Time for the yearly ritual -- binging @mclasspodcast.bsky.social to defeat travel anxiety. Join the Miles (O'Brien) High club. Let me try again... Join the Mile B'Thai Club. You know what, this is harder than I thought.

Wonder if Expedition 33 would have still won the awards if they didn't patch out their gen-ai crap.

Getting to the pew-pew part in now that the experimental exploration stuff is done. That flash shader was actually very confusing to implement due to the wacky shading techniques I used to make it look pixelly and crunchy. #lowpoly #shmup #godotengine #indiedev

Syntax Error. #gamedev

New game idea SO GOOD it threatens my brain space. But I will finish Thunder Axis.

This is my teams work! youtu.be/QFDgVebB_60?... I don't do shots anymore, I build and support pipeline! The creature team I support forges ahead and kicks ass whether my tools are ready or not though!

I worked at a particular studio in the Toronto VFX scene for a year and a bit. I later let amazing riggers and TDs who were there before my time, and they mentioned the tech they set up. There was no evidence of that tech remaining. Hours of investment in rig propagation and pipeline evaporated--

Saw a cringey rigging bug in a major trailer for something cool. But I didn't say anything. Rigging is hard enough.

Black-Friday anti-sale. Normally many of my games are free, today you can pay $4.99 for them. Proceeds go to buying me more time to find a job before I lose everything.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

If you can't focus on your work-- There's Enslaved to help with that. youtu.be/24Rc5Bjr0_4?... #blackmetal

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Writing my first renderer ever, and I feel so good about I can just TELL I'm at the peak of "mount stupid" on the Dunning-Krueger graph.

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

More people should be ashamed of more things

didn't really have time to promote it but Chico DX, my game-boy style puzzle action game, is on sale on @itch.io for the Halloween sale! If you wanna check it out, you still have a chance #gamedev #indiegames #gamedeals daikongames.itch.io/chico-and-th...

When the week begins and I do my real job, not gameDev, I still have to whistfully load last nights build again and appreciate it. #gamedev

The RPG half of the "ShmupRPG" is coming to be. #shmup #rpg #godotEngine

Whatever happened to the anti-woke Godot fork? Did those people go extinct?

Those who run the system are fucking idiots. youtu.be/ozVb14bNwzQ?...

I know what bad code looks like, I can recognize it in the wild. I'm still gonna write lots of it this week.

Yeah, so DO apply normal maps to 2D pixel art. I would. #godotengine #shmup (character art by @jeffpennington.art )

I'm looking for animation work! -15 years working experience -9 years in game development -Helped ship three games, most recently as 2D animation lead on The Plucky Squire I'd love to animate for your game.

I like it when images are embedded in source files. Tickles my 'tism.

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Details matter #lowpoly #godotengine Severely mutilated and de-rezed character design by @jeffpennington.art

Do women love singing in Doom Metal bands? Or do Doom Metal bands love hiring women to sing in them?

Punk = Awesome, respectable. inspiring force in leftist ideals. Punk until they need something = Embarrassing, poseur, stolen valor.

Wanted to donate $5 for a free learning resource to someone on Ko-Fi, but their payment page was a broken hot mess then didn't believe Canada was real. So now they don't get their $5. Good job @ko-fi.com

Hey-- 100% of my CG life has been Studio work in VFX and Teaching. Those of you who capture some freelance (I can do rigs if you want good, scripts if you want excellent, and models if you want crap!) where do you go to find the opportunities? #freelance #cg #3dart

This game is gonna slap.

There is a market for companies to make "thing that does stuff, deterministically" instead of "advanced dice roller with surveillance, on a subscription"

Compare the detail I put into the "tiny, super low res" equipped gun versus how it looks in-game. #godotengine #godot #lowpoly #shmup

Not a lot I can say about my Film industry work, but I can say: Nobody likes AI, not workers, not _clients_, not IP holders. The tech is discussed over lunch but used 0% anywhere in the pipelines. Jobs are fewer, contracts are slower, as we _wait_. It's still Wacoms, Renders, and Polygons.

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

This is a "pumps shotgun" moment. Keep your elders protected, folks.

This is the vibe-y-est game dev alive. Lookit these dreamlike worlds.

AI converts simpletons into monsters, turns lonely people insane, and it does so by looting public resources, destroying the planet, and stealing from the creative. It’s not revolutionary. It’s just Facebook 2.0. But now every tech oligarch can get in on the ground floor.

Folks I’m VERY much in need of work and would love to make some custom art for you of almost anything you’re in the market for! Just DM me here or email me at [email protected] I’ve done a ton of stuff from D&D portraits to Twitch emotes to logos! See more of it at jeffpennington.art!

This summarizes the current discourse around AI so well.

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Ever re-season your cast iron in a heatwave? #madlads

no it wasn’t and no it didn’t

*Scribbles notes for Poulet-Poulet 2* "Fire Quacker? Is that anything?"

We need a dating app where if you type the word "Adventure" your profile gets shadow-banned.

Improved the GUI in Chico's Rebound since the demo, you can now see your current combo and multiplier, and its all laid out a bit more sensibly! #gamedev #chicosrebound #indiegames #gamemaker

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Unsalted Almonds beginning to taste like food. This is a level of dietary health I've not before reached.