"Level 0" Luke Rideout

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"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· 5d

In a marvelous confluence, my birthday directly overlaps Bandcamp Friday, so - in light of the continued enshittification of commercial streaming and how nobody is allowed to own anything anymore - I bought a couple albums on the day the money goes straight to the musicians. You should too!

A screenshot of a few music albums as they appear on a Jellyfin server.

The albums, from left to right, top to bottom, are "Visions" by Muthi, "Taiga" by Kubbi, "Fragments" by Bonobo, "eat ya veggies" by bbno$, "Dark All Da"y by GUNSHIP, and "Black Halo" by Hybrid.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· 7d

In a sci-fi mood tonight. A bit of a palette cleanser after watching Alien Romulus. Really wish there was more of Scavengers Reign to enjoy, it’s such a weird and wonderful piece of art.

The title sequence for Scavengers Reign, displayed on a large flat screen TV.

The text on the screen reads SCAVENGERS REIGN, created by Joseph Bennett & Charles Huettner

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· 11d

Happy Caturday!

Maruko, a brown torbie cat, sits on a bed with a gray comforter. Her pose is human-like, with her back legs splayed out forward. Her tail pokes out forward as well, next to one stripey foreleg. Her right foreleg is slightly behind her, supporting her sitting pose.

She has a serious expression as she looks directly into the camera.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· 17d

Weekend record shop haul. Fuck yeah.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· 25d

Happy Caturday

A photograph of Maruko, Luke’s torbie cat, standing bridged over a number of books, within one tier of a bookshelf. Most of the shelves have books (and bottles), though down and right from the shelf Maruko currently occupies is a box fit snugly into one of the compartments with blankets inside, making a makeshift cat bed.

Maruko has a wide-eyed but otherwise neutral expression.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· Jul 4

The Saskatchewan looking very… brown today.

A view of the Saskatchewan River from the footbridge under the LRT tracks, looking West. The river water is an opaque, chocolate milk-brown.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· Jul 1

Happy Canada day, y'all. Have a moose. #AdventureGames #CanadaDay #GameDev

A WIP screenshot of an in-development point 'n click adventure game. The scene depicts the interior of a grimy truck stop diner with a drab, olive color scheme.

There are some human patrons to the left side of the scene sitting in booths. at center screen, there is the figure of a semi-humanoid in a trenchcoat that is actually 3 mutant possums standing on one another's shoulders. The trio stands next to a booth populated by a mutant hedgehog in a purple turtleneck and black coat, and a mutant moose-man in a green suit with an outward-facing neon "OPEN" sign behind him.

All of the mutants are wearing hats and sunglasses, which in TMNT-style cartoon logic makes them indistinguishable from normal people.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· Jun 28

Been a few not-so-productive weeks but breaking through that creative block & getting some work done again finally. Still very light on detail, but I'm just glad to finally have some stuff started for Chapter 3. Also very happy with how this walk cycle came out. #ScreenshotSaturday #AdventureGames

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· Jun 27

Ba-dum tss Exactly at the mid-point of my walk, too. Truly impeccable.

Luke standing at the head of an alleyway in Edmonton, wet from the rain, laughing because it went exactly as expected.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· Jun 24

Not much, dog, ‘sub with you?

A photo taken from outside a Subway of a poster ad for their new “Subdog”, apparently a sausage in a sub roll

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· Jun 13

Arborkkake

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· Jun 7

Finally finished crit path scripting for chapter 2, so it’s back to polishing up some backgrounds. It’s amazing what a spit shone of the floor, a little grime on the walls, and some roughing-up of foreground elements can do to spruce up a scene.

A screenshot of a WIP adventure game project. The scene is an interior of a fast-food chicken restaurant. The decor is largely beige and red.

An anthropomorphic rooster man in coveralls and a ball cap stands in the center of the room in front of a display case with a statue of a man reminiscent of Colonel Sanders inside. There is a reflection in the shiny floor below.

A man in a uniform similar to the iconic Sanders suit stands behind the cash register to the left, with another man visible through the door to the kitchen.

