Tursilion

@tursilion

Canadian, tinker, 8-bitter, you-got-it-i-code-it, SL storyteller. He/Him. Though it should be obvious nothing I say reflects my employer or anyone else but me. Primary feed:

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Tursilion@tursilion· 2d

All the sprites are in (as vectors) and the player stuff at least seems to mostly work, except for Selena being too powerful for the hardware and causing some very odd crashes. I'll talk to her about that.

Vector game WIP. It's a SECRET. I can't tell you about it yet! ;)

Tursilion@tursilion· 3d

As I need to remember to promote myself more often, things are starting to move and render properly. Next step is to make them stop looking like things... Oh boy I have a lot of work left to do.. and none of it is really the game engine. ;)

Tursilion@tursilion· 10d

A ridiculous amount of text covering meyer's personality types each with a different set of joke jobs.

Tursilion@tursilion· Jun 19

Finally visited Beauty and the Beast Disneyland Tokyo as a guest. This was the last attraction I got to touch as an Imagineer It was surreal to stand in front of the staircase again. Made me sad and nostalgic I still think I made the right choice moving home, but I never wanted to stop doing that.

Face reveal! Me in front of staircase in Tokyo at Beauty and the Beast.

Tursilion@tursilion· Jun 6

I took a pic of the set before heading out last night, cause it was insane.

Wrestling set inspired by the final scene of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Tursilion@tursilion· May 16

Aw, thanks! There's a lot of work to do, but it's so tribal knowledge level that I am not sure how to ask. Bsky doesn't allow enough characters, so I'll sneak the write up into an alt tag here... ;)

My main goal is just FINISH the story. I have transcriptions for the last two videos, though they need to be converted to code (a script can do that). Then the text needs to be cleaned up, sound effects and music assigned to frames, branching paths created (most of this effort is the labels need to be manually added to the code), and frames captured.

The primary improvement that is needed is the graphics. What's in there now was tolerable in 15 colors dithered down to 256x128, but it's pretty darn rough on a modern browser. On the TI-99 target, capturing raw frames was the ideal way, but caused a lot of compromises in cropping and editing (plus I had to do heavy contrast and color adjustments to make it look okay, and foolishly didn't save the original files). Since it's web based now, replacing the still frame system with a proper background layer, overlay sprite, and item sprites is possible and would look a ton better, but I was planning to make a second pass for that "someday". In theory it's just collecting all the backgrounds clean, then collecting all the foreground character sprites, then making a lookup table of frame index to combination. There's also the question of animation, but that is definitely beyond my patience level.

My hope was if I finished the first pass, community help might appear to take it from functional to looking good too. ;)

But even getting to the finish line, help would be nice. I'm just not sure how to split the work up!

Tursilion@tursilion· May 16

Did some updates to my web port of Phoenix Wright Turnabout Storm. Final investigation phases are complete - over three and a half hours of video converted to game. Still a fair bit to go! harmlesslion.com/phoenix/

Title picture of Phoenix Wright Turnabout Storm by HowXu showing Phoenix Wright and Twilight Sparkle, with game start options.

Tursilion@tursilion· May 3

I never made it to that one! Used to go to the Kelowna one almost every year with my grandparents. Back then there were a ton of cool attractions in Westbank, too. Old MacDonald's Farm was another one we visited a lot. And when I was very young, Adventureland. I miss those days, it's all boring now.

Fred and Barney costumes from Flintstones Bedrock Village in Kelowna, BC, Canada, sometime in the late 70s or early 80s.

Sign from Old MacDonald's Farm, a theme park in Westbank, BC, Canada, sometime in the late 70s or early 80s.

Snapshot from Adventureland in Rutland BC, Canada. Sometime in the late 60s or early 70s. Prominently shows the Time Machine, the best ride ever created*.

* - some personal bias may have been applied.

Tursilion@tursilion· Mar 26

Charming throughout. ;)

Tursilion@tursilion· Mar 18

In lieu of anything else, I added the next chapter to my HTML port of Phoenix Wright: Turnabout Storm (MLP Crossover). About halfway through the second investigation phase. You can save your game to continue as new chapters are added, so no need to wait for it to be done. harmlesslion.com/phoenix/

Title page of Phoenix Wright/MLP crossover game based on videos by PWaaMLPfim and title art by HowXu.

Tursilion@tursilion· Feb 5

@jackalcakes.bsky.social Could not reply to your original post "That's Clementine Bear, she was worn only one time around 1988-89." Is this also her? Pics I got from my very first furcon - Confurence (9, I think?) Was kind of magic seeing all the suits for the first time.

Tursilion@tursilion· Feb 4

I accidentally bought CMOS latches, and unsurprisingly, they don't work. So, have to wait for TTL to arrive. #segagenesis

Tursilion@tursilion· Feb 2

Haha! Good point! Definitely NOT apologetic!

A fierce battle between Robin, the lion king's son, and Mewmew, the son of the panther!

Tursilion@tursilion· Jan 14

Super Space Acer: GBA is now playable in the browser over at Itch.io tursilion.itch.io/super-space-... Thanks to GBA.JS :)

Super Space Acer title page in a web app GBA.JS.

