Mike Meyer
@rainbowheadmike.bsky.social
He/him or they/them. I used to do game jams a lot and organized a couple of interesting ones (piratekart.com). Professionally, I helped make way too many sports games. Now I work at themeaningfullifecenter.com
I am enjoying He Who Watches but sometimes they way bits interact seems counter to what the game has been teaching me about them and thus arbitrary and unsatisfying. Are blocks supposed to pass through each other? Why on the 2nd bump but not the 1st?
I bought this "SICKOS" shirt thinking it was a funny low-effort Halloween costume, but instead I have become the "getting questions that I thought were answered by shirt" meme.
Yes, but I was confused by everyone finding it so interesting? and now years later to still be talking about it???
Robert Yang@radiatoryang.bsky.social · 2d agoanyone else remember jonathan blow randomly doing tai chi in the middle of the park at gdc
Whoa! No one told me Galactic Racer was so ExciteTruck-like!!
Had to workaround a Firefox-specific issue with the audio library, but this silly bouncing ball thing is online now excitemike.com/games/bounci...
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Mike Meyer@rainbowheadmike.bsky.social · 4d agoI have kinda always been meaning to play with generative music (NOT LLM/GenAI. "algorithmic" maybe?) But somehow that's never what comes out when I sit down at the computer. This might count, though?
Dressmaker is a masterpiece.
I have kinda always been meaning to play with generative music (NOT LLM/GenAI. "algorithmic" maybe?) But somehow that's never what comes out when I sit down at the computer. This might count, though?
I think it should be on the billionaires to not make their death be a huge, obvious benefit to society rather than on the rest of us to pretend otherwise.
Spoilers for a book from 140 years ago: OK people largely realize Frankenstein was the doctor not the creation. Now let's do that but for "Jekyll and Hyde were never different personalities"
I saw somebody share a "product" they made where an LLM helps you prompt an LLM and I was SO SURE it was a joke and I even thought it was a good one, but since then whole conversations happened and project updates and! Somehow? It was completely serious!? What is happening to people?
ok here we go 🍝 Spaghetti Celesti: Devour the Heavens ⛅ is out now for free!! 🍴 the best pixel spaghetti of your life ↪️ prepare them & fork them perfectly ⭐ get those 5-stars reviews 😡 and be quick ! the people are hangry play it at punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti #fallingblockjam #pixelart
It almost looks like my entire settings UI is not just a single text field #FallingBlockJam #screenshotsaturday
Tried to be more interesting by having you manipulate the already-fallen tiles, but, predictably, controlling the falling one is more fun, so I guess I'm making that game instead #fallingblockjam
When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.
silly spaghetti game starting to almost look like something
Send us your experimental game — we wanna help you show it off! Get a chance to share your project onstage at GDC next spring, and help us inspire more people to make strange and experimental projects that change how we think about games. <3
Experimental Games Showcase@exgs.bsky.social · 3w ago📣 Applications are now OPEN for the 2027 Experimental Games Showcase at GDC! 📣 You have until October 23rd to send us all the weird, innovative and unique things you are working on. More info and apply here: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
It didn't take much for us to not get mad at Getting Over It! I mean, we got mad, but in a good way.
For a brief moment I actually thought directing attention to under-appreciated games and their designers was the POINT of OotSS. If someone with less reprehensible politics wanted to work with folks to package niche stuff into something that could get wider notice, that'd be rad as hell
Alan Hazelden@alanhazelden.bsky.social · 3w agoEarlier versions of the game did acknowledge the creators of the original games at the start of each section, and I consider it unacceptable that this was removed at Jon’s direction. Stephen Totilo noticed this change and wrote a nuanced article here: www.gamefile.news/p/a-complica...
Manwë told me Melkor keeps harrying the Firstborn of Ilúvatar so I asked how many Elves he has and he said he just goes to Middle-Earth and invites more Elves on the Great Journey so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding the Quendi to Morgoth and then Nienna started crying.
