Jesus fucking Christ the fucking news. Every day is pain. Constant novel twists of the knife with clockwork predictability. I'm feeling the hypernormalization wash over me.

Was a high cortisol day for me I tell ya. Guess I need to be a little more weathered but also, I don't get any sense of pride from getting through them. I just feel a little more worn stretched, ashamed. I no longer feel like hitting that "job well done" is a salve. Very depressed these days.

25 years of this and still I get regular insecurity. Call it impostor syndrome if you like. I think it's more like... None of us are robots. We're going to have bad patches where everything falls apart. The solution is to simply not lose all faith. Something always yields if you hang in there.

Rapture tomorrow 🤞

We invented borders. Not even that long ago. They only exist because of mass psychosis.

shrinkflation

I wish people would spend more time realizing that we live on a rock hurtling through space. Life isn't a zero sum game. Imperialist nationalism is hurting everyone. We blow up people's homes and then get angry that they flee to other countries? Do we have shit for brains or what?

I might be wrong, but I always feel like you should try to nail game feel before worrying about balance. You can balance around good game feel, but you can't fix game feel by cranking the potency of a mechanic.

Hi Bluesky! The diagram for puzzle lovers. Save it so you can find these games on Steam later 🎮💥 #puzzle #games #Steam #indiegames #puzzles #game #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #streamers #youtubers #streamer #YouTuber #stream #twitch #youtube

I wish I was less online. But turning away from this slow motion car crash of a country is proving difficult. Like a hare caught in the headlights. And back home isn't doing much better either.

Every game's a time loop game if you scumm save through it. 👍

Before social media, your typical village idiot would be more likely to face a bit of pushback on their daft ideas from local people. They'd have to argue their point face to face. They wouldn't venture out and find other village idiots. But now, the internet's an emulsifyer for village idiots.

If something is clearly exploitable, and it would be bad for others to exploit it, why do the people who exploit it try to excuse it by saying "Well if I didn't exploit it, someone else would."

I swear, every time I need to do something with curves I feel like I'm starting from scratch. And then, like, everything's just secretly beziers under the hood.

PSA:

It’s only art when they don’t want you to see it.

If any Americans want ideas for how to recover your economy after this guy's wormfood, one thing you could do is normalize solar panels on rooftops. Creates jobs. Helps reduce energy demand (and yep, aware AI is making this worse but that'll dip and plateau). Reduces geopolitical strife.

I really hate when the algorithm shows this one old game I worked on. It's almost always some extremely gleeful roast. But sometimes, the comments are kinda nice. We didn't land it (we was rushed out), but feels like we maybe inspired a lot of other games to take the baton and run.

I feel like that cockatoo that got liberated from their cage. I've been so happy to see bike infrastructure improve while I've been living in Seattle. Hope is dope. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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

Say "Moo." 😍🤣 #dog #dogday #bluesky

Man, why is SLS running like shit? ... Oh.

Now Nefertiti - there's a MILF! A Mummy I'd Like to Find (This is why they cancelled that one game I worked on)

It's like staying up late to see if Santa is real but we're hoping Santa's dead

Hope core

Let's all go to the Sagrada Familia and tut and kick the ground and whine "what's taking so looooong?!"

lmao, i've been here 6 years and only just realized we have a jira license or whatever? ignorance is bliss.

I, for one, was never into this side of comedy. Very nice video essay that you can watch for free. youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...

This might unironically be my most important contribution to gaming. www.reddit.com/r/DeadlockTh...

that inspired me to throw this together, sound on (obviously) I will probably never stop thinking about how these scenes hit theaters only 1 month apart because if there'd been more time gap anyone would have reasonably assumed one influenced the other kept the next bit in because it's my favorite

Been very busy. Only working on tiny things. My bigger things pushed back to the next patch. But I feel like I'm turning a corner. Gaining confidence. Understanding the code base better and better. Learning other people's code is definitely a skill that I'm still working on. Unavoidable hard work.

Conspiracy theorists are currently living the trope where the person who tells you "trust no-one" is revealed to be the person they can't trust. It's delicious.

"I quit my job to make a generic souls-like, and the heart of my marketing push is to somehow make that your problem."

Continuous updates are a genie we can't put back in the bottle, but, sigh...

I've encountered a lot of counter intuitive game design rules of thumb, mostly centered around perverse player psychology. It may not be a good idea to explain a simple game in simple terms. The player can feel engratiated by fighting through hostile interfaces. Woolen Gauntlet.

"Your game is fun. Did you code it correctly?" "No." "I've changed my mind. It isn't good."

to every company that is cancelling their huge GAAS "live service" games: give those assets to a smaller little scrappy group of devs in your company. a team of 5-10 people. let them make a singleplayer thing with the characters and props, locations. it will be interesting. it will probably sell

The bulk of tech bros and people with inherited wealth do not fundamentally understand skilled labor at all because they have always been in a position to fail up, and they assume that they are actually the high performers and that everybody else is more incompetent than they are.

It took me about a decade to realize that I was a terrible coder, but with AI it's taking newcomers mere weeks!

Christ, AI really is just Clipart 2.0

I bit my lip again. It keeps happening. I could end it. I could end it all.

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interesting. now they know not to do this

A lot of people I meet in games are earnestly in love with them. I love games too but the difference with me is, I think they should be ashamed of themselves. Like a disappointed elder.

Peak is definitely a lot of fun. Like a 3D co-op first person spelunky with Gang Beasts physics. Grab some friends! store.steampowered.com/app/3527290/...

Worked really hard last couple of weeks while feeling on fire Want to crow about it. Doing stuff that will only really have impact down the line, when this thing picks up. If it picks up. Still feeling proud of myself for getting through a high anxiety patch, even if nothing comes of the results.

I'm bored of Mario karts