Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of: fund.godotengine.org

So far I've used my modular rack for sound design a LOT. For sound effects, Plasma Voice+Wasp filter+Stero spring reverb=powerhosue. Even more versatile than I thought it'd be But, I haven't the rack much for music much yet. That's about to change today :)

Something I feel strongly for is, to reduce dependency on US digital infrastructure, EU should fund more open source alternatives (another thing I feel strongly for is, if EU does that, each project must use some of the funding to hire a required minimum amount of dedicated UX/UI specialists)

The reason I don't like most sports game is that the goal of said games align with sports. This is one of the reasons I love Skate Story so much. I'm not doing cool tricks to get graded by the game, but because it's how one battles the moon

Random C# tip that saved me lots of time. Are you like me, you want to see the type spelled out and not just "var"? Don't disregard "var" completely When unsure of the type, you can save time by writing var thingy = CodeThatGetsTheThing(); then use the "use explicit type" quick action

HELLSCREEN 1.0 is OUT of early access! It's a Retro FPS with Metroid-vania lite elements & a rear view mirror. Yes, you can shoot behind you! My favorite player description of it is "The most fucked up driving game I have ever seen" Buy it below!

Today's completely random tip bc I'm still on Unity (tho it's my last Unity game) Store your asset sound files as Flac. It's lossless, so your audio assets will take up half the space on your repository and there's no downside at all!

Announcement: I have temporarily banned 3/4 syncopated drums in all movie trailer music. Sorry, it will not be allowed before the year 2036 I have also banned the 5 second "trailer starts now" thing in the beginning of trailers. That one is permanent.

oof reading news on SVT about EU pursuing independence from US digital infrastructure Except, it's initiatives in AI ffs, it's not AI dependency on US that's the problem, we'll survive just fine without AI. It's the operating systems and cloud services for regular things. I'm so angry.

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Still playing Skate Story before I pick up Relooted (bc one game at a time rule) I really like how friendly Skate Story is, it trusts me to find my own motivation for getting good at it, rather than relying on ranks or difficulty The game would let me stumble through it. However... (1/2)

I love heists and always wished there were more heist games. Naturally, I've been very excited for Relooted! Now it's it's out!

store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/... Oeuf demo released! Enjoy! #OeufGame

Mademoiselle Cafetiere left her celebrity beau to pursue a career in the arts Five years later she is Prima Ballerina of the Royal Ballet, interpreting the great works of art... as drawn by viewers on Twitch 💕 One of my favourite parts of last night's stream 😄 www.twitch.tv/videos/26939...

It's starting now! It'll be super fun so join in

Tricky thing with using my plasma voice for making sounds of electrical sparks, it doesn't sound like movie electricity The same is true for the full size tesla coil I saw demonstrated at a museum once. They don't sound like you'd expect I'm gonna have to turn this into sounding "sparkly" while...

Anyone knows the easiest way to tile a bunch of PNGs of identical size? I just want to convert 256 small png images to a single one in a 4x64 grid

Gamedev is weird and fun. Who knew an electric discharge module is fun for visuals too?

🎸Dead Pets: A Punk Rock Slice of Life Sim is OUT NOW! 🎸 Come rock with us and help make us HUGE! 💥 That is after you help deal with band drama, make rent, and sort out my love life…🫠 You have your work cut out for you... store.steampowered.com/app/1851720/...

I remember a handy "alternatives to adobe" picture going around listing various software. It was great! Instead of Adobe substitutes, is there any such list for gamedev adjacent software without AI (requirement: nonexistent, optional AI is disqualifying)? IDEs, graphics/music software. art, etc.

imma eat the entire moon now

In Rhythm Doggo, I settled on internally naming the three music tracks the player can edit "kick, snare, cowbell" because they correspond to those instruments. In the second piece of music, I wanted to assign those tracks to different instruments. A bit of weird naming, but works... (1/2)

Thinking about deluxe horoscopes for some reason

My new algorithmic music composition finally entered the early stages of "sounding like a song" this is great because it becomes much more approachable to work on. The big Achilles heel of my adaptive music software is, the first few days of creating a new song is rough

