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IsaacScript: It Only Gets Worse

Or, as an alternative title, "how the number 2.4MB slowly drove me insane".

IsaacScript in 2022 - has it gotten better?

Modding Featured

IsaacScript in 2022 - has it gotten better?

I feel like it's only right for me to revisit this tool once more, half a year since my last post on it.

A bunch of Minecraft cosmetics shown off. There's a little popup that says that "everything" can be bought for 0.00 USD.

Piracy Featured

Reverse-engineering Essential, for the cosmetics' sake

Reversing a pretentious so-called "essential" Minecraft mod to get $4.99 cat ears for free, for everyone.

Metatables - the best (and worst) Lua feature

Please note that a very small portion of this 10 minute article is spent actually explaining metatables.

Dealing with raw image data - a guide to losing your mind using Figura

Dealing with raw image data - a guide to losing your mind using Figura

Don't give Jill a Lua API and networking access. Only cursed nonsense will come out of that.

Many warnings about potential loss of data when doing filesystem-related stuff overlaid on top of each-other.

My adventures in LUKS disk encryption

I will one day learn that living life on the edge with no backups is a bad idea, but until then..

That time I worked on an Isaac DDLC mod

Game Development

That time I worked on an Isaac DDLC mod

To celebrate said Binding of Isaac mod releasing, I decided it'd be fun to go over the history of how I started working on the mod, how development of the mod went, and insights into how the Isaac modding API sucks balls.

IsaacScript, and why it sucks

You may have heard people in the Isaac modding scene use IsaacScript, a TypeScript drop-in for Isaac modding. But what is it exactly, and is it any good, or is it just a meme?

How to smash a polygon into pieces, quick and dirty

Game Development

How to smash a polygon into pieces, quick and dirty

Smashing polygons into smaller polygon pieces with a quick, memorable and efficient algorithm!

On the left is a sheet comprised of many ease functions and their graphs. On the right is 2 lines of code and a single graph.

Game Development

The easy and memorable solution to easing

If you've ever written any sort of UX/UI component, you'll likely have encountered the problem of easing - making things move in a nice-looking way. So, here's my idea. I've used this method in a few games and UIs and it works really well.

A terminal display. In the background is a ASCII-fied plasma shader.

How I overengineered a stream overlay

What I realized was, the shader design of running code for every single pixel of an image isn't only applicable when your GPU allows you to do it.

This image is described in more detail fruther down in the article.

You wouldn't create a tool to download cars

Listen, I know it might sound like the post title is unrelated at first, but stay with me here...

What is a blog? A miserable pile of CMS

Hi. If you're reading this, then I've successfully proven my point in the title.