Spring cleaning. Thank goodness for #audiobooks. #Expanse 7.5 "Auberon"

I wish I'd had #GodotEngine v4 as a choice when I first started trying to learn #gamedev. Wasted several years fighting #Unity module incompatibilities and new systems that are never ready for production, and then the licensing snafus.

Has anyone done this yet? #godot #godotengine #nvidia

Well, the weather's warming up. Trees are blooming, grass is greening up. I'm really going to miss the luxury of not having to mow and do other yard maintenance all the freaking time.

NVIDIA created a ray tracing fork of Godot! github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/g... #godot #gamedev

I love that there was a weapon in Stranger Things that used sound, and they called it The Hedgehog but never explained why. Maybe I missed it, but if they deliberately left the reason unspoken (as I hope) it's one of my favorite things about the series.

It's almost impossible to narrow it down to 9, but this is pretty good. Honorable mentions to Space Wars, Galaga, Combat, Islands of Kesmai, British Legends, The Legend of Kyrandia, Ultima III, Jumpman, Lode Runner, Lemmings, Doom, Quake, Warcraft, Starcraft, World of Warcraft, etc. my9games.com

Tablets are getting so large, they're going to just straight up reinvent laptops pretty soon.

As someone who started off as a writer, I keep getting pulled deeper into fleshing out my story instead of working on the rest of the game. Maybe I'll write it as a standalone novel at some point. #godot #gamedev

surprised people bring up the ease of reverse-engineering of godot games as a drawback over unity when it's the same in both

I really tried to enjoy No Man's Sky. I started it three separate times. Inventory management used to be frustrating and tedious, but then they added game customization options to make the tedious things easier. Once you skip the tedious stuff though... there's not much left.

Got my dev console working, with a few commands. It feels old school, but a lot of games still use this style console. #gamedev #godot #godotengine #rogueish

I need to work on my POI generator. It's a basic rectangle generator right now, but I need to rewrite it from scratch & base it on room & item grammar, allow for non-rectangular shapes, and then move on to multi-structure POIs like towns & dungeons. Square font ftw. #godot #godotengine #gamedev

Finally got my #godotengine fuzzy. It's cute. Now I need to find a place for it on my desk so I can use it for Rubber Ducking.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Just finished Service Model by @aptshadow.bsky.social and it was wonderful. I haven't laughed that much while reading in a long time.

These aren't Christians. Real Christianity is actually very leftist: accepting and supporting of all people. "Right Wing Christians" is a contradiction in terms and reflects a mentally-ill cult that claims to be Christian but is not.

Well I'm about an hour into Routine with about 3 minutes of actual gameplay. Non-intuitive mechanics, big areas with very little to do, lots of loading screens, uncomfortably dark areas. I love puzzles in general and the retro aesthetic, but the negatives are quickly exhausting my patience.

Happy to share that I've been a Titanium sponsor of @godotengine.org since 2023! It's a great way to help support and fund its ongoing development ✨

I'm keeping an eye on a tracking page for a package I'm expecting, and the delivery time keeps flip-flopping back and forth between 640pm and 9pm. Make up your mind.

I watched a summary video of the #Unity Unite roadmap by @code-monkey.finagle.org. It all *sounds* really good, but it's extremely ambitious and I'll believe it when it happens. Considering how poor Unity's technical execution has been for the past few years, I am extremely skeptical.

Another project I've wanted to work on. Stock charts w/free drag & drop. I wasted hours trying it in WinUI 3 & WPF but I just wasn't familiar enough with them (basically zero familiarity, tbh) so I figured screw it, I'll do it in #GodotEngine! Easy Charts + random data. #godot

If you're still running COBOL, that's what we in the business call "technical debt." And you've been paying interest on it for 30 years.

If you avoid getting glasses because you don't want to look like a nerd, guess what? You look like an idiot squinting at everything all the time. Just get some damn glasses, my vain guy. If you can't afford glasses, well, make sure you vote appropriately.

If you can't read and understand the #code you're vibing, you're like a toddler with nitroglycerin. Don't be surprised when it blows up in your face.

