Kinda losing my mind that apparently the poverty line in the US is roughly 15k, while the average monthly rent for a studio apartment is 1500. So there are a considerable amount of homeless people who are considered not impoverished by that metric, then. That's... telling. 🔥

"Indies are the future of the industry!" Bro I literally just want to make cool little games and pay my rent.

Whenever you're trying to write a story for your indie game, and you think you're the worst writer ever, just remember that David Cage exists.

It's over 20 years old now but this song sure has a great message for the state of our current economy, and what we can do about it. Sift through trash and make it last! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLbS...

I absolutely hate myself for missing this opportunity, because I just wasn't paying attention around me, but hey, if any of you want to see what other games have been created in my homeland of Poutineville, check this out!

Evergreen.

Real question: does anybody know how to actually market an indie game? Everyone talks about having to do marketing, but nobody seems to know what it even means. Social media is obvious, but limited. I've heard ppl complain that contacting influencers is bad bc it's time consuming. But then what?

LRT if you don't need my services and would rather just give me money, you can also do that! I received a $120 electric bill today and I'll love you forever if you help me pay it off! ❤️ paypal.me/davidjalbertpersonal

Still open and got bills to pay! It doesn't have to be anything big! Even if you need an hour or something, that's fine! I'm very affordable, I promise!

Today's Load-bearing Tomato addresses the age old question: "why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]" It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good. loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...

God... remember the $5 footlong? That takes me back.

Me when I bought a Ouya back in the days.

Seeing how every single piece of hardware is getting increasingly impossible to buy, here's a reminder for my fellow game devs; Focus on performance and low requirements. Don't use UE or Unity if possible as they're particularly resource-hungry. Optimize. Your toaster-using players will thank you.

Unfortunately this also applies to all of those "I want shorter games with worse graphics" posts. You can't really trust what people say that they want. But that's also why you shouldn't worry and just do your thing. None of it matters. Do you think your game is fun and looks cool? Yes? Good ✨

Now that I'm back in the game business, I thought I'd write a system to take care of basic stuff like loading scenes, saving player data, etc. so I wouldn't have to redo it every time. Gotta love doing tests with whatever random shit you have on hand. Today's been fun~

You know how people are still debating on how to pronounce GIF, whether it should be a hard or soft G? I think we should meet in the middle and pronounce it like the rolled, muted G in the Spanish word "gente". It's a hrrif! :3

First time beating NFSU2 on PS2, and man, Caleb sucks lmao. It's especially hilarious how the game ends with basically "congrats you win, game's over, fuck off now", no credits, no nothing. Getting shit talked by everyone and beating them every single time in my shitty Corolla was awesome tho lol

it's so wild that people on here will label you a narcissist for controlling your replies when they are basically asserting that you should have to read whatever they want to say

As it turns out, electrons don't care what they go through before reaching your ears.

Games don't even need to take that long to develop, especially with today's tools. Most of it is because studios are trying to make them bigger and prettier than they reasonably have to be, and the management gets in the way of any meaningful progress trying to shoehorn in some anticonsumer gimmick.

Guilty as charged.

Welp. I can kinda sorta see where Edmund was going with this but... Ugh. That was NOT a good idea. I'm still curious about the game and I'm not mad at Ed, but it sure is feeling awkward.

🇧🇷 Brazilian "boomer shooter" retro fps time! 🇧🇷 VAL'TY will be a cool little game. 👽 Angry alien mom and daughter against the human-centric hegemony in sci-fi/fantasy. Mostly inspired by MDK and Turok. (work in progress) Wishlist it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3860970/...

Hey y'all. A South African dev released a blackity black game during BHM and it's currently getting the usual suspects in the reviews. Imma grab this up myself anyway, but can we all be some chums and help push the racists out of the reviews? 🙂

You can now collect Steam trading cards for Extraneum! ✨🃏✨ #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #fps

Age verification?

I spent two months trying to make a plane controller good enough so I could sell it on the Unity asset store, and it's nowhere near production-ready for an average UAS customer. Also, sales have dried up for my other stuff and won't pick up again. ... Time to accept I wasted 2 months of work.

Beep beep, motherfuckers! 🚗💨

Honestly if it's that easy, I don't mind lol

"Gee, it says I have a new negative review, but I don't see it, I wonder why." ... Bro changed their review 2 years later when they found out I added a non-binary flag, and calls it "political" lmao. Imagine being that triggered by a gender lol

Throwback to when AI bros were saying they were digital artists because they both used technology to make art. So as a digital artist I found a rock, burnt some sticks, and made a busty dragoness out of nothing but shit I had in my backyard. Nothing will stop real artists from making real art.

pick up the ash and berries

If anyone's looking for an indie game programmer with decades of experience, I'm currently looking for work! I'm especially fluent with Unity and Godot in C#, but I can work with pretty much any engine or language. For more info: davidjalbertgames.ca/portfolio #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

What am I doing on my 40th birthday, you may ask? Learning TCP/IP and UDP, and how to make multiplayer games. I figured it was about time I bit the bullet. 🕹️🛜

I was born right between the events of the Challenger space shuttle explosion and the Chernobyl meltdown, and I gotta say, it was a great analogy for how my life would be like. On the plus side, in exactly 4.5 hours, I'll be able to say the following sentence seriously. Happy birthday to me! 🫩🎉

Words cannot express how much I despise Adobe as a corporation. Flash was perfect, and they massacred it. I hope they go bankrupt and die.

"How dare you have fun when-" That's the point. They WANT you to be miserable. Then you'll be too depressed to fight back. Just like you need food to survive, you need joy to stay strong. Dance, sing, draw, play! Show them you won't let them take your will to live!!

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

Captain -

Ever wondered why Google doesn't give you good results anymore, and why everything sounds fake and robotic? It's 100% by design. On the bright side, there's a way to get better visibility... but you have to choose between that and your integrity.

They're busy spilling tea and dishing just desserts one may deserve. 💅✨

And that is one of the many reasons why I love being my own boss. Imagine having to deal with someone who gets an aneurysm from thinking about olive oil. For all we know, that applicant might have been the best candidate ever. And he said no, because of... olive oil.

I hang out with so many game devs and marketeers that I always (mistakenly) assume this is common knowledge. If you want to do a gamedev a gigantic favor that costs you literally nothing but 3min of your time, write them a Steam review. ESPECIALLY if they have less than 500 or so.

I absolutely adore how these two movies are premiering on the very same day. It's gonna be a real blood bath, am I right folks?

"See this? It's called 'grass'. I bet you never touched that before."

You asked and you shall receive! Now you better watch it cause it took me two days to make this! (unless you're really enjoying Windows 11) How to switch to Linux as a gamedev? www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKtN...

If anyone's looking for an indie game programmer with decades of experience, I'm currently looking for work! I'm especially fluent with Unity and Godot in C#, but I can work with pretty much any engine or language. For more info: davidjalbertgames.ca/portfolio #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

#gamedevjobs #gamejobs

Been following the drama, this is CRAZY!