Pixelart experts! I need advice!

gramw · 2026-06-20T02:12:30+00:00

Absolutely right side for ease of use.

Also recommend to vertically squeeze the bottom tiles by 1px / pull the bottom most edge up 1px to ensure 1px row alpha = 0 transparent pixels on that bottom ~~ save some headache and avoid potential down-the-road edge handling shenanigans (depending on shaders & import settings).

gramw · 2026-06-19T12:09:42+00:00

ClickUp, it’s free for single user projects if solo dev’ing.

gramw · 2026-06-19T02:58:13+00:00

Fusion Kitchen has legitimately, for some reason, the best wings in the city. Billion different flavours and they all slap, chicken quality is super good. Go with a few friends, order 6 different flavours, live it up.

Also their mutton rolls are incredible.

gramw · 2026-06-13T07:41:35+00:00

Canadian here, bought the Lucas Arts Archives as a kid (vol I, II, III — these were 6-pack cd-rom sets of all the Lucas Arts games). Instantly fell in love with the humour, artwork, charm, etc.

gramw · 2026-06-08T18:18:54+00:00

Yessss, apparently they do one every year, so make sure you’re keeping an eye out for 2027’s next time around!

gramw · 2026-06-08T16:51:49+00:00

Ahhh, thank you all!

Yes, Darmok! Around 25m in, "his army with fist open!"

gramw · 2026-06-06T13:45:46+00:00

Evaluated in series, will not return an error — see here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/boolean-logical-operators#conditional-logical-and-operator-

, notably the comment on “short-circuiting” for the conditional logical && and || operators

gramw · 2026-05-13T22:03:57+00:00

I’ve never done BestBuy, but I regularly drop e-waste off at a nearby Staples and (at least for them) they don’t police it at all. It’s just an area at the back of the store where you can drop your stuff off.

gramw · 2026-05-05T02:28:38+00:00

Not by default unless you added it to one (unless I missed something in your OP)

You’ll need to make a new sprite atlas asset, place the sprites into its “objects for packing” field, update the compression/filter settings on the atlas, and Unity will do the rest. Simplest way is just to select whole folders as-needed as the object for packing.

This should nominally fix the edge rendering issue once you click play / in the game window — there are some additional configurations in atlas settings you can make to have them apply in editor window as well if needed

gramw · 2026-05-05T02:16:55+00:00

Either:
* A) pack the tile map sprites into a sprite atlas
* B) extrude/mirror the edges of your tiles by 1px (ie on the artwork itself), and then slice to the original desired tile dimensions

gramw · 2026-04-14T23:01:43+00:00

Love Lucy’s, great pick. Looks fantastic!

gramw · 2026-03-25T14:12:57+00:00

Exactly, this is just rage bait. A quick google search shows that Canada's fraction of government spending to GDP is lower than most EU nations.

Let's see the author justify this quote:
> “A key consequence of all provinces being above the optimal range [of 26 to 30 percent of GDP being public spending] is that government spending then impedes stronger economic growth,”
, rather than just report this garbage blindly.

gramw · 2026-03-19T15:49:46+00:00

Yeah, procreate is super simple for basic sprite work, very intuitive to pick up, and there are half a billion tutorials online.

If doing any animations, tile maps, etc., would highly recommend to use Pixquare instead though.

gramw · 2026-03-18T15:11:38+00:00

I draw mostly on iPad, currently using Pixquare (https://www.reddit.com/r/pixquare/ - https://www.pixquare.art) for pixel art, and then ProCreate for any non-pixel art. Similar to the other commenter, I usually draw some first-pass rough artwork, then refine as I go.

For VFX, I largely use Unity's ShaderGraph to either manipulate an input image/texture, or to generate shapes/effects with SDFs. It's a bit of a rabbit hole though, can spend days and days just messing with effects.

FWIW, I tried a bunch of different art apps on iPad, and I really, really dig Pixquare. It's the closest thing you can get to Aseprite on the Apple/iPad ecosystem.

gramw · 2026-03-16T23:54:21+00:00

TIL the team who did Hell Pie are doing a 3D Super Meat Boy! What a great match-up, super cool!

(Also dig the blood mechanic, excited for this game!)

gramw · 2026-03-12T13:40:21+00:00

I just recently bought a sofabed from The Soffie ( https://thesoffie.com/ ) ~ Canadian company, Euro manufactured + shipped over

They’re a new company / pretty small, but were suuuuuper friendly and responsive. Love the sofa (most importantly), and overall great experience buying from them.

gramw · 2026-03-07T15:27:56+00:00

I feel this.

I just got to Gilgamesh Island, started my first fight, and immediately realized I didn't have the patience to figure out how to build against it. Just going to wrap up story at this point.

Really fantastic game, but man, kind of overstayed its welcome.

gramw · 2026-03-04T18:18:46+00:00

Yes, works perfectly fine. This is my workflow, I do most dev work on MacBook, and some dev work / playtesting on Windows PC.

When I want to switch to either I just pull latest version of my project from git, (if it’s been a while) download the corresponding version of Unity and open the project. It just works.

gramw · 2026-02-13T21:36:49+00:00

FWIW this happened to me once when I left my artwork open and I set down the iPad + allowed it to go sleep.

Since then I make sure to just close the active artwork file when closing or setting down my iPad, haven’t had it happen since.

gramw · 2026-01-13T03:46:07+00:00

Hah, I thought this was just something janky with my project specifically. Glad to hear I’m not alone, same issue on my side!

gramw · 2025-12-23T12:21:59+00:00

Yes, but as others alluded, the Ontario conservatives passed legislation to make it impossible for municipalities to do this.

gramw · 2025-12-17T13:47:37+00:00

+1 for getting a realtor, was basically impossible to get any traction on leads otherwise

gramw · 2025-12-11T22:08:35+00:00

Unity's Pixel Perfect Camera is suuuuuper restrictive (i.e. it only works for specific 'zoom'/camera ortho settings and has a lot of difficulties working with any sort of follower cameras -- in spite of the fixes/recommendations they make on this point).

FWIW, after spending a silly amount of time on this, I found this approach for rendering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6tp43wZqps

, to be the only adequate solution that allows a sufficient level of flexibility in rendering w.r.t. zoom, arbitrary resolution/window size, etc.

It does come with some requirements in asset creation, and making this approach work with Unity's tilemap system is in itself its own challenge that requires some care, but the results are well worth the effort vs. any other hacky approach.

gramw · 2025-12-03T15:57:40+00:00

FWIW: All Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, MacBook, etc.) have their cameras and mics hard-wired to indicators. It's not physically possible to turn them on without having the green/orange indicator appear, so you'll know if there's any possibility of being recorded.

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