Isolated BS: 3D tracking, Doom on EVERYTHING, and game juice

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.

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.

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!

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 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.

A wonderful, simple, directly productive introduction to core concepts: Scratch! Proud parent moments.

Apparently The Passion is getting a sequel? The wackiness of ecclesiastical minutiae. Discovering more schisms in Christianity.

1. CamTrackAR: Apple App Store
2. DecipherMedia Site Search: DecipherMedia.tv
3. You Can Now Play DOOM on a Windows 95 PC Inside Minecraft: InterestingEngineering.com
4. Game Feel: GameFeel.com
5. Vlambeer - 'The art of screenshake': YouTube
6. Game Feel: Why Your Death Animation Sucks: YouTube
7. Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share: MIT.edu