I've been watching a bunch of City Skylines YouTube videos and the most unrealistic thing about that game is that all the drivers understand how to use a multi-lane roundabout.
Dan Johnson will design games for food
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Schipperke owner @PNW Game Systems Designer, one half of Secret Dinosaur and also the other half (previously Blizzard, Bungie, Irrational, etc) Hire me! https://linktr.ee/djdesign.dev #GameDev he/him
Big Walk design observations: - the proximity chat range is VERY short (but amplifiers are generously loud) - night is VERY dark - I want to know how long they playtested the run speed because it is exactly fast enough to not *quite* feel frustratingly slow.
Yup, Big Walk is fun and the perfect excuse to Get The Gang Back Together For One Last Nipple
Yup, Big Walk is fun and the perfect excuse to Get The Gang Back Together For One Last Nipple
I'm not saying any of us could have done anything, but the pushback on the Microsoft ABK buyout Vs The EA sale is like night and day And this is significantly worse
Don't watch this; instead, buy Act 1 because it's very good and Act 2 will be a free update.
In only TWO days, the final act of Ambrosia Sky launches as a free update! 💃 In case it's been a minute since you played Act One, we've got a summary of the events that came before. Plus: a preview of what's to come in Act Two. 🔗: tiny.cc/acttwodevlog (Spoilers for Act One within!)
"As the brilliant Tressie McMillan Cottom has written, there’s a deliberate ploy to use generative AI to disproportionately displace women from feminine-coded jobs in administration and customer service. (And it is doing them very poorly in comparison with actual human beings [...].)"
Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
Good morning, don't forget to recharge with a mid-breakfast nap.
"But my Wyvern development has been burning the equivalent of $87k/month of API token burn, or about 69 billion tokens in July... in reality I'm only spending about $2800/month out of pocket." What's Wyvern, you ask? See image #2. $87k/month.
oh gas town didn't work you say yegge.ai/essays/the-s...
Have we ever seen her and Mary "Elder God" Poppins in a room at the same time...?
Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
In the wake of devastating wildfires in Spokane, we’re seeing statewide impacts to air quality. As winds shift through this evening, we expect to see smoke blanket the state from Vancouver to Spokane, including major metropolitan areas like Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett.
It's been 6 months since I've been well enough to be at the computer to do any #gamedev (thank you, new & awkward medical condition). Here's a rough of the new tutorial area for my jigsaw puzzle game. What if a jigsaw puzzle game was also a lowkey adventure with survival horror game style puzzles?
Unknown Worlds is hiring for 3 positions to work on Subnautica 2 📐 Technical UI Designer 🎨 Senior Technical Animator 🎨 Senior Animator ✅ Unreal Engine 🌐 REMOTE 👉 remotegamejobs.com/unknown-worl... #gamejobs #gamedevjobs #gamedev #UE5 #remotegamejobs
[Windows]+[.] is the most important shortcut in Windows.
Accidentally fat fingered my keyboard and discovered it has an emoji button this ENTIRE TIME I was using the like, emoji wiki to copy paste emojis into apps which didnt have the feature oh my god
Devs, pay attention to who is actually, practically offering support to our laid off colleagues. It’s not the companies, it’s not the ESA, it’s the union, it’s us.
🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...
the next balatro is, like the first balatro, A GAME NOBODY HAS MADE BEFORE
With light cloud cover it's moon's hinted
in australia it's hoon's munted
"discoverability, player attention, and customer acquisition remain the primary obstacles to growth. "vibecode.game directly addresses these obstacles" Does it, thoughhhhh? (repost with alt text)
decided to see what was up with animoca brands, the company ubisoft hEAVILY seed invested in like 4-5 years ago for 'blockchain gaming', and the answer is "slopping the FUCK out of mobile games I guess"
I know we're a ways off the good timeline but at least we don't live in the timeline where Ubisoft's nft games popped off.
Ubisoft’s NFT RPG Champions Tactics is shutting down. The game scrapped its use of blockchain tech in May, and will now end entirely in October. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ubisoft...
We got our first schipperke Kody in 2006, a year before I started in games. After the breakout success of games like Canabalt and Jetpack Joyride, the first game design I ever cooked up was "Puppy Run": play as a schipperke who busts out the front door and runs till his owner finally catches up.
Five puppies? Yeah we got five puppies.
Five puppies? Yeah we got five puppies.
For the record, I am trying my damnedest to get video of - dream barks - baby alert barks - howls Unfortunately all of them tend to stop when the puppy sees a person. But momma didn't raise no quitter (that was the ADHD burnout).
[baby bear noises]
Sometimes you have to clean up the puppy pen so you set up a FFA cage match to keep the crowd happy.
One achievement-boss in, Mina the Hollower reminds me a lot of Hollow Knight, which I played for 50 hours and finished with 112% in spite of (IMO) significant flaws.