Yearly Archives: 2024

Multitile Actors, Revisited

By Kyzrati | Published: September 3, 2024

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Full UI Upscaling, Part 5: Completion and Demos

By Kyzrati | Published: February 23, 2024

They’re alive! Last month I shared a sizeable collection of interface mockups summarizing my vision for a playable Cogmind interface that could fit within a 45-row terminal. Those mockups are now a reality, fully implemented more or less as described, and in the time since I’ve even gone further down that path and implemented the […]

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Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 5: QoL

By Kyzrati | Published: February 11, 2024

Map zooming again! Although I finished off the final bits of the core map zooming feature, that series went quiet when I turned my attention to planning and preparation for the upscaled UI, essentially due to my belief that once the latter is implemented, map zooming wouldn’t be as necessary in the first place. But […]

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Full UI Upscaling, Part 4: Simpler Lightweight Fonts

By Kyzrati | Published: January 19, 2024

So we’ve developed the theories, we’ve got mockups, we’ve got the necessary architecture… surely it’s time to start building the new UI layout, yeah? Not so fast! It’s true we could start now, but on the horizon I could already see the increasing usefulness of another supporting feature, and decided it was a good opportunity […]

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Full UI Upscaling, Part 3: Dynamic Terminal Swapping

By Kyzrati | Published: January 12, 2024

I was really happy to have come up with workable concept for a modal inventory, as well as producing a mass of mockups with proven solutions for all the potential hurdles on the road to dropping 15 rows from Cogmind’s interface. Or so I thought. Suddenly at the end of that process, a review of […]

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Anonymous on Hacking, the InterfaceCY-PHR sounds like such a troll of a bot, and it probably be very annoying (in a good way) as well as dangerous
Kyzrati on Hacking, the InterfaceGood point, and a good reminder from this now-ancient article :) Obviously never took that direction in the regular game, but yep ...
y0un65t3r on Hacking, the InterfaceSome of these unused hacking risks would make epic CY-PHR mechanics!
Kyzrati on Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 2: Engine-level ArchitectureUm, yeah, complete overhaul so not something that would ever happen for that reason alone (unnecessary now), although just as impo...
Kyzrati on A Simple Approach to Player-Designed RobotsYeah it's turned out quite well! (and we've been having a lot of fun with these things even outside the game, as you can see...
Kyzrati on Fog of WarYeah it's a pretty old post at this point, and I remember that was a fun article but they must've changed their link structure, or...

Yearly Archives: 2024

Multitile Actors, Revisited

Full UI Upscaling, Part 5: Completion and Demos

Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 5: QoL

Full UI Upscaling, Part 4: Simpler Lightweight Fonts

Full UI Upscaling, Part 3: Dynamic Terminal Swapping

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