https://al2f.codeberg.page/ Recent content on al2f's website Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 01 May 2026 18:21:59 +0930 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/pixelmania-2026/ Fri, 01 May 2026 18:06:00 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/pixelmania-2026/ Pixelmania 2026 Artworks Created as part of Artindi’s Pixelmania challenge, for 2026. The goal is to make one artwork per day(or every day that you are able to), given the following themes and optional constraints. Ask for permission before uploading or using. See the Contact section of the home page. This year I decided to base all of my artworks on the two games I am currently working on: The 3D JRPG, and the untitled puzzle platformer. https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/comic/1/ Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/comic/1/ BIOS Updates Resized to 1500x1060. View original (3508x2480) Transcript: A comic in 8 panels. A laptop open with a window displaying power options: Shut Down, Restart and Log Out. The “Restart” option selected. A medium shot with the back of the laptop, a person, and a door to the toilet. Person: “Alright, should be done when I get back” 2 minutes later The person has returned. A close up shot of the laptop and a black screen. https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/almanac-of-assorted-atypical-programming-languages/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/almanac-of-assorted-atypical-programming-languages/ There are certain features that are almost expected to be in a programming language these days - numbers, characters, strings, mathematical operations, objects. For people who grew up programming in python(or worse, javascript), any non-object-oriented programming language will feel unusual and strange. While I have included some functional programming languages, they are not the main focus. Here, I mostly document programming languages which require a really unusual approach to how you structure algorithms and organize your data. https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/2025_12_12_trine/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:25:00 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/2025_12_12_trine/ I recently played through Trine Enchanted Edition - an interesting action platformer with puzzle elements. Here are some sketches of most of the main characters. Zoya the Thief in the Ruins of the Perished Resized to 800x1116. View original (1642x2290) Amadeus the Wizard in the Crystal Caverns Resized to 800x1115. View original (1642x2288) https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/frogatto-music/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:02:32 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/frogatto-music/ A table for listing the music which was used in, or composed for Frogatto & Friends. The page layout and table alignment shows some signs of Suboptimal Design, so it is skewed for the time being. :\ You can download the original csv here. Key/Legend (click to expand) Filename - the name of the file in the game files OST Name - the name of the music in the OST(Official Sound Track) OST Number - the number of the track in the OST Used in-game? https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/2025_it_wont_happen_to_me/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:07:43 +0230 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/2025_it_wont_happen_to_me/ A list of cases proving that even if you “have nothing to hide”, you will still be affected by privacy-invasive laws and companies. https://drewdevault.com/2021/03/06/Corporate-surveillance-murder.html https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/googles-scans-private-photos-led-false-accusations-child-abuse A second list which shows that tech companies push updates against the user’s best interests, without their consent, and without caring about the harm it will bring to users: google removing support for many extensions, including ad-blockers: https://www.sweharris.org/post/2024-09-12-manifestv2/ windows 10 updating to windows 11 without user consent, leaving their system in a non-functional state: https://learn. https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/linux-install-guide/ Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:08:28 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/linux-install-guide/ Option 1: Q4OS (The most beginner friendly) Prerequesites: A windows computer Administrator permissions ~50GiB of free space 20-30 minutes of free time for a basic Q4OS desktop. Additional time is needed for a Full featured desktop. A network connection Recommended: A backup of important files. Curiosity Downloading installer Go to https://www.q4os.org/, and navigate to the ‘Downloads’ section. From there, go the the ‘Installer for Windows’ section, and click on Q4OS Aquarius, WinSetup. https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/2023_firefly/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:52:46 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/2023_firefly/ A Firefly 03-K64, from the TV series firefly. The website banner is a variation of this image. It was widened and downscaled, with extra black added as padding. The extra width was added with brushes in GIMP. Watered watercolour Resized to 1500x1076. View original (2291x1643) Dry watercolour Resized to 1500x1083. View original (2291x1654) https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/phoenotopia-sheet-music/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/phoenotopia-sheet-music/ A collection of sheet music for Phoenotopia and Phoenotopia Awakening that I could find. I couldn’t find a version of the world map theme with the non-simplified flourishes, so I transcribed the theme from the ‘Piano Arrangments’ album. Once transcribed, I tried to play it on the piano, but it proved too difficult. I later found the sheet music for rev3rsor’s arrangement which was still hard to play despite the simplified flourishes/arpeggios! https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/2025_violet/ Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:01:20 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/2025_violet/ To continue my trend of drawing fan-art from niche and/or obscure games, I drew Violet (no, not that Violet) and Tink from ANOVA. A short point-and-click adventure which is “full of puzzles, pirates, robots, and more pirates!”