Matt Yang - Petunia's Purgatory, Out NOW!!
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Indie #gamedev, formerly Maxis, Phoenix Labs. Mutt owner, swing dancer, bad movie lover, #49ers fan. He/him. SF, CA. All opinions my own.
Imagine being this joyless. Humans have been playing games for thousands of years!
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5d agoThe hill I will die on: Games are the opposite of fun, and I’d ban them for anyone over 12 | Emily Watkins
The ESA is a lobbying group for game *corporations*. They absolutely do not represent game workers.
Sherveen Uduwana@suduwana.bsky.social · 3d agobtw if the ESA or any of these studios wanted to put together an initiative to provide financial relief to laid off game workers, they have ~$60M in total assets that they could allocate towards one. They're welcome to reach out to me if they need info on how to set one up.
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the stuff I work on outside my 9-5 is no one's business but my own and they're big mad because they can't sell it :^)
Chris Kerr@kerrblimey.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: I spoke with multiple video game developers and a U.S. employment lawyer to learn more about restrictive side clauses that often prevent employees at major companies from pursuing hobbyist work or personal projects. In an industry renowned for creativity, why are we stifling it?
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"Sometimes you have to be okay with killing your ideas" We asked Matt Yang of Dead Possum Games about the best piece of advice he's had in his career in gamedev.
The folks over at Convergence interviewed us about our new game, Petunia's Purgatory! (apologies for all the random hand movements I have a problem) #indiegame #gamedev
Convergence@convergence-gs.bsky.social · 2w agoOne of these idle games is not like the others... Matt Yang from Dead Possum Games breaks down what sets Petunia's Purgatory apart from the rest! 🧙
Everything is free now That's what they say Everything I ever done Gonna give it away Someone hit the big score They figured it out That we're gonna do it anyway Even if it doesn't pay www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy6V...
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Devs are terrified to post their games because someone will show up and go "looks like a shit game." Years of work killed in 4 words. But you know what helps me? The thing my 4yo son always says when he's upset: ok, I don't care. #indiegame #indiedev #roguelike #indiegames #rpg #dungeoncrawler
He's only gone and written 2,500 more words about how game devs feel about generative AI. Latest piece quotes around two dozen different people with an indie background. When asked how they feel about gen AI, not one, but two devs responded, "Fuck that shit." www.gamesradar.com/games/it-cre...
"It creates lesser games": Indie game studios are supposed to love generative AI, so why do the 25 devs I spoke to avoid it?
"So it may be slightly faster, and a lot worse, but it's also more expensive? Neat"
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Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · 2mo agoI spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...
Also, if the Bernie Sanders of the world really wanted to sell UHC to the political center, one thing they should talk up is the degree that it would supercharge small businesses and startups. UHC would free up SO much talent currently afraid to take a major risk.
Lemme help you: no. You made a machine that's entire purpose is to *seem* as convincingly human as possible and then you're shocked when it seems human? These people have bought into their own con.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoCould AI be conscious?
Petunia's Purgatory is a little telling idler game that sits at the bottom of your desktop! What I like: 🌷Grow cursed crops to feed to the Elder God! 🌷Spooky but cute pixel style 🌷Your desktop starts hallucinating when sanity is low Platform: PC
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Petunia's Purgatory is a creepy-cute idle farming game that lives at the bottom of your screen. Grow cursed crops, feed the Elder God, and keep Petunia sane before her hallucinations invade your deskt...
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What a day for game releases!! I wanted to highlight the games that I am interested in/am currently playing in this little thread that have come out today🧵 Featuring: 🚀Farlands 🏗️Go-Go Town 🐭Moss: The Forgotten Relic 🧜♀️The Mermaid Mask 🎤K-Pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut 🌷Petunia's Purgatory
Started playing this a little while ago and I adore it 💜
Matt Yang - Petunia's Purgatory, Out NOW!!@debaser1215.bsky.social · 3w agoOur new game, Petunia's Purgatory, is out NOW on Steam. We're so proud of it, and can't wait for more people to play it. If you enjoy it, please leave us a review. It makes a big difference for little indie teams like us. Thank you!! #gamedev #indiegame store.steampowered.com/app/4009450/...
There’s a new Christopher Nolan out that’s supposed to be nuts.
Our new game, Petunia's Purgatory, is out NOW on Steam. We're so proud of it, and can't wait for more people to play it. If you enjoy it, please leave us a review. It makes a big difference for little indie teams like us. Thank you!! #gamedev #indiegame store.steampowered.com/app/4009450/...
Save 20% on Petunia's Purgatory on Steam
Petunia's Purgatory is a creepy-cute idle farming game that lives at the bottom of your screen. Grow cursed crops, feed the Elder God, and keep Petunia sane before her hallucinations invade your deskt...
store.steampowered.com
It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.
The most forgotten demographic: men who own $50k trucks and eat sandwiches at diners in the suburbs/exurbs that we've been interviewing about politics for more than a decade
Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 3w agoI'm going to become the Joker
"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best
Greg Iwinski@garyjackson.bsky.social · 4w agoTV writers were right in 2023 and are being proven more right every day — there was a stable television model that made everyone lots of money and put out good shows. Then execs with no understanding of the industry confused the production model and the distribution model, and they blew it all up.
video games are software but video game development is not software development
the idea that games are the result of a single person's ironclad vision rather than a thousand little decisions and compromises and individual people's ideas all coming together in complicated ways
Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · 4w agogame devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?
At this point, why does MS even want to make games anymore? They would obviously prefer to do anything else.
Nicky 2@nickyflowers.com · last mo.microsoft's plan, Lay Off Everybody Who Makes Games & Then Find 1 Billion People Per Day To Play The Games They Aren't Making... it's bold. i will give them that
There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.
Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · last mo.People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
