it's important to mentally model the cinematography of the imaginary documentary of your life

i got no idea what this tim didn't die shit is

maybe one day we will finish this game

i always hear people didn't like ass creed mirage but like. maybe i am not the fastest player but i'm 8 hours in and just got this... to me this is crazy retention. more than half of players even getting through the tutorial

i'm forever being shown ads for the marvel thing "thunderbolts". don't really know what it is. but i can't watch that shit! it's too desaturated. citizen kane is more saturated. come back with colours idiot

those little moral rhetoricals are so quaint now... "you have a button that if you press it you get a million dollars...but a child somewhere dies..." post-gen-ai folks are like "actually i will press the button for free"

great moment in asscreed mirage: leapt off a building aiming for a pole, missed it, ate shit 4 floors down, a nearby group of people do various takes on "OOHHFFFFFF"

i long to live in baghdad

save FIFTY PERCENT on the game i put out late last year that didn't do well but people do think it is good!!! this is what we call "honest marketing" store.steampowered.com/app/867150/I...

dang

ass creed mirage is so pretty

my fave ball game is on sale once again :3

save FIFTY PERCENT on the game i put out late last year that didn't do well but people do think it is good!!! this is what we call "honest marketing" store.steampowered.com/app/867150/I...

UNFORTUNATELY it turns out Left 4 Dead 1 no longer works for me. It crashes the second I take control of a character - so immediately if I join a game, or if I start one, at the end of the intro cutscene. Impossible to google. I had to sully myself today with the inferior L4D2

today i forced someone at gunpoint to play XCOM for the first time on stream, it was great. what a good game. also we played left 4 dead

it's what happens when you take the common frustrated-aspiring-artist misunderstanding "people are directly transferring images in their mind onto paper" - they aren't - and put that guy in charge of a creative project. here're some old blog comments about that www.joewintergreen.com/i-think-the-...

what many do not realise is when it comes to video games, more than half the dipshits in charge don't see artists or writers or musicians as people in the first place so this "replace them with ai" thing is very intuitive to them. creative involvement was always an unfortunate drudgerous necessity

The "AI" bubble is gonna burst and everyone's gonna act like they never were into this shit, but keep tabs on who was, because most of them are useless and destructive AI or no AI. You don't wanna work with em

here's a video game that's on sale and has no "AI" in it whose creator hates that shit

Playing around with using my lens flares inside the visor glass material , really digging this #GameDev #UE5 #UnrealEngine #TechArt

i would probably host a LAN occasionally if i had a dining table instead of just a coffee table. i have plenty of laptops but mfs prob don't want to sit on the floor

feeling grateful for several outpourings of support this shit year... lots of people have said really nice things to or about me. i didn't know folks felt these good ways

Say it with me now- placeholder assets are supposed to be bright and obvious so you DON’T ship with them. Also it doesn’t matter if no ai-generated assets are in the final executable?? The rising sea levels aren’t gonna be like “oh well no one saw that so the climate change doesn’t count”

do you desire a world where indie developers are able to succeed financially and make additional indie games? prove it by buying my dang ol' game for half price

I bought this and then bought a new graphics card. The ball simply deserved it.

bc on holiday and my mind doesn't let me relax unless working on something, i'm doin a real small half-life game with @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social and @gmad.bsky.social. that it is not something i could profit from should stop me approaching it the wrong way (stressfully). here's knuckle the squid

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Guess I'll post this again

This is one of the best games of all time

This is one of the best games of all time

never has the discrepancy between the number of dicks i believe i am looking at and the number of dicks i am truly looking at been more in evidence

after all, what is bob if not your uncle

this is half off in the steam sale that is happening right now! you'd be a fool not to buy it

buy influx redux... a game people say is good store.steampowered.com/app/867150/I...

more critical though to realise is that there simply Does Not Need to be a straight line you can draw between two things, in order for you to be against just one of them you never need devise a rule that perfectly categorises every instance into one of two things. you cannot live a boolean life

the big difference between procgen and "ai" is that procgen is straightforwardly a creative/authoring process like any other, whereas "ai" by its nature precludes both things. but even with procgen you can approach it from a cynical direction and fuck yourself www.joewintergreen.com/an-insult-to...

how are guys saying it costs hundreds of millions to make a game, in broad daylight, largely unchallenged. eeeeeverything is cheaper to do than it's ever been. these dipshits who happen to have $300m they're too dumb to spend well would be annihilated overnight if indies could ever access a mil

literally skill issue

uncharted 3, compared to 2, seems kinda... rushed and unconcerned with things. I dunno! A lot is cool about it for sure, some nice little extra touches, but like.. look at this big forgotten chunk of a chateau that leads nowhere. or this cave that's got no light sources, just unexplained pointlights

bc on holiday and my mind doesn't let me relax unless working on something, i'm doin a real small half-life game with @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social and @gmad.bsky.social. that it is not something i could profit from should stop me approaching it the wrong way (stressfully). here's knuckle the squid

unity can't keep getting away with this

i just want a quiet life and a good wage being the cheat code man for a magazine

New blog post: "interest sources", contextual NPC interactions, as deployed by me in @sleightofhand.game and other things. Here is one way that you, too, can keep your code from ballooning while actively encouraging your design aspirations to balloon www.joewintergreen.com/interest-sou...

4. InFlux Redux (store.steampowered.com/app/867150/I...) @joewintergreen.com's _beautiful_ and clever ball-based physics puzzle game. Explore an island, uncover some mysteries, rotate some cubes, and enter a volcano???

cowardly to use genai for ideation when you could simply go to sleep and have a dream

This is unfair to perhaps four or five people who try to do good work covering an industry whose main product is human misery, but at this point when I see someone self-describe (eg, in a social media bio) as a "tech journalist" I take that as disqualifying anything they have to say

me when someone overcomplicates a simple suck and fuck app

this guy's awful at making things he dislikes sound bad. here he suggests getting mad about ai will expend calories, potentially helping me lose weight. i am in

perhaps controversial, but if as a technical person you ever devised a system whereby a writer ends up being provided an array of strings and they can't restructure the dialogue on their own without going through another person, you fucked up. maybe you're good at your job but you weren't that day

We have to adopt new tech or else our game will fail, which is why all successful games from a few years ago included blockchain technology