Got a bit more bug squishing to go, to support larger character sizes, but complex pathfinding is in! 1-tile-big critters can navigate the easiest path to wherever they want to go, so long as they have the right walking, climbing, and jumping ability flags! #Godot #GameDev

This was a fascinating exercise: find out what went wrong with creativity in the games industry. The conclusion: there are too many cowards controlling too many critical levers, and until we figure out how to put people -taste, creativity, and craft- back at the top, we're going to be stuck.

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social · 2w ago

The games industry is stifled by a culture of fear, concludes a workgroup hosted by Rami Ismail. https://bit.ly/4vPbIzv

Fields of Mistria 1.0 is here!✨ Thank you to everyone who's joined us on this journey, shared feedback, showed us your farms, created fan art, and loved Mistria as much as we do. 1.0 is just the beginning. 🌱 Download on Steam: bit.ly/Mistria

(WIP) All lesbians above C rank have at least one warrior form

Christie 🖤@ndchristie.bsky.social · 21h ago

More time to draw dragons (fans on windows closed) I guess

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(Some) Recurring Design Patterns in Storylet Narrative

Storylet narrative structures are less visible and encoded than branching narrative structures, but there are recurring patterns.

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the oscilloscope can produce mind-boggling effects 💀

A few years ago, a friend was contracting with a studio EA owns, and mentioned a strange talk by an EA exec. Among other things, he reassured everyone about how acquisitions just happen sometimes, but they're not *all* bad. I figured he was priming them for a Disney buy out at the time, but eesh...

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 24h ago

Well, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666

If you’re at an EA studio and want to anonymously talk about what’s going on and how the company is communicating with workers about this, I can be reached by dm here, email at kshepard@kotaku.com, or I can send you my Signal.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 24h ago

Well, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666

Mistria's full 1.0 release arrives tomorrow, 8/5! @aidosaur.bsky.social & I have been working on it since 2019-- seven years!! -- as Senior Writer & Character/Concept Artist! I wrote thousands and thousands of lines of dialogue... I hope they make you laugh and feel things! See you in the Fields! 💖

Some finds, during an evening walk with the cat.

in an alternate timeline im jerking off to equigamic cunnuscripts on my remotoscope

Igor Toscano 🏴@toscanoigor.bsky.social · 5d ago

Having a real good nectarine right now. Thought you should know.

no future ✌️

NEO Scavenger, the previous title, was the sort of game where every part of it was intricate, but once you learned enough about it you could absolutely make it dance. Ostranauts has been in development for at least as long, and if you're an imm sim person you should really check it out.

Kitfox Games 🦊@kitfoxgames.com · 2d ago

Ostranauts 1.0 is out NOW! 📖New endgame story 🕵️‍♀️ Bounty System: Make money catching criminals ⛏ Steam Workshop Support: Over 68 community mods already available! 🚀 New Station Maps 🏆Achievements 👨‍🏫Tutorial Improvements and much more! store.steampowered.com/app/1022980/...

Looking up at the stars tonight like "Hey guys. You're still up there, huh? That's nice"

This latest ref pack is a love letter to all my hard surface artist friends It contains 400+ (3.1GB) photos from the CAF SoCal airplane museum, including 100+ shots of tiny details from the cockpit of a MiG-21MF Use them for anything, just make sure to credit me! drive.google.com/file/d/1nsib...

Never been able to get a Miski design on Yeetee, because I never have the money to spare while they're being printed... but this is adorable. :< Made my peace already, but if this came on a tank top I'd have to make it happen somehow...

Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 2d ago

I'm excited to announce that @theyetee.com's first two Moon Child items are available for pre-order now: a cool pin and T-shirt! ➡️ theyetee.com/collections/...

been working on a custom #font in #godot. the hook is that many letters try to relax/slant into the previous letter, so you effectively get ligatures for a lot of combinations.

how it feels trying to get anything done in suburban america without a car

I wouldn't call my sex drive high, per se, since I don't get laid regularly and I'm pretty happy with that. But on the rare occasion where I have both the interest and the opportunity, well... I'd not argue with my test results, no.

yaoi gagarin@mel.bzky.team · 5d ago

OH COME ON

A message to our fans, as Ostranauts launch approaches: www.reddit.com/r/ostranauts...

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It feels unfair to compare, but I've had a version of this, WRT making games. It's a craft I've loved since I started learning it as a pre-teen. Being able to scrape by doing something I loved and was good at was such a treasure. And now, being without that for almost a year has felt so alienating.

Vertex@endvertex.bsky.social · 3d ago

To have something that brings you sustained joy and purpose is a lucky thing. Idk if we think of it like that, but it is. This is a casual vid, but he makes so many great points about passion and loss. Watched it a couple times now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6u5...

To have something that brings you sustained joy and purpose is a lucky thing. Idk if we think of it like that, but it is. This is a casual vid, but he makes so many great points about passion and loss. Watched it a couple times now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6u5...

Things Aren't Going to Be The Same

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massive respect for Arakawa-sensei, who set out in her latest series to improve on Edward Elric by making her just the grungiest lesbian

shares appreciated! i need a new bug catcher and they don't make this model anymore! the other models i've been able to find look much less conducive to photography. looking for advice! more context below.

Made a quick bezier-curve style lerp, to create satisfying arcs for when actors are jumping between tiles that are separated by gaps or ledges. Excited to try these out with proper animations, but for now the curves alone seem nice! #GameDev #Godot

Gadget Patch@gadgetpatch.bsky.social · 4mo ago

One thing I'd like to try with my game prototype is asymmetrical movement abilities. Stuff that's specific to different characters or critter types, and maybe modified by equipment. Doodled out some specifics for jumps, and how good at jumping a creature would need to be, to use each class of jump.

All together #lowpoly

these were fun to make #lowpoly

I love the gimmick in Absolute Martian Manhunter, where the comic tells you to hold a page up to the light, so the colors from the other side of the page bleed through and change the image on the page. Very cool way to represent the isolation of John and Bridget's broken relationship.

Protip: Don't try and get clever with this and assume you can continue coasting along being a closeted weirdo It's not gonna work, and by the time you're pushing forty you're gonna feel like nobody at all

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot@leguinbot.bsky.social · last wk.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.