Bracing myself for a heart checkup with the dog on Wednesday. Is it gonna be super warm, is it gonna rain? Is the train gonna be delayed? Who knows, only delights await, I'm sure.

I'm dying from how cool our goddamn game looks!

A big Youtuber played Kromlech, but that thing I say about youtubers and streamers strikes again - they just love, love to speedrun tutorials. So then he's not blocking (there's a block button?!!), not parrying, not using the mechanics he should be... And the combat is "clunky".

June 1st

And the classic: youtu.be/yGkWohEMcJQ?... Somebody give them the budget for an adaptation...

Oh, hey, nice. I liked what I'd read of "Historie". I think the protagonist is a Scythian (?) in the orbit of Alexander the Great, it's kind of sort of similar to Vinland Saga. It's been a while since I read it. Hopefully the anime is as good as VS's adaptation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNXh...

Hey, people who feel an inexplicable urge to watch a funny Irish person play and review somewhat obscure older PC games, here's a cool channel for exactly that: (Dreya's house recently caught on fire, so go watch the videos and give him some views and nice comments!) www.youtube.com/@Dreyameir/v...

Hey, people who feel an inexplicable urge to watch a funny Irish person play and review somewhat obscure older PC games, here's a cool channel for exactly that: (Dreya's house recently caught on fire, so go watch the videos and give him some views and nice comments!) www.youtube.com/@Dreyameir/v...

Man, people really are just terrible at reporting problems in games. "It still doesn't work." My friend. Bud. My bud friend!!!

The CRPG Book: A Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games (Expanded Edition) This expertly researched volume is a comprehensive history of role-playing games. Only 10% of stock left: www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/... #bitmapbooks #retrogaming #booksky #crpg @felipepepe.bsky.social

Fanart for 35 yrs old SNES game "Psycho Dream". Plot involves Japan's National Public Safety Commision agent Maria diving inside the psyche of 17 yr old girl named Yūki Sayaka who has gotten trapped in "Story of the Ruined Capital", a D Movie by David Visconti (!). Fantasy gives rise to fantasy

AUTOMATON HEART IS HERE You can play it on Steam. Journey through a set of eclectic locales while managing your organs and switching between three characters.

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MWAHAHAHAHA WISHLIST SLAUGHTER VOID, DROPPING ON YOU JUNE 3RD

Seeking a Blender technical artist/rigger to exactly recreate a legacy isometric player sprite rig + render pipeline for an old-school 2D RPG. Need near pixel-perfect body/camera/silhouette alignment so future equipment layers render correctly. DM examples + rates. Please share!

It just clicked for me that the two game concepts I've been playing with in the last few months are: a) a Robin Hood game b) one about killing vampires I wonder why those ideas came up.

Just know that if I see you using this shit (and I do), I'm judging you. It's not harmless or inconsequential. It's very, very easy to not use genAI for anything. You're making a very public choice.

I still remember all the motherfuckers who did NFTs. Yea I see you reposting anti-AI stuff, you shits, yea you. I remember. You fuckers.

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Reassuring.

Another Witcher 3 expansion?! Nice. Yeah ok, I guess I can replay the game again.

Ugghhhh...the weather once again calls for the clippers. Gotta survive the next three months of hell, somehow. Someone should do something about this.

I was just looking at his Lohengrin, incredible illustrations. Delicate, but punchy at the same time. I'd bet Alan Lee is a fan.

Yeah. Hahahah. Funny that. Line/number must go up, it's surely just poor optimization by game developers and not the fault of the engine!

UE6, sure, whatever. At this point I wish we could make our next game (if there is one) on Godot or something. But we have tools and pipelines for UE5, so...probably not. *sigh*

"Willy O Winsbury" is an incredibly funny song. A king comes home from captivity and immediately starts grilling his daughter about her "sickness", has she perhaps "been with a man"?! Turns out yes, she has, with the titular Willy. King's like "HANGED HE SHALL BE". Sends guards to seize him. (cont)

Cool to come across the version of The Hobbit I grew up with online - I forgot how nice a book object it actually was. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSeN...

Yea. I still make perspective and anatomy mistakes, sometimes on purpose - the "wrong" thing can be "right" for the image you're making. I also usually work on 1-3 layers, so that's another "strike" against me in any AI court. You need to understand more about art, not just look for "mistakes".

I implemented the ability to kick grenades in KOOK, but I haven't added a check for the projectile type, which means you can kick also kick bullets and even kick flamethrower fire to make it go further. Bug or feature? 🤔 #ScreenshotSaturday #RetroFPS Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2329690/...

Just look at it.

The sickos at Deaf Crocodile are planning to release one of my childhood favourites! No idea how the puns and tricky Czech humor translate, but it's a very fun film.

Automaton Heart launches in one week!!

Mysterium tremendum... when something terrifies you and pulls you in at the same time. When every instinct says run, but you can't leave. We've been trying to build that feeling into every frame. What was the last game that left you genuinely unsettled, but in the best way?

Kromlech Update 0.3 is up! (fingers crossed nothing breaks, it was a LOT of changes under the hood, which should hopefully improve perf. and allow us to do even more optimizations in future updates.) steamcommunity.com/games/240668...

"But his eyes they are sane his speech it is plain. And he longs to be far away-o." Same, Crazy Man Michael, same.

You don't have to use Google. There are other search engines, some that actually work more like Google used to work. Try Kagi, no affiliation other than I use it myself.

As people on FB informed me some of my old Guide to Glorantha art is being used in a (99% likely slop) video on bronze age history, I was reminded of this very funny goof - when a page on "Roman history" posted a screenshot of @simonroy.bsky.social art for Six Ages along with a helpful explanation.

I splurged on replacement wheels for my office chair. SO SMOOTH OMG (the most 40 year old man I've ever sounded, yes)

Man, I don't like most of the Tolkien art I've done. Mostly it's that finality of it, that it captures how I felt at the time, but doesn't reflect (enough) some kind of objective quality of Tolkienness. Funny, some that I still kinda like were for the TOR1 Moria book, which I can't really show. :D

Feeling Tolkien nostalgia today, I was going through my ancient drawings a bit - interesting that I was doing elven swords as vaguely La Tène back in 2009 (left) and 2022 (right). Not great drawings or designs, but I still like some bits here and there.

So yeah, Warhorse Middle-Earth RPG confirmed. Having talked to some WH people I know, I both do and don't envy them. It's a very cool problem to tackle, but you also have to knock it out of the park. Something of that scope with the expectations of open world gameplay, it's gonna be super hard.

Also Kromlech adds Simplified Chinese localization in this update. (0.3) (dunno, how many people here would use that, but it's there now!)

Kromlech Update 0.3 is up! (fingers crossed nothing breaks, it was a LOT of changes under the hood, which should hopefully improve perf. and allow us to do even more optimizations in future updates.) steamcommunity.com/games/240668...

My game comes out in 10 days :) I worked on this world for 2 years

Hiya, new followers and random passersby who like archaeology! If you liked my work on Kromlech, you might also be interested in the "Six Ages" games - both heavily inspired by the bronze age. (The 1st by Scytho-siberian horse nomads, 2nd more of a mix.) store.steampowered.com/app/881420/S...

Assets that came from these concepts were also in the first Kromlech dev diary - they're bronze decorations for barrowfolk tombs and other locations. You can see repeated motifs of horned sorcerer kings and Heron who carries souls back from Danain, so they can serve as undead sentinels.

And since it was shared in the first Kromlech EA dev diary, I guess I can show this concept I did recently for a future NPC. Our concept artist Hanka did a lot of early work on this guy and I pretty much just polished it for production.