Years ago at PAX East, I ended up nervously rambling to this random guy about wanting to be a game dev after a panel, and now, no longer being early 20s, and with more experience with talking to strangers... I realize he was effectively interviewing me for a job, and I can't believe I missed it

For those considering fleeing Discord, what things are you considering moving to? I'd be interested just to see what the top picks are. Also what are your deal-breakers in terms of how you use Discord and what you want from a Discord alternative?

I switched to #Waterfox back in December and its been great. I recommend anyone using #Firefox to consider it Since it's a fork it's effectively the same thing, it's just all the benefits without the downsides of #Mozilla shoving unnecessary features into it

Let's go! I've always wanted to scan my ID and send it off to a third party to be analyzed! This is my dream! Guess I'm finally looking into self hosting like a Matrix instance today or something :P Anyone got any other good alternatives with Text+Voice+Screen Share?

Python is the worst. I don't really think there is much more here needed to be said.

Can anyone recommend a quality DNS host with an API for editing/updating records?

Working on the survival game today tiles, building and damage, oh my! www.twitch.tv/snowdrama

Updated The Dead Game Archive a bit to include a new section for games with very short lifespans called "Dead Before Arrival" which for now includes, the recently canceled, Ashes of Creation, and Concord

My attachment to each Nintendo franchise 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤Earthbound 💙💙🖤🖤🖤Metroid 💙🖤🖤🖤🖤Star Fox 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤Mario 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤Rhythm Heaven 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤WarioWare 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤Donkey Kong 💙💙🖤🖤🖤Kirby 💙💙💙🖤🖤Pokémon 💙🖤🖤🖤🖤F-Zero 💙💙💙🖤🖤Zelda 💙🖤🖤🖤🖤Fire Emblem 💙🖤🖤🖤🖤Pikmin 💙🖤🖤🖤🖤Animal Crossing 💙💙💙🖤🖤Splatoon 💙💙🖤🖤🖤Xenoblade

Regarding the #Notepad++ backdoor: I just whipped up a quick Windows batch script that I used to search my system for the known compromised files of the Chrysalis backdoor. pixelprophecy.com/stuff/item/t... Hope it helps some of you too!

Dating at 37 is easily the most miserable thing I've maybe ever done in my life besides use a restroom at a concert venue, getting my braces tightened, covid, and getting in a car accident.

Guess I'm updating tonight to add Ashes of Creation!

Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...

Happy birthday to me, and my favorite dead game: Phantasy Star Online! Speaking of dead games... I've been working on a small project I'm calling: deadgamearchive.com

After years of work, the first chapter of my slice-of-life, gag manga Go! Go! Gris! is now available! ✨ Read it for free here: gogogris.com/read/chapter-1 Or check out some pages below 👇 (1/6)

Took some time to mess with ECS stuff which got me some more entities. Again not that I need that many. The downside here is It's become much harder to figure out like inter-entity interactions. Bullets hitting enemies? Enemies Seeing Player? ECS makes it mildly more confusing for sure.

Spent some time last night messing with survivors-esk enemies. I was able to effectively triple my enemy count vs using CharacterBody2D just by moving all the position data inside a single script, and then batching and using multithreading to split up the overlap testing.

The Legend of Zelda The Hedgehog

Time to get some sweet 1 degree weather! How exciting! *He says wanting more than anything to not go outside*

Deep fried chips. youtube.com/shorts/J0JfM...

Max Payne the Hedgehog

Okay Xbox and Crunchyroll canceled, Uhhh what other subs do I have... Spotify? I'm trying to think... Anyway with no job and no prospects... Yeah no affording things for a while.

Spending today hacking together a server made from spare parts to host a Hytale instance for my friends. Hopefully it runs better than my 2012 MacBook Pro i7-3700 and 2x4GB DDR3 RAM

Made a little starter pack of friendly creators! Much love to everyone out there❤️ go.bsky.app/JLaQeAC

#godot move_and_slide()

First version built and published and sent to freinds, yeah... It has a ton of typos I don't catch. I'm writing all the game descriptions myself not like copy pasting from Wikipedia or something(though I AM reading the Wikipedia articles) but im just not doing like spellcheck on it lol womp womp

I'm building a site that is a love-letter to games that have shut down, or don't work. Inspired by stuff like Killed by Google, and my interest in things like Digital Ownership/Right to Repair/Stop killing games etc. While it won't be an exhaustive list I'm taking suggestions for games to feature!

