My game has been approved for sale (and played by) Steam. Approved for sale on or after May 6 (not sure what the exact date will be, I need to get the word out a bit more first). I need to do a trailer, etc. You can wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/4634590/... #gamedev

A few trading posts and a city landing pad for the next game I am planning.

Still have the disk.

I went to bed for a couple of months leaving my Amiga on while the intro for Frontier Elite 2 looped over and over from a cover disk. Took a while to be able to afford the game, but the excitement and anticipation I felt watching that was unreal. It’s part of why I put a benchmarking util in my game

We’ve gone back to Vista glassed opacity visuals guys, let’s pack up, we’re done

Rooke #gamedev tip of the day is to limit framerate on menus. I was getting some coil whine from the GPU on menus because they were running unrestricted. i only noticed when i added a vsync option to the menu and it went away when I turned that on.

Hope you have plenty of disk space. #gamedev A few things to verify, clean up, etc. But feel free to wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/4634590/...

Success! All the steam configurations are done now. #gamedev

My first game is available for wishlisting on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/4634590/... #gamedev

Bottom right. ;) #gamedev

It is a little bit ridiculous how well a first-person view works in what was designed as a third-person low poly game. #gamedev youtu.be/Ldj6IStyNAA

I now have a 10 mission campaign system working. When you do it right, this is how you end up creating a whole mission.

As a self taught developer working on my first game, creating a benchmarking mode and letting it highlight issues for me in real-time has been incredibly valuable. #gamedev youtu.be/ZmZZTWC2I6w

Every game should have one. This picks a random unit and sticks with them for 5mins, looping 360 degrees on the camera every 1min. I need to figure out what other info I can actually pull and show, but the code is done. #gamedev

Quick Mission creates a randomized procedurally generated map that is set within parameters that should allow all functions of the game to complete. All units spawn appropriately on any map that does, and you can tune a few of those (cont...) youtu.be/K8h7W-9oZ_8

A few days ago I figured out how to wrap my terrain tech around a sphere as a band (it was originally a bowl shaped block that would only give me circles of land on the sphere), then last night I finished day/night cycles...(cont) youtu.be/1yM4tmApa30 #gamedev

New 14-minute video of the third-person helicopter game I have been developing. #gamedev youtu.be/zXvL5niqHWc

I’d kind of forgotten how much I loved space. I really just needed NASA.

Figured out how to live without fixed coordinates over the weekend, by taking on a spherical game world. youtu.be/eAjgmihaJ38

On behalf of Katherine Legge I’d like to say how happy I am to hear that spinning cars is a good thing now. 👍

Now the novice gamedev has learned: Menus and cutscenes. Options (keybinding). Pause menu, access to options. Audio design and balancing (still WIP). Scoring (higher scores for taking out more enemies with less weapons, etc). Player led mission departure. youtu.be/n_Q85qzit5Q

One of our gutters starting overflowing, straight down by a window well, filling the well eventually and blowing in the window, flooding our basement. I don’t know how to find a way to pay for this shit right now. Timing couldn’t be worse.

Spent tonight cleaning things up that I have learned about, and adding water and dirt spray from the minigun.

Couple of #Coyote passing by yesterday.

Need to add some fade and adjust the timings, but I have a retry loop on mission failure now.

Went into this a complete novice. - I've done all the models (learning blender and making mistakes as I went). - Procedurally generated terrain inspired by Zeewolf (1994) built on launch from a seed. - Procedurally placed trees within generated terrain. - Easy arcade flight model. - (cont...)

As long as nothing is happening behind me, I'm sure everything is fine. This will be an objective in the game I am making and is an instant game over if you don't take it out before launch.

Anyone who does modeling. Is there any best practice on things that I'm really missing here? When transitioning from the circle to the straight edge, I am not sure what to do other than grouping them like I have. Feel free to send back a picture as an example when explaining. :)

They litter the battlefield… Added destroyed tank models, explosions and smoke today.

Although they won't be a main enemy (they will be a target), even tanks deserve a chance to fight back... Enemies report player position to each other. The first tank I destroyed had already told the others my location, so they approach my last known location to investigate...

NPCs out here just casually starting wars and stuff. Status update on the game I randomly seem to have decided to develop.

A few lowish poly items for the game I have somehow decided to make. Was literally learning how to use blender while making them, so they are crap, but, they are what they are.

At what point do I consider myself a programmer? I've written thousands of lines of HTML, PHP, CSS, and because it seems nobody will ever make the exact Zeewolf-like game I want, I started making one. Using Godot, and there's a TON of good guides out there.

Today, my office is empty. I've worked from home for more than 20 years, and for more than 13 of those there has been a dog at my feet. Every meeting. Every deal. Every interview. Every email.

Just booked at home euthanasia for both our heavily bonded, ailing and elderly dogs. Now I get to wrestle with the emotions of having made that purely logical decision for the next two hours. 👍 We had some adventures.

“With DLSS5 we get realtime AI generated images that take the real thing and alter it so they all have that AI generated look because they’re AI generated. Is that what you wanted? Who cares! It’s AI!” - NVIDIA probably.

Ex-Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan says a former Blizzard CFO told him 1000 staff would be fired if the game didn't make a specific amount of money by a certain date “And [those firings] are gonna be on you” added the Blizzard exec

I wish I had the time to be as diabolical as my inner thoughts. For example, how many days in a row can I watch Groundhog Day at the same time before my wife notices. So many lost opportunities.

Just seen that Person of interest is on Netflix now. If you’ve never seen it, it’s worth a watch through. It’s about AI surveillance and its use of humans to deal with potential threats to NYC, the US, the world, and eventually itself.

Something I announced on LinkedIn last week.

If anyone is at all curious of the difficulty level in licensing the content @projectmotorracing.bsky.social announced today? Yes. That's the answer. Yes difficulty.

I’m honestly really excited to watch F1 this year. Every team showing up with a perfect car is sometimes pretty boring. First race of the season I want those retirements and tearful podiums from someone who never expected to be there.

Was just reading through the Phil Spencer page on Wikipedia. Taking over companies that were making good games, shutting studios down, ending franchises, (apart from ~2017) PlayStation beating them at every level and leaving people wondering if Xbox are even going to make another console? Yay?

Florida was a fun time. Thanks to my wife for making this happen. ♥️

“I wonder if I’ll see an alligator.” Florida:

I’m drove from Illinois because I’m taking retro hardware and software. Notes: nobody in Tennessee can merge. Everyone in Georgia owns the same truck.

Ditto for this account which is also me.

Really pleased this one is getting a few views. Shows if I put a little work in, it’ll work to take my written articles to video.

I’ve been posting a lot of videos over on RSC lately, if interested. I’d love to up the production value but the video ideas I have are probably multi-day shoots so I keep pushing them back…. For now.

Happy the Playoffs are gone. I wonder if it was as simple as looking at viewing figures and finding each dip in viewership? What was the next one? #nascar