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Wowza! The amount of progress you can make when the whole team finally sees the game and then you've just got a prioritized list of 5 billion obvious fixes to chew through.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

"Now that everyone has expressed strong opinions with no willingness to compromise, I'm in the awkward position of having to make a decision that will make no one happy. 🤠"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

We are beavers who dreamed too big

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Jesus, you can't escape MF Gemini aka Clippy Gone Rogue. Flip a tab and "Hello, I'm here too." New horror villain. "Would you like me to summarize your life?"

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Whose job is it to say "But that doesn't look like sonic the hedgehog"? Whose job is it to say "But that doesn't look like a hedgehog"?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Watching Blue Prince stream makes realize A. I'm not that smart in the way other people are smart. B. I really don't enjoy puzzles. Whatever that 'aha' moment other people get when they solve someone else's puzzle is instead this soul deadening feeling of emptiness. Like my life is being wasted.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Some of my best ideas come from looking at a popular game and thinking 'wow, that's not how my brain works at all'. Which, honestly, is most games. And then imagining how to make a version of the game that was more enjoyable for my weird tastes.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

"When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye I turned to look, but it was gone I cannot put my finger on it now The child is grown, the dream is gone"

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The Art of Ryo Yambe → bit.ly/3jI4yvA #artist #portfolio #illustration #art

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

A feature just got prototyped inspired by the Jump to Conclusions mat. Game dev, baby! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho7j...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Wow, Gemini is f'ing annoying. They really ramped that BS up in Google Docs. Heaven forbid you know what you want to write.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

BearChess(tm): Play like a bear. Rules are for chumps.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I work so hard to be boring. Kind of exhausting.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Me trying to explain religious denominations: "So like every local church basically keeps their own fan wiki of what lore is canon"

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Why do the cats only bother me? Because I'm the sucker.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

hey, i find info about topic X is hard to find on our team. i know there's a confluence page for it, but i don't read confluence. there's an email distro & meeting series about it but my religion forbids meetings and i am illiterate. there's also the local pigeon carrier network, but i hate pigeons,

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

While everyone else plays Blue Prince, I find myself engaged with the more intellectually demanding pursuit of The Plucky Squire.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

While everyone else plays Blue Prince, I find myself engaged with the more intellectually demanding pursuit of Crashlands 2.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

A Girl, A Horse, A Moon of Blood: Traversing the Red Horror of the Handmaid's West

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Delighted to have an essay up at DAS VIDEOSPIEL, a new games journal from The Evergreen Review (first journal to debut Pinter, Sontag, Malcom X, Burroughs...)! It's about how we need to move beyond the concept of agency when we think about the appeal of games and immersive experiences...

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

1) Tightly scoped projects, with identified and specific needs 2) Everyone works part-time 3) Paying people above this rate, sometimes significantly 4) …I don’t budget in myself yet. I live off of backend, which with our stable of releases has worked out so far (but I want to eventually address)

submitted 21 days ago • 30 comments

"A little bit slow" That's my motto "A little bit slow" They said in sotto

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Chance of scheduling a meeting increases dramatically if there are less than 4 participants. link.springer.com/article/10.1... FWIW, 4 participants also happens to be the maximum number of people you can have in a true conversation (it changes into broadcast-style turn-taking above this number)

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

It’s been neat to see Nintendo crank out “impossible games” since the release Switch Games that can’t be made at AAA fidelity, but also can’t be made at an indie development scale

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Well holy heck I can actually participate in a Portfolio Day for once! I'm Hazel! I'm a realtime tech & VFX artist with plenty of experience using Unreal, Unity, Godot, & more. (you can see more of my stuff at hazelstagner.gay) #gamedev #vfx #porfolioday

submitted 24 days ago • 25 comments

The most depressing newsletter I get is @ichiro.bsky.social's list of hidden gems. Game after game with 90+% ratings that have stalled out with a couple hundred reviews. Good games, even beloved games, often with solid production values. Forever lost in the endless ocean of content.

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

I wish all podcasts came with transcripts to I could get through them in 1/10th the time. (I guess Apple has it, but not via the website? Should just be an easy link on every single podcast)

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

In practice, AI executes at the same abstraction level that executives hold about the world, their customers and their business.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

sometimes." - R.E.M.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Today's music. If I recall, this song is all about being a game developer www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UXi...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Thought: Lower the fidelity of your work until you can implement your best high innovation, high risk ideas without becoming destitute.

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments