Francis Kirkpatrick
@frakirk.bsky.social
Co-founder of @LiquidStatic.bsky.social I'm a game designer with a lot of tech art experience and a software engineering degree, so uuhhh I'm a technical designer I guess? Living in Aotearoa. He/him
Tbh this looks like a game I'd pay real money for 👉👈😟
Cancelling a subscription shouldn't be this hard. If you can sign up with a click, you must be able to cancel with one. Head to nyc.gov/click-to-cancel to file a complaint against any business that makes it hard to cancel a subscription.
When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.
Fundamentally I think videogames are a medium that (most of the time) gets worse the more the texture is obfuscated. It is not a medium where it's beneficial to hide the artist's hand; The details of the craft are more compelling than the artifice.
Concise and invaluable stuff here. I feel like this should be mandatory reading for anyone working in a creative industry 😭🙏
This is a great read and totally worth your time substack.com/@robsandberg...
Not a huge fan of the supermarket duopoly, but I appreciate new world at least being honest about all the price fixing 🥲👍
"Mediocre!" (Positive connotation)
And the 101 Courses are not the only Levelling The Playing Field content out today: also read this FREE newsletter article on my 75-20-5 rule - a simple but powerful tool to manage quality bar and disagreements building on the paid "Ask Rami" article from two weeks ago. ltpf.ramiismail.com/75-20-5/
Air to Ground Message: HAHAHA +FINGERS CROSSED+ Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA Type: Boeing 737 MAX 8 A: #a08437df167 F: #f4517df2453
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
NOOOOO!! STOP IT STOP NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!! !
Theyre GAMERS leave them ALONE
Hah ha get rekt ol musky and altman! Filling my "cyborg crab art" search results with ai slop only makes me MORE motivated to find the perfect art for my custom magic cards! 🕳️🤖🤛💨😤
Decks with 20 cards: Minimalist. Elegant. Exemplary. 35 cards: Not particularly optimised, but versatile while still being reliable... 50 cards: Hark! The Lord ought strike me down for my avarice! 125 cards: Far too much isn't even *close* to enough.
"Considering it an improvement to the source material should count as a mark against you in the Turing test." 🗑️🤖💨🤺 👏😭
DLSS 5 will never produce anything as impressive or as beautiful as V-Rally 3 on the Game Boy Advance: the Trinca Perspective youtu.be/r7i5C8GmnKM?...
Don't wanna go too galaxy-brain about this, but it's incredible to see the *literal 1st person perspective* of someone who thinks "I can safely endorse violent fascists, because the state specifically protects *me* from violence" suddenly being confronted with the truth.
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
Reason #99 why it's a GREAT idea to cameo as an NPC in your own game: When they randomly ruin your trailer shot, you have no one to get mad at but yourself 🙃 #indiegame #game #airplane #horrorgame
Every co-working space needs a full set of these flags.
tag yourself i’m I AM MANOEUVRING WITH DIFFICULTY
Might not have been the most productive day for us at Liquid Static, but thanks to @enkirkpatrick.bsky.social I now know that if an animal can jump, you can kick it in the nuts! 🦵💥🥜 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #indiegame #NightPlane #SeriousProfessionalsAtWork
Code is liability. AI allows us to create tremendous amounts of liability very quickly
I mean yeah I should hope so, that's his job and he should be paid for it!
Can someone make an "extraction metroidvania" for me please? I wanna play Silksong with my Arc Raiders friends. Also if that isn't trendy enough already, I'm comfortable with adding friend-slop elements 💰📈✨🤔
Alright pack it up everyone. This robot's kick and pantomimed pain has made all sci-fi redundant from here on out.
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
very amused that to some folks this meme is my greatest contribution to game design
Me, reading math stuff on Wikipedia to learn about collision detection: "Woah all these cool sci-fi words like Hyperplane and Disjoint Convex Set are kinda intimidating, the people who come up with this jargon must be super smart..." *I nervously click through more pages of big brain math stuff*
When you replace 'less' with 'fewer', that's one less mistake.
Ever wanted to become a pilot just because they look so cool? Bad news! The best pilots look that way from birth!! 🧑✈️ store.steampowered.com/app/3310570/... #indiegame #game #airplane #horrorgame
Today's dumb pun that evolved into an intrusive thought: (Because with all the balloons it's not so heavy, get it?) (Also, stories about intergenerational friendships and critiques of masculinity are great for all ages)