WAIT A STINKIN MINUTE...

Mr. Lucha, father of 🦆 🐈 🐕 , indie dev 🎮@luchalutra.bsky.social · 2d ago

While working on stuff around the house, I was hearing this loud quack that belongs to our tiniest (and sassiest) duck, Carmen. It was rhythmic, and different than usual. On a whim, I decided to limp over to the window to check...and saw this: She is LITERALLY quacking orders to the entire flock.

While working on stuff around the house, I was hearing this loud quack that belongs to our tiniest (and sassiest) duck, Carmen. It was rhythmic, and different than usual. On a whim, I decided to limp over to the window to check...and saw this: She is LITERALLY quacking orders to the entire flock.

Ya'll the sound I just made! Throw @nodowdy.bsky.social some love!

NODOWDY-ABOUTY ★ COMMS OPEN!!@nodowdy.bsky.social · 4d ago

ROXAS

Been out of commission for about a week! Internet foibles, combined with bodily foibles. But I am at least one less foibles category. I've been taking a mental health break as well, but I'm around! Just wanted to drop by to let folks know I am ok. Excited to get back to work when I can.

No notes, lmao.

Trevor@awholedamntown.bsky.social · last wk.

I can no longer remember where or when I found this, but it popped up in my memories, and I wanted to share it with all of you. #Filmsky

Today's agenda: resume working on animation frames for my game's UI button. I'd like to get it finished, at least one of them! Then if time permits, work on a secondary one (I have an idea for it), and maybe start the pressing in animation.

Animation update for my pixel button. I am going to be taking a break for the night, but I managed to figure out how the layers and frames work, and I made about 15 frames out of it. I am not done with it (I aim to have quite a bit more frames so it's REALLY smooth), but we're getting there.

As tedious as animating frame by frame is, listening to the Tool 10000 days album is doing a LOT of heavy lifting for me. Once I get to about 30 frames, I will share what I have so far. Keep an eye out, hoping to have those done in an hour or two.

A banger of a thread, deserves a powerpoint suited for a king. So I did just that. (Thanks again for making the thread Daniel, it's good advice)!

Daniel Fedor@dcfedor.bsky.social · 2w ago

Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12

holy shit, actually huge. It's effectively a glassdoor dedicated to letting you know which companies are ghosting after interviews. If this happened to you, ESPECIALLY as a gamedev, please please consider reporting them on this site. Enough of that happens, and we can save a lot of people's time!

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Interesting: There’s now an anonymous, moderated list of companies that stop responding after you interviewed with them

I may be a bit behind on the developmental curve as far as understanding the gamedev profession as a whole, but I can at least say I am a damn good cook. Jambalaya baby!

I am excited to make Jambalaya in a few hours. Lol. It's been so long.

For fighting game fans on here, Marvel Tokon's Open Beta just went up for pre load. It will be running for I want to say 2-3 days. Something like that, so if you missed out the first time during the closed beta, now's your chance. I don't think it becomes playable until two more hours however.

I am feeling a bit...inspired to try making a dish I never made before. Since we don't have Indian food around where I live (a fact I still suffer with), and I have been craving it, I am just going to have to learn how to make it myself. I am thinking Beef Biryani first, to build confidence.

I pretended to be some old guy's son who flew in from Europe to hype him up to this lady he was trying to impress at a flower shop. Apparently, his sons flight got cancelled, but he didn't want to appear that he made him up, so he asked me if I could do it cause I "looked like him close enough".

