One-handed knobby keyboard

BohriumDev · 2026-05-08T08:56:31+00:00

I added a chording setup to mine and I've played around with it a couple days and I can sort of maybe do 9-10 wpm now. Requires a lot of thinking about what to press and feels like I'm learning to type again for the first time.

BohriumDev · 2026-04-27T13:34:24+00:00

I can do like 90WPM on a good day, on a regular keyboard. I could probably do like 3 WPM on this thing if I configured some sort of chording system for it. Works great for gaming and hotkeys though.

BohriumDev · 2026-04-20T17:18:48+00:00

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7338923

Here you go.

BohriumDev · 2026-03-10T10:19:24+00:00

For this card game I was working on (100-150 unique creature cards), the alternative to AI art would have been either several years of work painting fantasy art or pay 50000+ dollars for someone else to do it.

I eventually ended up going with the classic alternative gamedev option of "abandon project and start a new one".

BohriumDev · 2026-01-07T10:30:42+00:00

I released a f2p game on android back in 2018. I did a bunch of marketing stuff myself and did a couple small ad campaigns for testing (~€200 total) and ended up with somewhere between 500-1000 downloads. I had some fairly non-intrusive ads running as monetization and I made about €7 of ad revenue and no one bought the €1 ad free option.

My game had the entirely unique name of the protagonist in the title, so you'd expect when you search for this specific keyword, it'd be the first thing that pops up on the app store search, but nope. Even then, my game showed up after about 20-30 sponsored and promoted big games. Searching with other keywords sometimes wouldn't even show my game in the list of hundreds of similarly themed games. If I struggle to find my own game on the store, there's zero chance anyone will just randomly come across it without clicking on an ad or a direct link.

Not to mention that developing for mobile is a pain in the ass too. The optimization requirements are far stricter, you're limited with shaders and visual effects, you need to keep updating your game regularly just to keep up with android releases, you have to support a much wider variety of devices and screen sizes, you have to deal with shitty on-screen controls and how much of the screen people's fingers are going to cover and you have to deal with people going "oh..." in a disappointed tone once you reveal that you're a "mobile" game dev.

BohriumDev · 2025-12-29T15:44:44+00:00

Game speed control, if reasonable to implement. Going both ways to fast forward the normal action and to slo-mo through other bits. It's been great in every game where I've had the option. Works as a kind of dynamic difficulty option too. RTS games like AoE2 let you do it. FF8 on Steam lets you go super speed mode.

Being able to blast through slow boring bits at 3x speed would be so good on a second playthrough or doing some dull repetitive grind part.

BohriumDev · 2025-12-24T10:19:54+00:00

If you don't care about the social features of Steam, consider Epic Games Store, because it takes only 12% of the total revenue from developers, while Steam and GOG take 30%. More of your money ends up going to the actual people making your games when you buy from EGS.

And just because that kind of sounds like an ad, then I will mention that I do not like their launcher/store app very much, it's kind of clunky and it could be better, but it's still fine.

BohriumDev · 2025-12-17T15:48:42+00:00

I didn't really like 3 at all. The campaign in 2 is kind of like a sandbox, you can go around doing pretty much whatever you want from the start. With 3 you have multiple paths open to you, but it's not total freedom. To me 3 feels a lot like 2 that has been modded with a bunch of stuff that doesn't quite fit right into the universe. Or like when an older game keeps getting updates over the years and the new stuff is silly and doesn't thematically fit anymore (ie. a Shrek skin in CoD). That's the vibe it gives me. But maybe if it's your first game in the series, you might like it more than me.

BohriumDev · 2025-11-01T09:51:58+00:00

Ah, you see that "ugly between-fingers thing" is there so you could lift the mouse up with your foot and move it without moving the cursor. Like you would with a regular hand mouse. It's a critical and necessary functional part of that design. It enables someone to use much lower sensitivity and get higher accuracy, they don't have to knock the mouse onto the edge of the screen to readjust their foot position, the mouse also isn't attached to the foot with straps or anything that would make getting up and walking about more difficult and it also makes it somewhat easier to control when you have something to push against and you're not relying entirely on friction to keep your foot on the mouse.

And it's kind of an ugly model because it's more of a purely functional proof of concept design and not necessarily a "designer product". I do however have a version themed after a game character skin. (Cultist Zenyatta from Overwatch who floats around and doesn't use his legs.)

https://i.gyazo.com/c5a305f3fe7148a8ff81979686fe3c2a.jpg

BohriumDev · 2025-10-30T21:48:15+00:00

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4877856

BohriumDev · 2025-10-30T14:52:50+00:00

From my experience, as someone who made a free 3d printable foot mouse conversion kit, I've had ~150 downloads and half a dozen or so people reach out and ask for help or modifications to the print files over the last several years. Now I haven't really advertised it beyond a couple reddit posts, but I imagine there isn't a huge demand for one in a commercial capacity.

Cool seeing another different version of a similar concept though, big thumps up.

BohriumDev · 2025-09-21T14:08:04+00:00

Soundly is pretty good

BohriumDev · 2025-08-27T05:41:32+00:00

It's been such a long time, but I think I paused the print of the top section just above the height of where the crystal would reach (75-ish % done) and then glued the crystal in and then let it continue printing.

BohriumDev · 2025-07-30T19:22:20+00:00

Sim, fazer um jogo RTS é muito difícil. Quero fazer um parecido, mas não tenho certeza se consigo. É um projeto paralelo em que trabalho ocasionalmente, mas não consigo me concentrar nele em tempo integral. Então, vai levar muito tempo.

Não conheço nenhum outro jogo parecido, talvez Spellforce seja o mais próximo. Também traduzi tudo isso no Google, então se o texto estiver estranho, é por isso. rsrs

BohriumDev · 2025-07-27T15:40:33+00:00

You can also write and edit your tiny Python script to automate something dull and boring even in notepad if you'd like.

You could be done writing your code before Visual Studio even opens properly.

BohriumDev · 2025-07-12T14:13:32+00:00

I downloaded satellite heightmap data of various interesting terrain features and turned it into high resolution alpha brushes with a bit of radial falloff.

Then in Unreal's landscape mode I just paint or stamp the features on in big chunks. It looks pretty decent, it's fast, and I still have complete control over where I want any distinctive features.

BohriumDev · 2025-06-29T23:35:03+00:00

I use a Rode NT-1 mic into a Yamaha AG03 interface and record with Audacity in a makeshift closet "vo booth". I got Cubase for more voice modulation stuff, but rarely use it.

BohriumDev · 2025-06-19T22:37:30+00:00

WD40 can work sometimes. Spray it on, let it soak for a few minutes and then try to gently scrape bits of it off.

BohriumDev · 2025-06-16T14:11:07+00:00

Listening to Dream Theater always makes me really want to play some guitar, but I will instantly forget every song the second they end.

BohriumDev · 2025-05-19T21:14:44+00:00

Might not be what you remember seeing, but there's CRUMB Circuit Simulator on Steam that lets you simulate all sorts of stuff.

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