. The art, music, and puzzles really fit together really well. You can tell a lot of care was put into it! You can play it on newgrounds here. This is probably my first piece which I used line art for, and I like how it turned out. https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/2025_easter/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:11:21 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/2025_easter/ An idea I had in my head for a long time. The whole gang from Chrono Trigger celebrating easter. Drawn using led pencil, then coloured in. Frog was quite hard to draw. I have an extra page full of frog drawings, and have drawn something resembling Pepe the meme frog two times. There’s also a few work-in-progress scans here and here https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/pixelmania-2025/ Mon, 05 May 2025 10:37:24 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/pixelmania-2025/ Pixelmania 2025 Artworks Created as part of Artindi’s Pixelmania challenge, for 2025. The goal was to make one artwork per day, given the following themes and optional constraints. Ask for permission before uploading or using. See the Contact section of the home page. 1. Sword Inigo Montoya holding his sword, praying. A scene from the movie The Princess Bride, which is based on the book of the same name. With the constraint ‘include the sky in your image’ https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/harlock/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:11:21 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/harlock/ Captain Harlock and Daiba playing chess aboard the Arcadia. Based Captain Harlock by Leiji Matsumoto. Created on: 2025-03-05 to 2025-03-07. Total time: 8 hours (3:48 for draft, 4:07 for colour) Resized to 1500x844. View original (5000x2813) Resized to 1500x844. View original (5000x2813) https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/restoring-gimp-settings-for-v3/ Sun, 30 Mar 2025 10:55:35 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/restoring-gimp-settings-for-v3/ After updating my system I was greeted with the amazing release of GIMP 3.0. The interface was ported to GTK3 which matches the program nicely with my system theme, and I’m very excited to try out non-destructive filters. As happened with many GIMP releases, some default settings were changed, and there’s going to be some people who prefer the previous settings, and would like to change them back. I’m one of those people. https://al2f.codeberg.page/resources/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:15:57 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/resources/ Various useful and not-so-useful links. Some of the links are an attempt to clean up my ever-growing bookmarks list. https://tinytools.directory/ “✨ Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup” A gigantic list of different tools: Can also be found in its repository Mathematics Math is Fun - a website with very good explanations of mathmatical concepts Art See also Art programs I use Software – Morevna Project A list of free software covering 2d/3d animation, 3d modelling, and drawing Drawing https://ashido. https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/backface-occlusion-culling/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/backface-occlusion-culling/ Introduction This year I started a 3D rpg project in godot. Choosing to make the project both in 3D, and multiplayer lead to some quite interesting new ideas and problems to solve. This is one such problem. Taking a scene from an RPG such as Chrono Trigger. There is some floor, some walls, some furniture, and the main character - Crono. The measurements aren’t hard to make as the game uses a 16x16 pixel grid, and we can quickly get a rough idea of what the 3d level will look like: https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/phoeno3a/ Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/phoeno3a/ I launched up my project to find that Gail is now stuck in the floor when loading from a save. I use git version control for this project. For every step of progress I make, I select the important files that have changed, and I group those changes in what’s called a commit. Here’s an example of adding a few lines to make a crate destructible: With version control, even if you find that something is broken later on, you can search through all the previous changes and find which change caused the problem. https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/krismas/ Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:50:05 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/krismas/ Merry Krismas! https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/undertale-pico8/ Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:20:51 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/undertale-pico8/ Found these in my folders. An adaptation of UNDERTALE’s sprites for the PICO-8 game console. The project didn’t go anywhere besides the sprites, but I figured other people might find it interesting. As usual, please ask before using. I found 3 