorpg.

Two options are currently toggled on, which read:

Be Milked:
Can other player ask to milk you (when you're in an applicable animal form)?

Hear Oration:
If other player recite poetry near you, do you hear it?

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Mar 24

"No" Image Source: drakira.artstation.com/projects/Jlx...

Fanart of the gameover screen from the Kingdom Hearts videogame series.

Credit to artist: Drakira:
https://drakira.artstation.com/projects/Jlx3Lm?album_id=2132872

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Mar 20

A quick glass door lookup for Nvidia salaries shows he's only off by a factor of 100%

A screenshot of a glassdoor salary lookup for Nvidia.

It reports several different engineer salary ranges:

Software Engineer
17,591 Salaries submitted
$231K - $347K /yr

Electronics Hardware Engineer
11,227 Salaries submitted
$200K - $291K /yr

Electronics Architect
2,082 Salaries submitted
$235K - $350K /yr

Verification Engineer
1,541 Salaries submitted
$222K - $318K /yr

Research Scientist
1,309 Salaries submitted
$278K - $413K /yr

ASIC Engineer
1,222 Salaries submitted
$202K - $275K /yr

Computer Architect
1,104 Salaries submitted
$257K - $386K /yr

Physical Design Engineer
1,009 Salaries submitted
$214K - $309K /yr

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Mar 19

DLSS5? More like DLLS '98.

Cover art for a novel from "The Animorphs" series: "The Solution."

A young woman is pictured progressively transforming into a mouse.

Cover art for a novel from "The Animorphs" series: "The Resistance."

A young man is pictured progressively transforming into a beaver.

Cover art for a novel from "The Animorphs" series: "The Discovery."

A young man is pictured progressively transforming into a cobra.

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Mar 18

Logo design Menu layout Combat game feel Animation timing Code architecture Naming things...

A "dictionary definition" style image for the word "artist", reading:

artist
noun
A person experiencing chronic decision fatigue.

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Mar 16

"I'm only rarely surprised by my bugs." May I present "the hotbar wiggle." #gamedev

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Mar 15

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula

A character portrait from Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. Major story spoilers for the game:
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The player character, Soma Cruz, has an alternate portrait in endings where he inherits the power of Dracula, but cannot control it.

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Mar 9

Happy international women's day! Found this one on the FFX subreddit today www.reddit.com/r/finalfanta...

A picture of 4 women from Final Fantasy X.

Top-left to bottom-right:
Yuna, Lulu, Rikku, Anima

It is not obvious that Anima is a woman. She is a relatively grotesque monster, and her true identity is a spoiler.

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Mar 9

Early version of this UI in action. I still have a ton of work to do in here.

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Mar 8

#ScreenshotSaturday this week is Battle UI! ✅ Turn forecast bar ✅ Active Unit actions ✅ Cross Hotbar

A screenshot of in-progress Battle UI.

Two small player sprites face down a dragon enemy. The front player unit is focused as the active unit.

Three action options fan out in front of the user as separated menus:
- Act (Right Trigger/R2 icon)
- Stock (Y button icon)
- Rest (X button icon)

Above the unit, a set of 16 hotbar slots are visible. 3 of the hotbars have action icons. The rest are slightly transparent.

At the bottom of the screen there are two more menus:

Unit Initiative Menu (left side):
Snapshots of each units head appear in a horizontal bar below the battle's ground level. The right-most snapshot indicates the currently active unit. Moving left from there, it shows all units in their forecasted turn order.

Player status menu (Right-side):
The 2 units of the player's battle party (named "Riskbreaker" and "Astrologian") have health readouts. Above a red "hp bar", text display:
Current HP / Max HP.
One of the player characters as less than 66% health, so the red hp bar is not filled completly, and the text readout of their HP is colored yellow.

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Mar 6

What are subpixels anyway?

An edit of the "Cast it into the Fire" meme.

Panel 1:
(The One Ring) - "Camera Zoom in a Pixel Art Game"

Panel 2:
(Elrond) - "All Conventional Wisdom":
"Cast it into the first! Destroy It!"

Panel 3:
(Isildur) - "Me"
"No"

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Mar 5

If the major publishers all bottom out and Nintendo emerges from another industry collapse unscathed, I think that can only mean one thing. Time for the dramatic return of their one true rival:

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Mar 5

A screen shot of a reddit post from r/SteamDeck linking to a Bloomberg article.

Headline:
"Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC - Bloomberg"

OP post body:
"This sucks, really enjoyed playing Ghosts of Tsushima"

Top comment:
"Not that surprising given they've also pulled back from PlayStation games on PlayStation"

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Mar 4

"'Things could be worse,' Nick Apostolides says." @aftermath.site always delivering on the sub-headers.

A screenshot of an Aftermath.site front page headline. The hero image is a picture of Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil 9.

The headline reads:
"Resident Evil Requiem Actor's Social Media Is Also Filled With Hot Leon Kennedy Memes"

The sub-header reads:
"'Things could be worse,' Nick Apostolides says"

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Mar 4

I'm so bad at making hot takes. I corrected someone on reddit who claimed that AI is advancing rapidly, certain it'd be contentious. Nope. 100% upvote ratio. I'll never get the hang of engagement-farming. Carefully presenting well-researched information 3-layers deep in comments doesn't do it.

Reddit stats for a comment I made on reddit. It had 14 upvotes and a 100% upvote ratio.

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Mar 2

Oh hell yeah. I got scalable headshots working for turn forecast. Because character unit appearance is composed at runtime, this one took a bit of work: - Render the unit to a headless canvas - Position headless camera - In-memory screenshot - Bind screenshot copies to UI #gamedev #indiegame

A pixel art screenshot of a work-in-progress battle scene.

The top of the image has an FFX-style "turn order" indicator that includes a screenshot of each unit's face.

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Mar 1

I've been working on so much the past several weeks without posting any screenshots. Here's a new wingaling for a late #ScreenshotSaturday

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Feb 25

This guy's name is John Hardin. Queer-ass game.

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Feb 25

The primary antagonist Sydney Losstarot. Queer-ass game.

Azilyn ✦ JRPG dev for systems sickos@azilyn· Feb 25

Ashley's official figure includes a pound of cake visible through assless leather shorts. Queer-ass game.