Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends
@totter87.bsky.social
Award-winning gamedev. Animation/games Associate Professor. Level design author. SAAM Arcade founder. Making Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2229030/Little_Nemo_and_the_Nightmare_Fiends/
it's crazy to me people still insist ai for research is reliable when we now have an Hbomberguy video's worth of evidence that its unreliability is tanking Hank Green's career
This Bundle is amazing, go play: "Diorama Dungeoncrawl" by @renegadesector.bsky.social "The Sirena Expedition" by Giraffe Cat "La Mancha" by @totter87.bsky.social "Little Medusa" by @megacatstudios.bsky.social "Neurocracy" by @pyrofoux.itch.io and "Dungeon Bodega Simulator" by @alienfruit.games
@maxjk0.bsky.social · 3d agoToday is my Birthday! Yay Yippee! To support me on this momentus occasion of surviving 27 years on this planet, please consider grabbing the "Game Industry Hardship Fund" bundle on itch, supporting the UVW-CWA! 100 Games for just $10, including one by yours truly! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
I steal all the bagels
I accidentally memed my way to a pcgamer.com article: www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus... #godot
Godot natively supports coding in Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform, if you needed another reason to switch game engines
Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any code that is not of fine quality.
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Our feature artist/reference for today is this INDISPENSABLE page of SKIN TONES, created by @Spudfuzzart and @lizalotdraws! Possibly the MOST USEFUL THING I've EVER SEEN!!! #gamedev #characterdesign #digitalpainting #painting #colours #animationdev #SKINTONE #ART #procreate
Doing manuscript edits for Architectural Approach to Level Design, 3rd edition. Continuing to add more to the “please understand what it does and does not mean for this to be “architectural”” section 🤪
Had a boss like this. Would only wear a Star Wars shirt if it was part of his “I’m a cool but serious nerd scholar” look he used when giving talks. Completely fake
〽️ax krieger asks: who's going to PAX WEST?@maxkriegervg.bsky.social · last wk.video game industry wisdom: never trust a mf in a blazer and a tshirt
The chintzy-looking M64 clone console of the N64 by a company named ModRetro has been released, I think, I don't pay attention that closely to shit. But as the great @frankcifaldi.bsky.social posted before, it is our civic duty to push back against this company and shun ANYONE who doesn't.
Always wild to see the people who used to bully you for liking video games and not being singularly obsessed with football enough post pictures of their entire families in Mario costumes like “we love Nintendo!”
Bert's Intense Reading Stare (Sesame Street)
ALT: Bert's Intense Reading Stare (Sesame Street)
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Post a perfect album from the ‘90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains From 1990, so just in there
Brian Shea@brianpshea.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the ‘90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains
@insertcredit.com all of your beginning-of-show discussions this week (pandering vs. Catering vs. Fan service, what is game writing and narrative design) was stuff that @adriansandoval.net and I were working on a design meeting right before I listened in. You psychic time wizards you
I think my favorite part of The Odyssey was when Samuel L. Jackson went up to Aeneas in the after credits sequence and said “I wanna talk to you about the Rome Initiative…”
Racoon City Police pulling over Jill Valentine
Michelle@michelleroy78.bsky.social · last wk.Me: It's medicinal. Cop: Ok, first of all, it's a rocket launcher.
Featuring the amazing @elainegomez.bsky.social & @totter87.bsky.social (and a scrappy up & comer, @awintory.bsky.social)
Gonzalo Varela@gonzalovarela.bsky.social · 2w ago¡YA DISPONIBLE! / OUT NOW! 🎮🎶 Composición musical para videojuegos: estética, técnica y profesión 🎮🎶 Music Composition for Video Games: Aesthetics, Technique and Profession 📚 Ediciones en español e inglés / English and Spanish editions [1/6]
Top of the morning, Bluesky! #Gaudi is EVERYWHERE in Barcelona. #BlueSkyArtShow #Glass #EastCoastKin #Stunday
Add JIMOTHY to your next campaign! How would your party respond to our beloved hometown hero? #ZombieOrpheus #Jimothy #Seattle #DnD #TTRPG
@andrew-yoder.bsky.social your level design work in Indiana Jones has ruined me for the actual Vatican tour. I want to climb everything now
All these characters in the Odyssey, knowing that they’re in a story titled the word for a long journey, meeting Odysseus like, “oh man, it’s YOU, John Odyssey!”
Oh, so Rocket Slime is like…REALLY good
Millennials getting through 2026 while keeping their whimsy like...
I have been in academia a long time, and my least favorite type of academic is the “get name attached to as many prestigious-sounding things as I can (boards, committees, projects, etc) for clout, but do no actual work for any of it, leaving the things to slowly wither” person. It’s…a problem…
We cannot continue on as an industry if we keep ripping the livelihoods away from the people who make and cover games (CTRL+V that sentiment on the daily now I guess). Love to the folks at GameSpot today.
This is what people who had only played "Pong" in the 1970s thought video games were gonna be in the year 2000
@adriansandoval.net and I are trusted sources on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games and Metroidvanias, according to Wikipedia
Devs only do this work out of passion, and players only want to buy games made with evidence of developer passion. If your only passion is money and the stock market, get out of games and go sell oil or beer or cars or some other boring shit. GTFO. We don't want you.
The game industry has become significantly worse as the folks who make the games have lost power to folks who run big businesses and know finance but don't know anything about making games. My hope for the future of the industry, once we climb out of the current hell, is that we fix this.