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Synthesizing Martian Speech
January 12, 2024
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dukope
56
Over the course of this project, I've made three separate attempts to generate synthesized speech for the martians. Classic Speech Synthesis Before there were neural networks and machine learnings to...
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Face Generator Updates
May 19, 2023
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dukope
41
Since putting together the first playable alpha I've pivoted back to work on the procedural face generator. Original details over here . The face generator is written in Python but in a C-like style t...
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Sound Design
April 04, 2023
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dukope
33
Normally when I put together sound effects for my games, I start with samples. I'll either record these myself, dig through some collected sample libraries, or head over to freesound.org , soundsnap.c...
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Gameplay Loop
March 03, 2023
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dukope
67
I just finished a vertical slice of the game and it looks like this: Work the door to admit martians matching some criteria. Everyone makes a huge mess of the FREE refreshments, which you have to clea...
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Photoshop Exporting & Scenegraphing
November 10, 2022
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dukope
30
Mentioned briefly in the Typography post, one of my aims for this project is to streamline the process of editing something -- images in Photoshop, vectors in Illustrator, sound effects in Bitwig, etc...
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Typography
October 18, 2022
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dukope
39
After a long side-track from this project, I'm finally back on it (nearly) full time. I'd written most of this post last year but got tied up in other things before I could upload it. Mostly untied no...
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Working in One Bit
August 21, 2021
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dukope
65
Working in 1-bit for this game has been interesting. Going in, I thought my experience with Obra Dinn would let me cruise through the visuals. Typical devlog setup, so let me describe in detail how wr...
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Making Martian Faces
June 18, 2021
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dukope
59
Most of the work on this game so far has been figuring out how to make interesting-looking martians. I've been prototyping this in Python, writing a script that combines individual facial features wit...
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Mars After Midnight
June 08, 2021
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dukope
132
Hey what’s up. My next project is called Mars After Midnight and it’s a small game for Playdate. The Playdate is a lot of fun to work with -- fantastic 1-bit Sharp screen, novel crank input, simpl...
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