Hmm I think my controller was bringing my steamdeck out of sleep mode... I've been playing a lot of Hades II, but not THAT much (I think it's been idling out of sleep node for 2 days.......?)

I'm a huge fan of implementing accessibility guidelines into games, but I just think it's funny that you're more likely to win an award for accessibility by having a menu in your game that lets players make subtitles 1% bigger rather than making the game's text be readable by default lol

Also did anyone see that thing about Discord updating terms of service to waive the right to take them to court in Canada & the US unless you opt-out in the next 27 days. What did *they* do...? (Are they planning to leak *more* verification data?)

Did anyone else get that email from Unity this morning... Haven't had time to think abt it until now, what the hell did they do...? Every game made in 2017.1 and onwards needs to be patched for security reasons, no exceptions...??

genuinely, who cares? public services aren't businesses. it provides services that should be accessible to the entire population. it should not be expected to make that profitable. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Forgot to share this, I got to do tiles for a friend's Falling Block Jam game! Presenting: City Stacker! It's a casual daily game about building a small city, designed to be played with friends! See who can get a higher score! late-nine.itch.io/city-stacker

Anyway I'm still Making Videogames

I'm a very forgive-and-forget type person maybe even to a fault but, and this isn't aimed at anyone in particular, I don't think I'll ever understand being able to go over a year without checking messages while being Actively Online lol

So does Godot just not let you work with really large tilemaps or did I just spend the last few months trusting that this system would hold up as I add more pixels. Also the terrain painting tool does Not scale lol. Also it crashes as I change values.

wait. WAIT. stop the presses. i forgot i drew food graphics for the chef minigame in deltarune ch3. and one of those foods... yes, that's right... in the middle there... One of those foods is...!! i may not have drawn it in undertale, but... oh... Ahhh!!!!!!!! chess drew dog food-----!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Realized I never finished Hollow Knight so I've been playing it again from the start... I'm finally past where I was before in terms of progression, I think I stopped playing before because of the dark scary area and thinking I was stuck in a certain spot.

made a little animatic. i wanna start writing and making some storyboards so expect a couple more of these gray voiced by @fushark.bsky.social lucky voiced by me

I picked up one of those "Smart Rings" because it was $20 and I wanted something to track steps at the gym without needing my phone in my pocket. Pretty impressed at how much data you can get out of this tiny thing you can wear casually. Sleep quality, heart rate, blood oxygen, temperature... cool

Right I still gotta compile and push updates to my dang dialogue system... oops

Canadians, this is a parliamentary petition, not a random online thing. Takes a minute to sign. An easy good deed for the day.

Aaaaand pushed another STM update... improvements to the multiline best fit algorithm from the last one, and a new best fit method that aims to completely fill the box. I still like the old method better tho, since it always gives you a text size that's divisible into the box's height...

unfortunately have had to downgrade to the temu version of orange juice. it SAYS it still has vitamin C in it, how bad can it really be........

Really can't give enough praise to Dr. Bronner's 18 in 1 soap. Like ok it's a hand soap, body wash, dish soap, sure... But I'm now removing unknown (probably rust?) stains from concrete that even CLR couldn't get out?? And it smells like peppermint?? What is this stuff...

I got myself a Casio AE-1200 watch as a little gift to myself and this thing rules... Like yeah it's all the same features as the clock app on a smartphone but there's just something about it... The LCD screen? The physical buttons? It's just nice having a separate device for a separate function!

A limited run of Cobalt Core OST vinyls will be going on sale September 5th at 9AM PDT at cherof.bandcamp.com/album/cobalt-core-original-soundtrack These are extra units from the crowdfunded Bandcamp vinyl campaign, pressed to 2 LPs on 180g heavyweight translucent grape vinyl. Last chance on these!

Ok, the Super Text Mesh update is done! The multiline best fit mode is out of beta and editor performance is really smooth now!

Alllllmost done with this STM update... soon...

Updated the list of helper script for Super Text Mesh: itch.io/t/544590/hel... I made some DOTween extensions over the weekend, they're a good example on how to extend DOTween and STM in general, I think!

Forgot to share this from last month, I finally got around to doing another paw shoe mod! Ok, maybe calling it a "mod" is a stretch, but it's a lot more solid than it looks!

Ah right, figured out a huge editor performance increase for STM....... will publish that... soon

There's 3 big game stores in the western world. Two are run by billionaires, take huge cuts & heavily limit which games can be published. One is run by a tiny team, is free to use, open to all and is currently hosting a huge queer games bundle. Guess which is being attacked for being "anti-LGBT".

Really seems like some folk won't be happy until Itch outright shuts down, and even then it won't be enough. Like, who does that help?

im kinda surprised i havent posted this here. #animation #skating

I knew at some point I would want to move off github but I really don't want to take the time to learn / set up something else, ugh

I gotta publish some more tiny asset updates... It's just like two lines of code changing............ soon.......................

Was buying a small bottle of glasses cleaner earlier, and as I'm checking out notice an even smaller bottle behind the counter. I ask the cashier if it's for sale was told it's a sample and he gets me one. I was like, well this is what I wanted and it's free but I Guess I'll still buy that other one

This is a good article but I want to note that the page q_dork.itch.io/consume-me was never indexed since its 2018 publishing because it didn't meet minimum indexing requirements of having an uploaded file. It was not affected by the NSFW audit itch.io/docs/creator...

This game hasn't been indexed Since October 2024 since it doesn't meet our indexing criteria: itch.io/docs/creator... They are using a "Download" button as a link to Steam. The developer took down any playable files form this page in 2024.

The game "gets it" in many other ways of course but this scene was just so highly specific to me in particular lol. So the impact UNDERTALE had on me is that I somehow felt seen and validated in a way I never even knew was important to me at that time.

Hold up, visa and mastercard just straight-up let people buy weapons and you're telling me they could put a stop to *that* any time they want...? Ok............ (In reality I don't think it's the responsibility of a payment processor to control where you can spend money in general but like, come on)

I gotta phone these payment processors and tell them they're on the wrong side of history tbqh. Like yeah I just make Programs but consider that any loser with enough time can simply lie about your work and suddenly it's banned.

this is fucking unreal

Finalllllly got a huge shelf up on the wall that I wanted for over a year... I should drill holes in my walls more often tbqh

If anyone knows anything about OnInspectorGUI() or more specifically serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties() creating a *lot* of editor lag when editing prefab instance overrides in Unity 2020+... Let me know!! I've seen a lot of forum posts about this with the solution being don't use prefabs

Okay, I think I've got a fix for the recent layout issues with STM ready to publish. (It was one line of code getting the wrong data to compare against...) So... that'll be out soon enough.

Ok what the hell did I do to make text just vanish suddenly sometimes......... Working on that, sorry game(develope)rs

Almost done writing a custom Unity JSON serializer I should have made years ago lol

Still messing around in Godot... It's UI time babey

That's not even the right pokemon... Was just thinking about how google translate could absolutely do this for pokemon a year or two ago but suddenly started just getting stuff incredibly wrong lol. Like it gets Zapdos right, but the other bird legendaries return as phonetic translations?

For @kaiclavier.com ! Thanks again for having me draw this little pal :3

@leafo.itch.io Sometimes when visiting the itch homepage (this has happened to me on bluesky as well? I don't know what the connection is) I'll get a prompt to download a file named 8 random ASCII characters. I can't tell what the cause is at all so it might be a firefox thing... any clues?

Anyone else ever experience a website initiating a download prompt for a file with a name that's 8 random characters...? I've seen it happen on bluesky and itch upon page loading, and have 0 idea what the cause is. (I of course never go through with the download lol)