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glassbottommeg

@glassbottommeg@peoplemaking.games

Queer af founder of Glass Bottom Games. BAFTA Breakthrough. Now working on something mysterious (previously: SkateBIRD, Hot Tin Roof, etc).

Things I tend to do include: #UnrealEngine, #IndieDev, #GameDev, and I love #Birds

Sometimes a bit of #GamingNews and #IndieGame / #Gaming too!

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glassbottommeg, to random
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Here, if your relatives don't understand this work of art, I've drawn up some analysis you can walk them through

glassbottommeg,
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@lunarood nah, reference to the game designer thing of drawing colored lines across screens to show where the eye is drawn and perspective and etc

glassbottommeg, to random
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Anyone in their 20's and 30's going "I wonder when I'll stop silently humming the ABCs song any time I need to alphabetize something", I regret to inform you that I am in my 40's and still sing my ABCs when sorting my game's Credits document and such

glassbottommeg,
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@eniko last name. That's how I was taught ages ago (for general alphabetization), anyways?

glassbottommeg, to random
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@sinbad 5.4.2 hot fix live! I think that means you're good to go again on SUDS?

glassbottommeg, (edited ) to random
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I just found out about the SQlite code of ethics, and now I'm feeling bad about ever recommending that database to anyone. https://www.sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

EDIT: this is a gag, I know you don't have to follow this to use it, I just find it impossibly cringe (and not the bad-good kind of cringe) to find this sitting like a turd in the middle of my favorite solve for SQL DB problems.

glassbottommeg,
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@ben THE BEN PLEDGE

brody, to random
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[ SAVE YOUR PROGRESS? ]
[ YES ] [ NO ]

A bathroom lit with gentle purple and rainbow lighting, and ethereal music is playing like it's a save room in a PlayStation 2 horror game. This is the bathroom at Glitch City LA

glassbottommeg,
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@brody Now THAT is a bathroom fit for Travis Touchdown

TomF, to random
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@glassbottommeg recommended Isles of Sea and Sky, and I second that - I'm really enjoying it. It's "Zelda, but Sokoban" and everything you do is done by pushing things. Some fascinating mechanics.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1233070/Isles_of_Sea_and_Sky/

glassbottommeg,
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@TomF yeah, I just beat it with my partner a few days ago- it was great!

glassbottommeg,
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@TomF The only bummer note is that the Serpent Isle mechanic? Used to be spread throughout the whole game. Which meant you got to play with that on not-painfully-difficult puzzles.

I think that's my only gripe with the structure: because stuff necessarily comes in a kind of order, certain mechanics (ice world and then especially serpent) you just end up sort of resenting, because you never got to see the baby-versions of those puzzle mechanics and get to having fun with them early.

glassbottommeg, to gamedev
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As someone who essentially went indie because of Indie Game The Movie, this is a sorta heartbreaking read: https://www.polygon.com/24162580/indie-game-the-movie-rewatch-fez-braid-super-meat-boy #GameDev #IndieGame

glassbottommeg,
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@raptor85 wait, they had reputations going in? Any chance you can er, expound on that?

My knowledge of the 3 essentially begins there. That was early days, and they didn't run in my circles, so I guess I just never saw the pre-movie drama.

Post, oh yes, heh.

glassbottommeg, to random
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I wonder this every time I look up at my adblocker in the GMail tab:

how on earth is Google serving (well, failing to lol) over a thousand gmail ads in a single workday?

I don't even understand where these things would be. Is the count accurate? I could of course turn adblock off and see, but. Lol. No.

glassbottommeg,
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@raptor85 @TomF ah, so that's why I've never seen a remotely good targeted ad I guess

glassbottommeg, to random
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Once again: folks should probably consider switching to Firefox. Especially if you, I don't know, rely on ad-blocking to navigate our glutted-as-shit modern internet, for instance?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-starts-deprecating-older-more-capable-chrome-extensions-next-week/

gord, to gamedev
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Just in time for Steam , got a new trailer up for Moving Houses. What do you think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjpXyph3rqs

glassbottommeg,
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@gord This is solid!

