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parse 🔜 MFF, FC@parsenoire.com · 2y ago

🚀 NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT 💥 ROCKETPULT mini - launch a rocket from a catapult and land with skill and style, reimagined on Playdate!! launching on December 14, 2024 rocketpult.com/mini

🦨Fox Stamps Early Access has now begun on Itch and Steam! We're creating a nonogram game that aims to be approachable for new players as well as enjoyable by long time fans! You'll get immediate access to 64 puzzles, with more on the way as we develop it further (links in reply) #indiedev #gamedev

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Toboe! the squire 🛡

github.com/nothings/stb After several years, new releases of all libraries. Fabian "ryg" Giesen and I have gone through all the Issues and PRs, leaving 15 Issues and 10 PRs unresolved. Every single one of the 19 libraries has at least one change. ~300 commits to the repo. see Release_Notes.txt

GitHub - nothings/stb: stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++

stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++. Contribute to nothings/stb development by creating an account on GitHub.

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So proud to work here. 🧡 No AI means no AI.

PC Gamer@pcgamer.com · 5d ago

"The people are what make this product. The comedy, the writing, and the art, all that is done by people, and we have no intention of changing that."

You should go commission my friend Parse!! Parse made one of my favorite badges of all time :3

parse 🔜 MFF, FC@parsenoire.com · last wk.

🔥 OPEN FOR MFF BADGES 🔥 (mail also available) digital files, high quality print, cut & laminated, includes reprogrammable nfc tag and badge clip limited slots, closes once i get five or sometime next week vgen.co/ParseNoire/s...

May all the co-ops to spring from this mismanaged industry make cool games and last exactly as long as their owners want

Vertical Slice@verticalslice.news · 2d ago

Former id Software developers establish worker-owned, independent studio Hidden Horses after the Doom developer was gutted by Microsoft "We want to create a vehicle that allows us to make games for our livelihoods, not to make crazy profits and get 100x returns."

small reminder to the people pleaser

Making a future where it even feels possible to say no because of ethical, social, moral or other considerations (even newly formed ones) is the point, and the politics of refusal must be a big tent.

I want to point at a small paragraph in yesterday's statement from some of the Independent Games Festival Jurors, and say: “The past” is not a nebulous historical space from long ago. The past is always in the process of becoming. There is always room to look at active harms and change one's mind.

Perfect example: a kid shows you something they drew. You don't go "that looks nothing like a dog" you praise them for doing something they felt inspired to do. This results-based value society is the direct result of capitalism. People over products!!!

Wyatt BIRD@wyattbird.bsky.social · 3d ago

People are to concerned with making things perfect rather than just making. I care about garbage games that someone put their blood sweat and tears into over something a machine shit out in two prompts. Creating isn’t about the product and that’s lost on folks nowanddays.

Game development was possible before genAI, and it is still very possible without it. It’s quite easy to simply say “No, I will not use it” rather than trying to quantify “How much AI is okay?”

Frankly that Unity's developer support team (a level of support that developers have historically been forced to pay massive amounts for) could not figure this one out is more of an indictment against Unity's reducing ability to enable and support game development than it is of House House?

@steve-coan.bsky.social · 3d ago

took me 3 hours but I figured out the “URP culling shadowcasters behind the camera” issue House House cites in their disclosure. This culls immediately when the object is off-camera, but modifying the culling params with a custom frustrum is straightforward

The entire AI industry has been trying to make itself work by eating whole fields of creativity and research and seeing what gets the least pushback. Don't fall for any of it.

in a recent interview of Guillermo Del Toro he mentions how offloading your problem solving to AI stops knowledge from being formed and passed on regardless if unity also sucks, AI being the solution just contributes towards the race to the bottom

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 4d ago

Big Walk used AI in 'the final stretch' of development, kicking off intense awards debate: aftermath.site/big-walk-ai-ig...

Seeing way too many takes about how "AKSHULLY AI FOR CODE IS OK 🤓" today by people who - don't code/think it's magic - assume/go by what they've been told - don't/can't fully understand or appreciate it - "can't see, don't care" - are new to/bad at it - lost interest but still pretend to do it 💰

For real though: Looking up documentation, or even asking the developers, can often result in no solution. Asking around in a community often has much better results. These are people who are knee-deep in using the tech. They will always find problems, and solutions, quicker than the developers.

Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com · 3d ago

a feller in my discord just solved the unity shadow thing in a couple hours. shoulda just asked in my discord exhibit ten thousand

Game development has five distinct steps: ideation, pre-production, invent god, production, and post-production.

julie muncy, calamity's augur@julie.radiantarray.io · 4d ago

figuring out game architecture is so stupid. like, yeah, okay, my game has different days, so i'm going to need to make, like, a day manager to keep track of what day it is. gotta fucking invent god over here

Here's my AI disclosure statement: Sometimes I'll google something like "100CAD to USD" to get an exchange rate, but accidentally leave in a dollar sign at the start of the search, which makes the AI overview show up and decide to burn a tree in my honour in order to give me the wrong answer

I officially became the gay uncle this past week

A statement from me and other IGF jurors & jurists:

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sorry I just played World of Warcraft Forever yesterday have a Long Diego doodle