The initial phase of making a song in my algorithmic music software is overwhelming. A blank canvas for algorithms and code, and a terrifyingly vast possibility space, and compared to other methods of composing, it takes way longer before it starts resembling a song I'm in that phase now

Started to work on my third algorithmic song for Rhythm Doggo It'll lerp between techno, deep hosue and IDM and extrapolate into other territory too Obviously, IDM means "Intelligent Dog Music" (Note: That's actually not me in the photo, that's my dog, Hotdog)

need techno and other electronic music for inspiration! Priority: bouncy techno! groovy techno! techno that makes one go "this techno is fun"

The people of Ukraine continue to endure ongoing Russian aggression. From February 2 to 9, we’ll donate 100% of the proceeds from our games and DLC on all platforms to People In Need in support of humanitarian aid in Ukraine.

An approach new for me that served me really well on my current game is, set aside some work hours per week where I'm not supposed to progress toward finishing the game, but on non-essential "nice to have" features. Turns out those features are VERY nice to have :)

Y'ALL! We are so close to 50 reviews... This is our launch week, if you could spread the word, or possibly buy and review?! You'd be blessing us! Get your chill low anxiety horror thrills from our lore-filled roguelike deckbuilder! store.steampowered.com/app/1727590/... #gamedev #indiegame

Today, I shall post picture of dog

In Rhythm Doggo, I have the following programming logic: There are woofers and a doggo. Both are pups. There are turtles. A goat is a turtle, so is a bunny and a hedgehog. There are also froggos. A frog is a froggo, but so is a grasshopper. Then there is the orb. The orb is nothing but the orb.

The demo is great, and look at how pretty it is

THE SPIRIT LIFT is finally out! If you need a chill horror roguelike deckbuilder in your life, we got you! store.steampowered.com/app/1727590/... #indiegame #gamedev #horror

Very excited for Relooted and the release is around the corner

I really loved my time with Control (I did play it a bit weirdly though and broke out of the map plenty - it has amazing out of bounds exploration) 90% off is a total steal for such a good game

For the love of God, how did the Level 1 music from Donkey Kong Country 3 become my new yearworm? I haven't even even heard it for real for many years because I have a strong dislike for it and seemingly the only song that can distract me from it is Gato's Song from Chrono Trigger

In Rhythm Doggo, I'm finally utilizing an approach I planned for Ynglet but didn't have time to fully explore: Lots of gameplay modifiers to make things easier/harder Blessings make the game easier. Curses make it harder. I don't think anyone will beat the game with all curses enabled at once.

I think EU should repeat the time they forced a browser selector during installation, but for operating system. First time starting a mac/windows PC in EU, there should be an easy option to install Linux. Also, every time a Windows update breaks the bootloader, Microsoft should be fined.

Testing sound design for my game, Rhythm Doggo: store.steampowered.com/app/4090240/... [flashing lights warning]

Testing sound design for my game, Rhythm Doggo: store.steampowered.com/app/4090240/... [flashing lights warning]

I really wish there was a way to use DaVinci Resolve without the project manager. Computers have file systems. They're super nifty, and one can make all kinds of automated tools work with them.

My prediction that a plasma voice, wasp filter, and two spring reverbs would make a good combo turned out to be absolutely correct The modules are so wobbly and unpredictable that even without modulating anything via CVs, the sounds change and evolve by themselves. (tho ofc I'm modulating via CVs)

Anyone happens to be into radio stuff? Looking for a radio receiver and I have two main priorities 1: The more bands I can tune into the better 2: I want to tune it manually, automatic locking into signals is bad - it's noise and bad signals I'm specifically after

I've been telling you many times over last week that I've been pondering the orb, but I never showed you the orb I'm pondering Anyway, it's this one

I've been pondering the orb for almost a week now. Now I'm making audio design for the orb with my new equipment Yes, my rack has two spring reverbs because I thought the effect would sound way better in stereo (and yes, it does).

I need all software developers to know: Nobody has ever wanted to paste something with formatting (okay I know that's hyperbole - I'll allow such a feature, but don't link it to Ctrl+V)

Another day of pondering the orb ⚫️ Today I shall make the orb speak

Pondering the orb today ⚫