Jasper Stocker
@jasperstocker.com
Procedurally Generated Developer PlayStation One Obsessive Occasional Mini Painter Player of Bass Guitars Edinburgh, Scotland he/him https://www.jasperstocker.com/ <- Portfolio https://www.psxpaldb.com/ <- PS1 Collecting Database
To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution
I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.
You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))
can’t watch an attenborough documentary without thinking of this
US case in which plaintiff tried to trick the court into issuing a judgment in his favour using AI prompt injection in his filings - lnkd.in/p/ejAmhP7b
Prompt injection decision | Jakob Plesner Mathiasen
New decision on AI prompt injections in court documents We have seen several cases where (unintentionally) the use of AI has gone wrong in court and arbitration proceedings. Lawyers have used AI whi...
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finished this thing pretty nicely (w @lumenloimu.bsky.social and her 💯 art/music/sound talent)! playable in browser at shp.itch.io/hamster-erases-humanity #gamedev #godot
Hamster: Erases Humanity by shp
A game about destroying as much as possible as an alien invader
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the humans got something to fight back with now #gamedev #godot
PSA: to all #GameDev, what ever you do, if you care about ever releasing your video game.. DO NOT play #Sandustry on Steam by Lantto Games; published by @hoodedhorse.bsky.social! 🧐 (do! it's awesome! 🤫) store.steampowered.com/app/2764460/...
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Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory...
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Happy #screenshotsaturday, y'all. Everyone tells new devs to start learning by cloning games like Pong. My advice: don't stop at Pong. However long you've been at it, recreating games or mechanics you like (or don't like) helps you understand the hows and whys better than just playing.
Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Game producer: Hi team! Where are we on fixing that race condition where optimists and pessimists trigger at the same time and will it be in time for the build?
Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Narrative designer: The glass is half {playerEmotionalState() >= OPTIMISM_THRESHOLD: full | empty}. // FIXME: Tune optimism threshold
In the meantime, you can access the censored Amnesty reports on gender critical groups here. Make sure they cannot erase these documents from the internet. Like a snowball. dn711306.ca.archive.org/0/items/amne... A growing threat. archive.org/download/rep...
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Oh forgot to mention that you can PLAY IT NOW on itch. Yep, most important bit of info for the post and I forgot to mention it. That's how we roll. moonmode.itch.io/i-love-dog
I Love Dog by Moon Mode
Fight For Love, Double The Dogs
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This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.
Not only do digital things not last forever, digital objects are even more fragile than physical ones! You can put a piece of paper on a shelf for a century, but you probably can't read a Unity project from 10 years ago
What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
As with many roaming beasts, the dpd van is at it’s most vulnerable when drinking.
One of your writers was specifically told of Jason’s mental health and that he was distressed but he went on to publish 6 articles and do two podcasts in the space of eleven days anyway. “We were only doing our jobs” won’t fucking wash. You are part of this. Own it.
A rightwing witch-hunt focused on Jason Arday – but so did legitimate journalism | Hugh Muir
It's always baffled me that this terminology caught on when the metaphor is something that is definitionally impossible.
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
But how on earth can I get behind the stairs for the loot? or the occupant's diary? I hear my immersive sim brain cry...
I saw this picture and immediately had to show it to some level designers.
🚨Unbelievable announcement🚨 Introducing a new game from @ramiismail.com and @moonmode.com, called I LOVE DOG - Gather your dogs🐕🐕🐕 - Fight for love❤️ - Push some crates📦 - Sokoban + physics battles💥 Download the game: moonmode.itch.io/i-love-dog Watch us play it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt3H...
Every tree, rock, road, and town in this world is procedurally generated from a seed, by Moongaming with PCG Forge for Godot. 🌍 www.reddit.com/r/godot/comm... #godot #gamedev #indiedev
dev-rygy spent two years building a procedural dungeon generator in Unity, inspired by Binding of Isaac, Enter the Gungeon, and Dark Souls. The demo just dropped. 🗡️ www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/co... #unity3d #gamedev #indiegame
Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton coined the term “software engineer.” She directed the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab & led development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer. She was born #OTD in 1936 & turns 90 today! #WomenInSTEM