Tom Johnson
@tomjohndesign • 13,129 subscribers
Staff Product Designer ▲ @Vercel Building https://t.co/z2dX2CbMIm Living on the road, traveling the US. Husband to @joylynnlife. Dad of 2 boys.
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Pilgrimage Devblog #4 Sound design is crazy hard. If you've "played" previous versions of Pilgrimage, you'll know that the game had just terrible sound design. I've spent the last few days creating new character dialogue using ElevenLabs and some bespoke mixing tools for authentic Old English pronunciation per character. I also added environment sounds for trees, wind, water, carts, animals, and am still working on crowd sounds. Also, I redesigned all of the app UI, unifying it on common components, migrating it to Base UI, changing out the icons, and redoing all of the docs and "internal" tooling that's part of the app and also adding Light/Dark mode. In addition to that, I also redid all of the textures of the app, adding dithering, better shadows, noise to flooring textures, lighting, all doing it with actual performance improvements, which was a big undertaking. There's a ton more misc fixes in the last few days, lots of continued work on characters, I totally refactored all of the building designs, added colors for "factions" and also am currently overhauling the NPC pathing model to better nail the core gameplay loop.
Tom Johnson282,461 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
I've gotten tired of dealing with local servers slowing down my laptop, so I built to: - see what local servers are running - how long they've been running - their resource use - notify me if one spikes - auto-kill old servers - give easy ways to launch the local urls - add shortcuts to the Vercel preview url, or Codex/CCode sessions that created it, and shortcuts to resume in my terminal of choice - charts to see spikes (of course) Open source, totally free
Tom Johnson140,971 Aufrufe • vor 24 Tagen
what if... I added.... first person view?? yeah, that was my prompt. AI is crazy man.
Tom Johnson107,122 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
Welcome to Tomjohnville. I built a bunch of new portfolios over the last year. Hated all of them. I've told other designers that these should feel like a playground, not a portfolio, and nothing I made felt playful enough. Decided that it was finally time to follow my own advice. So I made my portfolio a game. It's got my whole career. Every place I've worked, with actual people I've worked with for characters, in the real buildings (well the Vercel pyramid isn't real but it should be) and details about my life. Drive my real truck. You can even tow my real camper. (more with this coming soon) Read everything I've written, watch videos I've made. I've uploaded way more work here than I've ever had online in one place before. There's secrets, inventory, achievements, and soon there's gonna be missions. Come on by. Have fun. And don't forget to sign the guestbook.
Tom Johnson16,188 Aufrufe • vor 11 Tagen
This is an absolutely absurd level of performance all in the browser. This was me and Astra going back and forth for 6 hours, finding ways to reduce rendering, path finding, edges, hide complexity at higher zooms... I'll cover more of it in my next video. tests are showing 50+ FPS across the board here, I'm now starting to run tests for 10,000+ characters and even larger maps (potentially infinite sized, but more on that later) Check out this PR: Please try it yourself, and tell me if you see perf issues. Try it on your phones, cheap laptops, etc and I'll just keep ripping to make this thing absolute butter.
Tom Johnson28,611 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
My wife secretly recorded me watching the Figma keynote this morning. #config23
Tom Johnson138,315 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren
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