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. 🥹
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. 🥹
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 😭
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
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?
@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"
So, #history question: I was taught that industrialization/urbanization, the move from farming communities into cities, happened because it provided a higher standard of living, no more starvation etc.
I'm pretty sure that was bullshit, given everything else I've read about the life of say, bakers in cities (and those who relied on their literal singular Daily Bread). Or how many holidays a Christian peasant apparently got.
How did that actually go down? Was urbanization better at first and only got so bad after? Was it because they were coming out of like, the black death or something? Just times were changing?
Got a #art / #gameart / #gamedev kinda question:
Let's say I have an artist who really likes modelling (and is quite good at it), but tends to get stymized at texturing. Not can't-do, just that isn't their favorite.
Hit with me aesthetics that are geometry-forward, that either minimize texturing, or favor broad-stroke texturing, or at least less focused texturing (so hard surfaces/generative akin to trimsheets or noise maps or auto-world-UV-texturing or etc)
It isn't that she can't learn to do it better, I just feel strongly that you should build around what your team is best at and most enjoys, and I mean. There's no particular reason we gotta shove down the default path here!
@mcc here's some doors that are working fine yep totally fine doors are never a problem in video games aaaaaaaaa
@demofox oh this is neat!
I mean it probably has applications for data centers and backup anyways, but also. Hrm. I wonder if we even can swing back toward physical ownership at this point?
It feels like a thing that should happen eventually, even if just as a stylistic rejection of all that came before, I'm just struggling to imagine the circumstances in which that could arise. I guess maybe if something something climate collapse something network speeds/reliability go down especially globally?
Seeing folks talking about BlueSky since it opened, but seemingly not realizing it's likely on a downward trajectory?
Now that it's public, it's the same as BeReal and the rest: a Twitter clone. Well, except it's worse than those, it's less featured. It's very likely toast.
Mastodon's got a unique selling point to at least keep interest funneling back. BlueSky had that, but basically fumbled the federation ball when they realized normies didn't care. They decided to just be Twitter—but then the normies went to Threads for their advert-algo slop.
EDIT: BlueSky is now basically a biodome for Weird Twitter / Terminally Online Shitposter's Club, and we'll see if that's self supporting. I am in that culture! But. Uh. Yeah.
Oh, huh- doing a quick check, apparently normies didn't go to Threads either? Threads apparently settled out to just, brands talking at brands, and a place for preexisting Instagram influencers to post text. lol.
Pretty sure normies shrugged and just went to TikTok, Instagram, or- you know, fucked off to meatspace to do normie things.
Holy crap, PocketPair (PalWorld) is currently paying $470k a month on server costs alone, because of uh. Interesting. Hiring/management choices.
(I try to avoid twitter image posting but <WHEEZE>) #GameNews #Gaming
new website, who dis https://glassbottomgames.com/
Lately I think a lot about the damage that conflating game making with game selling has done.
Tons of games made by hobbyists just because they wanted to make a game, but that isn't allowed- now the little voice in their head says they failed unless they made enough money to buy a house with it and. Just. Nah.
It's ok to just make games. Games don't gotta sell to make a difference. Many games that can make the most difference inter-personally are essentially market poison, but they should still get made!
That isn't an argument for Learning To Marketing Good, that's an argument for burning down billionaire houses until someone figures out basic arts funding a/o basic income again.
Queer af founder of Glass Bottom Games. BAFTA Breakthrough. Now working on something mysterious (previously: SkateBIRD, Hot Tin Roof, etc).Things I tend to do include: #UnrealEngine, #IndieDev, #GameDev, and I love #BirdsSometimes a bit of #GamingNews and #IndieGame / #Gaming too!
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