Release – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Wed, 13 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Restore Like Never Before: Introducing Backblaze Computer Backup v9.0 https://noise.getoto.net/2023/09/13/restore-like-never-before-introducing-backblaze-computer-backup-v9-0/ Wed, 13 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=109689 Backblaze version 9.0 features an all-new restore app and gets rid of file upload limits. Read the details here.

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]]> Things Might Look a Little Different Around Here: Technical Documentation Gets an Upgrade https://noise.getoto.net/2023/07/06/things-might-look-a-little-different-around-here-technical-documentation-gets-an-upgrade/ Thu, 06 Jul 2023 16:30:00 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=109085 Check out the new Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Documentation Portal with new docs, improved navigation, intuitive search, and more.

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]]> Announcing: Backblaze Computer Backup v8.5 https://noise.getoto.net/2022/09/20/announcing-backblaze-computer-backup-v8-5/ Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:45:42 +0000 https://www.backblaze.com/blog/?p=106768 Backblaze releases version 8.5. Read on to see what's changed.

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]]> Releasing Often Helps With Analyzing Performance Issues https://noise.getoto.net/2020/12/26/releasing-often-helps-with-analyzing-performance-issues/ Sat, 26 Dec 2020 11:33:24 +0000 https://techblog.bozho.net/?p=3346 Releasing often is a good thing. It’s cool, and helps us deliver new functionality quickly, but I want to share one positive side-effect – it helps with analyzing production performanceContinue reading

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]]> Cherry Kisses, on Steam https://noise.getoto.net/2020/12/01/cherry-kisses-on-steam/ Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:44:00 +0000 http://noise.getoto.net/?guid=7e3db48c646406cc66a4a308f0905c8e Cherry Kisses title screen, showing Cerise at a counter

🔗 Steam release
🔗 itch release

Whoops! I meant to write about this when it originally came out, in April, but never quite got around to collecting my thoughts. Here is a very rushed subset of them.

The game is extremely NSFW, but the commentary below is not.

]]> Lexy’s Labyrinth https://noise.getoto.net/2020/09/27/lexys-labyrinth/ Sun, 27 Sep 2020 02:28:00 +0000 http://noise.getoto.net/?guid=748ffca5d907571c6b80fb29a5bb6e92 Screenshot of a small tile-based puzzle with a number of different elements, taken from CCLP1

🔗 Lexy’s Labyrinth
🔗 Source code on GitHub
🔗 itch.io later

Here is Lexy’s Labyrinth, a web-based Chip’s Challenge emulator.

It’s easy to get into and mostly speaks for itself, so here is a story.

]]> Star Anise Chronicles: Oh No Wheres Twig?? https://noise.getoto.net/2020/05/11/star-anise-chronicles-oh-no-wheres-twig/ Mon, 11 May 2020 04:54:00 +0000 http://noise.getoto.net/?guid=695a902ad030f78d276201430a9faa3d Title and logo for the game

🔗 Play it on itch.io
🔗 Play it on the PICO-8 BBS (where you can also download the cart and view the source code)

(I originally drafted this just after publishing the game, but then decided to start a whole series about its development and wasn’t sure what to do with this! But it’s solid and serves a different purpose, so here it is.)

It’s been a while, but I made another PICO-8 game! It’s a little platformer with light puzzling, where you help Star Anise find his best friend Branch Commander Twig. It’s only half an hour long at worst, and it’s even playable on a phone!

This is the one-and-a-halfth entry in the Star Anise Chronicles series, which after several false starts, finally kicked off over Christmas with a… uh… interactive fiction game. Expect the series to continue with even more whiplash-inducing theme shifts.

More technical considerations will go in the “gamedev from scratch” series, but read on for some overall thoughts on the design. Both contain spoilers, of course, so I do urge you to play the game first.

]]> Advent calendar 2019 https://noise.getoto.net/2019/12/02/advent-calendar-2019/ Mon, 02 Dec 2019 03:48:00 +0000 http://noise.getoto.net/?guid=a80a6e49fafa29dba58970e442c63fb9 Calendar of things I made during December, with little screenshots

🔗 Advent calendar, with links to individual projects

Happy new year!

For December, I had the absolutely ludicrous idea to do an advent calendar, whereupon I would make and release a thing every day until Christmas.

It didn’t go quite as planned! But some pretty good stuff still came out of it.

]]> Doom text generator https://noise.getoto.net/2019/12/02/doom-text-generator/ Mon, 02 Dec 2019 03:48:00 +0000 http://noise.getoto.net/?guid=1509e92520952b0bbb5f79367c2ef6ff Screenshot of a generator with controls for the font, color, scale, and alignment

🔗 Doom text generator, locally hosted

I’ve been mad my entire life that one of these didn’t seem to exist. ZDoom can print arbitrary text, of course, but only if you fuck around writing and compiling an ACS script or whatever! There’s no console command for it! Outrageous!!!

So I finally made this. It took like ten hours, which I have to say, is fucking incredible.

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