No Lancer this week; team Ruthless Efficiency are having their end of level combat next week instead. So let's continue to make a game, maybe mess about with some world generation stuff or some battle mechanics. #livecoding some #gamedev on twitch www.twitch.tv/kaynsd

#procjam starts tomorrow! As a reminder: you can bring an old project, you can start early, you can finish late, you can do whatever you want (except use generative AI). Come make something that makes something, and make new friends in our wonderful community too.

I've met Hall and I've got friends that met Romero. All of this post 2010 but it sounds like they're just both the most lovely of people and it's a shame the whole of id doesn't seem to be that way.

Starting the rattling sniper kill team that's been on my shelf for a bit. Not sure what colour uniform I want to give them so just starting with the leather for now. #nerdlings #warhammer #killteam

Demonschool is OUT NOW! It's time to dive into a critically-acclaimed new-style tactics RPG, where motion equals action! Available on PC, Mac, Linux, Steam Deck (Verified), Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox! store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...

Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more

Between today and tomorrow, we get four great games that in the late 2000s would have been guaranteed GOTY contenders. It's a brutal time to sell a game; it's an age of miracles for people who play them: Demonschool News Tower Kingdom of the Dump Birdcage PLUS, Moonlighter 2 hits Early Access

"Keith are you really going to make another iteration of the fractal world generator... again?" "Yes but this time in hexagon form" Might need help with how best to place patterns of hexes, especially as when you go for even sized patterns they look real weird and have weird symmetries #procgen

I was reading this apple-based TTRPG and found it pretty indigestible, but then I realised it was the core set.

Question for the 40K #nerdlings out there. What's the most famous Ultramarines successor chapter who have predominantly bright red armour?

every time I consider learning more Unreal I remember I'd have to actually touch C++ instead of a language that won't make me tear my hair out due to things like this and I run straight back to Godot.

Sometimes I hate myself for the kind of gameplay ideas I have, coding this tumbling block physics with the screws was SOO hard But I'm happy that the block puzzles are getting more varied and better integrated with the platforming, pacing and all (game is ABYSS X ZERO, btw) #gamedev #lowpoly #axz

The winner takes all-instant hit-meme-flywheel mentality that has completely overtaken the games industry and even #indiedev is poison. It deteriorates the space for risk and sustainable growth, until all that's left is to to either make slot-machines or slop-machines.

Part of me really wants to price any game I make at about the twenty five euro mark, never discount it, and raise the price by five euro every time a content pack is added, finalising at about hundred euro... and I only post a pointing to a whiteboard meme image to anyone asking about seasonal sales

[This is where Luke's Anno 117 impressions were going to go] aftermath.site/this-is-where-...

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Anyway. Don't ever let some fucking dork tell you a setting featuring bright blue soldiers called "Ultramarines" and catgirls and canon characters named Lion El' Jonson and *Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau* is something you have to take seriously.

"Alright I'ma try and design a matchmaking algorithm" *several hours later* "Damn, matchmaking algorithm got hands"

I've finally finished drawing all 30 NPCs for my Ofanim series.

(CW: food) Prepping food for tomorrow. Trying to make ramen again

3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment. 2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.

I'm seeing variants of "ah but today's gamers just don't have attention spans so we sort of have to-" rolled out earnestly so No. You can let those players fail. The AAA conception of handholding is silly. There's huge genres that don't do it. You just have a bad manager making you do dumb things.

Live with Old City Yearning, our Girl by Moonlight actual play The gang need to get the bottom of this conspiracy before it's on top of them! Featuring: KaynSD as Miracle Harbour Knowlessman as Tern Welkin Enfys Pranc as Carys Gwilym And Erin Brioche as the Director! www.twitch.tv/BisectedBrio...

the procrastination continues on my turn based combat engine. Lets refactor my use of an ECS. www.twitch.tv/kaynsd

My personal guess, based purely on conjecture and the belief that Valve seems somewhat competent, would be seventy dollars for the controller and six hundred for either the vr headset or the box.

Today had some electrical work done by someone who changed careers into construction work after running a game development studio and deciding for a less strenuous career. We both complained about the state of the industry. He enjoyed seeing my miniature collection in their little display cabinets.

Procgen designers are some of the best in the world at analyzing how and why their art works, and articulating the rules that create the experiences they build. It is a very human, and very personalized, art. It could not be further from gen ai

i'm gonna lose my mind

A big reason proc gen feels so different to AI in spite of superficial similarities is exactly this!! Proc Gen systems reflect the interests and creative preferences of the tool makers, whereas AI is catch-all sludge that reflects no specific point of view. It’s not remotely the same!

As much fun as the Bond discourse today has been, yknow whether he's the same guy in every movie and the nature of canon or whether his story needs to be constantly told or not, I preferred it when Cracked After Hours did it about fifteen years ago

It's very simple. The next film should be about four Bonds: a cyborg one, a bloke in a suit of armour with a big hammer, a teenage one who's cloned from the DNA of Bond and Blofeld, and a fascist one that's secretly an artifact from Bond's homeworld. Then the real one should come back with a mullet.

"Welcome to MI6 Mr... Bond? You're not...?" "His son/daughter/non-binary offspring, yes. He fucked around a LOT, as you know, and I took his name after I swore revenge for his death." It's literally SO EASY.

Game rocks. I am failing gloriously at it.

things are In Progress

you have more people who love you than any of these weenie billionaire losers how cool is that

Fairly paid, appropriately credited, and unharassed development teams.

We launched GenExile, our solarpunk city-builder, in Early Access last week. We had ~35k wishlists before launch (not a barnburner but not nothin'). And they said, "Well, there's no way you'll convert literally 0% of your wishlists to sales." I looked them dead in the eyes and said, "Watch me."

I've noted it a lot, I will doubtlessly note it again, how weird it is that the TRPG hobby specifically devotes so much discourse to trying to distance itself from the actual "game" part of the acronym

I should have written more about Ex Novo following our successful KS campaign... Anyway, if you are interested in a city-building, history-crafting game for 1 to 4 players, you should absolutely have a look here: www.sharkbombs.com/games/exnovo/ The brand new 2nd edition is out now 🎲🗺️

This is a great read. Also: important to realise that this industry has become *persistently terrifying* for your favourite devs, and that is no atmosphere in which to be creative. Try to buy games, if you're able. Buy lots of games. Review and share them if you love them. Talk about them.

For about another 21 hours all our games are suspiciously cheap: 🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G... 🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H... 🧙‍♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...

New version of Girl Yelling In Guy's Ear at Concert Dropped:

“0% woke shit” a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

If you're in the UK game industry, and want to stand with the employees of Rockstar, join @gameworkers.co.uk Even if your studio is great, if you're secure. if you're treated fairly. STRENGTH. IN. NUMBERS. I'm a card carrying union member so that EVERYONE in this industry is treated fairly.

This wasn’t about leaking GTA VI. It was: Rockstar illegally firing union members to stop the studio from unionizing. it directly contradicts Rockstar’s PR narrative and confirms almost everything that people suspected was going on.