Nick McKay
@nicholasmckay.bsky.social
Chicago indie game dev by day ... and the same by night
Opening gacha commissions for Minnesota: - Donate to any of the orgs on this list for $10+ - Send proof via DM or reply (can include a one word prompt) - You get a random monster - Get a copy of all other sprites when we're done! - Reposts appreciated! #pixelart www.standwithminnesota.com
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New vid 🍔 This Restaurant for Gamers Wasted $44,000,000 After co-founding Atari & starting Chuck E Cheese, Nolan Bushnell made uWink. The idea relied on casual touchscreen games and was an expensive failure. I love uWink now & had to tell its story since no one else has 🍔 youtu.be/fxoiaJTc3D0
This Restaurant for Gamers Wasted $44,981,534
YouTube video by Allie Meowy
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Credit to my gamedev buddy Annabel who doesn't have a social media account
🚀 STEAM NEXT FEST IS HERE! 🚀 Join us today at #SteamNextFest with our latest demo of our game, 📺 That Time I Got Trapped In An Office Dungeon 📺 — A 2nd-person horror comedy puzzle game! store.steampowered.com/app/3424620/... #steamnextfest | #indiegames | #gamedev
Our kickstarter for C.I.G.S. (Chicago Indie Game Showcase) is LIVE and we already blew past our both our goal and first stretch goal in... three hours. Help us build the future of Chicago indie dev and get tix to see a ton of amazing devs. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ind... #indiedev #indiegame
Chicago Indie Game Showcase
Chicago Indie Game Showcase (C.I.G.S) is a one-day convention featuring independent games from Chicago and the greater Midwest.
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We in the Elemera development team are so excited to share what we've been working on with all of you. This project has been a huge passion of ours for months now and we hope you'll join us as we continue to make our dream game a reality.
Did an interview with @pixelbreakdown.bsky.social about the plans the team has for @elemera.bsky.social it was such a fun interview to do! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUQN...
Indie Dev Interview - Xenith Games | Quest Log Episode #14
YouTube video by Pixel Breakdown
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All of us: Aw man, Nintendo's probably gonna be cautious about how they market Luigi for a while. Nintendo: FUCK IT WE BALL LUIGI IN HITMAN ON THE SWITCH 2
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2y agoHITMAN World of Assassination - Signature Edition for Switch 2 includes Luigi/Mario color themed content for preorders (Signature/Quack Pack) buff.ly/JU1rv9g
At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today, members of the United Video Game Workers union marched through the conference halls, with a mission to “build large-scale education campaigns about labor organizing in the video game industry.”
I love coworking days :3 Featuring @neee.bsky.social @bradstar879.bsky.social @nicholasmckay.bsky.social
Shout-out to @windupthing.bsky.social and @sweetoothghost.bsky.social for hosting the incredible Bloodrage Summer Fight Club event. I had so much fun as both Grombles and Lord Land
So since Musk is a dumbass that doesn't understand how databases work, I'd highly recommend everyone make an account at ssa.gov and download a copy of your social security statement. I'd also recommend making an account on IRS.gov and download a copy of all your tax statements for the same reason.
The United States Social Security Administration | SSA
Official website of the U.S. Social Security Administration.
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Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the General Services Administration (GSA).
This site is pronounced Bisky and I will not be convinced otherwise
It occurs to me, after reading posts getting it spectacularly wrong, that there are a lot of misconceptions over how game studios organize and, in particular, who makes the actual decisions about what ends up in your game. Much of it is by folks who don't *try* to get it... but not all, surely. 1/🧵
I Recently hosted a game dev gingerbread contest here in Chicago at Night City Games. I was blown away by the talent of the participants as well as by just how many people were willing to indulge in my silliness. Still waiting on photos from the event, but here are the entries youtu.be/Yp6M8-0JvG4
Chicago Game Dev Gingerbread Contest 2024
YouTube video by Nick McKay
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This may only be funny to me, but I'm setting up a bunch of standard programming libraries and a lot of them brag about what projects use them. One of them names a bunch of boring software and then Death Stranding and then no other specific games
At the ATLA Concert. Leaves from the vine was too much for me 😭