Tursilion@tursilion· Jan 2

It only occurred to me today that a web game should work on phones. I've fixed the layout so the Phoenix Wright / MLP game will format properly on a vertical display. #mlp #phoenixwright #game harmlesslion.com/phoenix

Depicts Trixie mocking Phoenix and Twilight while they stand in the courtroom lounge.

Tursilion@tursilion· Dec 31

With the TI version being so niche, I've ported the engine to the web, and the Phoenix Wright / MLP crossover is playable in the browser now. It's really beta, and may have lots of bugs yet. But I played through what is done, at least. harmlesslion.com/phoenix

Shows Rainbow Dash in the court lobby looking annoyed. Text is "What's wrong with you two? I should be the one that's jumpy right now."

Full post from Mastodon:
With the TI version being so niche, I've ported the engine to the web, and the Phoenix Wright / MLP crossover is playable in the browser now.

It's really beta, and may have lots of bugs yet. But I played through what is done, at least. Music is a lot easier, since I just need to load the right MP3 instead of converting it to chiptune. And of course I can use the source images.

While the web is definitely much more capable, gonna leave it here for now, while I see about adding more scenes or not. It's done up till the first day of court still.

There is a save functionality - but it's just a single local save in browser storage... and may or may not still be buggy. If you lose your save let me know, I can help a little.

In theory I can update both now just by copying the data table across.

Tursilion@tursilion· Dec 25

I did do my annual viewing of A Hearth's Warming Tail - my fav take on A Christmas Carol, as well as Hearth's Warming Club (which always makes me a little sad as they were just starting to get into the stories of the new characters when they ended things).

Starlight Glimmer, a unicorn pony, as the antagonist/protagonist Snowfall Frost, singing about the end of Christmas as she makes off with their gifts to complete her spell to delete the holiday... and why do I get to type 2000 characters here but only 284 in the actual post? How stupid. I should just put my post in here and some ASCII art in the actual side.

Tursilion@tursilion· Sep 14

Oh yeah, I said I was going to use this one more often.. tho again the text is too short to be useful.. Didn't come out perfectly, but it was fun to make something again. I was tickled to find that the community is STILL updating NHL'94, so I put the 2025 edition on a true cart, save RAM and all.

Tursilion@tursilion· Jul 29

Seems I can't reply TO things without people assuming I'm criticizing them instead of the original article. Anyway. You think shovelware is bad now? The massive surge of low quality, AI created titles (already started!) is just going to reproduce what we saw in the 80s, but this time worldwide.

Tursilion@tursilion· Feb 25

Tursilion@tursilion· Nov 23

Post you from a different era. I couldn't decide whether to post my cowboy days, my biker days, my fisherman days or my hard rock hot rod days. ;)

Riding a pony, sitting on a motorcycle, fishing from a shore, and sitting in a Flintstone's inspired rock car.

Tursilion@tursilion· Nov 15

Any character? I have had this pic on my walls for the last... many years anyway. Not sure how many. Hmm. Do I have any friends you didn't tag? Well, who won't kill me for tagging? Haha, let's see... @keihound.bsky.social @vantid.bsky.social @sanssouci.bsky.social @amynewblue.bsky.social

Nightmare Moon, a black winged unicorn from My Little Pony, wearing armor and standing in front of a night sky with her wings spread wide. Art originally by nemesis360.

Sorry for tagging. I wanted an excuse to post ponies. ;)

Tursilion@tursilion· Sep 1

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theatre as a kid. Was the first one I saw by myself.

Fox and the Hound scene - Copper the hound splashing Todd the fox as they play in the water.

Tursilion@tursilion· Jun 16

Last day of #CanadaGameCon. New build of Cool Herders to see if it helps the battery. 5 minutes to open. Jolteon mans the booth when I step away ;)

Tursilion@tursilion· Dec 24

Shared my favorite version of Christmas Carol yesterday with a new friend, and it remains my one Christmas tradition. ;) #mylittlepony

Starlight as Scrooge analog Snowfall Frost: "A spirit!? I didn't cast any spirit summoning spell. What are YOU doing here?"
Applejack as Ghost of Christmas Past: "You don't think a spell like that would get by without some powerful forces noticing? You've got our attention, Snowfall Frost."

Tursilion@tursilion· Dec 3

All known bugs in Super Space Acer are resolved. Now I just need to play through all the modes in normal and F18A modes and look for anything else weird. ;) Mastodon post is longer. ;) furries.club/@tursilion/1...

Tursilion@tursilion· Oct 30

We worked pretty hard on this one. Slam-O-Ween 3 debuts in just over half an hour with 5 classic slasher themed matches. Starts at 5pm Pacific - stream will be on Youtube so no need to get into SL: www.youtube.com/@UnitedFurry...

Tursilion@tursilion· Oct 17

The back of a Krusty the Clown doll showing the "good/evil switch" set to evil.

Tursilion@tursilion· Aug 24

I feel called out. Source: Chris Hallbeck on Facebook.