Notices by Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 8

@cstross Sounds tough. In video games (specifically the PC/console segment) the rule of thumb is you have 15 minutes. The elevator pitch is just for the publisher. I guess it helps that video games have (moving) pictures.

@cstross So this first sentence is essentially an elevator pitch.

@smallcircles @cstross I've lived through eight years of authoritarian rule (not counting the old Communist regime, which I barely remember), and one thing I've learned is heroes are all around us, and they pop up everywhere. The measure of good leadership in a crisis is their ability to manage grassroot heroism.

(the leadership here in Poland has largely failed at this, which is why the situation remains precarious)

@quaithe In all seriousness, I can only imagine that everyone's been counter-intelligeting the hell out of the US for the simple reason they have a very large potential to do harm *and* Trump has already been the president once.

@quaithe I'm kind of hoping they're going to hire the guys who exposed Newag to find them all, and I'm only half-joking here.

(on the one hand military-grade encryption is most likely out of a civilian hacker's league, but on the other hand US military engineers are known to have been sloppy in the past)

@siwa Ja się autentycznie czasami zastanawiam, jak oni sobie, kurwa, wyobrażają ten sojusz przez ocean z pominięciem dwóch tysięcy kilometrów krajów pomiędzy.

(ale może właśnie już nie trzeba sobie tego wyobrażać, skoro Trump postanowił być w sojuszu z Rosją, tylko jechać w drugą stronę)

Are indies going to save the games industry? No, it's not that simple. But experimentation is going to yield new ways to connect with audiences, for example, and experimentation is easier with small (i.e. indie-ish) projects.

I just wish I could afford to experiment.

If someone ever asks why there are so many comments in my code, the answer is it's because that's how I procrastinate when I'm testing.

@oleksandr Yes, the Polish for prdel is "dupa", while "ja pierdole" is a common (vulgar) idiom for something akin to "I can't even".

You can say so much without ever resorting to kurwa!

@ScrimblyGames This is by no means a no-brainer. One game I worked on had about 20x as many "no source" lights as it did the ones you could point your finger at. A lot depends on your tools, workflow and intended visual result.

The world today is giving off that unmistakable "ask your friend, you know which one, out on a date, get drunk and spend all your money" vibe.

Too old for that, so just going to bet on the EU getting its shit together, and the gamedev industry collapse creating new opportunities for small projects.

Making progress with character concepts for the side project. Hoping to make progress on the code side this week as well.

The characters were meant to give off kid scout vibes. They're the story's good guys, but we're planning on making fun of them, because they're a bit too self-centered for their own good.

(illustration by Katarzyna Odrobińska, you can find her other work here: https://www.artstation.com/katodrobinska)

@oleksandr Turns out Slavic languages are indeed mutually intelligible where it truly matters.

I try to keep this profile less political and more focused on my work, but I do appreciate the fact that it looks like I'm going to keep my German remote job for now.

@jalefkowit It's funny how this argument is usually coupled with a completely arbitrary choice of the historical reference point. Go look at Poland's borders in 1600 and tell me whose boundaries are more "historic".

(to be clear: I strongly oppose the thankfully very few people who say Poland should claim its former eastern territories)

@quaithe Looks like it's going to be SPD *and* Greens. Merz faced some backlash from his own party when he tried to cozy up to AfD, so hopefully that's out of question.

@OchmennoPodcast The actual fiction in the book was the idea that there's some kind of secret organization that has our best interest in their hearts, answers to the government, and is able to stop said industrialist by dispatching a single highly-qualified field agent, augmented by cutting-edge technology funded from the state's budget.

@yora Art is driven by both horniness *and* spite, and one of things that drive my spite is when the internet (as in "the algorithm") won't just leave me alone. I'm demisexual. What I want is emotional connection and cuddles.

I don't feel comfortable with eroticism in games and wouldn't want to make a game where there's a lot of it, but I am occasionally tempted to make a mirror image of what the internet keeps assaulting me with, and create a game where every male character has an extremely prominent bulge in his pants, in the general area of where his genitals should be.

@siwa Nieustająco 2, ale w poniedziałek idę na badanie wzroku, więc mam nadzieję, że już niedługo nowe okulary.