Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #8

Bionic Reading showed up a few times in my Twitter feed, but I’ve actually been using it for awhile in my mobile RSS reader (Reeder, and yes I inexplicably still subscribe to RSS feeds.) I can’t speak to the purported improvements in cognition, but I do find I read a bit faster and it’s a bit easier to read long passages for long periods. When I sent this to Kyle he said “That seems clever and I might hate it”, so it’s a win-win for me.

As some who is historically unskilled at art but excited to learn, I’ve been digging sadface ( Happyface )‘s pixel art mini-tutorials on Twitter. They’re mostly single-page, infographic style posts about some particular aspect of pixel art - walking animations, drawing environmental objects like rocks and trees, and so on. There are also video versions of some of the tutorials on YouTube as well.

We’re working on a prototype for the world’s first Souls-like table tennis game, tentatively titled Doink Souls. Along the way, we struggled to find a good beginning tutorial for Playdate SDK development, so we wrote one. You can check it out here: