simoroth.bsky.social
Indie game developer (Maia, Trash Goblin, Compound Fracture, Soccer Story, VVVVVV, Kinectimals), technical artist, photographer, and community gardener.
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Hope it goes well! I'll check it out this week!
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A decade ago, demos were dead. Indeed, stats from back then showed that they actually hurt your sales.
Now, it's expected for you to maintain a release-quality parallel product, and ship it half a dozen times or more during development.
It's absolutely brutal.
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Be glad they are putting it in the ground though! On my street, they ran it from the telegraph poles. Cables branching everywhere, a total mess.
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I posted about something war related and got 3 DMs within a minute from bots. 😑
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As a palate cleanser after that AWFUL video, here's a music video filed entirely in VRChat
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This is the games programmer equivalent of buying a new car because you cant find your keys.
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This is Basic stuff Joel!
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Resulting in him at one point forcing me to smell ammonia. Super cool thing to do to a chronically sick kid.
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This game is.. chaotic.
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Yeah. This is where I failed really. All very nice having a cold store of all my work, but bringing that back online as a series of remote accessible repos is a significant task.
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Now that I can work on Maia again, I've rewritten my saving system to use AppData on Windows, and to automatically backup and move people's old saves and configuration. I've set up cloud saves on Steam too. I'll hopefully be putting out a solid quality-of-life update soon.
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And Twitch streamers.
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Also it delights me when people do find The Signal From Tölva, because approximately 8.2 billion people missed it so far. And it's a lovely game that we poured a staggering amount of effort into.
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I'd be really interested to see stats on whether Linux players use or care much about native builds any more.