Working on a thing regarding player interpretation in narrative design after a discussion in a ND chat. What's your take? How much do you think ND should leave to interpretation? Does it become a mistake for ND to do that at some point? #indiedev #gamedev #narrativedesign

Heard a bunch of slander on the Cloud Dancer color. Not on the choice but on the color. It's a toilet paper or uncooked dumplings and so on. It's literally the color of the sky above my hometown. You'd better watch all of my skyboxes becoming this.

Watching a video on forced perspective with moving camera and thinking about recreating it in #Godot. Part of the sentence above is very stupid.

Oh and the convo was about how to make different default settings for Animation Tree transitions in GODOT. Cause all advanced expression I wills set to auto and all xfade timers will be 0.3s. So if you can point me to the documentation part or something, please do.

Was quite surprised in convo with friend that my default number thing was not as common as I thought. Sooo Basically whenever I need fast animation, the duration is always 0.3s and then tweaked in RARE chances when it doesn't work. Can't remember the source. But it's so ingrained in my head.

As someone who both organized and witnessed some of Damien's teaching. I have made the recommendation in good faith with high praise in mind. Sure there is a curse involved, but the material is so well thought and improvised matter is at times even better. Get Damien to talk to your students!

My Narrative Design Lessons bundle is now live! You can get at least a book worth of ND foundations, dialogue design, and experimental tools. All come with a free lesson. Been doing this 16 years. So happy to share. itch.io/s/172588/nar... #narrativedesign #gamedev #indiedev #gamewriting

Happy to join the line-up!

Less than a day left! It's not like it's going anywhere but it won't be at halfprice! #indiedev #narrative #gamedev

Only a day and a half to go! These lessons won't be at half price for long! #indiedev #gamedev #narrative

Zhenia makes really cool projects that arn't afraid to brush up against topics many find difficult to articulate. If you're interested in narrative design his work is worth investigating!

I have worked with @allworms.bsky.social and can confirm that they are very good at teaching

If this looks like something you'd be interested in, I can highly recommend!

A bit late into Black Friday but hey I got three courses worth of Narrative Design lessons up on sale for half price. That's right I've published lessons from Narrative Crash Course and Strangened Narratives course online. Plus Dialogue Design! itch.io/s/171366/nar... #narrativedesign #indiedev

All of my games are on sale for a week but additionally itchio's not taking their cut for the next 24 hours, so check out my games and other projects here as they're all half off! cannibalinteractive.itch.io

Even though it's freeware/pwyw so it's not technically on sale like my main paid projects are, you can learn some things about designing a turn-based RPG for 50% off of $0.00 I suppose lol

something something coming tomorrow Or on the weekend if I get food poisoning again

Just getting these birds out of my system. #art #bad #birds

as a reminder to #indiegamedev, I'm always happy to showcase games on my channel, no matter how small or unusual they are. And if you are a first-time developer, you can sign up for my Debut Devs showcase stream forms.gle/3KFe7q512Kr1...

juuuust playing around with shaders agaaaaaain

It's that time of the year where I fall sick and watch something either silly or easy weird. But I didn't get a chance to choose this time and brain is mush help help any recs are welcome. For reference this is how I watched all fast and furious, all Evangelions, and twilight.

I definitely have a soft spot for 1D games.

Slander

Nothing has described my art practice more than two tabs side by side: 1. Video about a turnip that commits tax evasion. 2. Article about Actionism in Russia.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Therapist just gave me homework to fail at something. I am now collecting suggestions.

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Never had this many characters but until I absolutely need to decide (or in specific cases) all my characters default to they/them. Very handy "tool" if your comm language is gendered.

Had one of those days where I need to research some art and this time it was old movie posters. Figured I'd post a highlight or four.

Just waiting for when White Lotus runs out of luxury resorts and focuses on Americans looking to save cash or "experience culture" and end up in a Soviet-style sanatorium.

Someone asked me what I've been up to these days and this picture was my only response. Yes. That's the extent of my productivity and learning.

Any gaming or audio events in Portugal in search for speakers? Would love to give a talk there someday :)

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

It's funny when I get ads talking about how they're a "skill-gaming platform" that bring "top-quality games to highly engaged competitive players" Let's be clear, I don't make games for people that transcend skill, I make games that transcend reason

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One month left! Price goes up on 1st of September!

Honored to have Ahanar as the opener for this awesome trailer.

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Please enjoy this Klimt Eastwood

On Sep 12th we’re launching a new narrative design course. 13 weeks long. Full online with live calls and exciting assignments! If you want to make something that includes audience/player collaboration, this is the class for you. #indiedev #narrativedesign #gamedev allworms.notion.site

Started watching slow horses because of farting Gary Oldman and got rewarded by a sudden Hugo weaving.

hottest take incoming: videogame graphics were supposed to be awful, looking at terrible low resolution graphics built character

My game Ahanar is in that bundle with a load of other cool games!

This view again.

Playing around with the Godot again. Some progress!

The Summer of Strange Scaffold is a celebration of a milestone for us. Once Co-op Kaiju launches, we have made and released SIX GAMES in the last 2 YEARS! So, we want to discuss that! Highs and lows, with the many people who brought these games to life in videos, podcasts and more!

how we made Skin Deep food