As a person who used to be THAT KID, reading all about astronomy, looking through telescopes, religiously reading any space related news, it takes a special kind of person to make me root against rockets. And yet here I am.

Craig R. Brittain@craigbrittain.com · 3w ago

BREAKING: SpaceX Starship 13 launch CANCELED after massive fail.

Capitalist states are gonna call it terrorism when people rise up against the billionaires destroying our societies & our world, when people resist fascist anti-immigrant violence and the ultra rich stealing our resources & ruining our economies. That will occur but it cant stop people resisting

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3w ago

Activists damage the building foundations of data centre 🫡 > The group said that they threw water balloons filled with a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, acetic acid, salt, and acrylic paint at the under-construction facility.

While yeah, all the newer systems and consoles running on Ayn Thor are really cool, the capabilty to easily run 486+ era games in DOSBox is that little extra that makes it magical for me.

My toxic trait is that I won't trust any tier list that doesn't follow gaussian distribution.

Not gamedev or wildlife related, but if you have any spare time, check this out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dvu...

Can I Sneak This Boat Through A Military Blockade?

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Ayn Thor is amazing. Managed to get my game running on it via GameNative. Wooo!

I think given the scale @godotengine.org is now at, this is an incredibly incisive approach to combat generative AI's awful impact on people, code, and communication. Also focusing the ban policy on access & pull requests is a smart way of eliminating huge parts of the problem in a practical way.

Godot Engine@godotengine.org · last mo.

For years we have been overwhelmed by the volume of code contributions we have to review, especially from new contributors. AI has made the problem much worse. That's why we are taking steps to reduce the burden on maintainers while still welcoming new contributors: godotengine.org/article/cont...

Here is the same thing without position and scale tweening. The texture on the right defines what part of the button will be pushed when pressed. When pressed, An "offset_factor" shader parameter is tweened: UV.y+ texture(gradient_mask,UV).r-0.5) * offset_factor #Godot #GameDev

If you ever bought McPixel, you can play McPixel for the rest of your life. If the store is gone let me know I will show you where to get it. If you ever pirated McPixel and the torrent tracker is gone, let me know and i will show you where to pirate McPixel.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · last mo.

PlayStation is deleting 551 purchased movies from its customers' accounts, reminding us nothing digital is ever truly ours https://kotaku.com/playstation-store-movies-digital-studio-canal-terminator-2000711013

My game isn’t even out yet and it has already been cloned three times.

Holy carp! Katamari x Carrion! So cool! Gotta love kaiju games!

Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷@toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 2mo ago

Here's a cool indie game that got lost in the noise this week. 👇 ROLLA is a Katamari-like, horror B-movie inspired arcade destruction game where you roll around a city as a mass of flesh. It's got the sauce. One of my fave reveals this week. 🍝 (Wishlist ROLLA on Steam)

About 10 years ago I hear the last call of golden oriole around these parts. More and more cats started roaming in the fields and I thought that the birds stopped coming. But this morning I heard the unmistakable whistles of what is one of my favorite birds singing outside my window. I am so happy.

Fantastic! Can't wait to see more creators joining Godot with this news.

Godot Engine@godotengine.org · 3mo ago

We've been working on replacing the Asset Library with something built for the present and future. Here's what's coming. #godotengine godotengine.org/article/intr...

We've been working on replacing the Asset Library with something built for the present and future. Here's what's coming. #godotengine godotengine.org/article/intr...

Introducing the Godot Asset Store – Godot Engine

We've been working on replacing the Asset Library with something built for the present and future. Here's what's coming.

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Ok, screw cutscenes. How in the everlovin flippin heck do ledges and cliffs in a 2D beat em up work? I spent the entire night thinking about edge cases regarding both in-game jump/movement pseudo-3D physics and AI interactions and I'm barely conscious now.

Sometimes it's the features you don't expect that are the most complex. In my game, that was the internal scripted event player I designed the framework with it in mind, with all the inputs routed through hot-swappable components, but even basic implementation still was somehow more than I expected

It's friday! Time to *checks notes* continue working on my game!

Ever had that moment when you fix one bug just to discover that its quirks masked errors from untold layers of cross-related bugs and the code that you were actually quite proud of turns out to be a jenga tower one block removal from collapsing? Because oh boy did I. #indiedev

As I'm getting deeper into the project and started adding more complex overlaying and interacting systems, I have decided to take some time off to do a little cleanup. Little cleanup had me working till 2:30am yesterday and I'm still in the trenches, with like 50% more to go. Ouch.

obra dinn but you try to figure out how did it end up like this, it was only a kiss, it was only a kiss

🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮@unormal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

obra dinn but you're trying to figure out what happened in an old apartment building, now abandoned

What if I added kaiju to Lazy Kickers?

I'm doing first draft of playable character skins for The Tiny Kaiju Game and having tons of fun. #indiedev

Adding support for multiplayer. Different kaiju color schemes and multiple input sources support is ready. Now only thing left is to actually spawn multiple kaijus and have enemies interact with them properly. This will be easy, surely. Right? RIGHT?

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/

Experimenting with hue shifting shader is fun. While not perfect, as I am looking at the results, I can get like 8 distinct-enough colors. Ok, now the question presents itself: dare I implement 8 person multiplayer in my beat em up? I'm not sure if I'm crazy enough. #indiedev #godot

Testing how different Sue colors for multiplayer would look if I'd hue-shift 4 main colors in fragment shader. Not bad to be frank. At this point I did it by eyeballing it in aseprite, but the principle seems sound.

Ok, we've got serious main menu thing going on.

As I make my game I realize that many of my assumptions are wrong, and the milestones that I've designed shuffle features between them. Freedom of being indie means that when I realize that for example in-game cutscenes depend on multiplayer feature, I can move that one up in the pipeline #indiedev

Since I'm already working in stage progression, I have decided to throw in some nifty screen transitions shader for loading in and out of a level. Yeah, I'm re-using transition alpha textures from Roarr. Honestly, I think they're neat. #indiedev

Day 1 of working on my incremental soccer game! Let me know if you want to try the demo!