Alastair Toft @alastair@mastodon.gamedev.place

Happy holidays 😊
I wrote a little blog post about the C++ #gamedev project I've been working on: https://www.atoft.dev/posts/2020/12/27/what-is-freeplanet/

Finally gave my website a bit of an update, including the last game that I worked on: https://www.atoft.dev/

Trying out procedural volume textures to get seamless texturing across a terrain. Landed directly in the early nineties.

Also love the increasingly ominous messages

Reinstalling Windows 10 on a family PC for the last 5+ hours, makes me wonder what it can possibly be doing for so long...

I wrote up a blog post of the stuff I've tried with the @PINE64 #PinePhone so far. Excited to do more with it 😊 https://www.atoft.dev/posts/2020/07/26/getting-started-with-a-linux-smartphone/

After much frustration with wrapping everything in Rc and RefCell I did manage to get something kind of working

Finally spending some more time messing around with #gtk and #rust. No prizes for guessing what it does 😛

Tooting from Tootle on #Pinephone

This was a pretty fun video https://youtu.be/4N-YcVclaUI

For example, it was as easy as on desktop to add the Syncthing repository and get my files syncing across

#Mobian is closer to what I want from "Linux on mobile". The UI is a bit choppy compared to Ubuntu Touch, but having full access to ARM Debian packages is great

Do any of the big music streaming services provide an API that's not deprecated or totally broken? I'll drop Spotify in a second if I can get support for open source clients.

Not had too much time to try it so far, but UBPorts is pretty nice. The UI and the web browser are impressive. It's a bit locked down out of the box though, I'd like to be able to install normal packages without jumping through hoops.