who the hell is that

AJ “Tyron” Martinez, interdisciplinary internet idiot and gay robot.

projects

You probably found me from one of these:

now

Short-term: Sound, music, and gameplay design/programming for Dr. Robotnik’s Ring Racers. Things are going alright! SRB2 and its derivatives are shockingly good at wasting programmer time, but I’ve managed to pick up a lot of misc. skills and some generalized grit, plus I’m back to doing music for the first time in a while. I’m excited about this thing.

Later: Clearing out my single-player backlog and noodling around with the Dirtywave M8. It might be a while before I post music for its own sake again, but it’s been a pretty fulfilling private hobby. I’ve barely played any games since Ring Racers dev ramped up, though!

The future: Moving back in with old friends, finally cracking open Godot, and doing what I’ve always done—falling into special-interest rabbit holes. God I cannot fucking wait to work in a real engine. Maybe I ought to do a mahjong client or something.

elsewhere

Want to talk projects, vidya, or me being wrong on the internet? Email, Pleroma, or Discord (@tyron), in order of preference. Note that I ignore Discord friend requests with no mutual servers on a ~vibes~ basis, so you may want to join HITBOX DIMENSION, “my” weird stream server, especially if you have a question someone else might be able to answer.

blog

Power Berserker Scratchpad
Colemak
Kusoge Advent Calendar 2022
I have annoying opinions about menial tasks
L-TEK EX PRO 2 impressions
Riichi mahjong in $CURRENT_YEAR
Kusoge Advent Calendar 2021
Shovel Knight Dig
Analogue Pocket thoughts
So, you just jumped a healer
Kusoge Advent Calendar 2020
Reaching loop 30 in One Step From Eden
Against "it gets good later"
Uprooting the blog again
FFXIV tabbed macro menu mk.II
The Typing of the Dead (PC) Passwords
Kusoge Advent Calendar 2019
TL;DR: The Adventures of Ten and Till
Best of 5 isn't objectively better
MUSECA, I want you to be better
Hardware is hell
Not going 0-2, and other impossible feats
Getting phished like a champion
Falling blocks, flashing lights
Kusoge Advent Calendar 2018: FINALE
Kusoge Advent Calendar 2018: AFTER
KurtzPel is ass
Kusoge Advent Calendar 2018: BEFORE
Make these goddamn cookies
TL;DR: ZeroRanger
Programs you don't use but should
FFXIV triage, explained
Cash of Exile
Kusoge Vacation Calendar
Clemency is a microaggression
Why Icons has offline input lag
Pyrrhic victory
Seriously, don't play Support Cannon
Kusoge Advent Calendar 2017: FINALE
Plus On Whiff
Kusoge Advent Calendar 2017: Week Three
Kusoge Advent Calendar 2017: Week Two
Building a Steam Link setup
Kusoge Advent Calendar 2017: Week One
Swordcraft is for idiots
YOUR MIC SOUNDS LIKE ASS
Getting Over Yourself
Incomprehensible automated fever dreams
Don't play Support Cannon
Fuck Gyazo
Is it real?
Brook converters: Not just for consoles
Demon Phaleg, Lord Of Jank
PSO2: Sword PA Minimegaguide
OverParse: the sort-of-retrospective

recycle bin

I don't like link rot, so I try not to tear pages down. But I'm also a weird neurotic fuck, and don't like the index being cluttered with things that seem not particularly post-worthy in retrospect—or stuff that's just become irrelevant with the passage of time. Insert mass-manufactured gripe about "patch culture" here.

Also, sometimes I'll probably just get stuff wrong outright, and I want to remove errors without erasing their history. (Rest assured, errors with capital-s Stakes will get retracted in their own posts.) So here's some old stuff for completeness's sake.

Old and defunct posts
Friction
TL;DR: Redout
Not Reviews
FUCK MEDIUM LOL
UMvC3 PC: Day 1
UNIEL PC: Day 1