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glassbottommeg, 2 days ago (edited 1 day ago) to gamedev

Been trying to figure out how to phrase the next era of my #GameDev / #IndieGame studio

If it's my partner and I making games, but she's a very silent artist partner and wants zero exposure, do I just roll the "single creator" angle?

It feels weird, but also a lot of single creator games sure have lots of contractors so shrug?

Like if I say "couple", EVERYONE gonna zero in on that. The angle they'll want is couple interviews. And, well. No.

brody, 5 days ago to gamedev

I'm not a "Linux Guy" really but I started re-evaluating it lately, and I think it might not just be for the Tech Weirdos anymore. It can absolutely be a daily driver for a lot of game developers now!

https://brodybrooks.com/posts/2024-linuxgamedev/

#GameDev #IndieDev #Linux #PopOs #LinuxMint #UnrealEngine #Unity

brody, 10 days ago to random

Jeez, this is Unreal Engine 5's 9-slicing implementation?? This is so awful, good god. I didn't think you could screw this up...

brody, 13 days ago to random

God this sucks so hard. What incredible studios to acquire and then shutter. :( :( :(

https://www.theverge.com/24151047/xbox-shuts-down-arkane-austin-tango-gameworks-microsoft

brody, 18 days ago to random

I will be in mourning for the foreseeable future. Please understand. https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/kerbal-space-program-2-developer-intercept-games-may-be-closing-as-part-of-take-twos-big-layoff-plan/

brody, 26 days ago to random

Oh wow! The FTC just banned non-compete clauses in contracts and voided any existing ones. Super good news!!

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

brody, 1 month ago to random

Damn, this looks like a combination of FTL and a base defense shooter. This...looks really cool??

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1252680/SENTRY/

glassbottommeg, 3 months ago to unrealengine

Just to update my pinned post, I'm Megan Fox and while you probably remember me from SkateBIRD, what I'm working on now is codename #BIRDahoy

(it's about bird pirates, and it's a lil spooky and they've got swords)

There's a mailing list at https://glassbottomgames.com if you wanna stay in the loop

How does something with no hands steal stuff? Easy, like this! #UnrealEngine, #IndieDev #GameDev

glassbottommeg, 3 months ago to random

Hrm. Another question for #Hugo (or #Jekyll really) users:

So you add a new News post. You go to upload. Uh. What files do you ACTUALLY upload?

In principle the answer is "well the new ones silly", but when your static site includes say, a Tag and a search system, how on earth do you know which changed and select only them?

Lately I just FTP up the whole folder, overwriting everything, and I feel like an idiot 😭 (or am I valid? maybe?)

brody, 4 months ago to space

In ~15 minutes, JAXA will be attempting a landing with their SLIM lunar lander.

If they mail this, they will become the 5th country to successfully soft land on the surface. #space #JAXA

https://www.youtube.com/live/nvXLt3ET9mE?si=rqP-BWqg2_XkoId7

brody, 4 months ago to space

Tonight at 10pm PT, the California Science Center will start live streaming as they raise and install the External Fuel Tank onto Space Shuttle Endeavor!

This will be the only Space Shuttle on display in its launch (vertical) configuration with ET and side-boosters! #space #losangeles

https://youtu.be/XLTd1a-5j-4

glassbottommeg, 4 months ago to gamedev

I'm... sorry, are we meant to be impressed by this? This sounds like a couple of AI news casters yelling clumpy oatmeal at eachother.

(AI voice background NPC bullshit for #gamedev from #ces2024 / #nvidia)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UamcBgWz0i8

glassbottommeg, 4 months ago to gamedev

Random #GameDev trick: increase your gravity to 3.5x real, but decrease gravity when you're holding the jump button down. Nothing fancier, literally just "jump button decreases gravity to 1x when held".

It's what Metroid Prime did. It WORKS. CHECK THIS OUUUUUTTTT.

(I detect the falling when reducing gravity state and put out lil glidey wings to contextualize it)

Bird with a sword doing cool heavy jumps and glides

brody, 4 months ago to random

I love Hard Drive, and I really hope they can make it through this rough period and stay afloat. Such an awful time to be in media. https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/rip-hard-drive-2017-2024/

https://www.patreon.com/thehardtimes

eniko, 4 months ago to gamedev

I've released the second episode of Coding History! This episode teaches the basics of 3D, and shows that anyone can build their own basic 3D engine armed only with simple concepts and a little bit of math: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxMYroGay8c

Please enjoy and consider boosting if you'd like to support an educational video series about old school 80s and 90s 3D 🙏

#GameDev #RetroGaming #3DEngine #CodingHistory

martiandennis, 4 months ago to random

Check out @europaclipper on the Clipper Cam. It’s making its way over to the EMI/EMC tent today.

https://europa.nasa.gov/spacecraft/assembly/

brody, 5 months ago to random

Kerbal Space Program's science mode sounds so, so good and now that I have the hardware to play this game properly, I'm so stoked to play it next week!!!

https://youtu.be/-MmStYUjSV4

PixelPerfectEngine, 5 months ago to opensource

Due to API and documentation issues, I'm currently looking for an alternative for #lua .

What I'm looking for:

• #opensource
• lightweight, even at the cost of some complexity (I need an embedded scripting language, not to write whole applications with it)
• integer support (I don't care if you can round floating points on the back end)
• C or C++ ABI
• no janky ways of interaction with the engine through command line, files, etc. instead of direct methods (yes, that's often what they recommend)

At the very worst I'll just fork Lua and port it to D while removing that godawful stack-like interaction method, but since I have a very limited free time, I would like to avoid that

brody, 5 months ago to Games

The game I’ve been working on for about 4 years is:

🎶✨ Harmonium ✨🎶

A musical adventure game from the studio that gave you King’s Quest (2015). #games #GameDev #IndieDev

https://youtu.be/xe8ibRSmeDE?si=P2inSgoR-mzMnE_y

Boosts = 💜

brody, 6 months ago to random

I hate that I really, really like the IDEA of a screenless PDA I can talk to, but because it's powered by OpenAI's LLMs, I really don't want to touch it.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/9/23953901/humane-ai-pin-launch-date-price-openai

obsidian, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

With #Obsidian 1.5 we will be deprecating the legacy editor, and continuing to invest in the new editor we launched two years ago. We're making way for exciting new features like table editing coming soon.

Read more:
https://obsidian.md/blog/goodbye-legacy-editor/

sundogplanets, 6 months ago to random

Good morning from the goat parade into the fog, a tasty breakfast buffet for 4-legged-ruminants, and a couple of snuggly livestock guardian dogs

A whole bunch of goats of different sizes and colours along with a couple of tiny horses (one white and one brown) and a giant llama, all happily eating from a bale of hay in a snowy farmyard, between a metal-sided farm building and a tall wooden fence
A fluffy yellowish dog, happily curled up in a straw-filled barn stall, looking at the camera.
Me, looking at the camera, wearing lots of layers of farm clothes (including hat, scarf, hood, and headlamp), leaning on a brown and white dog who's also looking at the camera. There's a snowy field in the background.