Green Lightning | programming, game design and robotics

Hi! I'm a software developer interested in programming, game design and robotics. Please have a look at the different categories below, or read more about me here!

Seeking ever more usable surface area in my storage room, I set out to build an extension for the shoe rack that was already in place. My hobby woodworking adventures are documented in the following. But first I shall spoil...

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Digital Art

Plot Party November 2021

Two weeks ago I took part in Plot Party, which is a pen plotting art challenge (sort of like a game jam for pen plotter art). I posted a lot on social media, so I thought it would be good...

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Programming

Improving Inkscape Startup Time

While Inkscape is a great vector editor, its startup performance on Windows is terrible, often taking 5 seconds or more to open an empty window on my computer. Investigating the application startup seemed like a fun project to get familiar...

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Games

Factorio: Train Balancer

I describe a train balancing circuit that guides trains to where the resources are needed the most.

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Minecraft

Green Lightning 1.4 – The Double Update!

There's a new update for my Minecraft resource pack. This update covers Minecraft 1.9 as well as Minecraft 1.10 and includes Boats, Beetroots, Redstone, Purpur Blocks, Magma Blocks and more!

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Game Development

LD34 Results!

The results for Ludum Dare 34 are here! I'm 141st out of 1638 jam entries in the fun category. Look at how well my game scored in the other categories here.

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