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niall.codes
30-something, he/him; VR gamedev; writer and brave lil cis boy; making OVRLRD (a VR mech sim) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2163160/OVRLRD/ Things I have made: OVRLRD; The Second Death of Daedalus Mole; Rapid Unplanned Disassembly; mistakes
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I know what you're thinking: "But the magic of my enemies is weak, and their gods are hollow idols!" But what if I told you... that your enemies are thinking the same thing... about YOUR magic, and YOUR gods? And here's what's gonna make the difference: your enemies aren't in this seminar right now.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

if banging your head into a cupboard all day had a 0.1% chance per bang that you would make someone laugh on the other side of the planet, it would have about the same effort-to-reward ratio as solo game development, and a significantly better one than writing novels

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i have a bug to repo- oh

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stick with the prod. prod with the prod

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My community management philosophy

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

When I was in primary school, I ran a school fete table where I set up my Amstrad cpc464 and just let kids play Gryzor (Contra) for 20p a life. My stall made more money than any other, and thus my videogame career started.

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

Steel Battalion (2002)

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

is this anything news.microsoft.com/source/featu...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Amazing that this all came true.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

When humans fetishize reasoning and rationality blindly over feeling or intuition, I worry about humans. Often that attributed to "irrationality" is highly reasoned with carefully invented justifications to excuse the creation of misery. The only way to recognize misery is to have felt it.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Working on terrain heightmaps (again) and accidentally created....... fur?

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

god intervened and now i'm even more annoyed. nothing changed. what's your problem

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The microsoft genAI gameplay thing - even if genAI was cool and we liked it, trying to understand a game from video footage and controller inputs is so pointless and wrong-footed that hearing about microsoft engineers pursuing it makes me feel like I'm going mad www.theverge.com/news/615048/...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

my experience since OVRLRD came out:

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'There's some things a machine just can't do' #art #fanart #wallacegromit

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo-x... impeccable vibes from this 80s dutch police training video about the motorola MDT-9100 terminal

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NEW TV SHOW.... "COMMON SIDE EFFECTS".... DO NOT SLEEP ON IT.... MY FINAL MESSAGE, GOODBYE

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

one of my favourite things about blusky is starter packs. sitting here like "things seem quiet" then with one click i can just blast my feed into oblivion

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the spicy bit of gamedev where you've given up trying to figure out why it isn't working and you just run it again and again hoping God will intervene

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I've spent hundreds of hours trying to prove to people that VR is cool and fun and meta won't stop orbital striking it

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

For reference: Procedural generation is shuffling a deck and dealing from it. genAI is feeding every card deck you can find, including ones not for the game, into a wood chipper, slapping a handful of the bits on some glue, and pretending its a playable hand.

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

viktor antonov basically changed the direction of an entire field of art and the fact that his death isn't front page news is a travesty

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"𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 - 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦" System Shock® 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster / 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 - 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯 /

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

Been sketching some mech's daily :)

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

I made a silly little video for our game! I made the whole thing in engine and even did a silly voice over 😅 What do you think?

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

My Dell Dimension has been properly BEEFed (Decals made by @batarong.com)

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Jean Reno is game. It's in your hands now, Capcom.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

A lonely old man urged me to put a few points into charisma, to not make the same mistake he did. Something about the way he said it annoyed me, though, so I ignored him.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Frankly, my dear... Frankly. Frankly! Come back Frankly, I love you! I'll stop doing the Clark Gable bit I promise! Damn. She's gone. Like the wind

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment