grumpygamer

grumpygamer, 11 months ago to random

If you're making an indie pixel art game, tag me with a screenshot and I'll boost you!

grumpygamer, 1 year ago to random

I gave up over a 150,000 followers on Twitter to be on Mastodon full time. Yes, the engagement and reach is a lot less, but I'll build it back up and it will be worth it. I hate to see people run back to Twitter because of friends or careers or whatever. You know what changes that? Being on Mastodon and bring those people here. Musk is a horrible person, don't be one of his enablers.

grumpygamer, 10 months ago to random

What makes a game a RPG? Ultima, Fallout, Diablo are, but Binding of Issac, Nuclear Throne are not (IMHO). Is Zelda? If you're playing a "RPG" what do you look for? What makes it a "RPG". Is it more than just collecting weapons and bumping stats? Most game have a form of this that I would not consider a RPG.

grumpygamer, 8 months ago to random

I did a quick calculation and I've spent close to 98,000 hours making video games. Making video games! Not curing cancer or establishing world peace, but making video games.

grumpygamer, 7 months ago to random

Interesting talk about Git and games. The speaker misses the biggest issue with use Git in games and that is file locking. Two artist working on the same file is not mergable. The art in RtMI had to be source controlled in SVN, which I hated. Space wasn't an issue. I ran my own Git sever. File locking was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UwIrQjLS8E

grumpygamer, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Is there any info on/or games that do a good job with 100% procedurally generated rpg-like quest? I've been playing around with it and fetch and kill quests are easy, quests with any complexity or meaning are a lot harder./or

grumpygamer, 9 months ago to random

Co-workers are not your family. You may like them, become good friends with them, hang out with them, help them move in exchange for pizza, but calling them your family is a way companies manipulate you into doing unrealistic things, things you would and should only do for real family.

grumpygamer, 10 months ago to random

I would be happy to view ads on a website if:

1. They didn't autoplay video.
2. They are static images (reading with unnecessary motion is distracting).
3. Ads didn't target me and we're related to the site I'm on.

Advertiser created the mess of adblocking and they want to solve it by force me to see ads. Ads in print magazines don't bother me because they don't violate the above rules.

grumpygamer, 11 months ago to random

A studio "didn't hire women because women don't play first-person shooters"

Ah... Maybe that is why you SHOULD hire women. 🤦‍♀️

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/men-need-to-speak-up-against-toxicity-targeting-women-and-on-their-own-behalf-opinion

grumpygamer, 11 months ago to random

I know there are a lot of worse things going on in the world... but fuck leaf blowers.

grumpygamer, 11 months ago to random

I'm confused by Apples Game Porting Toolkit. Is this something windows developers need to use to make their game run on a Mac, in which case Apple will make them jump though silly hoops (sandboxing, notarization, store submission, etc) that will turn off/scare most Windows developers, or is this something that happens automatically?

grumpygamer, 10 months ago to random

You know what I want AI and robots to do? Sort trash so we can just dump everything in one bin and not be confused and paralyzed every time we throw something way.

grumpygamer, 1 year ago to random

I'm not interested in a bunch of "algorithms" for Mastodon, but I would like a feed in the sidebar that showed me posts from people I follow that had more than X reposts or Y stars.

grumpygamer, 9 months ago to random

My original Diablo II box. I'd try and install it, but I don't have a CD drive. Or Windows. It's does come with a nice big manual.

grumpygamer, 1 year ago to random

This is the TV rating system in Iceland. I can't figure out what the "spider" means. There were no spiders in the show?

grumpygamer, 1 year ago to random

Look, I'm just going to say it out loud. I don't understand #Eurovision.

grumpygamer, 9 months ago to random

It's not just kids. I have a huge disdain for people who pull pranks or do comedy at someone else's expense. I know a game dev that mocks and ridicules people for laughs and then victim blames them for not being able to take a joke (his exact words).

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230829-why-young-children-dont-understand-pranks

grumpygamer, 11 months ago to random

When I started making games I used a .txt file as a todo list, then I moved to Trello, after that I used Notion and now I'm back to .txt files. I crave simplicity.

grumpygamer, 11 months ago to random

Please let this be "to the death."

https://news.sky.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-and-elon-musk-dead-serious-about-cage-fight-says-ufc-boss-12908133

grumpygamer, 10 months ago to random

Today is the day! Return to Monkey Island is out on iOS!

https://apps.apple.com/app/return-to-monkey-island/id1658628321

#MonkeyIsland #ReturnToMonkeyIsland

video/mp4

grumpygamer, 8 months ago to random

I just checked and it's still OK to eat the rich.

grumpygamer, 10 months ago to random

Happy people can't be monetized, this is why billionaires and tech companies need to keep you unhappy, angry, or scared. Resist. Be happy.

//hat tip to @Archie8

grumpygamer, 8 months ago to random

Question for Mastodon: I have a bunch of CP/M 5.25 floppy disks that I want to "liberate" a bunch of Z80 code I did as a kid (the world needs to see my Space Invaders clone). Any ideas of a simple/easy to get read them? My CP/M machine is long gone. Tracking down old CP/M machines is outside the scope of easy.

grumpygamer, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Hearts or Health bar?

• Like an actual election, results are not binding.

grumpygamer, 10 months ago to random

Dear Steam: Use fucking standard 2FA so I can put it into 1password. WTF. Seriously. W.T.F. You made $3b last year. I'm sure you can hire a programmer to do this. It's a solved problem.