Totally forgot that it also contains Luck be a Landlord – one killer game:

Luck be a Landlord by TrampolineTales

Luck be a Landlord is a roguelike deckbuilder about using a slot machine to earn rent money and defeat capitalism.

Thanks. Bought it, but I still haven't even played any games from the previous bundle. Always seems to be too busy.

Been spending my time on my "connect your exercise bike to computer, and bicycle around Skyrim/Google Streetview/San Andreas" project, which people may remember me whittering about at times over the past eight years. I think I'm getting somewhere this time.

Sure, sure.

I'll show you! I'll show them all!

Are you still trying to do a mouse based mod?

Yes, but it's surprisingly difficult to have multiple mice connected to Windows, and treat them as just raw data sources without the pointer going crazy. Previously I side-stepped this problem by just connecting the mice to a Raspberry Pi and wrote a Python script to send the telemetry through the network.

But now I'm looking at Inception which is a Windows Driver that sits between the hardware and the Windows pointer. It seems to let me grab data from multiple mice and then block the input so it doesn't effect the pointer. Not there yet, though.

What about using an hid capable arduino to emulate keystrokes like wasd or arrow keys?

I've been wanting to make a bluetooth version of this for allinone vr hmds.

Interesting stuff, but I would probably only use an Arduino to collect the raw data, for processing by the computer. I have been desperately trying to uncouple the WASD keypresses from the physical bike wheel movement. You could put lots of rubber fingers on the exercise bike wheel and have them press the W key as they go past. And it would work, but there is no guarantee that the rate of keypresses would match the game. And if it did, it would only be for one game.

So I have been trying to get the raw movement onto the computer, where the user can put it through a bunch functions to calibrate it. When you have speed as a percentage of how hard the user is pedalling, you can put that through a bunch more functions to translate it into keypresses. Those second bunch of functions could be identical for any user playing that game.

Which is why most of my development time has been spent programming a Visual Programming Environment. I'm quite proud of it, but it's a good thing I don't program for a living or I would have starved years ago.

This is very, very impressive, but i'm pretty sure there's about 10 relevant xkcds about programmers overkilling their goal here.

Did I mention how long I spent making my beziers look good, when the nodes are back to front?