The Last Guardian doesn’t exactly run perfectly all the time, but it’s a small price to pay for a world like this.

These seem to all be real geometry. Very 3D, and not exactly low-poly. Even the skybox-looking cliff in the far horizon seemed real when I got close. Such strong presence.

Addicted to The Last Guardian. Love my catbirdgoat friend. What a stupendously good game.

The camera though… almost as bad as in Ico. Gives my wife motion sickness from just watching, which is a huge bummer. Games need to pay more attention to camera accessibility.

Thinking about tech changes I felt strongly and still remember…

B&W TV → color TV
radio → Walkman/Discman/MiniDisc
NES/Game Boy → PS1
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mobile phone
internet → IRC → MMORPGs
Macbook (the trackpad)
iPhone (multitouch)
social media
hand controllers (Switch, Oculus)
heat pump

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No idea what I’m doing but the overall shape of this glyph feels pretty neat. Maybe there’s something there if I can just redraw it with curves.

“Now draw the rest of the owl” vibes….

Neat thing I didn’t know about fonts: they use integers! Each glyph in Fontra uses a 1000x1000 canvas by default, but you can change it.

At ~16x16 it feels like a fun little puzzle. Low-poly modelling with integer positions, but the vertices are actually cubic spline control points.

Starting a side project for the first time in ages: making a font using Fontra. It’s an extensive open-source editor built around variable fonts. https://fontra.xyz

Not exactly the most intuitive app ever, but the €300 alternatives aren’t either. Fonts are hard. The first tutorial video here gives a good overview. https://docs.fontra.xyz/tutorials/

This guy makes spectacular videos on using colour, and should have more views than he does. Highly recommended for anyone who has to deal with colour, including developers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wRA-XvgFKo