Today I switched to using my steam deck as my main game dev machine: 1. Godot forward+ no longer runs on my intel macbook 2. my old PC laptop tries its best but is a bit of a 2018 clunker 3. I was holding out to get a steamcube but the AI bubble has destroyed new computer prices and availability

SHIRTLESS ON A ROOFTOP V0.9.5 is now OUT! Now with BETTER Layout! Uppercut someone into a window, do a chainsaw grind on a wall, kick someone through a train car, you can do all of that when you're not busy solving a case or simply eating delicious food. Check it! eldjester.itch.io/soar-shirtle...

The steam page for Lancer Tactics is now up! Throw us on your wishlist! #lancerrpg #mech #mecha

Two Lancer Tactics news items: 1. We have a debut trailer! Critics (disclosure: me) are saying it's the best game trailer to ever be made?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GywP...

I played the latest build of Lancer Tactics, based on the Lancer TTRPG, with the developer @wick.works ! youtu.be/aI-eBkUySFw?...

I know I only get away with it because I'm white and don't look poor but I get such pleasure in saying "No thank you! :)" and briskly walking past the grocery store security guards asking to see receipts at the exit. Something something intentional disobedience ++ resisting security theatre.

Damn nothing makes you believe that other worlds are possible like listening to a David Graber book. Our political realities are so so narrow compared to the vastness of what has been and can be done.

New build for LT is live! v0.6.0 adds the last of the player talents and is coming up on halfway done for the rest of the NPC optionals. Plus some cool new FX and icons: wick.itch.io/lancer-tacti...

i have such a love/hate with #godot. I'm so glad it exists and I know other engines have problems too but I stg there's always some cursed problem that crops up right as I'm trying to release. This morning I found that our portraits are broken post-4.6 upgrade but only for the exported build.

I've adored this illustration by @badbucket.bsky.social ever since I first saw it in the lancer core book and was delighted to learn they have it available as a print 😍 :: www.inprnt.com/gallery/badb...

ICE just murdered a man- they had him 5 on 1, on the ground. A mile from my house. This blatant and insidious. www.reddit.com/r/law/s/1HIJ...

Today in cursed problems: I just discovered that the "exclude files/folders" export filter hasn't been working so our pck has been twice as large as it needed to be (ie duplicates of all audio files), like +160mb. #godot

Fantastic breakdown of Tactical Breach Wizards' AI! We have a similar approach for Lancer Tactics of having the "brains in the grenades", but this also showcases a clearheaded priority approach that solves for too many weights causing an AI to do crazy things. Wish I'd seen this three years ago lol

now that 1.0's been out for a bit, wanted to share some of my contributions to Hades II! had the pleasure to work with the team for the past few years - not comprehensive at all but here's a small sampler of icons and small illustrations that can be found across the game

it turns out a lot of people play Lancer

holy shit

I'm one of the three! Great article.

making things is haaaaaard

the feminine urge to vibrate at a resonant frequency to misalign yourself with reality and clip through the veil between worlds

still not upgrading to Tahoe. you can't make me.

Doodling on a hoodie

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