Notices by Parrot (Jeff) (psychicparrot42@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 3

There are some terms I hate unnecessarily. One of them is ‘juice’. I don’t like the phrase at all. It’s not ‘adding juice’ it’s just polishing your damn game. We had a term for it already, it was polish. It still is polish. Juice is a stupid term. Thanks for coming to my talk.

I’m awarding myself the prize of not having to watch the game awards.

Egg Inside (tm)

Time to eat an egg.

@triptych @sinbad I’m not, but I would be if I wasn’t having monetize my crap all the time! 🤣

“I’m quitting games for good after I release this one. I’m getting out!” - what I say at the end of every game I’ve ever made, just before I start on the next one.

#gamedev

Just to clarify, it’s not the making games part that grinds me down. It’s all the other shit we have to do to claw back any kind of minuscule pocket change to pay a bill with: I love making games, I absolutely loathe having to sell them, deal with service providers, or to have to have anything to do with the ‘industry’ side of it.. but I have to pay for my biscuit habit somehow and I hate working for other people even more.

Watched a bit of 'Secret Level' on Prime and, for a second, I wondered just what they were trying to achieve. I realized a second later that I actually have ZERO interest in it and it obviously isn't for me. Oh, and that's not Pac-Man you bellends!

I swear they're all just trying to make it harder for people to do business as 'individuals' rather than registered businesses/companies. Other companies / vendors / service providers seem to put up more hoops to jump through every damn year.

Just had to shovel the drive. That sucked. I love Canada, but I don't love the shoveling. I tried to convince the kids to donate their Christmas money to pay for a snow removal service, but they refused. So guess who's going to be doing most of the shoveling this year? 👹 Yeah, still probably me, but I'll swear more and there'll be some kids watching at the window, giving me the V's as I'm doing it 🤣

It occurred to me this morning that the robots in my game are firing wrong. They’re currently firing in the direction they move, rather than always firing at the player. This makes it easier to take them out at corners because they’re exposed and not firing at the player until they change direction after the corner. Gah! Silly mistake. Needs fixing.

It was bothering me that it was easier in my game to wait for them at corners or behind cover than it is in the original Berzerk. In Bezerk, as soon as the robot has passed the wall, regardless of the direction it’s moving, it fires right at the player. In mine they wait to change direction. It’s super important to the gameplay and I can’t believe I’m only just picking up on it now! 🤬

K so despite passing cert, they’ve emailed me to tell me that the easy level in my game isn’t easy enough to be allowed to have a ‘variable difficulty level’ accessibility tag on the store page. I’ve made the bots move slowly and there’s only 3 bots per screen on ‘too easy’ level, so now I don’t really have the time to make it much easier because launch is upon me. I guess the accessibility tag will have to go :(

Don’t get me wrong tho- I don’t mind this at all, it’s just going to be too risky for me to implement so late in dev. I like having an ultra easy level so that everyone can play, and I thought I’d made one but I was wrong. If you’re considering difficulty levels in your next game, just make sure that the very easiest level is so easy the cat might be able to play it!

RE: Blow. You can go search if you don't believe me. You have a computer, too. My opinion is that you shouldn't take advice from Jon Blow because I don't believe he does his proper research when he forms his opinions on things like Covid or women in tech, for example. I also believe you shouldn't take advice from me, or anybody else on the Internet nowadays because the Internet is mostly filled with bullshit advice. I will not be taking questions at this time 🤪

Please, don't listen to Jon Blow for advice. On anything. Ever.

Sometimes, I'm so excited about things that I have to go back and edit messages to remove exclamation marks .. from my emails, posts, text messages, IMs, DMs ... etc etc etc. !!! TOO MANY exclamation marks, Jeff!! 🤣

Dropped a dunked Digestive on the floor from a standing position, and it exploded like some kind of biscuit grenade. Wet digestive splattered all over the place.

Die for the Economy! just passed cert on Xbox! Yay! I'm chuffed I didn't screw that up! So, next up is to sort out the actual release schedule and get the wheels moving for a launch. Hoping for early to mid December, but it all depends on what ID say the schedule is like 🤞

Is it normal for MIDI sustain pedals to be switches (on or off) rather than having a range depending on how far you push it down? (I aquired a cheap one that only does on/off and I wondered if it's just because it's a cheap one or not)