In addition to "Making Videogames", I also do math and take drugs, like coffee. Estimating how much caffeine is in your body requires some maths from pharmacokinetics, so I am re-assessing my caffeine intake and showing my work here

Split Fiction is a very good game

I think the next Metroid game should double down and put green energy everywhere, but this time, it serves no function and is not acknowledged. The game doesn't even track how much you pick it up

An undocumented Godot 4.7 change: You can no longer reliably modify a Line2D points directly, you must use the method. E.g. $Line2D.points[1] = Vector2(6, 7) becomes $Line2D.set_point_position(1, Vector2(6,7))

!! !!!! A new title, "Metroid: Ravenous", has been leaked for release 2026 #Metroid6 #MetroidRavenous

For years we have been overwhelmed by the volume of code contributions we have to review, especially from new contributors. AI has made the problem much worse. That's why we are taking steps to reduce the burden on maintainers while still welcoming new contributors: godotengine.org/article/cont...

If I were Microsoft I would rename "Minecraft" to "Hamlet" so as to cause immediate and catastrophic damage to the widely-accepted style norm of not providing bibliographic references to very famous works

Hi @sjgames.com, I played Munchkin for the first time two weeks ago and had a blast! I hope this is not unwelcome, but your DMS are closed and I wanted to let you know your Bluesky links are outdated at munchkin.game and www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... so I had to go digging a bit to follow :-)

I'm Trans gender ally🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 LOVE YOU🤍

Anyways, I am anti-AI. I spent five years as a PhD student researching these. I mastered out and gave up a lucrative future for ethical concerns, even before ChatGPT. You don't need to know nuclear physics to hate the atom bomb, but it does frustrate to see confidently incorrect takes spread :\

Most social media with algorithmic feeds use AI. Next-posts are selected using a transformer based on your interactions: Scrolling, time lingered, likes, etc. Interacting with these is the same thing as "talking" to an LLM, on the technical level. I am anti-AI, so I don't use these.

#Godot 4.7 is out and here are some things from the release which I will get some immediate benefit from in my projects :D First is inline shader previews. I used to break shaders up just to get this kind of functionality. I'll be able to keep way more shader stuff in-code

#GodotEngine 4.7 is here! 🎉 Like a cult classic movie, Godot 4 has only gotten better with age; the 4.7 Director's Cut offers colors of never-before-reached intensity, helming a bevy of new features to eliminate any remaining friction between you and your vision! godotengine.org/releases/4.7/

Niche question, does there exist a (non AI, of course) command line tool to generate unique placeholders derived from filename-and-resolution? E.g. placeholder --res 32x32 --out asteroid.png

script kitty? but how will they use the keyboard?

early spring, early morning hike, earlier this year

Super Mario Sunshine does this funny thing: You unlock both of the other nozzles right before you enter a cave where you use your FLUDD. "Giving you an obstacle course to use your sick new move" was a decades old idea at that point. Hilarious move I think

noelcody.itch.io/moss-moss Fun short (~25 minute, free to play in browser) game :^)

Through the process of making my small game, I learned a few things that might seem obvious. Prefer a Timer node versus one you handle in code. It's much cleaner and nicer (and I believe more performant?) I'm juggling a few dozen ad-hoc timers in my scripts that fill up my _physics_process

I love Godot so much man. It launches instantly, anything feels possible, even extending the editor. I started using it with Godot 2.x in 2016 and every update is huge. GameMaker devs (like me!) will be very happy to see scene painting come with 4.7

it's called Star Fox 64 because that's how many times they're going to remake it

Finally finished it! Samus aran made in my custom #godot paint program! painted completely with metroid brushes! (see below) #illustration #painting

Running into what appears to be a platform-dependent floating point discrepancy, which I didn't think even happened anymore. The easiest fix to the aiming logic (adding an epsilon-small constant to the angle) makes it impossible to aim downward, so fans of the NES Metroid rejoice?

When humanity has gone too far, awaken from your deep slumber and wreak havoc across a small suburban town until nothing is left. Giant Fucking Skeleton is available now on the eShop for the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 Systems!

discord.gg/hyxvyNxYJq It's early, but Demake86 has a Discord server now, anticipating we might have nearly DOZEN of members who want to discuss the game, or otherwise hang out. Link will rotate out over time, a fresh link will remain available on the site linked in bio :^)

do you keep up with the news? no worries if not,

zoomer logic be like

carrion.0xpossum.dev/demake86/ind... BAM, whipped up a cool new site for the game 8^) #gamedev #metroidvania

- 8x8 pixels per tile, 8x8 tiles per room, 8x8 rooms in the labyrinth! - can you beat it in 86 seconds? - free, play in browser, open source on release - no AI "Legally Distinct Action-Adventure Platforming Game set on a METEOROID", or #Demake86, releases Aug 6th !! #gamedev #metroidvania

Hello! AM2R Project 2.0 needs your help to make it across the finish line. If you're a pixel artist that can match the existing style and quality and want to help out, we would love to talk.

Ridley's Lair from Metroid redraw

Legally Distinct Action Adventure Platforming Game set on a METEOROID, or Demake86, will be delayed upon learning Silksong will be released tomorrow. (not to be confused with #metroid. this is absolutely not a fangame)

#metroid prime 4 tomorrow :) #blender

I'm a big fan of @androidarts.bsky.social #Famicube palette ( androidarts.com/palette/Fami... ) and I've been using it for all the art in Demake86 :) (The whole of the Famicube project is worth a read too!)

Some FamiCube concepts from a while back.

BEHOLD MY CRITTERS

so many critters

every time i start new work on this game, i play (the completed parts) 100% completion start to finish. this is not generally advisable

bliss98

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doing musical analysis but i'm deriving my entire understanding of music from scratch and i'm not joking

we should drop peter thiel on this

AI slop is the first time we were able to create art lacking certain qualities. I think "human" or "authentic" are just misarticulations, pointing to the as-of-yet unnamed to qualities that human-made art has and LLM-generated lacks.

How do I explain to the beautiful women of the world that I might be the only person in the world with the musical tastes I have

Despite Mario and Link both saving damels in distress, Samus Aran is the the true knight in shining armor of the Metroid universe, embodying the aesthethics of the chivalric romances that Don Quixote is so desparate to embody.

attention game devs: if you are making music for your game, don't create half of it only to find out your tool of choice does not have an "export" option. you need to be able to "export"

new pfp :)

:) #godot #gamedev #metroid

I'm not an artist, I just love eclipses

Blender render, 2023