Only real feedback I can office is, instead of starting the lower left text as seeming like an actual "from the studio who-", lean into the gag faster. Try to be in at least slightly obvious gag territory by, I dunno, the 10 second mark at least? Ideally 5s.

glassbottommeg, to gamedev
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If the massive push to buy everyone out resulted in the first major locus of unionization in games, that would be poetic https://www.gamesindustry.biz/zenimax-staff-now-included-in-microsoft-and-cwas-labour-neutrality-agreement

sinbad, to random
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I thought I was being really smart by using sockets on weapons to position melee attacks so that you can just trigger overlaps via anim notifies a little before potential impact, and if you make the overlap boxes big enough you get a nice directional element to attacks for cheap (good for making particles fly and directional knockback)

Reader, this does not work well under varying frame rate conditions. After this I'm definitely going to test the game with t.MaxFPS=20 more often 🤦‍♂️

glassbottommeg,
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@sinbad yerp. I was going to use GameplayTags for that. Create a map between tags and Defined hitbox structs, and each defined hitbox is just origin and shape type and necessary args.

I'd try to make it default most of those. But. I suspect in practice I'll at least have to tune each hitbox to each enemy class. So maybe it slightly loose there is probably desirable.

Might frame the struct args for dimensions and stuff as overrides instead for that reason tho. So I can at least try to just use one central default for each hitbox size/position, and see how far that gets me.

glassbottommeg,
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@sinbad that looks great!

I can't even tell you're just using a box. For a sec I thought you were emitting the blood from a precise hit point against the head. But squinting, nope. Which apparently doesn't matter lol, cus looks great!

glassbottommeg,
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@sinbad ahhhhhh, interesting modification!

Also, wait, you're tracing/overlapping against the actual skinned meshes? I've been doing geoms-attached-to-sockets as my hitboxes, typically just a torso sphere or two and a head sphere. Hrm. How do you feel about your method, relatively speaking?

glassbottommeg, to gamedev
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Has anyone in #IndieDev / #GameDev done a concise walkthrough on how to navigate Content ID with original music, so that 1.) scammers can't claim it themselves, but 2.) Streamers streaming your game don't get Content ID'd by you having claimed it?

And doing that WITHOUT telling YouTube "oh sure this is free music" and getting it added to their big free pool and eventually seeing it used in, I don't know, an alt-right podcast intro. It needs to be free for contextual use, not like, in a global free pool.

Last time, our musician used Distrokid I think? Or one of the equivalents. Because they wanted to sell it on Spotify/etc while being hands-off on YouTube/etc. Supposedly Distrokid handles that elegantly, but I feel like I saw they're a bad idea lately?

glassbottommeg,
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@dahnielson the problem with that route is that scammers can and will submit to content ID, and then you'll be playing whackamole forever, I think?

I don't think YouTube is even capable of understanding "that claim is invalid, but that doesn't mean I want to claim it myself"

llamasoft_ox, to random
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Right, Play Meter magazine is blatantly not realising that Congo Bongo was a pile of old smeg so I think I'm off to roost now.

Quite entertaining looking at all this from a suit's point of view. My own view of equivalent times was so different.

glassbottommeg,
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@llamasoft_ox oh gods, core memory activated, never thought I'd hear that name again

Played that a ton as a kid, but I suspect it was indeed terrible

glassbottommeg, to random
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Right, ok, so in the year of our lord 2024, in Windows 10 (or 11 I guess), does anyone know

how the fuck you're supposed to type an emdash or a trademark symbol, without either using the emoji keyboard for a TM, or copy-pasting it in from elsewhere?

alt+ doesn't work anymore, it hasn't for years, aaaaaaaa (also I don't have 10key, who has the desk space for that anymore)

glassbottommeg,
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@Dancer I don't have a 10key 😭

For whatever reason, that only works with numpad

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@Mazurek64 well, thanks for checking regardless!

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