Unsupervision
@unsupervision.com
Chicago-based indie game dev. Lover of puzzles, factories, the cosmos, and a good cup of coffee. He/him. https://unsupervision.com/games
I had so much fun participating in this year’s All Star game jam hosted by @indiecitygames.org! Our submission, Survive The Island, tied for 1st place on the alternate controls prize 🏆 You can check it out here: unsupervision.itch.io/survive-the-... #gamedev #indiegames #icg #allstars
Survive the Island by Unsupervision, FionaFenali, secondshow
Available for Windows, macOS, Linux
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Conway’s Game of Life is famously a “zero-player” game. What if it wasn’t? blog.unsupervision.com/game-of-life...
Making Conway's Game of Life Playable
What if Conway's Game of Life were playable?
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My favorite part about Outer Wilds is that it fully depends on the player’s curiosity to advance the storyline in any meaningful way
“We are not a documented species. We are just a bunch of animals walking in and out of rooms.” - @tweetsauce.bsky.social
math beef is so funny like “oh you can’t find a way to match some number sets? i’m going to bully you so bad you need to go to a psych ward”
“You can lead a worm to bird-water but you can’t make it early.” - @someguymark.bsky.social
a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it .
ALT: a man in a leather jacket is standing in front of a building with a sign that says opening on it .
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We really need some smart fellers to step up because the fart smellers are taking over
WARNING: this post contains graphic language GPU. Nvidia. Anti-aliasing. Dynamic shadows. Texture
My GPU has 45 billion transistors in it. Like, we have this magic rock that we carved 45,000,000,000 miniature switches on it to create images of worlds that do not exist on a screen. We really, really not appreciate enough how insanely magical technology is.
Oh look, it’s #PortfolioDay My portfolio consists entirely of jam games I’ve made in the past year. Hoping to participate in a few more james this year while I get my #gamedev feet under me! You can play them here unsupervision.itch.io
Barack Obama has shared his top erotic free-to-play games of 2024
Outer Wilds appreciation post. This game has the coziest vibes! #OuterWilds
Nothing turns believer/grinders into grifter/coasters faster than big corporate politics #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Developer #Programmer www.seangoedecke.com/programmer-a...
Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters
Four archetypes in software engineering
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World generation models are going to be a pretty big deal for game dev. Once consumer hardware is good enough to run realtime inference, these could replace the entire game engine. A game could be a world model with a set of composed prompts. #gamedev #genie2 #genAI deepmind.google/discover/blo...
Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model
Generating unlimited diverse training environments for future general agents
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Double hot take: gameplay is the only thing that differentiates games from other art forms.
stardew valley puts a wizard in your rural farming town and he sometimes does magic but his main thing is he had a messy divorce
I’m ashamed to admit it has taken me this long to sit down and play it, but I can now confirm: half-life 2 lives up to the hype
I know it’s trendy to dunk on genAI, especially in games, but part of me wonders if we just haven’t seen it done right yet
AAA studios are struggling, not because they're going "woke". Indie game devs are creating better games with more replayability for $30-40. AAA studios release half a game for $70. I feel bad for these incredibly talented devs when it's obviously a management issue.
The 16th #PirateJam will be starting on January 17th, 2025 at 6:00AM PT. Our last jam had 15,000 developers and this one already has ~7,000 prior to this official announcement. Go Make Games itch.io/jam/pirate
Pirate Software - Game Jam 16
A game jam from 2025-01-17 to 2025-02-14 hosted by Pirate Software. What is a GameJam? A Game Jam is a short event where you and others work together to create a small game. Most Jams have some kind o...
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For the algorithm and the mutuals! Hmu if you’re interested ☺️ Games > Outer Wilds > Satisfactory > Baldur’s Gate 3 > Deadlock > Zelda BOTW/TOTK > Soulslikes > Portal Game Dev > Godot > Blender > Logic Pro > game jams! Software Dev > Infrastructure as code > K8s/helm > ML Engineering #promosky
My other popular opinion is that in-app purchases fucked mobile gaming. Yes, there are exceptions; I know them. But the whole “our game gets unplayable after a point unless you buy coins” thing just means that games are no longer fun and developers aren’t trying to balance playability any longer.
Currently obsessed with the idea of using time loops to build factories…
