I don't know if Portal 1 is strictly better than Portal 2, but I do love how many walls are left white, regardless of if they're part of the solution or not. Level design in general in the first game is a lot more freeform. It's a neat contrast after playing Portal 2 for a couple hundred hours.

The Quake 1 axe sound is just the Metal Hit sound from Korg M1, and the signature grenade bounce is in fact the same sound nearly 2 octaves lower.

I feel like it'd be fruitful to make a list of common design choices regarding things like cameras, controls, accessibility and so on. It's annoying making a game, trying to figure out what is missing from a system you're building and having to play a bunch of games in the same genre to check.

I find this kind of post infinitely frustrating to read whenever Trump does some shit because it frames any barrier as a blanket excuse for inaction. At some point, people have to come to terms with the role that their personal apathy and privelige plays alongside these structural issues.

Nintendo games have such an intense hard-on for making you watch long-winded explainations for toddlers every 2 minutes. I've been playing Mario Odyssey for like 10 minutes and I've skipped like 20+ cutscenes.

It seems incredibly weird that we haven't defaulted to bumper buttons used for core actions in games, especially in platformers. Who wants to move their thumb from the camera to the A button to perform the most basic of all platformer inputs? It'd be like having shooting in an FPS on A.

If you feel uncultured and need to be put-on to some of the best obscure indies let me help: PsiloSybil, Eigengrau, and Garlic. Playing these games makes you a better person.

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This month's Patreon post is mostly about how rooms are loaded in Tower of Gold. You can read it for free here: www.patreon.com/posts/march-... #indiegames

A couple of old-ish NES platformer mockups. First one is tiny Mega Man obvs. #pixelart

Sometimes I'll be having a great day and then suddenly remember that Dark Souls is the only Souls game which pulls off such a fantastically interwoven world. The level design of that game is second to none, so much so that the entire genre lives in its shadow.

My 50 fonts for 50 dollars sale just went over 50% of its goal - that's a lot of 50s! Thanks, everyone. itch.io/s/181080/ok-...

I don't understand why this exists, but the fact that it does is inherently amusing to me. The fact that it's so fucking good makes little sense, either. A full rap project that describes a Cave Story playthrough. youtu.be/QTEUiTe3AAM

puppy dog update:

(Repost) Enter Gauntron #pixelart #digitalart #retro

What do the Blender updates even do, man? I've been waiting for some texture painting and sculpting improvements for yonks. Feels like every update is like ADDED 1 GORILLION NEW GEOMETRY NODES FEATURES... + moved a button

One of my least fav design patterns in games that's shockingly pervasive is "punishing" bad gameplay via tedium rather than failure. Devs realized that they can make games more casual friendly if the failure state is just a type of "winning slower" rather than losing, as a consequence even action -

Having friends that aren't good at video games is such a huge buff because I have SO many amazing blind testers. Love you guys.

it feels good to have some forward momentum on this thing again

MF DOOM

Making UI so annoyingly bouncy and squashy and stretchy and bobby and spinny that a single UI element has like 500 lines of code in it's script. HELP ME

Progress on my Quake Sewer Jam 3 map. These models were hand sculpted in blender and then converted to brushes with OBJ2MAP, 800 faces per model. Baking is done with combined, so the normals and the lights are baked in the texture.

was playing Blinx for some easy nostalgia and spotted this fucker YO PILLAR IM WATCHING YOUR STREAM WHY YOU TRYING NOT TO LAUGH BRO THAT'S DISRESPECTFUL AS SHIT BRO

I will pay a $30 bounty to whoever creates an accurate MIDI version of RZA's Guitar Centre beat. DM me to claim.

Okay, I started listening to Björk and I get it now. I feel like a better person after marathoning the first 4 albums in a row.

SKIN DEEP REFERENCE?

WIP everything right now, but even with the placeholders this enemy feels so intimidating. Pure bullet-hose action. #gamedev

Portraits I made pixel version of for Fixeight Exa Label. I worked off of new concept/promotional art by Nanpei Kaneko, who also did the promo art and ingame portraits for the original arcade version. Each of the portraits is 16 colours (including the black) and are in 15bit colourdepth. Fun times.

lil before/after of the dwell d2end blockout vs what @balbafu.bsky.social turned it into :D

I'm quite glad that lots of these PS1 horror titles have been leaning into old-school "clunky" gamefeel more often lately. It's a bit of a shame that every single PS1 classic gets remade and seemingly by-default adopts an over-the-shoulder perspective.

new video about an extremely cool quake mod/jam watch it now? now? now? youtu.be/b0MIbo2aQqs

He don’t ever run out of “going back in time” potion. He just go back in time forever. There ain’t no point to the game. He just go around. This shit is stupid as hell, man.

I think I am in love with Godot. It's been about a year of on/off usage of it and I think I could be happy making just about anything in it. What a superbly designed piece of software.

We're going back to Mumble. That's right, fucko.

Europan Mining Operations #pixelart

GIMP is made to psychologically torture it's users. There's no way man, zero fucking chance this is created earnestly.

The damage Vampire Survivors brought to the bullet hell/shmup name has got to be the worst thing that has happened to both of those genres LOL It gets to a point where it’s just offensive

I think that the most convincing argument against using AI in almost any circumstance, is that if you do, you become dependant on the whims of a corporation for your creative endeavours. They want to have you pay to think, pay to make things with your own two hands.

#quake #qbj3

some niche shit that would only impress level designers: SHEEEESH

These people literally believe that walking around a horribly hallucinated 3D environment is what video games are. I'm scared that they're right and in a decade there'll be a hard split between 'real' video games, and these fake scenarios.

There is honestly no game which will make you feel more like a ninja than a shmup. Ninja Gaiden, Tenchu, nothing comes close to weaving through a gigantic fuck-off wall off bullets after finessing the enemy AI into giving you juuuuuuust enough room to glide your center pixel between it all.

I think we could all do with following this advice a bit more often.

KDE Plasma might just be the only Linux desktop environment made by human beings. I swapped to it and EVERYTHING is set up the way you would imagine it to be. There's a few random petty complaint stuff, but so far THIS is the way to Linux.

One of the worst things about linux is not being able to fucking open things by clicking on them. Every single fucking program wants you to do its stupid song and dance of figuring out which special words you have to type into a terminal like its 1994. Fuck offfffff mate

My map for Quake Brutalist Jam III: The Smell of Sunshine.

Getting good at shmups has made me want to start designing dynamic difficulty systems into everything. Boomer shooter with a dynamic difficulty system lets go

Australia is the only colonised nation in the world that celebrates its national day on the anniversary of its own invasion. #auspol womensagenda.com.au/latest/why-j...