A customer sits in a booth to the right of the screen, holding a fried chicken leg in one hand, and a buckey of chicken in the other.

There is a large image of a cartoon rooster, also in the Sanders-esque suit, on the wall. The seat in the foreground is patched, and there is an un-bussed empty box of chicken bones on the foreground table.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· May 21

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

A screen capture of the band "Jem and the Holograms" from the 1980s cartoon of the same name. The image shows the members of the band from left to right: Aja Leith, Shana Elmsford, Jerrica Benton/Jem, Kimber Benton, and Carmen "Raya" Alonso.

The screenshot is from the episode "The Talent Search (Part 2)" where the band performs "All's Right With The World".

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· May 19

Trying to use streaming services less, and serendipitously, found a big box in an office move full of CDs my wife and I had accumulated throughout High School and University, so it's been a nostalgic weekend of archiving CDs to use with my Jellyfin server to listen at home.

A grid of CD jewel case cover images in a Jellyfin media server music archive. It has a broadly varied selection of music, including a large number of Japanese and Korean artists, like Sheena Ringo and Roller Coaster, mixed with North American artists like Primus and Jamiroquai.

There are also some video game soundtracks mixed in.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· May 17

Pretty sure this space I stumbled across on my walk today is going to be the site of an optional miniboss fight eventually. I’m going to walk past and one of the Turks will be just standing there waiting.

A paved path inside a park diverges. To the left, the path continues uphill among the trees. Directly ahead, a fence with a no trespassing sign leads into a paved open space with some low concrete walls visible on the far side.

A closer view of the open area. It is mostly open space, flat, and paved, with some electrical equipment, presumably, to the left side. It is reminiscent of many miniboss fight arenas from video games.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· May 13

久しぶりに日本語で小説が読みたくて、はるばる日本から郵送してもらってこれから村上づくし (86％春樹、14%龍)

日本から買った7冊の小説。村上春樹の「ノルウェイの森」上と下巻、「ねじまき鳥クロニクル」1〜3部、と「風の歌を聴け」と、村上龍の「限りなく透明に近いブルー」

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· May 11

It's very likely there's a more efficient way to do it, and I should revisit, but basically it copies the current character frame twice, once for the main body and once for the shadow, combines the two as a final sprite, then uses DynamicSprite.CopyTransparencyMask to trim away unwanted pixels.

A screenshot of the AGS script that generates the rimlight effect.

After defining variables, including a reference to an object that must be defined in room script, and some safety checks to avoid crashes, it gets the character's x/y position & scaling of their sprite, then creates a copy of the character's sprite, creates another copy of the sprite tinted black, applies an offset and combines the 2 images as a 3rd sprite, which it then uses a command called DynamicSprite.CopyTransparencyMask to trim away unwanted pixels.

After the final sprite is created, it cleans up the DrawingSurface, and applies the image to the shadow object that exists in the room, positioning it at the character's location.

All of this script is called in the repeatedly_execute_always event, so happens on tick to ensure that it is always mirroring the sprite. This probably also means it's a bit of a resource hog.

There are almost certainly many things wrong with the code above, but I'm a rank amateur so this is the best I could do on a first pass. Will revisit to refactor and hopefully improve later.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· May 10

My immensely talented 3D art polymath buddy and Level 0 NPCs co-Host Alex helped me really bring this scene to life. Got a little cleanup to do but so happy with how this turned out.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· May 9

I hadn't seen #PointNClickFriday before, this is delightful! So much to wishlist. I suppose I should share screenshots from my own WIP adventure game that I've been tinkering away at in AGS over the past few months. No store page or anything, not for a long time yet if ever, but just for funsies.

A screenshot of a WIP adventure game. There is an anthropomorphic mutant rooster in the center of the image, in a gas station parking lot. Behind him is a green-roofed building with a sign above it reading "Last Stop Gas Stop" (Though it could be mis-read as 'Last Gas Stop Stop' due to word placement).

