psssst big pharma...could you like....make vaccines for allergies?? ty very much - a sneezing commoner

✨This months newsletter is out!✨ HOW TO GET GIGS AS A FREELANCER!? 🔥💦 This was cathartic to write and hope it's relatable and helpful❤️ www.nehapatelaudio.com/blog-3-1/blo...

"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

No generative AI was used in creating The Mermaid Mask - this game is the result of nothing less than a small group of very talented artists working hard for a long time! A shame it even has to be said, but it's important to restate our values when making games: No GenAI. Ever.

This is what the dialogue tool looks like in our Mermaid Mask Unity project. I write the script directly into these boxes, select facial expressions if it's for an examine box, as these are, and I include voice directions, since it later gets exported as a script for the voice actors

By the way, the lead dev of Beautiful Light, an "upcoming extraction shooter" with a huge following on Steam, is currently having a meltdown on X over my critical analysis of Clair Obscur, reposting screenshots of some close friends, probably namesearching me to reply to any tweets mentioning me.

Salut. Ca fait cinq ans que j'étudie comment le nationalisme et le colonialisme ont des échos dans le jeu vidéo. J'ai rarement vu un jeu aussi misogyne, orientaliste et inconsciemment droitard qu'Expedition 33. 🥖💀 youtu.be/Z8M8q80bTKg 💀🥖

So glad to be in the North East

Steam Next Fest is here! And The Mermaid Mask is in it! Like Ace Attorney, Professor Layton and Monkey Island? Want to try a murder-mystery detective adventure aboard a weird submarine? Play our new Next Fest Demo, with a new Art Gallery feature: store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...

Announcing Walkable City - a 2-4 player coop game published by Fowers Games and designed by me! Build out public infrastructure as different modes of transit - Waling, Biking, Bus & Light Rail - get denizens where they want to go. Follow the project below! www.kickstarter.com/projects/fow...

holy shit general-purpose n64 game engine and editor just released www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BCm...

or yknow, you could make visual scripting actually viable with all those companies you bought who worked on visual scripting tools....

the meandering journey leading up to the release of The Mermaid Mask, our next game

"This game bombed, I feel sorry for [artists]" "Why? They got paid." I hate this comment so much. It's rooted in the same complete lack of understanding value in creating. Expression means you speak. You want it seen. Especially if you have something to say. This is the same lack of respect as AI

the absolute relief of figuring out a narrative flow 😌 To think writing it all by hand was the element to help break through. Folk, use apps less and a pen more

I might have some availability in the coming months, so do reach out if you think a project of yours is in need of some voxel art :) I'm also open to short commission work

Our murder mystery adventure game The Mermaid Mask is coming Summer 2026! That means we're going to be in the upcoming Steam NextFest, with a refreshed demo (see Adam's post below) and more to share soon! The demo is up on Steam already: store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...

ANNOUNCING 🇨🇺 The Nuestra América Flotilla. We are sailing to Cuba, bringing critical humanitarian aid for its people. Together, we can break the siege, save lives, and stand up for the cause of Cuban self-determination. Join us: nuestraamericaflotilla.org

We just updated The Mermaid Mask demo on Steam! One of the things we've added is a glimpse at the Art Gallery feature, which you can access from the title screen. It features concept art, 3D models and and behind-the-scenes notes from the artists :) Most of it is currently locked, of course...

vibes and visual based game design is Good and Smart, thank you

smol merchant working hard

All the rules to detect AI Pixel Art in this document are applicable to detecting AI Voxel Art. It's not common at all on Bluesky, but I've seen it on pinterest and elsewhere. AI Voxel Art does exist but thankfully has little utility for various reasons:

If you care about pixel art as a medium and want to learn more about how to detect if it is genuine or AI-generated, please refer to this writeup that I created with the help of the community. Read, download, share and support real creators.

I'm so done with right wing politicians and personalities that all i can ever respond to them complaining about anything is "god, what a loser" They're so up their own asses they can't tell fiction from reality

TL;DR Unity -> Godot transition: after 13 years in unity, it took me 4-6 weeks of getting adjusted, and now i’ll never go back. it has quirks, like other engines. there’s bugs. but it’s free, basically equally capable, and well reported issues get fixed quicker than in unity (sometimes within hours)

Announcing Chicory: A Musical Tale! Releasing March 7th~ I'm delighted to collaborate with @resonantunion.bsky.social, Wishes Unlimited, and a host of talented collaborators on a 32-track arrange album releasing across four discs. It's a real dream project & I can't wait to reveal more!!

speaking of cool cheap effects: the shadow from the ceiling fan in Robo Recall is not a real shadow or even a light function or even a decal, it's a rotating translucent mesh

When you have important investigation work to do but you found a tasty snack

unbelievably grim to see Valve announce a delightful and exciting compact Linux box approximately 15 seconds before RAM became the more expensive material in the known universe.

2d pixel art, but with Day / Night cycle~ Including that magic 'golden hour' ☀️ #pixelart #gamedev #construct3

Made this lino as a gift for my D&D group - finally trying to carve in bigger sizes

Little snapshot I wanted to take while bug fixing.

Bug fixing and tidying up our prototype and we're almost there SO CLOSE 😵

the petliner... yay

Hey friends, do any of you know someone at Discord who can sort out server owner issues? We're unable to transfer ownership to a new account because the previous owning account was banned due to a hack :| Discord support isn't doing anything about it and I'm at my wits end

Last, but absolutely not least, Beidi (@tinystorm.bsky.social) created all the art for Mythmatch. Beidi has been on the project from the very beginning to the very end, just wrapping up last week.

Overall: 28% laid off in the last 2 years US: 33% Design/narrative: 20% in the last 12mo (most impacted discipline) 48% said they haven't found a new job, and the survey admits these numbers are likely an undercount. Fun fact: the survey would boot you out if you'd been out of work >2 years.

And hey, I’ll give you some starting points even if we’re not mutuals. In my view, the most important concepts you must know with Godot are: - Understanding Scenes & Nodes - Node Communication - Signals - Groups - Autoloads/Globals These, to me, are the universal fundamentals.

important thing about video games is that when you're talking about good stuff (art, system literacy, deep play) games are serious, full of limitless power and potential BUT when you're talking about bad stuff (addiction, gambling, gun culture) games are NOT serious, its JUSt a game man, chill out

After years of work, the first chapter of my slice-of-life, gag manga Go! Go! Gris! is now available! ✨ Read it for free here: gogogris.com/read/chapter-1 Or check out some pages below 👇 (1/6)

New shonen jump manga, Under Doctor is very promising! I don’t anticipate this getting axed this year, here’s hoping the mangaka is good at writing arcs without rushing

Still managing a book a week. Just finished 5 (700 pages) but I don’t think I can finish book 6 with 800 pages by Sunday next week 😩 Fantastic reads nonetheless!

Hey! I am still available for pixelart or lowpoly work. Portfolio: cara.app/lampysprites Contact: lampysprites(dot)hotmail(at)com

I’ve posted this a million times, too many people forgot what social media was like before the algorithm spoon fed you you can have cool stuff on your timeline if you actually follow people posting cool stuff it’s that easy

Bone temple is an excellent film. Great on its own and makes the previous film better. A weird achievement for a very late sequel of a sequel

❄️⛸️❄️It was amazing to show the first peek of the game to people at @mivsmagfest.bsky.social ❄️⛸️❄️

Finished reading Frankenstein. Damn good book. So much social commentary can be discussed around it, still very poignant.