Notices by PsychicParrot (Jeff) 😷 (psychicparrot42@mastodon.gamedev.place)

Did some research for the corporate robots in my game.. scrolled through LinkedIn! Found inspiration for a whole bunch of new robot phrases lol

Happy 24th birthday to my fav console, the beautiful PS2! And to all the other PS2s out there still rocking it and still in our living rooms and game rooms keeping us entertained by some of the best console games ever made! #retrogaming #ps2 #playstation2

Found this picture on my phone, thought I'd share it with you guys.. MMmmmmm.

Just got the “you didn’t earn enough to get paid this month” email from Steam, which makes me feel even less like putting Die for the Economy on there. Jack Dragon still hasn’t earned enough to pay for the page on Steam, so will this new game be any different? I doubt it. I’m thinking I’ll just do Xbox and Itch this time, but it plays so bloody well on Steamdeck it’s be a shame to deny people of that!!

@HauntedOwlbear Aw sorry you had to deal with that. That’s awful. Especially when they don’t communicate properly or honour what they said they’d do.

Really feel for developers like Stairway Games who signed with Humble. The future of console versions of their game Coral Island is unknown for them and they're totally in the dark. They had to find out about Humble layoffs through the media - Humble didn't even bother talking to them or telling them about the whole situation beforehand. It's freakin' wrong. Ziff Davis (owners of IGN who are owners of Humble) IGN and Humble should all have done better.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/humble-games-layoffs-leave-developer-unable-to-update-its-game-or-release-it-on-switch/1100-6525328/

Trying out Windows 11 and so far I've found 3 games that don't work on it. Starting to think this was a bad idea and it's only day 2. I think I may be going back to Windows 10 sooner than I expected..

And I can't get GameMaker running properly on here. Game builds run super slow. I'm now absolutely dreading next year when they force us all onto stupid Windows 11. It's been garbage for me so far and it doesn't seem like it's ready for proper use. Maybe it's just this particular configuration of PC, I don't know, but it's really not been a good start.

@JeremiahFieldhaven Just out of interest, how are your lines so straight and neat? 🤔

I wonder what's the most technically influential videogame of all time? I mean, a game that if you removed it from history then hundreds of other games over many different genres would suffer without the systems it introduced etc. You know, like an rpg that brought games a health 'number' rather than just 3 lives, or a game that pioneered the use of two joysticks etc.?

I keep an Xbox dev kit on my desk, even though I'm not currently working on an Xbox game. I should probably put it away in a cupboard until I *am* working on an Xbox game again, but it looks cool and reminds me that *I* (me! little me in my house with no money and all self taught) can make games for consoles! And that's actually pretty darn awesome, I reckon. So, it's like a little ego boost.. is that vain? 🤔

Be sad to boycott Eurovision, but not nearly as sad as what Israel is doing to Palestine.

In my opinion, the answer to being a creative and to staying alive *shouldn't* be for us to get better at the business side, but instead for there to be a guaranteed livable basic income for everyone. It would not only lift people out of poverty, but allow us all to explore and fulfill our potential. There is *more* than enough money sitting dormant to do it, too. Just a relatively small tax on the rich could easily pay for a much better society that puts humans first, rather than corporations.

The stuff to clean off thermal paste *really* stinks. My head is spinning from it and I’ve got the window open and an air purifier going.. wow 😵💫

Does anyone happen to know if the PC/Steam version of Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story will run on Steamdeck? I'm trying to decide where it'll be best to get it, for the Xbox or Steamdeck, as I want to play it on the big telly but I also want to play on the PC (for sneaky game seshes inbetween work, like) .. ?? Ta very much! @DigitalEclipse

@grumpygamer 😲

@HauntedOwlbear That's the thing, isn't it? It was good fun just touring around in different vehicles, but I really don't like the rest of the game or the story or the whole 'gta' thing. They have some really talented people making something really ugly and negative that could so easily be turned into a positive.

Honestly, the only way I'd care about a new GTA game would be if they got rid of all the crap that makes it a GTA game and just turned it into a peaceful walking simulator with vehicles.