Superconductor carapace flushed with condensed superfluid helium. Quantum stasis system. One occupant. Permanent seal. House of the Dying Sun is 70% off this week! store.steampowered.com/app/283160/H...
Mike Tipul
@tipul.bsky.social
Independent Game Developer https://dyingsungame.com/ Previously: Pandemic Studios, Bungie, Theorycraft Games
Quadrilateral Cowboy & Invisible Inc are in a cyberpunk bundle together! store.steampowered.com/bundle/82990... I'm a big fan of Invisible Inc, what a joy to be bundled together🙏
Save 63% on Klei Cyberpunk on Steam
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The more I code (I'm not academically trained), the more I'm interested in straight C, especially as my entity frameworks have veered toward composition as opposed to inheritance.
Finding Crawl's curses version extremely elegant and clean. Everything the game needs is right here, but not more. Even the seemingly small tilemap is just the right amount of tactical information to move quickly through the spaces (and a full map is still available on 'X').
One thing I never did was a post-mortem of Sir. Perhaps this is as good a time and place as any to talk about some of that. It started in 2010 when Channel 4 had some money to spend on making educational games. For some reason they asked me. ->thread
Jim Rossignol@rossignol.bsky.social · 2w agoIn surprising computer game news: Sir, You Are Being Hunted finally made it to console, just fourteen years after release on PC. It's out now on Switch, PS5, and Xbox. (And Steam and GoG, of course.)
store.steampowered.com/app/2629230/... This is so good. It's a really well done indie Dark Messiah, and it's just the right speed for playing through it with my kid. (The fish is the best weapon!)
The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot on Steam
A first-person action game, inspired by Dark Messiah, that provides various ways for defeating your foes, with weaponry, sorcery, stealth, or clever tactics like kicking them into deadly spikes.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ue... This is insanity. Microsoft is at least 50% to blame here for even allowing this. The install procedure even fires with OLD monitors once the system ids them.
DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns
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I fell asleep and accidentally pressed the release button. Sorry, folks, now you can play my little game. store.steampowered.com/app/3819770/...
Save 10% on Dragon Ruins II: Aftermath on Steam
A standalone expansion for a dungeon crawler for tired people.
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Cloning indies has been happening forever (some dorks tried shady stuff with HotDS 10+ years ago, even). ...but still, AI made the landscape EVEN WORSE and I'm trying to figure out when/where/how to talk about my projects, since my scale is perfect for bad actors.
404 Media@404media.co · 3w agoVibecoding has made it possible to create a cheap rip off of a video game in just a few hours.
Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.
Spent this week learning Godot. Reminds me a lot of Unity when it was hyper game-focused. The overwhelming simplicity compared to Unreal doesn't stop devs from building toy-like (but functional) versions of big systems like GAS/Abilities.
I've been working on the options menu for my dark fantasy game, Crimson Rest. It's not the most exciting part of development, but it's a necessary step. ➡️ Wishlist 'Crimson Rest' on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3993140 #darkfantasy #indiedev #gamedev #psx #godot
Happy 30th birthday, Quake, you really are the Genghis Khan of video games
Checking out Godot again this morning for no reason whatsoever.
I've interviewed the team responsible for my favorite Arcane Dimensions map Terror Fuma. If you always wanted to know how this iconic map was created and what inspired it, you can now read all about it right here: www.map-center.com/threads/arca...
A Thief remaster is on the way from Nightdive. 👀
Oh hell yes, Nightdive's next remaster is Thief
4K moss arrows just like I always dreamed.
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Hugely sad. We've lost John Blanche. It's hard to know where to begin. He set fire to a generation's imagination, and those fires show no sign of stopping burning. His work very much illuminated the darkness.
'Battle Milk' is now stuck in my head, as a concept, forever.
Ed Smith@edwardsmithwriter.bsky.social · 2mo agoProject Zomboid players are dismayed because the exploit for 'battle milk' just got patched out. You mix 51% water with whiskey and milk. The whiskey combats the stress debuff, milk provides raw calories/weight maintenance and the water quotient is just enough to trigger the auto drink mechanic.
The State Tree engineering in Unreal 5 is kind of crazy. Being able to pipe data around to any parameter or task input/output/context seems really hard to do. Really powerful stuff.
Ralph McQuarrie working on a Cloud City matte painting:
William Hawkins (1895-1990) American Artist
STALKER 2 finally has its hooks in me! I wonder how much they're getting out of the truly open map. They're essentially still doing what the old games did by cordoning off biomes by unpassable walls (radiation, rivers, keyed exits, etc) anyways, except now they're streaming everything.
Obsesionado con la obra de Zdzisław Beksiński por culpa de mi fijación por los libros del New Sun de Gene Wolfe. Un Giger especializado en ilustrar tierras muertas. Aquí toda su obra visual recopilada github.com/itdaniher/Zd... Uno de sus artbook en Internet Archive archive.org/details/fant...
From the animated trailer directed by POTTO Collective for "La Langue des Vipères", a graphic novel by Juliette Brocal, published today in France by Rue de Sèvres. Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH56...
Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm a french illustrator specializing in landscapes and sceneries. I'm available for freelance work. ✉️ arthur@baron-clement.com 🔗 arthur.baron-clement.com/en/
