Time for the 43rd consecutive ScreenshotSaturday Mastodon Musings, an article with a selection of hand-picked Mastodon posts from last weekend's Screenshot Saturday™, each with a brief comment from yours truly.
Not too exciting for a late #screenshotsaturday I've been whiteboxing some of the cityscape for Robot Shooter on my gamedev streams. Starting to fill out a bit now
#ScreenshotSaturday I’ve been demoing at VGM Con this weekend in Minneapolis, and also at Minnedemo. At one point I had 5 simultaneous players. :D One person even played for a good 3 hours!
You can check out the latest dev build wherever you are from the Itch page, but don’t forget to wishlist on Steam too. :)
More work done on the improved destruction model. Some of the modules can be volatile upon destruction. In this case, missile bays. Higher-tier hulls like this one usually have additional armor layers protecting vulnerable modules from AP ammunition.
Good evening... Tried to make a storm, but my video card said me - "do it without me"... Therefore, I did not continue any further, and I will show you this
I have mixed feelings about working on UI: on one hand it's both surprisingly complex and tedious. One the other hand when things do work, it's super rewarding.
Anyway, everything is still pretty ugly, so nothing to show yet. Here's a GIF instead for #screenshotsaturday
Happy #screenshotsaturday! @frankcifaldi does it again, using a 35mm camera along with the mysterious 80s medical imaging equipment! I can pretend I'm seeing this in Computer Gaming World and dream of a good review! 🤩 #indiegames#pixelart
Here's an upcoming trinket in Shattered Pixel Dungeon that I expect to be pretty polarizing.
Normally when dealing or blocking damage in Shattered, the average result is the most likely one, and the min or max are pretty unlikely. The thirteen leaf clover inverts this, making extreme results more likely than the average. This makes combat much less consistent, for better or worse!
Today is #screenshotsaturday , and we’re excited to showcase one of the mythical creatures and legends from our game! Meet the formidable ‘Cucurrumachos’ of Ávila! 👹
Share your thoughts on their appearance, and we’ll delve into more details about them! 📝 #pointandclick#indiegame
For many reasons, this week has been especially unpleasant for me; I'd like to recover some of the feeling of living in a universe that's capable of ✨Beauty✨ (the capital/emojis aren't necessary, but they help).
If you have a moment, please respond with your favorite X that gives you what you judge to be an analogous feeling, and an explanation of what's cool about it.
Suggestions that have worked for me before:
beautiful theorems, proofs, or visualizations/intuitions;
neuro-spicy special interests;
scientific discoveries (all fields: fundamental physics to animal behavior);
clever puzzle solutions;
a historical event that's happy for more than just bigots;
a difficult to translate word or phrase and some of the best ways it can be used;
an unusual grammatical feature of some language you know (of) or culture you're a part of that just makes sense.
Things you just think are neat and what you like about them.
Thanks to the people who responded plus a little searching through this bot's posts ( https://mastodon.social/@trendytoots ) I have extended the list. Please feel free to respond with any more you know and can comfortably share, maybe with a description of what it's for, and a suggestion for what to call this kind of practice (or maybe it has an official name?). I'd really love to see examples from a broader variety of languages!
Note: if I'm bothering the people who use these hashtags, please let me know! I can remove the "#" or the whole hashtag from the list