Ethan Crawford

@northwardface

I'm a software developer whose interests also include music, AI and robotics.

Joined January 2018

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Ethan Crawford @northwardface Feb 18, 2022

I haven't played No Man's Sky for nearly 3 years (or any other game either, until recently). However, its latest update reminds me of all the fun stuff I feel they keep adding to the game, so I'm thinking of getting back into it!
youtu.be/HEJfPZPTYRA
How should I do this?

Start fresh? 2
Pick up where I left off?

Final results

Ethan Crawford @northwardface Jan 7, 2022

An interesting question for all video game enthusiasts...🤔

Mark West-Sooby @Mark_WestSooby Jan 7, 2022

I don’t know if video games can, in their fundamental essence — vis a vis gameplay mechanics — be seen as art or whether they’re just media that contains art (such as visual art, music, narrative). Can the core gameplay mechanics of games really be seen as art?
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Ethan Crawford @northwardface Dec 27, 2021

I might attempt to hack a feature into @Sonic_Pi (at least in my own dev build) so that if you make a function that layers several synths, (not using Supercollider language), you can play it with the synth function as normal (including autocompletion).

Ethan Crawford @northwardface Oct 12, 2021

Is there anybody out there who has (or knows someone who has) experience with @wixtoolset, that might be willing to help us make @Sonic_Pi's install location customisable on Windows? We have github.com/sonic-pi-net/s… but I have not been able to get it to work so far...

github.com Windows MSI installer: make install directory configurable by SunderB · Pull Request #2791 ·... (Hopefully) allows the user to choose the installation directory instead of always installing in Program Files. Closes issue #2782 and discussion #2774 I'm not familiar with WIX or how it w...

Ethan Crawford @northwardface Sep 28, 2021

Over the next little while, I will be doing several things to work towards making it easier for interested people to help to improve @Sonic_Pi.
Small things to begin with, but every little bit helps!