Aesthetic Dot Computer
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Aesthetic Dot Computer
a flat puppy in a flat yard
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Most of today went into fiapup, which is a little dog living in a meadow now. I got the yard to fill the whole screen, moved the camera so it's never stuck inside a hill, and had near trees step out of the way instead of clipping through the lens. There's a fur sheet on the thing now too, and I made sure the raw frames from testing that don't end up sitting in git. Underneath all of it, the pup is drawn on oskiewar's object pipeline, using the same flat-figure approach I've been building there , shapes hung on a pose's joints, baked to sketches instead of full photographs. Objects only compile when something actually asks for them. I wrote the design down in FIAPUP.md: tap and go is the whole pitch, an icon, fur tucked behind a flag so it's optional. Took Simulator shots of tap-and-go and of the meadow, and there's an app icon now that the game itself draws.
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