The layout of the room is a direct homage to the Snuckey's locations in Lucasarts's "Sam & Max Hit the Road".

To the left side of the image, there is a red and white building labeled "Rick's Chix" with a stylized animated rooster sign above, wearing a Colonel Sanders-inspired suit, holding a chicken drumstick.

Angus (The rooster man) comments of the mascot sign "I say, downright aspirational, aside from the, uh, cannibalism".

To the left of the image is a gas pump in the foreground and the flatbed of a red pickup truck.

A screenshot of a WIP adventure game.

The scene is moodily lit, and shows the aftermath of some bloody event in a orange-canvassed wrestling ring in the background. In the foreground an anthropomorphic bear-man with a rim lighting effect stands next to a kiosk with a kiosk attendant.

To the right of the screen is a gray trailer lit from the inside. There is a mini-fridge, a doormat, and some posters visible within.

The sun is setting in the background. Clouds are under-lit in orange and yellow, with a purple sky beyond.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· May 3

Saw this and thought "Hey, I could use this!" So spent a few hours last night and this afternoon adding rim lighting as a feature to my own WIP game project. #ScreenshotSaturday

A screenshot of a point 'n click adventure game. The scene is an outdoor arena with a wrestling ring in the center, a small gray trailer lit from the inside on the right, and a kiosk to the left with a man inside.

The room is lit moodily with a dramatic sunset. A large mutant anthropomorphic bear-man stands slightly left-of-center with a rimlight effect, the upper-right edge of all of the sprite's pixels in full color, with the rest in shadow.

A screenshot of a WIP point 'n click adventure game. The scene is almost in total darkness. There is a barely visible set of stairs leading up to a slatted door, a lightbulb with a pull-string, and the dimly rim-lit silhouette of a mutant anthropomorphic rooster-man standing near center-screen.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· Apr 24

She’s so relaxed after tearing around the house and parkouring across the furniture with her tail puffed up for the preceding 10 minutes.

A close up photo of Maruko, a young torbie cat, sleeping on a fluffy white blanket.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· Apr 18

Thought I’d do the hipster indie dev thing and work on my project from a local cafe today but didn’t factor in sunlight.

A photograph of an iPad on a laquered wooden table. There is significant glare from sunlight on both the table surface and the tablet screen.

ProCreate, an art program, is on the screen, but between fingerprint smudges lit by the sunlight and the brightness of the light shining onto the screen, the screen is not satisfactorily visible.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· Mar 7

This week I spent on more UI creation, mostly building a pause menu, since the addition of Save/Load naturally flowed in that direction. Another thing I love about solo dev is that when I start to get burnt out on one thing, there are a hundred other things I still have to do. #ScreenshotSaturday

A work-in-progress screenshot of an adventure game. In the foreground is an Accessibility options menu. The options (currently) include "Cursor Highlight Assist" and "Use Inventory from Dialogue"

A text box at the bottom of the panel includes a description of "Cursor Highlight Assist" which the cursor is currently hovering over.

The text reads "Add a red highlight to the cursor when using it will progress the game" And there is a representative image to the right side of the text box showing a red-outlined "Talk" cursor hovering over a character's head.

A work-in-progress screenshot of an adventure game. In the foreground is an Audio options menu.

There are 5 sliders on the menu with icons to the left.

The first slider shows a megaphone, representing "Master Volume"

The second slider shows a musical note, representing "Music volume"

The third slider shows a speech balloon with an exclamation mark inside, representing "Speech volume"

The fourth slider shows a mushroom cloud icon, representing "Sound Effect Volume"

The fifth and final icon shows a squawking seagull, representing "Ambient volume"

At the bottom of the panel is a text box showing the word "Music" - this text box serves as a title for the slider being used/hovered.

A work-in-progress screenshot of an adventure game. In the foreground is the game's pause menu.

It includes buttons for Save, Load, Restart, Resume, Options, and Quit.

