State of Bland 2025

a.k.a., the year of bland stagnation

Being employed sucks lol

BlandSoft BSTrace

BSTrace is ray-tracing software.

It can currently render spheres with matte and metallic textures. It can load scene definitions from a TOML file.

Upcoming features will be planes, triangles, and models; dielectrics; and bitmap textures.

BlandSoft BSSynth

BSSynth is audio synthesis software, and potentially a digital signal processing utility.

Currently, it’s not much more than simple tone generators.

The most immediate thing needed is a Fourier transform, which will allow for frequency-based filtering.

BlandSoft BSCalc

BSCalc is a Forth-style calculator application for terminals.

Currently implemented are arithmetic, trigonometry, and a subroutine programmer.

I’d like to add vector algebra to it.

Grugnak’s Castle

Grugnak’s Castle is my “I want to try recreating cool-looking features from King’s Field” project.

There’s currently tank controls, and I’m currently working on the sword swishing animation with a generated trail.

The Rust bindings for Godot provided by the godot-rust library are very good.

Seecret projects

When will the BlandSoft streams return?

When I feel ready.

I miss my PNG creature. I haven’t drawn in years. I want to revive her but she never comes out right. One day the stars will align and I’ll have my creature back. Then I can stream again.