Notices by Megan Fox (glassbottommeg@peoplemaking.games)

Lately I'm making increasingly obscure memes that make sense to an increasingly microscopic subsection of sicko devs, but it brings me joy so,

Hah, rad. The US is reverting gender markers on passport renewals.

Mine had F. I did all the paperwork for that over a decade ago.

Renewed passport I just got? Says M.

So yeah fuck you United States, I guess? But whatev I can still use it to leave the country, and my license has the right marker.

@sinbad @eniko honestly at that point, I'd seriously consider just hopping to PS1 aesthetic. A lot of your skills transfer (PS1 texturing is functionally pixel art), and if you just learn basic 3D animation it's easy to handle the level of animation required by the aesthetic.

You basically gotta do all that anyways for sprites 3D. Might as well skip the "and then render back down to 2D" and just do the sprite-style 3D enviro + PS1 folks tooling around in it or whatever.

Huh, I think SkateBIRD ultimately moved over 100k units. We probably hit that point sometime this year.

Of course confirming this is tricky because like, every platform but Steam sorta just hands you a monthly sales report and shrugs at providing all-time analytics but, I think so? Huh. Neat!

Are you someone who knows who wrote the documentation on this system?

Shame 'em, ride their asses until they add a note explaining Camera Variable Collections, the very idea that there is a difference between "Parameters" and "Variables",

I don't care if it's "Experimental", that's beyond the pale

Right, #UnrealEngine #UE5 folks trying to figure out Gameplay Camera System:

IT USES A FUCKING VARIABLE ASSET. Camera Variable Collection, basically works like an MPC.

So when you see a variable link that looks like, this bullshit? No explanation? Not a parameter in the usual sense, feed it a CVC.

I am definitely already tired of the attempts at encouragement/affirmations like

look fuckos I get that you're trying to be nice, but for a large portion of us,

we're going to get through this on pure spite and Dadaist nihilistic vibes

In fact these are often pretty good at motivating resistance!

I do wonder if this'll shift the vibes of our next game. For that matter I wonder if Spartan Fist was what it was because that was made almost entirely within the first Trump years. Maybe? Hrm.

If so, I'll need to channel it more effectively this, at the very least. That had vibes but no substance.

(anyways- yes, what you make matters, yes even now, the game now is to influence and support those you can reach and just generally keep pushing forward)

OMG I love this.

You know the mini libraries in neighborhoods?

This is a mini art gallery. Which folks are taking seriously. It's already booked through July 2025. https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/10/03/andersonvilles-hottest-new-art-gallery-is-so-small-you-might-miss-it/

So it's the 3 year anniversary of SkateBIRD!

No, it's not on sale, no new DLC or anything. I just think it's neat that it's we did the thing and, now it's out there, living its best life. 🥹

https://store.steampowered.com/app/971030/SkateBIRD/

If you're a gamedev releasing on Steam: PLEASE MAKE A DEVELOPER PAGE

You are literally leaving community on the floor when you launch a game without one, players can't follow you on Steam without that page being defined

I'm even seeing PUBLISHERS forget to make one

Please, just do the needful 😭

#GameDev #IndieDev

Y'all

Tactical Breach Wizards is

REALLY

good.

Even the writing! Wasn't expecting a really great story with fun characters.

Also they threaded the "make a game about cops even though ACAB also applies" needle surprisingly well. #Gaming #GamingNews

There's an apple tree on my lot that produces what I can only describe as "mealy" apples. Chewing them, they crumble instead of snap. Brown easily. Bruise incredibly easily.

It isn't a texture I want more than one of a year but they're unique

Anyone have a clue on variety? Someone thought "glass"?

When you fight with a math problem all day, go home, have a eureka moment at 11pm, and sit on that excitedly until you roll into the office the following morning and fix the glitch with

a single line of code

#GameDev

I then spent the rest of the day fighting with another obscure spatial math bug that I eventually fixed with ANOTHER single line of code

Big day for single lines of code

Generations of scifi: "computers are powerful analytical gods but the only thing they can't do is lie convincingly or deal with paradoxical nonsense-logic"

LLM bros: "HOLD MY BEER"

So, I can not stress this enough:

Shut the fuck up. I mean this with kindness. Shut the fuck up. It is not a good time to run your mouth on public coms. This should be obvious if you think about what just happened for 30 seconds, but again, with all due care and respect:

Shut the fuck up.

@binarydigit you look rad!

Once again: folks should probably consider switching to Firefox. Especially if you, I don't know, rely on ad-blocking to navigate our glutted-as-shit modern internet, for instance?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-starts-deprecating-older-more-capable-chrome-extensions-next-week/

@mcc I'm waiting for the programmer equivalent of nightshade.

"This is a perfectly functional library for X, I've just made it delete your entire C drive, but DON'T WORRY you can remove the offending code in file ev6.cpp, line 45"