Karl's Bittner's talk about rendering large scale vegetation performantly was very interesting. I look forward to watching more of these. #Godot #GodotFest

My noise visualizer is good enough to start building meshes from. #gamedev #godot #godotengine

Me adding more containers to build my #GodotEngine UIs:

What are some ways we can teach people through #gamedev how not to be bigots, how not to be prejudiced? So much of the world is sick in the head, it makes me sad and angry. Sangry.

Oh yeah, this noise is looking pretty good. The water isn't completely realistic when looking at the whole map, because it doesn't flow, but each region looks pretty organic in context. I may have to bevel the banks for the mesh to look more natural; we'll see. #Godot #gamedev

@lordkemp.bsky.social *Points at your avatar*

Back on my stuff again. New #Godot project, going to be a top-down strategy/base-builder sim similar to Going Medieval. I get about 1200 fps uncapped for 512x512x16 bloxels (16x16x1 = 256 chunks), but it's very early days. Deets on screen. No greedy meshing yet. #GodotEngine #GameDev #indiedev

Vsync isn't busted in #Godot 4.5.1 is it? I can't seem to disable it. Turned it off in Project and Editor settings, and set Max Fps to 0 as well. Have also disabled via code and made sure it's not forced on in Nvidia control panel. No joy, still stuck at 60fps on a 144hz monitor. #GodotEngine

Good news! Even if you couldn’t make it to #GodotFest this year, all the recorded talks are now gradually being uploaded to our YouTube channel. If you’d like to support the speakers (and us!) in reaching a wider audience, a like and sub would be awesome! youtube.com/@GodotFest

Most of what we experience of pain is the memory of it. It's a survival mechanism to encourage us to do our best to avoid pain in the future. The memory of pleasure fades quickly; not only that, but we need more and more pleasure to re-experience similar heights. It's TANJ unfair.

Censorship Alert: I published a book about Ghislaine Maxwell trial, and another on Kevin Spacey's trial- this evening I got an email from Amazon's KDP saying they are inappropriate and there all of my books are being taken down, including on Sudan, SBF, Eric Adams

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Most puzzles break down into three categories: math, letter substitution, and Tower of Hanoi.

I tried #FarthestFrontier and was immediately turned off. I've tried a number of games like it & one thing I really dislike is when they throw a lot of new concepts at you with a very busy user interface. It's overwhelming. I immediately have to consider every variable? No thanks, this is not fun.

Hai o/ I'm trying to get out of my comfort zone a bit more and actually promote and post the art I make. So here it is :D Free for the month of October, a 42x62 pixel art playing card asset pack! #pixelart #gamedev #itchio 💜 ellzebee.itch.io/pixel-art-pl... 💜

Technical debt is... the tabs in my PDF reader. #gamedev

Yikes, $45 shipped to the US for the #GodotEngine plushie. That's a bit pricey.

I feel like such a pancake sometimes. I've had problems with my PC since I reinstalled, so I asked an AI, with a very detailed question. And it helped me fix it. I've been using computers since the 80s and I would consider myself very skilled with them. And yet. #confession

I love #TheGreatNorth. It's such a wholesome, sweet show.

"How can we make Unity worse than ever?"

I really wanted to like Cronos; the story seemed interesting, but I don't find that gameplay fun. Squinting to see even when gamma is high gives me a headache. Combine that with shuffling slowly through clunky paths even while sprinting and beating on bullet-sponge enemies. Tedious. Uninstalled.

So much is broken about #Windows 10, still. Yeah I know, I should use 11, right? The one where they keep taking more and more settings away from user control, and keep trying to shove more ads in it, and force you to run AI, and keep screenshots of everything you do without asking you? That one?

I have to reinstall my PC. #Windows has cratered. A lot of apps are broken. I can't even use the calculator. I've tried all the repair options. /sigh It'll take weeks before everything feels comfortable again.

No Man's Sky is so frustrating & anti-player. What system is my quest in? It's a secret, because I'm on a space station or a planet or my freighter. I HAVE TO BE IN SPACE JUST TO CHECK THE MAP. The entire game is designed fucking bonkers like this. It has slowly evolved to be playable, but jfc.

The new #YouTube browser interface looks terrible and I don't like how they moved everything around.