There is also a checkbox in the middle, that serves a debug function while another menu is being made to house its actual use.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· Mar 1

Another #ScreenshotSaturday upon us. Crit path scripting for chapter 1 done, I focused this week on core systems like save/load & getting more animation done, but the tablet and stylus were calling me, so also did some work on the 1st screen of chapter 2, Angus’s prologue. #Gamedev #AdventureGames

A screenshot of a work-in-progress adventure game. The majority of the screen is taken up by a Save/Load GUI panel, utilizing the popular Adventure Game Studio save game module, “Another Savegames with Screenshots”, or ASS.

The panel is heavily stylized, in classic 1980s neon colors hot pink and sky blue. There is a list of saved games on the left of the panel, and a screenshot panel to the right, with buttons labeled OK, Delete, and Cancel below.

A screenshot of a work-in-progress adventure game. The background is only partially complete, depicting a very tacky farmhouse kitchen, with the trappings of classic 1970s/80s interior decoration.

The rear walls have a yellow floral pattern, there is a mint-green refrigerator, and a yellow/orange/brown chaotically tiled linoleum floor, bordering peach-beige plush carpet.

Angus, an anthropomorphic rooster man in denim coveralls and a blue ball cap is saying “‘70s linoleum bordering peach-beige plush carpet.”

There is also a man sitting at the kitchen table reading a newspaper. The man is visually designed to invoke the man in “American Gothic”. The tablecloth is a gregarious red/white plaid pattern.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· Feb 21

Hotel lobby finished and implemented in game. With the completion of this room, crit path of Chapter 1, Beary's prologue story, is now fully playable, with the exception of a not-insignificant volume of rewrites and animation. #ScreenshotSaturday #AdventureGames #PixelArt

A work-in-progress screenshot of a retro-style adventure game.

Beary, a large brown mutant bear-man wearing jorts stands to screen left, in a tacky hotel lobby. In center-screen, a red-headed hotel clerk looks dismayed, pointing at Beary and shouting (in machine-translated Brazilian Portuguese), "Caramba, é um urso!"

The scene is framed by a hanging television monitor, a luggage rack, and the fronds of a tropical plant to tighten visual focus of the image.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· Feb 15

#ScreenshotSaturday has technically already come and gone but still getting a little work done from the couch today, working on background art in Procreate on my iPad. I’m no great artist, and it takes a long time for each piece, but they’re hand-crafted and it’s fun to build the skill.

A photograph of an iPad sitting on a gray couch cushion. The art program Procreate is active on screen, showing a work-in-progress piece of adventure game background art depicting a tacky hotel lobby.

There is a TV, luggage trolly, and plant in shadow in the foreground of the image, with a wood-paneled reception desk in the center of the screen. Some parts of the image show rough sketch blockout still.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· Feb 14

Dang.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· Feb 8

One thing I enjoy about working on a project where I set all the goals and decide what to work on and when, is that sometimes you just want to do something pointless but interesting, like building a working analog wall clock instead of something that contributes to finishing. #ScreenshotSaturday

A screenshot from an adventure game project. The image depicts the interior of a medical clinic. A sign on the wall in an adjacent room reads “Sala 2”

There is a human character in a medical chair to the left of the screen next to a blood drive poster. He appears to be unconscious.

A large anthropomorphic bear in jorts is standing in center screen, reading the accurate time from a wall clock and saying “Hmm… The clock says it’s 3:50.” The hour and minute hands are pointing at the correct points on the clock.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· Jan 30

On my way back from the gym, one of my neighbors in randomishly complimented my weight loss progress over the last year. I don’t think we’ve ever spoken before. I get it when coworkers or friends being it up having been obese for like a decade but I guess it makes an impression even on strangers.

A photo taken in the mirror in January of 2025 at 147kg (325lbs). I am wearing a black tank top and gym shorts, just beginning my exercise journey.

"Level 0" Luke Rideout@lukedrideout· Jan 26

I must be getting old. I just started renting some extra storage space in my apartment building and I’m having a grand ol’ time just building storage racks, getting plastic storage boxes, and planning out how to make the best use of all the extra space.