Honestly with all the things happening in tech... I think Ruffle, the flash player emulator, is one of the most important pieces of tech I've seen come out of the last 5-ish years. It's so dang cool that I can still go back to flash content from decades ago, like old Homestar Runner and Miku stuff

Boring night of me resetting a windows PC... I'm gonna build web stuff for kicks for a bit. I had an idea it's not a new idea but I have nothing better to do and I think it'll be fun!

Right now I've found the easiest way for me to disconnect from my phone... Is going on dating apps. Like "Oops caught myself on my phone too long. Time to make my phone feel bad be on, let me swipe right on 100 girls on Tinder until I don't even want to acknowledge my phone's existence!"

This change in the nested tabs of the new theme for Godot 4.6 is so good ✨ We are so lucky to have @passivestar.bsky.social contributing in this front! PR: github.com/godotengine/...

If you're someone at risk of impersonation, unfortunately deleting or "not touching" your X-Twitter account has a new risk: Money.

Public service announcement for #artists and #designers, aka everyone. Seriously, everytime I see an equilateral triangle somewhere being used irl or in a digtal space to indicate direction, I scream internally (and sometimes externally).

Yeah really I had big plans... And just wow... What a year...

Happy new year!

At some point I'd like to create a public list of game OSTs that publicly allow them to be used in videos with credit. I always need music for videos, but I'd really rather avoid the generic royalty free music, and I'd full on put OST info and links to the bandcamp to support the soundtracks.

Hello #Bluesky! I'm TKIMUSE and I aim to make something special for every game I work on, big or small. I've had the pleasure to work on 30+ #indiegames over the past 5 years, let's follow each other and fill this app with games ✨ 🎶 #gamedev #vgm #indie #composer

and the mascot of 2025 is

Stress less about high poly shading errors in gamedev. Chances are you won't see most of them anyway. Always keep in mind the 6 levels of "Does It Matter?": - Model - Bake - Texture - Compression - In-game effects - Viewing distance Good Enough™ will save you time and sanity.

I'm so mad I think a cosmic particle killed one of my sticks of ram... I've blue screened 3 times today. The errors: Memory Management PFN list corrupt Attempted to write readonly memory So something says it might be a faulty ram stick but I haven't touched my Ram in years besides to dust.

Actually does anyone have any FPS controllers to share? Or any character controller code they've made? I'm curious to see other peoples character controllers! Show me the jank!

Happy anniversary to the Phantasy Star series! ⭐ I just wanted to redraw that title screen.

Every Christmas Every always

Sometimes I want to be put in touch with certain game devs just to quickly ask a high level of how they did it. Today I want to know how Eden Crafters handles the FPS controls. Its so forgiving! I somehow never get caught on geo I'd get stuck on in other games and I'm baffled.

Gamedevs don’t get enough appreciation for what they do, and often the biggest impact comes from people the public never hears about. Which gamedevs would YOU give an award to, and for what?

I did IRL job today for the first time in over a month. It was fine? I have lost a lot of muscle memory so it was slow... But idk it felt weird and wrong IDK... It was only 4 hours but it was a weird 4 hours, alien... Like legit felt like another world or something... Like I didn't belong...

Feeling pretty hopeless today. Game Dev feels like my only option. Combine all my 'issues' together and I create a cocktail of needed accommodations that makes me practically un-hireable for most jobs... so being a solo game dev becomes one of very few jobs that I can do reliably...

A piece of UI stuff that's SUPER powerful and useful that I feel more things should have: The minus/negative/anti-filter. If I can filter for a thing, I should also be able to filter out that thing. Movies tagged with +Action -Romance Games with +Adventure -RPG Anime with +Drama -Isekai

Reminder this Black Friday to look out and be aware of price manipulation! Don't assume big % off = good deal. Spotted these today. These don't have the specs of a $2k laptop marked down 70%+ they're 5-6 generation old, low end i3 CPUs. Nearly $600 is practically a scam for this spec hardware.