Game design law: Simulating things in computer games is only worth doing if they ultimately impact the player or at least give them visibility into the process.

Dryerdome: two socks enter, one sock leaves

I wonder how wide the variation is in humans for the speed at which our fingernails grow. Is there someone out there with nails that have to be constantly trimmed/sharpened like beaver teeth

Housewarming parties are great let's also start doing genderwarming parties and gifts

just said "lol sigh sob" with the same cadence of live laugh love and I think I just found a new millennial rallying cry

Happy holidays, new lancer tactics build: wick.works/devlog/pixel... The post also includes a dive in how we generate palettes and recolor our pixel art.

Lancer Tactics mech token pack just dropped!

😼 cat ears for the portrait maker 😼

a better world is possible

if god doesn't have me I know that this pokemon tower defense game on itch dot io got me

traffic game all players secretly choose a number between 0 and 100 any players who choose the exact same number roll 1d100. if they roll under their chosen number, the accident is fatal surviving player who chose the highest number arrives at their destination most quickly (speed limits?)

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

Thinking about the input flow for Lancer Tactics; would be interested in hearing thoughts about this from anyone who's played the early access builds:

A gamedev baby shoes horror story: "Achievement unlocked: pet all sixteen dogs."

Just posted a very rare update for Crescent Loom; thanks to support from a grant, I added support for ears & creatures chirping! There's also now a T-maze in the game where one direction is the finish line and the other gets you eaten. wick.itch.io/crescent-loo...

wow I'm able to maintain a much healthier work/life balance when I really really don't want to do the work in question

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

automatic palette generation

Hey, so it's Creator Day on itch, which means if you buy my book, I get every single cent of its sale. If you love big mechs and memorable characters trying to act normal in absurd situations, you'll love In Golden Flame! vexwerewolf.itch.io/in-golden-fl...

Creator day sale! Itch is waiving their cut, so we put LT on sale with that 15% taken off. wick.itch.io/lancer-tactics

Dev anecdote: I've got this prototype of a new color picker in a side-branch, and pilots saved with it are put into a slightly new incompatible format. When we switched back to the main branch, the test pilot we used could no longer be loaded by the game.

can't believe i have to point to the sign in CAIN all the time lol

New Lancer Tactics build! wick.itch.io/lancer-tacti... Highlights: - First pass of *all* NPCs classes, sans optionals - Upload and download other player's maps via an in-game mod.io modal - Got mac & linux builds working again

in its latest scumbag move, google added nebulous "smart" features you can only use when you consent to let them scrape all your data, added a "when you check this box we get all your personal data" box in settings, then, in an act of generosity, ticked it for themselves and didn't tell users.

Does anyone know of a Godot developer who might be up for a bit of contract work to help us on Lancer Tactics? I'm trying to get off of dotnet and to do so we need to convert its one line-of-sight algorithm from C# to a C++ GDExtension. Should be short -- just a few hundred lines of code.

Yooo. I know you folks likely hear this about a lot of comics and other works but You should read this comic. It starts with a woman stealing her brother's ship and identity to study sea sponge :3 And then somehow the possible end of the world gets involved. It's also super queer???????????????

Got outlines for the unit xray shaders working today! As well as the much less sexy but very important xray shaders for zone boundaries that let you see through the grass covering them up.

Lancer Tactics is going to be so annoying to speedrun. The d20 system has so much variance — things can break very bad or very good due to just RNG. The best strats'll revolve around (as in BG3) ways to get around having to roll dice at all.

"The corpse is a box you open" is a phrase that is going to stick with me for life

my favorite silly joke is that one of the factions will be composed of all the assassins who have come to dispose of the king and are waiting in the walls to kill him. he's not there, of course, so in the meantime these assassins have made their own government

Mech & pilot for Lancer. She doesn't have time for your bullshit.

video games won't be art by the time i'm done with em

oh no it's got me

Made a quick morning hotfix for the last build: wick.itch.io/lancer-tacti...

a pixel golden age is IMMINENT, I cannot overstate how lucky LT is to have Gen making art for it

All PC mechs are officially in-game for Lancer Tactics, fantastic: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wic...

Hobbies include going back and intentionally downcasing branded products my autocomplete capitalizes. google doesn't deserve the respect of a proper noun.

Whenever I see someone like a repost of mine I want to shake them and tell them the good news that they can turn reposts off and how doing so makes your timeline a much better place to live... but I also want people to see **my** reposts because I reposted it for a reason (it's good) so here we are.

Let's goooooooooo

Scifi pitch: a holodeck with a one-way memory replacement where when you're in-character you don't know you're in-character, but you can remember the whole experience plus the rest of your life when you lea—oops, I think this is just Total Recall, nevermind.

I need more art of this weird woman...

Because I'm not seeing much mention of it here: the humanitarian flotilla that's been sailing to Gaza for months is hours away from the shore, and some boats have been intercepted by the IDF. Livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

How do you even manage to accidentally print out a spellchecker red underline

sometimes games are made with duct tape & paperclips accidentally, under poor production process. but sometimes games are made with duct tape & paperclips that a dev REALLY LOVED and MADE THEMSELVES and it would be insensitive and morally wrong to replace it with store-bought metal rods

we got inline hoverable tooltips baybeeee (once again I find myself in UI hell)

"yeah my speakers and webcam don't work on windows but switching over to my dual booted Linux install makes my laptop's hardware work perfectly" << implausible but true statement

reposting this so everyone i met at qgc can get in on it. GIVE ME YOUR PRETRY PICTURES

It was so freaking cool to play the games at @qgcon.bsky.social this year. It was the first showcase I've attended since lockdown and was such a breath of fresh air to be in the same room as SO MANY brilliant queer people, all making the sickest games you've ever seen.

I'm out to lunch and my companion ordered an alcohol shot and the waiter was like "...really? Do you know how small that is for $5? I think it's a waste of money." Absolute legend.

Arts & crafts night to make signage for QGCON this weekend!