I’m not really sure how many more times I can answer questions about what voice acting brings to games. The first VA for games was 1980. No other actors are asked to justify themselves like this.

Sometimes it's the small stuff - taking the time to polish the nice-to-haves that can save a lot of time in production.

tarinoi@tarinoi.bsky.social · yesterday

Game projects often share some DNA, and if they’re sequels, DLCs, or the same game system, they might have a lot in common. With Tarinoi, you can select the shared parts to create project templates so you don’t have to start from zero every time. #gamewriting #narrativedesign #gamedev #indiedev

Do mutes next, you cowards

Sally@sirin.bsky.social · 21h ago

OK did they just stealth make Likes public? Let the drama begin.

OK did they just stealth make Likes public? Let the drama begin.

Begging events organisers to recognise not everyone has bloody Facebook.

Sometimes it's the small stuff - taking the time to polish the nice-to-haves that can save a lot of time in production.

tarinoi@tarinoi.bsky.social · yesterday

Game projects often share some DNA, and if they’re sequels, DLCs, or the same game system, they might have a lot in common. With Tarinoi, you can select the shared parts to create project templates so you don’t have to start from zero every time. #gamewriting #narrativedesign #gamedev #indiedev

You had me at "a time-looping puzzle ballad of Ozark folk superstition" 💖

Brain&Brain@brainandbrain.bsky.social · 10mo ago

ANNOUNCEMENT: introducing our latest game! The Marvelous Raincaster of Yell Holler, a time-looping puzzle ballad. 🪕 💧 Unravel a story-based time puzzle 💧 Employ a traveling c̶o̶n̶m̶a̶n̶ salesman 💧 Orchestrate a shindig and other such matters Wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/3800300/

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

Apropos of nothing, I am increasingly convinced that many American progressive accounts on bluesky are just a psy-op intended to sabotage international sympathy for Americans from people in the rest of the world who are opposed to fascism. At this point it's the more plausible explanation.

What would you recommend to a fussy weirdo who loves Disgaea 1 but didn't really enjoy any of the sequels (2, 3, 4, too much faff added) or spin offs. I did quite like La Pucelle. Gotta be something nice looking with grids, simple skills, a bit of story and chasing big numbers...

OK, got to tighten those knots. And maybe the pearl sugar is overkill... Something about adding a pre- and a post-baking glaze that makes them feel all fancy.

Sally@sirin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Today I choose patience.

Today I choose patience.

If you can catch the last 2 days of Ramp on the Roof in Manchester, do. The pro demo was incredible. I've only seen this level of skating on TV, but it's breathtaking live 💙 I know I'm forgetting some... highlights were Oliver Holm, Hampus Winberg, Viktor Solmunde and George O'Neill.

sometimes I am jealous my dog doesn't know anything about AI at all

(For the girlies who don't really think of marketing like that -- minimalistic, "classic" packaging on more expensive goods is meant to minimize guilt around the price by evoking a sense of tradition and understated quality. It works best during periods when people are loath to spend extra.)

Creating this platform from scratch means we put a lot of energy and thought into the core architectural design. We could draw from our experience, revisit scenarios and edge cases, and tailor it to support the new vision -and in a collaborative app like this, sync is a fascinating problem to solve.

Petteri Sulonen@petteri-sulonen.bsky.social · last wk.

Although Tarinoi is a webapp built for real-time collaboration, we decided to make it offline-first from the start. It wasn't trivial but it is so very much worth it. I wrote up a devblog about it. tarinoi-works.com/blog/offline...

1000xRESIST is now firmly in the top slot for “games that have made me cry the most.” great videogame. it’s about so many different things and yet it all comes together so well, like a poem.

motherfucker I am French and I mostly read 20th century European fiction; my sentences are going to keep running on and on and on and there's nothing any of you or indeed any of us can do about it

Kevin@reginageorgebush.bsky.social · last wk.

one impact of LLMs is that everyone's sentences are organically shorter now. even mine! while in my case that's unreservedly a good thing as I tend towards run-ons, for most people it...isn't

I mean, I'm biased - but this really is nicer to use than Miro 😅 #uiux

tarinoi@tarinoi.bsky.social · last wk.

We've started to use Tarinoi to design Tarinoi, instead of Miro. It's pretty handy. For example, here's a helicopter view of our top-level UI components and how they relate to each other. We're using it to figure out a better way to navigate around the app. #narrativedesign #softwaredevelopment

many of the early and most successful game designers and developers were women most people don't remember their names today, or recall that video game history started before the Boys Toys era funny that many of the games I grew up loving most were designed by women and I never knew til years later

Thew@amazingthew.bsky.social · last wk.

I think about King's Quest a lot. Distinct childhood memory of overhearing a middle-aged woman at church telling my mom about how much she loved kings quest. This was like circa 1995? games used to be for everyone until nintendo/sega marketers turned them into Action Toys For 12 Year Old Boys

Hi, it's #WishlistWednesday !💌 🐞We are a team of five indie dev. working on this cute detective game inspired by stop-motion animation from the 60s like Noddy ! Play the demo and help our little detective Ambroise NIflette to resolve a theft mystery. store.steampowered.com/app/4319270/...

Nobody ever explained to me what a passkey is or how they work. Websites just started asking me for passkeys like it's something we talked about.

I love a good addiction and a scribbly notepad. I thought the UI would defeat me but it's really quite clever. Takes a lot of the admin out and keeps you in the story. Lack of sitting/lying sprites is a little odd, though...

Sally@sirin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Right you've all convinced me to try Galley House. I could not click with Obra Dinn at all, but I did with Roottrees...

Browsing Insta and thinking, maybe a six day pilgrimage through the Peaks would fix me 🤔

c'mon Mamdani don't take this lying down! I want this to escalate. I want it to get out of hand. I want it to result in a buddy mayor movie plot where Mamdani and Khan go detain him.

worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 2w ago

oh damn. we got a mayor off.

Right you've all convinced me to try Galley House. I could not click with Obra Dinn at all, but I did with Roottrees...

It's all getting a bit folk horror on the steps down into the woods tonight.

The platform mechanics might not be for everyone, but the soundtrack is beautiful. I rerun again just to hear more. The effect in the water was a clever little touch 🩵 I also like how every character has their own embroidered border. I'm sure I read the central tale as a kid... or similar.

Atashi Wa Todd McFarlane@lordofthekevins.bsky.social · 2w ago

What do you fucking mean they embroidered all the sprites

they'll fuck us over anyway. we ball and make something great.