AI voiceovers (of any kind, not just GenAI) grind my gears, they sound bad, soulless. I can't stand hearing an AI voice pretend to be surprised that Steve mined a diamond, OMG no way!

Eniko Fox@enikofox.com · 17h ago

if you're using AI to make your videos why the fuck would i watch your videos? and i'm not even saying that from an anti-AI standpoint (although yes fuck AI), i'm saying it from a "there are 2350820 other channels also putting out generic-ass personalityless drivel i could watch instead" standpoint

Taking a break to allow Sophie to work on the story for the game now we're making progress again. The wife mentions 'infinite minesweeper' Me 7.4 nanoseconds later:

btrfs drive mirror died. Dealing with that situation? not fun. Also thinking of going back to NTFS simply so that if I die my wife doesn't need to learn what a BTRFS driver is to get to her photos.

OK, tweaked the guard sprite. He's got a more solid attack pattern now (Prepares to thrust, then launches) and knocks the player back in a more controlled way. Scene: You rescue Bob and use him to get past all the guards. (Test scene, same as yesterday, now a bit more refined.) #HughsGrandDayOff

(Pretty proud that SkateBIRD is in here - it's ultimately not much, but still, collectively we can help a few) (Also please check this thread if you've been laid off, see if you qualify etc, maybe apply)

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Some debug play of me working on making these guys fun to deal with. Getting there. Player knockback and their attack pattern don't mesh well yet. You can bounce off them (deals no damage) In the end we switch to Bob (who we rescued) who can sneak into the castle for us unnoticed. #HughsGrandDayOff

week 4 of spine injury. Left leg is numb and weak but I'm able to get around now at least, cooked steak for the family tonight (kids helped make the cheese sauce and counted to 60- for the perfect steak.)

Kinda happy with this walk animation. (Again, I'm no artist. Kinda pinched it from the classic Lemming walk!) (Also, screen capture wouldn't record the screen, so here's a phone recording.) #HughsGrandDayOff

Sophie's working on the story. The hard thing here is balance, what we can and cannot do. It's a small game after all. One of the plot points however definitely does work; These guards are protecting their grounds, how can you possibly get past them? #HughsGrandDayOff #MetalGearBobid

My bad guy appears to have turned into a pickup somehow....

Uh-oh, looks like trouble! #HughsGrandDayOff These guys have high defence, so you can't just expect to bounce on their heads. (You can, it'll just take a while.) These guys are for the castle area where we originally had some jumping puzzles, but I'm thinking they're a bit uninspired and hard atm.

The soundtrack is excellent, and made me both facepalm and laugh several times. Nice work!

David Mason@davidmasoncomposer.bsky.social · 5d ago

The soundtrack I wrote for Truck-kun is out!! 30 minutes of eclectic rock, ska, mambo and even a eurobeat boss track. 🎸🎵 With absolutely incredible original album artwork by the game's 2D artist Shaun. Link to the full soundtrack below 🧵

🔊 Release v1.0 of Pyjamarama for Acorn Electron 48K (converted from ZX Spectrum 48K). Best experience is on a real Electron (with 16K SWRAM) or in my Electroniq emulator. ☕ Buy me a coffee if you like my work ko-fi.com/0xc0de 🕹️ More info and tape/disk images on github.com/0xC0DE6502/p...

Look, at least be honest. If you post a video made with AI, don't claim you created it or modelled it. No. Be honest. You can spot genAI video from a mile away and if you're pedalling it as your own? Pfff. Just wow, really.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ1a... 'Rodents in the attic' is an awesome little demo and how it was pulled off is a) bonkers and b) explained in this video.

C64 Demo Effects Explained: Rodents in the Attic

YouTube video by lftkryo

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Got annoyed plopping individual pixels across 16 frame animations, so now there's a flood fill.

The memes, the memes are coming. Oh dear.

I just installed 24gb into a laptop so I don't run out of memory running webview based apps whilst developing my 32mb game. Meanwhile the game now lets you develop the game inside itself.

Skeletor Says Wat

ALT: Skeletor Says Wat

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I've just had the most incredible 20 minutes throwing myself around this game before kids bedtime, An incredible game, fantastic work @writnelson.bsky.social - I could imagine myself in the 90s throwing all my pocket money into an arcade machine running this!

Xalavier Nelson Jr.@writnelson.bsky.social · last wk.

Our heartfelt anime-themed driving game, Truck-kun is Supporting Me From Another World, is OUT NOW on PC/Xbox--and we did a singalong to prove it!! 🚶Hit pedestrians with your magic truck ⚔️Pay the soul debt you owe to the buff elf girl living in your head 🚚GO store.steampowered.com/app/3642010/...

My VPN provider made me solve a captcha that made me spit my coffee. It did not just resemble a peen, oh no! It was a full on meat and two veggies, and I had to put them in the right place. What the shit!?

Don't think this memory price hike is much of an issue for the *average* gamer. As I've said before, good developers are going to target the hardware people have and can get. Time to properly optimise. Slightly related since we're heavily web: Hey browser / webview vendors, fix your crap please!

Lol social construct. No YOU'RE the social construct. (Seriously, C4, what the fuck are you wasting your money on?)

John Delmenico@thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 7d ago

we need to take social disability theory framework away from media people until they learn how to use it properly

Two years ago I released Elite 3D - the #BBCMicro classic, in anaglyph 3D (for red-and-cyan glasses) But I failed to give the project a repository, so here it is, only 22 months late: github.com/markmoxon/el... So you now can see every change I made to Elite to drag it into the third dimension 🚀

GitHub - markmoxon/elite-3d: Anaglyph 3D version of the classic BBC Micro game Elite

Anaglyph 3D version of the classic BBC Micro game Elite - markmoxon/elite-3d

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Our heartfelt anime-themed driving game, Truck-kun is Supporting Me From Another World, is OUT NOW on PC/Xbox--and we did a singalong to prove it!! 🚶Hit pedestrians with your magic truck ⚔️Pay the soul debt you owe to the buff elf girl living in your head 🚚GO store.steampowered.com/app/3642010/...

Boss is working, he got disabled when porting to Javascript and couldn't jump, so instead of a bomb throwing 80s boss, we had a.... big duck thing. A big duck thingy going for a swim. Not quite the boss we wanted. Kids are happy cause now he throws bombs instead of bobbing along. #HughsGrandDayOff

Completed my first Steam game, I was never able to hit the release button because I was dumb enough to sign a contract on a verbal agreement. Months passed, I was waiting on this addendum, then one day he looks me in the face and says "I don't remember such agreement" with a grin and walks off.

Count me in!

Tomas Sala@falconeerdev.bsky.social · 6mo ago

MAJOR ANNOUNCE : fuck AI assets, who needs that! When ShipShaper fully releases it will come with fbx export and a license to use it in your #indiegame , mods, or 3D prints. No limits. Try out the DEMO today tho and Wishlist #shipShaper store.steampowered.com/app/4339280/...

Something went *VERY* wrong here, Kinda creepy! Accidental bluescreen.

I do not use GenAI in my games. Instead I created my own GenRI - two kids. They create all sorts of cool stuff without my input, even 6 fingered humanoids. Sounds like they use less energy than GenAI too! Seriously, I am hopeful they're going to have a happy life and enjoy their time here.

Absolutely worth every penny, even without the discount!

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