I know few people care but one of the nice parts of using your own engine is that your install folder can look like this instead of being a mess of folders and dlls

wrote about quality of life game design stuff open.substack.com/pub/tylergla...

borderlands 4 picked the absolute worst time to release haha. even though I do wanna play it eventually theres just too many other games coming out currently that I simply care about more

wrote about quality of life game design stuff open.substack.com/pub/tylergla...

He does touch upon how one of the things silksong lets you do is "go somewhere else and come back later", but I do think it's important to emphasize how that option works well in games *because* there aren't "difficulty options" in a menu somewhere.

media criticisms of the form "why <popular thing> is actually bad" are tiring and boring. media criticisms of the form "why <weird janky thing> is actually good" are cool and interesting. there's stuff to learn from those even if its just random people having an opinion

the Design Delve guy lists himself as an indie game dev but I can't find info anywhere of what game's he's worked / is working on? Just curious btw

the perils of using google as a calculator is that sometimes you end up typing something trivially easy into it and it starts recommending you Youtube Babies videos

I just find hollow knight and silksong's settings and characters to be really inspired, like "its a dark fantasy setting except everyone is bugs" but they go whole in on that, its not "a small civilization of bugs under a world dominated by bigger creatures". its just all bugs

Episode 2 of our podcast is live! All four owners are here today talking about Silksong and more. In the second half, we have an interview with Edmund McMillen and @tylerglaiel.com. We discuss their upcoming game, Mewgenics, and the challenges of game dev! www.rogue.site/podcasts/rog...

recreated some weird fractal I invented as a teen by typing numbers and math operations randomly, which I had ended up documenting which was nice since there's no chance I would ever rediscover the weird formula for it again www.shadertoy.com/view/wfXBz7

my favorite games of all time are all ones where you explore a big interconnected world and slowly become familiar with it. metroidvanias and souls likes and exploration puzzlers and such.

Silksong is good. its very much an "if it ain't broke don't fix it" kind of game. The movement is the main improvement over hollow knight, everything else is pretty much about what I expected of it

pet peeve in like nearly every 2D platformer that wants to bind an action to "down" or "up", this is ALWAYS annoying with an analog stick, if you're also trying to hold left/right while doing so. analog stick is not the same type of input as 4 individual arrow keys

silksong sure has a lot of bugs in it

I misclick this fucking "ask google AI about this page" button like 30 times a day ever since they added it to chrome

new game by Edmund McMillen and @tylerglaiel.com just got a huge hour long gameplay reveal and it looks so good!! so excited to pick this up www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAiI...

MEWGENICS LOOKS SO GOOD GRAAAHHH www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAiI... I CAN'T WAIT FOR FEBRUARY!!! #mewgenics

All of the major game content in Mewgenics is done now as of yesterday. There's still some minor bits left to do and lots of polish + balance + bugfixing, but the important bits are all there! See you all in february!

schrodinger's president

Mewgenics !!!! ㅤ/ᐠ - ˕ -マ𓍢ִ໋͙֒ #edmcmillen #mewgenics

indie devs with upcoming releases: "We simply have no choice but to delay the game because of Silksong" indie devs with upcoming releases, in private: "oh thank god we got an excuse to get a few extra weeks before release"

🚨🚨🚨IMPORTANT MEWGENICS DEVELOPMENT UPDATE 🚨🚨🚨 After nearly 6 years in development.... you can now finally pet the cats

🚨🚨🚨IMPORTANT MEWGENICS DEVELOPMENT UPDATE 🚨🚨🚨 After nearly 6 years in development.... you can now finally pet the cats

past midnight but uh I just finished programming the final boss of mewgenics some polish + balance tuning on it still left to do but thats it, that's all the bosses

This panel from your comic strip in the remade Mewgenics comic has the same energy almost.

there is a standoff happening in my neighbors yard

Post bad games with soundtracks that go way harder than they have any right to www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CJo...

"homestuck drama"? have you tried "goingoutside" instead?

I keep thinking about this would make for an absolutely incredible dystopian sci fi setting. One of the middle generations on a generation ship. Your techbro libertarian great great grandparents doomed you and 1000 others to an entire life aboard a generation ship with zero possibility to escape.

testing again with chatgpt 5

I'm reading some shit I found on hackernews about a contest to design an interstellar generation ship and my god there is some *insane* shit in the top 3 entries.

Do you want your cat's name to appear as a random option in Mewgenics? Well good news! I've opened up the submission form for cat names again! Fill it out if you want your cat's name in the game! forms.gle/wsrxD52MsJ6i...

king of the hill reboot is decent except for dale's voice

oh you can do AI calls in google sheets now

Do you want your cat's name to appear as a random option in Mewgenics? Well good news! I've opened up the submission form for cat names again! Fill it out if you want your cat's name in the game! forms.gle/wsrxD52MsJ6i...

ah jeez the thought just occurred to me of how much more annoying the "hey I got a game idea for you" from family members are gonna get now that AI can do 5 second ""concept videos""

I feel like I kept seeing news articles like "C++26 finalized" and then I check and its not finalized. is it finalized or not? is there one of those nice summary articles about the changes / new features anywhere?

why are there so many unironically viscerally angry responses to this

everyone reposting this to try and dunk on me has zero reading comprehension (and an anime profile picture) lmao

Hot take but this was the best button layout design and regressing back to the SNES layout post-gamecube sucks actually

Its kinda funny how this was supposed to be an absurd exaggeration when it aired back in the 90s but now that's just the default american car www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_J...

I think donkey kong bananza accidentally got twice as much time for their dev cycle since the tech couldn't run on the switch 1, so they had to wait for the switch 2, which took a while. almost 8 years for a platformer game is crazy

finished donkey kong bananza, very good game. not sure how tempted I am to go for 100%, but will probably at least do the main bits of post game content

When I played Mewgenics for this preview, Edmund McMillen loaded up a save file created by @tomrmarks.bsky.social from when he previewed the game, and I got Tom's cats killed. Sorry Tom. www.pcgamer.com/games/roguel...

out of pure curiosity I was wondering what would happen if you just stacked up a bunch of orthographic cameras on top of each other

adobe raised their prices so much that my bank flagged the automatic renewal as "suspicious activity"

neat