we live in an age of UX and it is about adhering to patterns and expectations in order to get the most effective outcome.. And it is goddamn fucking boring.... This fucking UX design that holds the word design, stripped of all innovation and excitement.

why would we want to introduce more clicks and action requirements for users to see our images. This is such a dumb change, multi-image posts are dead, why bother..

Added in that new green housing templates, and had a lot of fun tweaking the ruleset to allow for thematic neighbourhoods. so you cities can have more distinct sections. now in beta on store.steampowered.com/app/290100/B...

Working on some new building sets for #bulwark and its big Architecture and Economy update.. yes, another big free content update

The verge of technology, the bounds of our ingenuity. Let us report exciting developments on : Microsoft fucking teams.

Why I can never score a true hit reason #7 You are supposed to market and milk features , store em for an EA roadmap, squeeze for wishlists. Or you dump em in your demo, the minute you finish em and watch people do amazing stuff. (in this case the extruded rails as overhangs and thin supports)

Right they're taking this technique all the way to some iceberg on the Atlantic it seems..

ooh somehow I missed this creation.. damn..

I thoroughly approve the lich house you wake up in is a visual nod to torment's mortuary. +1

I think this looks super interesting, I got an appetite for a good CRPG, I might get it. anyone try it?

Those devilish ShipShapers playing the weekly challenges have figured out you can spam rails (which you can tilt flat) and there are various merlon style rails. They spam em to create flush modern surfaces and custom overspans. Pretty sick

And make the world sane again!!!

Funny to see @unity.com change their support message for Built-In, deprecated, to still working to supported in 6.7 LTS. Keep on realizing that people love having a basic bare bones, optimized AF, Stable!!, render pipe. Start updating it and folks might actually be grateful.

Whenever any billionaire touts UBI as an AI solution you need to be terrified. When they take away your economic value, they take away your voice and remaining power. UBI only works without billionaires. Period. Otherwise it's a pathway to turning to world into dependents....

The artists is vulnerable, they take the risk, they are exposing themselves to the world, the organisation risks nothing, and acts to protect only themselves. See here a reflection of our entire industry.

This is still one of the most visually arresting video games ever. Stops me dead in my tracks every time. I hope it finds a new form and audience.. cuz a work of art truly

This weeks challenge; "Ahab's pirate pleasure yacht of the Baltic" is already getting pretty stunning, folks have figured out some brand new building techniques. Def some legendary contenders.

Yeh this is turning into a bigger update.. big enough for a name. store.steampowered.com/news/app/290...

As a game developer, sniffing the product is literally my deepest darkest desire.

Curved wall building , taking the learnings from #shipshaper into #bulwark.. now running on the Steam Beta branch of Bulwark. store.steampowered.com/app/290100/B...

I might be working on proper curved walls ... instead of the curved chunks of before, (needed a #shipshaper break, luckily there is always some game to improve)

Fuck Putin, Fuck Orban, Fuck Vance, Fuck Trump and the whole fucking corrupt shitstain collective. yey people of hungary, let's be European together..

Honestly I don't think procgen is dead with AI, I think it's going to be more alive than ever. People creating for joy and partaking the flow of an artists . Instead of the randomized slop generated by AI, it's joining a bespoke creative pathway by another human.

This reality, just now when exiting the Cinema, I saw my dad, get up a few rows in front of me, I followed him , knew it wasn't him, but just wanted another glimpse. Just to see him again. I walked off before I embarrassed myself. Get in the car fucking 'let it be' starts up .. let it be......

Yeh fuckit went to see project hail Mary. Fuck Ryan Gosling for being that likeable. Thoroughly enjoyable flick..

A new beta update that adds more depth to trading profits as well improvements to wall building (even more) , resource architecture (Industry buildings on foundations!) as well allowing you to pursue the faction wonders after you've killed or vassalized a faction..

I feel these two creations (both shared in the discord today discord.com/invite/falco...), will work really well together. yes work has started on exporting shipshaper ships to Bulwark...

A geriatric shitstain... that is all..

I made a joke I have been vibecoding since 1996. Suffice to say not everyone got the joke. Lol...

Ooh god they are letting me speak to actual programmers.

Games are a form of natural learning thru play and experiment. Endorfine because you got gut, human survival In a nutshell. Or how power fantasies have seeped into the fibre of our society, we played it first. Games are a direct conduit into shaping a generation more powerful than just art.

store.steampowered.com/developer/To... I've got a demo evolving, a Bulwark economic core algorithm overhaul on beta and you can follow some of that on my Steam Developer profile. Have a follow, next goal : get 2000 followers! store.steampowered.com/developer/To...

I have had a bunch of pixel phones and the 9 and 10 are so insanely fragile , drop em from the couch and instant crack. Every single time. Is this in purpose?, used to be you could have your phone while waiting for a case.

Zen and the Art of Fantasy Boat Building #screenshotsaturday store.steampowered.com/app/4344070/... 100% positive demo, go build a boat!

yeh those cranes do a lot of heavy lifting.. #shipshaper

New stuff now in the Demo beta -pom pom guns -crane -you can stretch any barrel of a gun (stubby or long) -torpedo bows If the world allowed it, I'd make this all free all the time, never launch just build cool shit and cool gameplay forever. I need a new way to sell... launching games sucks.

pom pom guns and a crane.. for the next demo update ;)

Submarine thursday I guess ;)

In honor of this weeks challenge , A new torpedo Whaleback bow will be added to #shipshaper. Available tommorow! because literally anything looks better with torpedo tubes!!

Kennedy: But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone. Obama: Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us. Trump: Go get your own oil!

So when are ingame screenshot capsules going to win again. cuz honestly the capsule art art race is getting pretty heated. You are producing some insane capsules. But makes me wonder if every capsule is going to be a handpainted bit of wonder, when does ingame keyart become a bonus again. if ever?

Sampling the new merch. Some designs work well, others need some improving. On the fence about print quality tbh.

What I find baffling about these 'AI excuse layoffs' ..... If AI is boosting productivity, then why are you laying off workers? If you suddenly had two tractors , you could work two fields. Instead of the one you had before . I mean wasn't growth entire holy grail? Confused...

This one of my favorite's from this week's challenge ranking. I dunno it just has a very cozy vibe to it.. #shipshaper

Fortress Approach 2020

If you want to hold on to your sanity in this industry then it's best to realize you are a cockroach and to find grace in that.

#screenshotsaturday a #shipshaper screen by a discord member

rigging update day, now uploading to beta, draggable shrouds, add or remove them yourselves. and each one can be dragged to the top to remove the channel boards or dragged down for channel boards which you can strech. Shroud customization galore (these are the 'ladders' coming down )

Curved castles and other superstructures that tightly follow the hull and can be much much longer are now running on the beta branch of #shipshaper

Look I've got new merch. Must have come from a US supplier tho. the fit is really weird. Like its XL but wide around the arms and tight around the belly. hmmm perhaps I need to hit the gym.