Notices by David Amador (djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 2

The short answer is "no", but the long answer is "yes you do".

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kinda messed up situation because customers are rightfully upset, but we know it's the publisher pushing this, but devs will feel the pain.

honestly thought Sony would reverse the whole thing on Monday, not a double down over the weekend. Removing the game from Steam in countries PSN doesn’t exist. This might be worse. https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2024/05/sony-doubles-down-on-helldivers-2-psn-requirement-by-taking-it-off-sale-for-pc-in-numerous-countries

these *jokes* write themselves

I RARELY say this, but this is a case for "pirate it" if you got screwed. If I ever do this with my games, providing no alternative for players who purchased it, feel free to pirate it!

This!!

@davidrevoy yeah, I added remapping of WASD on my game for this reason.

I know WASD is the most common way to control characters and even navigate menus, but please also allow arrow keys as well, at least for menus. Have both layouts work at same time, it's not much more code :) thank you.

looking at Dragon's Dogma 2 press reviews and the players reviews/feedback, perhaps press reviews should start taking into consideration when micro-transactions are just ruining the game. But I wonder if press copies have all included and they didn't knew?

I think this is hilarious and just goes to show that even they think it's wrong, but as long as they can profit on others work, and not the other way around it's all good.

I know Warner Bros. announced they'd be focusing on mobile/FP2 games only, but removing their current catalogue seems drastic. https://www.polygon.com/24093815/warner-bros-adult-swim-games-steam-delisting

AI enshittification is happening so fast that Notepad, after decades of being abandoned, just became another victim.

looking for recommendations for good desktop email clients. Can be payed but I want to avoid subscription based ones as much as possible.

Decentralization yes please
https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-interoperability-messaging/

Someone created a fully funcional 16-Bit 3Hz CPU in Excel!!! with 128KB of RAM 16 color display, and a custom assembly language to run some programs in it. It’s open source too

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rg7xvTJ8SU

Code: https://github.com/InkboxSoftware/excelCPU

I highly recommend reading Ask Iwata book to know more about Satoru Iwata

"I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that would impress people“

let's never forget this is how the great Iwata handled the poor reception of Wii U, not with layoffs, but by cutting his own wage.

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I like how this developer effectively made himself a private software modchip to play PS1 game xD https://www.gamesradar.com/after-23-years-developer-reveals-he-snuck-a-cheat-code-past-sony-that-turns-a-cult-classic-horror-game-into-a-godsend-for-retro-enthusiasts/ #gamedev #retrogaming