different versions, with various levels of polish. As PICO-8 supports sprite rotation and flipping, I got really creative with the sprite packing. Here are the monsters that I managed to unscramble from the above sprites. https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/pixelmania/ Sat, 21 Dec 2024 17:10:24 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/pixelmania/ Pixelmania 2024 Artworks Created as part of Artindi’s Pixelmania challenge. The goal was to make one artwork per day, given the following themes and optional constraints. Ask for permission before uploading or using. See the Contact section of the home page. 1. It’s dangerous 2. Yuck 3. Over Time Based on the game Chrono Trigger 4. It’s broken Braid 5. Glitch OneShot 6. Apocalypse Chrono Trigger again 7. Opposites A scene from the Good Omens TV series https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/phoeno3/ Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:32:32 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/phoeno3/ Automatic conversion of Tiled objects Phoenotopia uses the Tiled map editor. Within the level, (almost) each object has a type property. Previously, I used the YATI tiled importer, and specified for each object, the type of object it should be imported as, and the path of the godot scene. The steps to tell YATI/Tiled that a new type exists are as follows: Go to ‘View->Custom Types Editor’ in Tiled Press ‘Add Class’ https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/phoeno2/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/phoeno2/ Backgrounds A few days ago, I finally solved the mystery of the backgrounds. In addition to the scroll_x and scroll_y properties in the Tiled object, the position of the rectangle in tiled is also taken into account when drawing backgrounds. I randomly stumbled across this piece of information when looking through the original code. I also fixed some other problems with how backgrounds were drawn. I reversed the backgrounds so that the layers were drawn in the correct order. https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/phoeno1/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/phoeno1/ Context A while back, I worked on my (fan) re-make of the flash game Phoenotopia in Godot. Before reading further, I suggest you take a look at the original game on Newgrounds for some context, and the official remaster Phoenotopia Awakening. I started the project in October of 2023, and worked on it slowly through to January of 2024. By that point, I had a working level import system thanks to the YATI Tiled Importer, an oddly-made, but somehow functioning ladder system, and boxes that could be pushed around. https://al2f.codeberg.page/projects/ Sun, 04 Feb 2024 15:47:13 +1030 https://al2f.codeberg.page/projects/ Projects I've made Dreadful Multicoloured Tile Maze Re-creation of the Coloured Tile Puzzle from UNDERTALE Download - Dreadful Multicoloured Tile Maze by al3f - itch.io LINC Space File Manager An unconventional and quirky file manager based on Beneath a Steel Sky Download - LINC Space File Manager by al3f - itch.io Umbrella A platformer metroidvania game Source: al2f/umbrella - umbrella - Codeberg.org Frogatto & Friends map viewer A map viewer for Frogatto & Friends Source: al2f/frogatto-map-viewer - Codeberg. https://al2f.codeberg.page/programs/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 05:14:00 +0830 https://al2f.codeberg.page/programs/ When searching online for programs that do a certain thing, the majority of the links on the first page of the search results look like “23 Best Free certain thing Programs for [Insert Current Year]” which contain at least 1 paid option, despite having “free” in the page title, and overall contain little information of value. I hope this list helps find more programs that just do the one task they’re made to do, don’t collect unnecessary data without your permission and don’t try to slow down the system. https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/scripts-tricks/ Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/scripts-tricks/ A collection of small scripts and tricks I’ve come across or wrote. Quite a lot of these intersect with my dotfiles. Linux Finding missing disk space A long afternoon is spent cleaning up my disk. From 3GB free to 22GB free, a massive achievement! Then, I come back to my computer the next day, and find there to be only 16GB free. ‘Alright’ I say, let’s remove ~/.cache. Still only 16GB free. https://al2f.codeberg.page/home/ Mon, 04 Sep 2023 18:40:12 +0930 https://al2f.codeberg.page/home/ About I’m known online as al2f, as well as al0f and al1f. I’m a free/libre software advocate and game developer, and write programs for fun. I often get distracted by the Godot Game Engine, so I do not have (m)any non-game software projects released. From time to time I draw or play the piano. The banner image is of a Firefly 03-K64. Thoughts Dislikes: Most modern technology. See Technology isn’t fun anymore - Drew Gooden (youtube Error: An unexpected error occured 404 pages which redirect to the websites home page Lack of borders on UI elements Likes: https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/on_user_friendly_interfaces/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://al2f.codeberg.page/posts/on_user_friendly_interfaces/ On user modern “user-friendly” interfaces. Almost always when I see a “modern” interface, I know it will be annoying to use. These are examples of what not to do if you want to make a useable interface. Icons,large font size, and rounded corners do not a user-friendly interface make Different devices and screen sizes exist. Not all users use a phone. A UI designed for phones does not work well on computers Do not expect the user to know what icons represent.