"this art could have made me less uncomfortable while still making its point" cool. i have a ball. perhaps you'd like to bounce it

A closer look at the VR ice sculpting mechanic from the Penguin Festival gameplay trailer. 🧊⚒️🐧 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

The winner takes all-instant hit-meme-flywheel mentality that has completely overtaken the games industry and even #indiedev is poison. It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.

Being a VR dev has just been a decade of being jump scared by new hardware, from half a dozen or more vendors, you will be expected to support, suddenly, with no external financial assistance, and no way to tell if doing so will pay for the resource expenditure of supporting it.

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Lowered prices once again in hopes to fill enough slots to help pay vet bills. Sadie's health issues persist and so far we don't even know what's wrong, so more vet visits ahead. Any shares will be highly appreciated since I am a small artist here still.

If you have a VR headset and wanna try something different for a good ol Halloween gathering, Mandrillia+Containment Initiative 1&2 are on the Asymmetric VR Action bundle, with a combined discount of 60% One player in VR, up to 2 "flat" players on the same PC, either helping or hunting you down

Oigan, ¿alguien sabe de estudios indie andaluces que estén haciendo juegos de terror? Es pa una cosa... 👀

A curse from a sorcerer was identified that affects games and applications built on Unity versions 2017.1 and later for Android, Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems.

Updating the Unity editor for a 5+ year old project is always such a fun, stress-free activity, glad to have an excuse to do it again

The goal of the Modern Video Game isn't just not trying to be Art. It's to be the exact opposite of Art. It's to depersonalize / derealize the player. To put them in a trance and subsume them into profitable layered action-response cadences, that they immediately forget, but immediately crave again.

I feel like more creatives should be giving pushback to their audiences especially when they act like little sociopaths that the work they’re choosing to partake in isn’t 100% what they want like the creator owes them that

Sometimes I get pretty cinematic shots in Escape from Mandrillia (btw, just got out of Early Access, wink wink) like this infected Mandrillian bursting in a cloud of insectoid parasites right in front of that dramatically lit room

Escape From Mandrillia is a local asymmetric VR+PC game where a VR player escapes alien monkeys while PC players assist as drones or hunt as Mandrillians, with deep customization options. 🏆 99% of 145 reviews ▶️ See it on Steam ($7.79) #steam #pcgaming #gaming #steamgame

Welp. Escape from Mandrillia is out of Early Access. These 5 years have been Interesting www.youtube.com/watch?v=Veah...

Me realizing all of today's recordings for the 1.0 release trailer are on the wrong bitrate and look like crappy crusty bodycam footage Ah well. We'll get em next time

why are you deploying chaff do you hate me do you hate my missiles

If you only take the big names as your inspiration you will inevitably be disappointed. There is no career path in games that involves only making big-time successes. Please find inspiration from making work you enjoy and, ideally, uplifting those who DON'T get attention. Many people could use it

Testing Mandrillian Bot behavior when VR player is cloaked -they know I'm nearby (just opened the door) and sniff around, doing some light blind attacks. Once I get out and close the door, they assume I'm on the other side, slam against the door, then reroute to find me. Very happy about this!

Testing the FPV spectator camera for Escape from Mandrillia (centered on player's head instead of one eye, wider FoV than VR mirror, slight filter for jitter/stabilization) Good for more action-centered modes like this one (and yes, I died in the most embarrassing way)

if ice age exists in the Alien: Earth universe then so does the video game Aliens Vs Predator 2 by Monolith Productions, the multiplayer demo of which should have prepared the characters for the events of Alien Earth. ridiculous plot hole

Wanted to take advantage of VR interactivity and have some cool "maintenance" mechanics for the drone (controlled by a friend on the "flat" PC side). Didn't need to whip the fire extinguisher out for this one at least! Escape from Mandrillia's coop mode is already available- steam.pm/app/1936360

After a year of 0 time for personal art this shippy minicomic was done purely for dopamine. CG has been in a bit of a limbo lately but the first book is half way drafted at least so we’re making progress. Meanwhile it’s more dopamine rush doodles and client work I soon get to post ✨ #OCart #webcomic

There are months where no gamedev happens, and there are days where months of gamedev happens

Commission Chart #commission #commissions #commissionsopen

SUPERMAN IN SPAIN LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

Oh what's that? Even a design entirely built around interfacing richly with one's hands STILL HAS BUTTONS AND A STICK ON IT BECAUSE YOU NEED THAT FOR BUILDING GAMEPLAY.

🐤 We’re so close to reaching 1,000 wishlists on Steam! If you're excited about angry chickens with guns, a simple Repost can help us a ton 🐔💥 🎮 Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/2987520/... 🙏 Thanks for the support, you absolute legends!

any time steam has a post explaining how valuable they are to developers i'm like, too late buddy you already did the post about how you aren't. no takesy backsies

Thinking about TF2's lore and how this single panel from an update page's Easter Egg beats the entirety of Overwatch's writing

Finally added the second extra zone (Waste Disposal) to the game. This video represents me at a spiritual level

The launch of Bambas! is just around the corner (coming June 27 to Steam and consoles) and we can't wait for you to play it and discover everything you can do. Here’s a thread highlighting just a few of those things. (RTs appreciated!) #indiegames #videogames #bambas

Years ago I made this proof of concept for the PERFECT VR headset. They called me crazy then, well, NOT SO CRAZY NOW AM I

When gamedevs have to make an elevator for a climactic section of their game, they just enter a trance and once they're out of it the Akira elevator has just materialized. It's a well-known phenomenon

Forklift Certified

uhhhh can an AI do this?: *manually places a 0.1 second delay to fix a bug*

(me, a baker) hundreds of surplus fps, atmospheric global illumination, runs on old hardware and is therefore more accessible, no jittery ghosting

Me to myself: "it's bad form to tryhard your own game's leaderboards, it can discourage players" Me 5 seconds after setting up the firing range leaderboards:

making a tutorial is the most annoying part of making a game like sure lemme just open up the scripts and add exceptions to basically every core mechanic so this one tiny room will function slower than all the others *and* include step by step instructions *and* check player input for each step

a major issue with video games is that they produce a bunch of people who consider themselves brain geniuses for solving problems that were designed to be solvable. as a remedy, we should be making more games that are actively and irreconcilably hostile to the player. thank you

what a stupid movement system

- if the person you're talking to says they're working in "VR" don't buy anything. They'll try and trap you in their magical computer contraption - GDC talks are a good place to practice heckling. The developers love it as it increases the challenge. They're gamers too you know.

Put another way: If you love VR, and want to play anything that isn't: - Free to play Gorilla-tag clones w. Microtransactions - Horizon Worlds made by teenagers - User Community VR Mods of flat games - VR chat worlds (until that platform runs out of money) You need to actually buy the darn games.

>looking at a new ironic western romance game >ask the devs if their game is a visual novel or a dating sim >they don’t understand >pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is a visual novel and what is a dating sim >they laugh and say, “It’s a good game ma’am” >buy the game >its a visual novel