Notices by Ron Gilbert #KamalaHarris (grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 2

Current status:

My father passed away in 2012, but today would have been his birthday. Here is a photo of he and I doing what we loved best. He was a Ph.D in physics and I got crappy grades. I know that really frustrated him, but he never stopping supporting me in my crazy desire to make games.

I guess I should think about getting a new passport. Probably should have thought about that a while ago.

I hate that the LLM AI people have highjacked the word AI. Now, every time I add enemy AI I feel dirty.

Apple just doesn't understand. Developers don't want a better way to port their games to Mac and all the Apple silliness. Players want a way to play the 10,000 windows game on a Mac. That will sell more Macs than anything else. You lost the gaming war. Make Proton for the Mac and sell a lot more Macs.

I would love to do a live stream of me programming my game, but I not a talkative person. My steam would be long periods of silence where I mutter "What the fuck is happening?" followed by busts of "Oh, I'm such an idiot".

Oh no! It's snowed.

#screenshotsaturday #pixelart #indiedev

I wonder what training data the holodeck illegally scraped to make Dixon Hill.

Classic version control:

Reminder that night-time pillow talk is not end-to-end encrypted.

Happy to announce that @vampiress is joining Team Terrible Toybox as a quest designer on #RPGTBD. This ups the chance by 37% that I'll finish the game before becoming bored and disillusioned.

#indiedev

A $199 jump rope with a $12 monthly subscription. The world is doomed. I'm calling it.

https://www.theverge.com/24134172/crossrope-amp-jump-rope-set-review

Three more NPCs added to RPGTBD. Follow me for the latest updates.

#rpg #pixelart #indiedev #rpgtbd

For the dev of my new game I've ditched Slack in favor of Discord for the dev team. One advantage of Discord is that most devs have a Discord account so I am not asking them to sign up for something new. So far, it's a big win. Slack as turned into a mess.

What does the term "indie studio" mean? It used to mean you don't take money from publishers, but that is no longer true. I guess it's new meaning is "constantly broke".

WTF!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2147950/4D_Golf/

Whenever some online customer support chat comes up, I start asking it programming questions about python to see if it's just AI. Someday I'll reach a real person at Bank of America who knows python and we'll both be very confused.

Yes, the cow has a quest. Deal with it.

Roger Ebert once said "The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her." I am constantly forgetting this as I procrastinate writing only to discover her again once I start.

@mekkaokereke When I got my pilots license, most of the training was dealing with emergencies. When one happened to me it was amazing how muscle memory kicked in.