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grumpygamer

@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place

Owner of Terrible Toybox, the designer/creator of Monkey Island, The Cave, Pajama Sam and the designer/co-creator of Maniac Mansion, DeathSpank and Thimbleweed Park. Co-designer of Return to Monkey Island.

All ideas are my own, but you'd be crazy not to agree.

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grumpygamer, to random
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oregon-trail-is-changing-so-that-we-share-less-of-your-private-dysentery-information

lefticus, to random
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I just learned about lazygit and decided to share it with you

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

grumpygamer,
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@lefticus lazygit is awesome!

grumpygamer, to random
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Watching @pagetable talk on the 6502 made me very teary-eyed nostalgic for making SCUMM on the C64. SCUMM was all developed and compiled on the LFL mainframes so I don’t have any backups, but I’d love to see that 6502 code again. There was a time I lived in 6502.

grumpygamer,
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@pascal @pagetable Lucasfilm, Ltd. It was used through out the company and it fit well is DOS three letter extensions.

grumpygamer,
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@telarium We rewrote everything in C using the 6502 as a guide. We had C functions with A, X and Y variables to make things quicker. 🙂

grumpygamer, to pixelart
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No matter how simple it is or what I think beforehand, it always takes me a day to implement a quest.

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    grumpygamer,
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    @psychicparrot42 YES!

    grumpygamer, to random
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    After 6 months, I've had to resubscribe to Adobe PS. I work with too many people who send me PS files and there is no alternative that can open and save them reliability. It sad how many "helper" apps Adobe installs and how often they try to connect to the internet. I block them all, but it's scary. I have to unblock them every 30 days. Please do not suggest alternatives unless you know for a fact they load and save .psd files seamlessly. Do not suggest GIMP or I block you.

    grumpygamer,
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    @TylerHendrix They looks too much info. Text, shapes, etc. It's way to much friction to ask an artist.

    grumpygamer, to random
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    Fascinating talk (and light Sunday viewing) by @pagetable

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWqBmmPQP40

    grumpygamer, to pixelart
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    Someone keeps leaving the door to the cemetery crypt open and letting the skeletons out.

    #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #indiedev #rpgtbd

    grumpygamer,
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    @richard5mith No, final art.

    grumpygamer, to ai
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    My new game is using AI.

    #ai

    badlogic, to random
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    People of gamedev.place, I have a question: have any of you used generative AI in game production? I.e. to generate (production) "art", power conversational skills of NPCs, etc.

    I can see how GenAI could be useful for blocking out things. I have yet to see a system that can generate content that doesn't require more work to get production ready than it would take to create manually.

    Stuff like Unity's Muse Animate, Scenario, or (FSM forbid) Kaedim confuse me.

    (InnoGames uses Scenario iirc)

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    video/mp4

    grumpygamer,
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    @badlogic Using AI in your game is like hiring a 5th grader to do the work.

    grumpygamer, to random
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    We started casting for the clown bandits. So many good ones to choose from.

    Zwifi, to random
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    @grumpygamer No pixel dust in this house!

    grumpygamer,
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    @Zwifi There goes the achievement.:-)

    grumpygamer, to gamedev
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    My day:

    grumpygamer,
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    @Liquidream Notion

    grumpygamer,
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    @SebastianArcq Why not? Left to right.

    teahands, to random
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    Met quite a few people new to Mastodon this week, so PSA: we have a culture of accessibility here and adding alt text to your media is very important.

    Many of us won't boost your posts without it, and of course you're preventing a lot of people from enjoying your posts which is the whole point!

    If you didn't realise, don't worry, we were all new sometime 🙂

    (also if you don't do it, your post gets outlined in red in my feed and makes me sad, please don't make me sad 😢)

    grumpygamer,
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    @teahands Mastodon (web) needs to ask for alt text when an image is attached. I often forget (and feel bad) because it's a separate action. Number one rule in game design in reduce friction for actions you want the player to take. Mastodon needs to learn this.

    grumpygamer, to random
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    Current status:

    grumpygamer, to random
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    A $199 jump rope with a $12 monthly subscription. The world is doomed. I'm calling it.

    https://www.theverge.com/24134172/crossrope-amp-jump-rope-set-review

    grumpygamer, to pixelart
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    RPGTBD now has a city hall where both justice and bureaucracy can be served. Increase your bureaucracy stat to get more paperwork done.

    grumpygamer,
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    @mattgodbolt P.S. Thanks so much for Compiler Explorer... I use it all the time.

    grumpygamer,
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    @mattgodbolt @penryu I'm probably going to start a dev blog for the game, like I did for TWP.

    grumpygamer,
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    @mattgodbolt It's a key component of my premature optimization phase. :-)

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