Nina Kalinina

nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt

This profile might be managed by Terraform.

Or, as my "professional" email signature says, "IT expert and mixed media artificer".

Despite being a late millennial, I grew up with a ZX Spectrum and kept using an i486 as my main PC until 2008.

I have a degree in electrical engineering, majoring in industrial and microelectronics, but somehow ended up building massively distributed computer systems. I helped to roll out HTTP/2 at a Google competitor, then eventually helped to ensure that Instagram deletes the user data that users asked to delete, and until recently was a site reliability engineer for a big chunk of iCloud. I learned a lot during my long-ish career, and this knowledge makes me sad and keeps me up at night sometimes.

I never post here in a "working adult" capacity, and wouldn't dare to speak for my current or past employers. Instead, I engage in playful shitpost and creative exploration of technologies that have no commercial applications.

Feel free to DM me, I'll try to reply to all!

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Nina Kalinina

2 years ago • •

Nina Kalinina
2 years ago • •

So, I've been thinking, if one would want to make a super-cross-platform graphical game targeted at somewhat common platforms, starting from #8bit, what would be the common denominator for the art?

The answer would probably be 160x128x1bpp as a baseline. Small enough to be displayed on #GameBoy, crisp enough for #ZXSpectrum, pretty enough for #GameBoyAdvance.

Original art is CC BY-SA 3.0 by Niabot.

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Devine Lu Linvega

in reply to Nina Kalinina • 2 years ago • •

that's an interesting puzzle, I think about this sort of stuff a lot. Gameboy is a good target size for this sort of hardware. I tend to use the GBA as my bare minimum size.

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