Aura/Moom@moomanibe.bsky.social · 2w ago

weird accomplishments: arenanet wrote a special NDA just for me so I could beta test guild wars:factions while underage valve once had me pretend to be kidnapped by glados I hid a clue for the frog fractions 2 ARG so poorly that no one ever found it I once cameoed in a popular webcomic

I bought the The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope. Pretty excited to crack it open and indulge in sweet, sweet, intelligence and insight(s). Sweet, nourishing intelligence and gamedev knowledge~

*Deep breath in* *exhale* I LOVE THIS I LOVE THIS I LOVE THIS I L-

Eniko Fox@enikofox.com · 2w ago

finished the draw action in You Have Died (And Been Reincarnated As A Fox Girl) which draws 3 cards from the deck and lets you pick one to put into your hand you can also redraw, which shuffles the cards back into the deck and draws again, but raises stress

Here's my bluesky hot take: If you get to have a head full of hair, and you haven't even went sage green at least once, then I get to have your hair for a whole day so I can get to it cause holy cow it's so pretty (and badass)!

gamedev update: Animation tutorials are breaking my brain. Who NEEDS animations anyways?! If you ask me, gamers are spoiled nowadays. Ya'll have imaginations don't you? Come ahhnnnn, help me out here. I mean, what is animation REALLY? What's next, ya'll want sounds?! I swear, the entitlement...

It's a beautiful day for gamedev. Nice overcast, some ambient rain sounds, and a morning where I am not in debilitating pain or some other manner of bother. Clear schedule too, for the most part, and I am even rested~ So the agenda: Animation study and practice, and application. See ya'll soon.

Jeeee-SUUUUUS, The Dr. Doom Tokon theme is scratching a deep Binding of Isaac/Castlevania itch I didn't realize I needed to have scratched. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgSJ...

Cloaked In Chaos (Dr. Doom Theme) - MARVEL Tokon: Fighting Souls Soundtrack

YouTube video by Xeno

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Explaining to people how wild videogames got with soundtracks in the early aughts is my fav thing to do as a millennial. If "WAP" came out back then, they'd throw that into a hello kitty game. Free. Example: NFS Underground: Hot Pursuit 2 had TWO songs about going down on someone. Rated "E" btw!

Every time I come across the pages of DLC for train games, all I can think about is how whomever buys those must have the sickest at-home train set ever. It's either that, or they had to get rid of their physical trains and are making up for it with the digital version, and there is NO in between.

Spiderman 2 is done. Closing thoughts: I was very happy with the back half of the game. It ends strong. The teaser was great, it's obvious what the focus is going to be. Problem is..."who" is being teased has never been my favorite villain. I just fought both of them in this game and in 1 so...🤷

A little over 3 weeks into this whole healing from surgery thing. I am over it? Yeah, I think I am over it. As much fun as it is to be stirred awake at...nearly 5:00 am, it would be nice to get a full nights sleep. Comfortably. For once. Anyways. I am going to be working on my game later today.

Spiderman 2 progress update: I got to Venom. All complaints are null and void, and all is forgiven. Also, thank you for giving me one of the sickest boss fights and set pieces ever with Lizard. It's clear all the rad shit is back loaded onto the back half of the game. Very clear.

Ok, after spending more time with Spider-Man 2, I have to question what the idea was with thinking Kraven makes for an interesting enough villain to be effectively the main antagonist? He's following the first game where you fought the sinister six, and now it's just...him? and like...[1/2]

People who are around my height or less (I'm 5'4), get too lost in the weeds about this sort of thing, and I feel as someone who never struggled with this I have an obligation to help. But the reality is, people who put all their issues on something genetic as being the cause, feel too far gone [1/

Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com · 3w ago

just found out that a guy i remember from a forum 15 years ago being upset that he was short and unreachably insane about it (no woman will ever date me because I'm short etc), trying to get leg lengthening surgery etc, is still on the successor to that forum saying the same exact shit. heavy

How old am I? Someone, a kind someone mind you, had to explain to me what "negging" was, because I thought negging was short for no eggs in recipes. IN MY DEFFENSE... I rarely came across the word, and I saw it in the context of a no egg bake blog for soda bread and they used it like that.

I have to boost this. Dental stuff is incredibly scary, and Lilith is awesome. She shouldn't have to worry about this sort of thing. If you are in the position to help, please consider doing so.