I have been researching ludonarrative harmony and ludonarrative dissonance and my GOD does it outline why indie games work versus AAA games not working.

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Another 'trying not to throw in the towel' day.

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Sometimes I wonder if I should make our game bigger to justify a larger budget. I'm just tired of so many people telling me Incarnal has legs, but then they shy away...

Me: alright I think I can do a PhD on this. I should brush up on my academic knowledge in this area. Also me:

A bit of a peculiar ask. I need a mentor for 2D animation who might be able to support a student who is struggling with motivation and self-confidence. They are Melbourne-based, but remote is also possible. Commitment would be about 2 meetings over 8 - 10 weeks.

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk. please donate if you can! fund.blender.org

This is something a lot of people are now realising, and I am just staring vacantly; we are going to be spending SO MUCH TIME telling people that what we're doing isn't AI. Which is an interesting way to need to show process, but it also shows HOW LITTLE PEOPLE FUCKING WANT IT.

A bit of a peculiar ask. I need a mentor for 2D animation who might be able to support a student who is struggling with motivation and self-confidence. They are Melbourne-based, but remote is also possible. Commitment would be about 2 meetings over 8 - 10 weeks.

Doing preliminary dialogue testing for one of the romance progressions in Incarnal and watching people go '... Okay wait what?' is one of the BEST experiences of my life.

The journey of PUBG is a hugely telling demonstration of what happens when a creator knows what the community wants, and cares about the community. This is excellent to see someone take a stand in any capacity.

What a remarkable human, and what a remarkable thing to know that she passed bemused at reading her own eulogies. Rest in peace, Rebecca. Thank you for everything.

Your choice is quite literally a bipartisan cabal of pedophilic drone-wielding genocidal oligarchs that suck each other off in depraved games of domination and blackmail, or, socialism and a habitable planet, and you're struggling with that choice?! Dafuq is wrong you?

Ahhhhh, this one's been in the works for a while. Grab that demo, grab it now!

Hey gamedevs Would you use a contractor who is great at documentation? Someone who organise everything in a confluence like a wiki for ease of reference? Is that something useful?

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When people say 'average' for wages, they neglect to understand that a small amount of people make such an OBSCENELY HIGH amount, that it skews the average completely. That's what this stat means.

The CEO of Nexon need to stop fucking talking, because not a single headline is going to accurately represent what he's saying.

Fingers boring into eyes as I scream into the sky *did you read the article*?

This is clickbaity as shit and disingenuously represents the content. The AI mentioned are tools and machine learning that assist in streamlining processes. He literally states that the thing that will become MORE important is HUMAN CREATIVITY.

Pitched Incarnal and waiting to hear back from publishers. Manifest energy, friends.

So. I have a weird idea. I'm an academic, and I can turn learning into teaching. I see a lot of games graduates struggling for work. Would like... a workshop for how to come up with a commercial game idea/seek funding/pitching be worthwhile? And add the business side of things?

You know the government shut down once in Australia in the 70's and the queen fired the entire Parliament?

Pretty sure America is actually living out the plot of Andor, at this stage.

I really need you to just... do a breathing exercise and look at this. Because it is drilling home how badly AI investors NEED people to believe their shit is as good as or better than human-made stuff, and it's *not*.

Ohh it's a mean brain-day for meeee.

Presuming Incarnal is funded, Were You Followed becomes a studio, and I can keep making sexy romance games forever, what should I do next? - The sexy, social hierarchy vampire game we've always deserved - A dark investigative game with robots - More demons, but demonier

So at what point does Melbourne do something about all these fucking nettles...

Anyone who buys this is an idiot. What is Rockstar going to say? 'Yes, we did this highly illegal thing, so what?'

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My 4 year old is playing @path-of-exile.bsky.social and I couldn't be prouder.

Me, studying other games and listening to reviews about how they utterly *destroyed* their player with the story:

Me, scaffolding the end of my game, knowing that if I don't send anyone to therapy with this, I have failed. God, I need someone to tell about this eeeend. *Sits down.*

Hey.

How the fuck do I ban AI generated music from my l i f e.

I want to make something clear, that if anyone says 'we should hear what the Nazi's have to say', they're probably a Nazi, or Nazism protects something they want to achieve. Just. Just sayin'. We do not 'need to listen' to the Nazis. They don't change. They're Nazis. We're done with that.

I am so not a sport person, and today really represents that because you all look fucking *unhinged* to me...

Found out that my daughter's kindergarten friends all organised to go trick or treating together and didn't invite my daughter. Don't. Burn. Anything....

I have been working on The Florist, a Survival Horror game with flowers and beauty at the forefront. This is a super cool project made by a really excellent team who is putting everything into this game. It would mean a lot if you could wishlist it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3152440

I fucking hate that anyone who wants to do anything different has to be fucking perfect to be validated. Award-winning levels of beauty. But multi-billion-dollar corps can just fucking destroy 30k jobs because the guy at the top doesn't fucking know his shit.

I really... really cannot overstate how absolutely absurd this is. Amazon laid of 30k workers because they tried - and failed - to compete with Steam, and most people didn't even know they were doing that. To ADMIT that is absurd.

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

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... Why tho.

The media comms person in me is staring at this in genuine apoplectic horror of not knowing... which part to freak out about first. Why do they have three fingers? Why do they look like Fallout Guys? Why does she have glasses? Where are they all looking?! WHY IS JESUS HUGE!?

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