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"If we just used this slightly different language wording the trans stuff would be better now" it doesn't matter. You're just trying to contort yourself into a comfortable shape. They will hate regardless of what label you adopt. Adopt the one you want

True! Don’t let anyone tell you it’s impossible: they said that to Hollywood, too. Everything we want has already been fought for and won in similar industries, and the bosses are hoping we forget that! We won’t!!!

Yay, everything's fixed on this C++ project. Now it no longer requires Visual Studio and works on both Windows and Linux Mint

JoeIO is on Fab now. Buy it and tell your boss to buy it at the much higher corporate price (or whatever it is called) www.fab.com/listings/94c...

I'm working to migrate a small C++ project away from visual studio over to code::blocks/GCC. I must have been doing things wrong somewhere because even though it ran perfectly fine when built with VS, I get segmentation faults when calling Vulkan functions when built with CB/GCC

It's sad, but the more I use node-based programming/scripting tools like UE's Blueprint or material editor, the more I kinda hate them compared to more traditional text-based ones.

Whoa. I just found out that you can drag and drop an image from your web browser into Blender and it will import as an image plane completely by accident.

I feel like I've gone through the effort of setting up a Source SDK project at least once a year for the past 3 or 4 years only to never actually do anything with it. I may or may not have done it again. (Though this time I actually have an idea for it)

the idea that games are the result of a single person's ironclad vision rather than a thousand little decisions and compromises and individual people's ideas all coming together in complicated ways

just speaking for myself, but: i and many other devs will not bend to you if you complain about woke ruining my game, because i do not /want/ you in my community. putting myself in a mob rule hostage situation is a liability. do not buy my game

I can't comprehend or process the devastation happening to the games industry right now. I don't know what to say. I hope all my friends and peers land on their feet. you did nothing wrong.

It's a little funny seeing someone ask what game was the "Crysis" of the 32 bit era, when Crysis itself was a 32 bit game.

I just finished another song and I think it's my favorite one I've made so far! Now if only I could get myself to make some more cover art so I can actually release this batch of songs.

Damn. It looks like the digitizer/touch in my old surface pro 5 is just dead now. I've tried everything to fix it but there's still a strip running along width of the screen where the pen won't work anymore. No more untethered digital art for me now I guess.

Ah. The first thing I see leaving the apartment today is a US flag hanging out of the dumpster in the parking lot. Love it!

are you a 3d artist who can make+texture med-low poly (~dreamcast) game ready unity models? i've got a liiiittle work for a LOT of you. and it's coming in hot with a mid-august due date. starting with muts only. inquire within.

Leave it to redditors to argue that a total conversion Source mod with all of it's own assets and gameplay somehow doesn't count as a game just because it's a mod. As if those two things are mutually exclusive.

Well i dont know how long this login session is gonna last but @bsky.app just asked me to do an age verification with personal information. If this happens again i will not attempt to log back in. If i dont post here again let bsky know that i prefer my privacy over this platform.

I'm so tired of trying to post in reddit communities only to have my post auto removed because "not enough karma" or because my account is "too new." Like, how can you expect to maintain a community if new people aren't allowed to participate? Why do I even try?

All my shit in itchio is on sale, including this new thing impromptu-games.itch.io/joeio

The main downside I've found over the last couple months for getting this big-ass 88 key Triton keyboard is that it's been nearly impossible to find a desk wide enough that it can fit underneath, and when I *do* find one it's over $1,000.

And to be clear: this is purely about making games your job. If you just want to make games and you have stable income outside of that, fuck yeah, let's go.

If you're young & considering games - I will tell you "don't". If you want to do games, do it with eyes wide open as to the shitshow you're getting into. Yet if you decide to go through with it despite everything, know you'll find me & others happy to support your art whichever small way we can.

Oh cool! I'm looking at some alternatives to old abandoned community programs for Source Engine modding and the icon for this VPK editor has a trans flag lambda symbol on it.

I sat down and properly played Team Fortress 2 for the first time in years and god I really missed this game. I don't know why I stopped playing so long ago.

I still sometimes wish there were a more general Source 2 SDK that allowed for completely new games just like the Source 1 SDK.

This! In addition, the more things you finish, the more you'll improve in your craft. That repetition is important to learning and developing skills, and helps you figure out what workflows/methods work best for you. You don't get that from chasing perfection or by leaving most projects unfinished.

I can feel myself burning out of art again and it sucks. The only art I still enjoy making is music since it's the only one I do just for myself and not as work.

What he actually say: Tim Sweeney says only hope for new games is to 'connect to economies of Fortnite'

How it started, and how it's going... It's important to watch old video of The Florist to remember just how much amazing work the #gamedev team has done. Finding the beauty in #survivalhorror one flower at a time!

Now that I'm back on my ADHD meds and having my schedule clear up later this year, I'm happy to say I'll be open for work as a 3d/tech/pixel artist for games! Preferably remote (in-person in Finland OK as well) My artstation ( www.artstation.com/millenia ) has a bunch of my old pro work up

It's really transphobic how hot it is outside while we're busy moving things to our new apartment.

unfortunately trenchbroom is vibe coded now

RIP Bobby Prince. His music legacy will live on, making inspired music for Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, countless others. A true legend. And such a nice man, great musician, wonderful, fun-loving man, nothing but happy memories of him. A loss to the world.

Oh shit. The new MPC update basically lets me turn my MPC into a second Minifreak.

"I hate AI" "Ummm well actually AI also means NPCs so you need to be more specific" I am going to punt you into the sun

have been pondering on the horizontal slice (vs. vertical slice) since reading sam's post and replies last week. coincidentally, we're implementing this at work off of @joewintergreen.com 's advice and knowledge of half-life 2 having a big linear dev hallway in a leaked build with placeholder beats

Yeah like I don't know if this is something Valve kept on doing or not but it rules as an approach imo... More or less bank placeholder hallway full of notes, where as chunks of real game come in you transition into those and back into the hallway. Gives coherency early on when you need it

Something seems to have clicked and I've started loving using my MPC again. I had somehow accidentally stumbled into solutions to my biggest problems with it and realized I was just being dumb and inexperienced. Now it's back to being my main music workstation again.

I could travel to the united states, get arrested without cause, be detained without access to medicine or even food and forced to work for someone else's profit. I would ask Americans what they would think if any country on earth did this to them.

Game Devs Reveal All Their Ugly Placeholder Assets Made Without AI Who needs AI when you can make ugly and very charming placeholder assets like this? kotaku.com/crimson-dese...

What the hell? I tried opening a C++ project I was working on a few weeks ago and all of the sudden Visual Studio fails to open it saying the C++ tools are not installed.

A coworker showed me that you can make material instances from other material instances in Unreal, not just from materials so I've been doing things that way in a commission project recently. God it's so useful! It's one of those things I wish I knew about years ago.

I've been working on a non-realtime thing for a client and not having to worry as much about optimizations is refreshing. I can pump out models faster than usual. It's also very nice getting to use offline rendering features that are too expensive in games, like actually good refraction/translucency

God, the excitement of finding out that Ableton is getting an extension SDK followed by the double gut punch of it's FAQ recommending AI use and the code examples being vibe coded garbage. I guess it was a good thing that I still haven't been stable enough to start a Live Suite rent to own plan.

Again, if you let any state get away with doing something against anyone, eventually they'll do it against you. Israel has gotten away with war crimes in Gaza, and they are allowed to continue doing so - and now it's here, too.

Time to delete your Linktree!