fuck it, i'm entering my concept art phase. here's a draft for the main gameplay screen for Oh, Wizard!, a wizardry-based fantasy deckbuilder where you combine elements into powerful magic spells that might actually help the people trusting you to solve their problems

low quality sketches for the wizard game, enemy concepts who approach you, a wizard, for various purposes

i love having work because i enjoy having money to pay for things but i also run out of energy for all other aspects of my life so that kinda sucks

oh boy! i love game design, and I can't wait to continue working on my collectible trading card game with a high fantasy aesthetic about making the most of limited resources with an emphasis on sequencing and player choice. i sure hope this is a good time to make and release a deckbuilding card game

executed for trying to run away. brutal stuff.

i exclusively get into things too late. i'm comfortably lagging behind the crowd. i got zero worms due to being early. catch me on the blunt edge of innovation.

nahhh bruh i just saw a druid bury himself in a bog and call it a protective ward. like he used a shovel and everything

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright. (Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

it's time for my semi-annual crosscode replay to regain my zest for game development and creativity

added a delay between actions so i can tell what the hell is happening in my game with my human eyes

i cast level three freeze on a guy who got caught in the rain but he caught on fire instead. does that make me a terrible wizard or a really cool one

tapping the goddamn sign for those who need to see it

graphic design is not my passion but i put some text on the screen. maybe now you can tell that there's some sick wizard shit going on

We cannot and should not let generative AI take away these tiny, insignificant, but probably fun as hell jobs from artists

layer 8 ultrakill

things are horrible right now. but at least i lived to play ultrakill fraud for the first time. still up in the air if that's a good thing because now i can never play ultrakill fraud for the first time again

Deeply evil, genocidal policy. Here are some orgs that may be able to help: Across Bsky, many people have shared Trans Continental Pipeline. This is a grassroots mutual aid network turned based in Denver that helps LGBTQ+ individuals relocate from unsafe situations to Colorado. tcpipeline.org

do i get work done today or do i play ultrakill fraud

hey indie game devs who do their own artwork and make their own assets and edit their own trailers. i love you so much. keep it up. you're doing amazing. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

my fucked up homonculus son who can't do anything

doin some sick wizard type shit today (baking)

a much more near final look at one of the first puzzles in my #puzzlegame meant to teach the basics of The Device (does it make it sound cool if it's capitalized Like That?) :) bsky will probably make this louder than it needs to be but oh well #godotengine #gamedev

Despite how excellent the news may seem, do not get comfortable just yet One key word to take this away from; "Halted," which means, the Age Verification junk is very much alive and there's a possibility they'll be trying this again Keep the pressure going, do not let them get away with this

A lot of people with regular jobs have to use it or face unemployment. Makes it even sadder to see some of these indies do it by choice.

LAYER 8: FRAUD arrives... NEXT WEEK.

god forbid a girl have hobbies

Amazing things are happening behind the scenes 🐸

i really have little to no interest in getting into mmos again but boy have i been listening to the ff14 soundtrack on repeat while working

*to the tune of the hamster dance* come on, psychic powers, don't fuck me now!

i love pseudointellectual yapping as much as the next guy but i have GOT to have a normal thought every once in a while

a good day in the wizard card game mines! status effects are happening and stacking and cancelling each other or reacting in fun and unique ways. these bad boys can fit so many Situations in them.

The calls for trans people to be quieter as we're wiped out are only going to increase, and you owe it to your sisters and brothers to get louder and louder.

the really early parts of game dev are so rough cause you have Systems getting better but no way to visualize them. like how am i supposed to get validation from strangers on the internet in these conditions

Is this the part where they all ask each other if it's cool to bail on it or what?

sometimes a day of dev work is realizing you did it wrong earlier and now you gotta fix past you's mistakes

Recent coverage suggests that despite appearances AI slop games are *not* actually flooding marketplaces, ie you still have to 'dev the rest of the fucking game' as it were. I expect this will be just as effective a tool for tip-to-tail casual game dev as the rest. See: bsky.app/profile/enik...

it's a game you can play! (in the loosest definitions of all those words)

proud of you! i know the struggle, huge w when you get something tangible done

"I know you don't like AI BUT..." "This might be AI BUT..."

life could be a dream life could be a dreeeaaam

Games industry pickup lines Are you a job offer because I would do literally anything for you

Get fucked, tornado. Juked your goofy ass

Cool tornado warning late at night

i think a social media site needs to read the room and add a "nsfw" slide toggle on the main page of the app that i can turn on and off at will in the middle of browsing without going 3 pages deep for settings

retreating to my inner sanctum to meditate (eat carrot sticks and write dnd lore)

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