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psychicparrot42

@psychicparrot42@mastodon.gamedev.place

Ancient #indie game maker. He/Him. Award winning. Author of #Unity dev books. Making games and stuff for PC, Xbox and the occasional #ZXSpectrum game. All round good egg. Boosts a lot, especially games. Racing and rally game fanatic (mostly RBR). BSC (Bronze Swimming Certificate). Existing on unceded Algonquin territory. Please wear a mask.

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I am pleased to say that reinstalling Visual Studio fixed whatever the heck it decided to do earlier today and it's compiling again. What that was about, I've no idea. Best not to question it and just move on, I reckon..

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It's me, a cup of tea, and endless Visual Studio and library download progress bars... good morning!

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@gilesgoat I've experienced the Android SDK. Every time I have to use it, I die a little inside. Whenever I'm done, it gets deleted from the machine in the hope I never have to see it again 👀

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@media_dept
👍😀 hello there!

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My installation of Visual Studio appears to have gone completely rogue. Nothing compiles any more, everything is broken with warnings everywhere and autocomplete is borked.. a repair didn't fix it, so I'm uninstalling the whole monstrous behemoth and starting again. I've barely used it for a good few months, so I have no idea what happened to it..!

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@dwlt Yeah. It was working fine last time I used it.. just now appears to be mysteriously borked. Utterly borked, too. Never seen it so borked!

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@gilesgoat HA! Perhaps this is Visual Studio's way of making me update to the latest version??? By making itself unusable so I have no choice..? 🤣 🤪

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@JeremiahFieldhaven 🤣 that explains it! Visually Angry Studio!

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It’s backups day here at Parrot Towers! Not very exciting but totally necessary! Back up all your stuff, today! 😀👍👍

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@dahie Good point!

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@puttycad Gotta protect all our treasures!

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Yelp! My kids are both getting into Warhammer 40,000 and there’s no way in hell any of us can afford those prices!! 🙄

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@deepbluezen 😲 I didn’t! Gonna have to look into this, thanks!

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@sinbad Hmmm.. dunno! I'll have to look into it, cheers!

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@btsherratt Couldn’t believe it when they told me how much unpainted plastic figures are!! 😲 Not even metal, not even painted?! grumble about d&d lead figures back in my day

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@btsherratt Yeah I wouldn't. I tried with some d&d figures a loooong time ago and the results were messy to say the least!

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All the talk about Xbox on my timeline reminded me that I (still) haven't submitted requests to be included in some upcoming promotion/sales on there. I've been meaning to do this for over a week now and just been putting it off because it's a chore.. finally got it done. Phew! Hopefully my games will be on sale later in the year..

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I was gonna share a post about the 1,700 people laid off by Ubisoft over the last two years, but instead I'd like to share this:

FUCK UBISOFT. Don't buy their shit.

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@dahie When you play Assetto Corsa Competizione, are the endurance races like 5 hours long or something like that? I haven't tried the endurance stuff tbh. I like buzzing around the other tracks, but 'endurance' sounds intimidating to me!

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@dahie Yeah.. the time commitment alone for me would be tough!

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I’d heard a couple of people say that Xbox was basically not worth aiming for anymore as an indie, unless they offer you a chunky Game Pass deal - which they probably won’t, unless you’re a known quantity by reputation or sales on other platform. This article backs that up; good to know if like me you’re an outsider to console dev and would be going in blind https://www.patreon.com/posts/do-game-still-to-104149801?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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@sinbad Yeah, there's gonna be a whole load of factors for sure.. it's always gonna depend on the game, right, but I'd say my niche single screen platform arcade game isn't exactly mainstream. My racing game is probably more like it, tho, yeah. And no, ID@Xbox still give out free dev kits! Yay! https://developer.microsoft.com/en-CA/games/publish/

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@gilesgoat @sinbad Yeah they sent me an Xbox X dev kit last year and I didn't have to pay a cent! THAT SAID the caveat is that you can only get the older consoles. You DO have to pay for the newest Xbox Series X devkits, but if you just need a standard Xbox One or the beefed up Xbox One X (not series x, just an x!) then they should be able to hook you up for free. You can easily develop for Xbox One X and it'll work fine with Series machines.

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@sinbad @gilesgoat The build I made for Xbox One X runs on all Xbox Ones, including Series X, so a lot of my sales are on Series X and S too. Being non-native, you don't get fancy features like Quick Resume.. but we're indie devs, who needs that!?? Now I just hope they don't end up insisting on native builds only in the future then only give out the older dev kits! 👀

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@gilesgoat @sinbad So....

Tou have the old ones:
Xbox One
Xbox One S
Xbox One X

Then, the new/current gen ones:
Xbox One Series S
Xbox One Series X

The series S is a cheaper/lower power version of the series X,. The ones without 'series' in the name are the last gen ones, but if you build for them, the builds will still run on the current gen 'series' ones! 🙄

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@ahchay @gilesgoat @sinbad Yep, I suggest a hard kick in the arse to the person who came up with the Xbox naming scheme. It's ridiculous.

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