The Russian nesting doll presents a conundrum. It is hard not to read it as making some statement about sequence, ontogeny, hierarchy, but any interpretation is ultimately incoherent

There should be a candy that's like the candy coated Advil except it's just candy and you can eat as much as you want

How do you get players to do optional tutorials? Call it “tradecraft” and put a big button with notifications right where they’ll see it during gameplay. #gamedev

when you are an innocent key inspector #gamedev #pixelart

The foolish scientist has witnessed my perfidy. #gamedev #pixelart #cyberpunk

seeing posts about the game awards has me thinking about Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics" again

The scavenger gang had a bad day #gamedev #pixelart #cyberpunk

DataJack 2020 demo soon #gamedev #cyberpunk

comms went quiet but a demo is on track. #gamedev #cyberpunk

I need the car to blow cold air on my face and hot air on my feet.

Old Internet was like: Jim Farb's law: every tenth post to the newsgroup devolves into an argument about battlestar galactica

when the banana is brought back to the desk it loses all appeal. the banana MUST be eaten in the kitchen

phone works! NPC arrives, rings bell and waits to be let in - next up context menus for vendors etc. #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart

bug report: I shot this scientist and he dropped three keys, two credsticks, a keycard, and three 40s #gamedev

today I ate what I call "Robin Hood's snack", an apple and a bread roll

working on flavor text for various items including... heads #gamedev #pixelart #indiegame

most games just put the air duct at ground level, but I went the extra mile to accurately simulate them in the ceiling plenum space. #gamedev #cyberpunk #pixelart

mission objective: steal the magnetic monopole #gamedev #cyberpunk

I'm just being a properly dutiful citizen and securing this unauthorized weapon! What are you doing to keep our city safe? #gamedev #cyberpunk

Who are you buying a round for? #gamedev #pixelart #cyberpunk

not to brag but a lot of hot singles on twitter are congratulating me for all my hard work on indie game UI

working on - mission planning tactics view #gamedev #cyberpunk #pixelart

finalizing some of the mission planning tactics / underworld contacts #gamedev #cyberpunk

facilities has authorized me to conduct a full audit of this door. Now stop asking questions! #gamedev #cyberpunk

Guacamole I make myself is good. Guacamole I buy in a tub at the store is evil. I don't know how to explain it

One of my the writing exercises to polish up is the importer shop / deals dialogue. #gamedev #cyberpunk

Word on the street is it's a great night for chems and gemstones. #gamedev #cyberpunk

The kombucha samples lady at Costco is completely walled off by forklifts moving pallets of stuff. They say she has to survive on little sips of ginger pomegranate

Solar Microcorp building - exterior #gamedev #cyberpunk #pixelart

well, I did it. I made the virus programs follow the cyber network wires through the building- it was the most horrendous off-by-one kind of problem I have dealt with since realsitic key bitting. This virus is scanning the network. #gamedev #cyberpunk

A kid at the playground called me a stupid man so I called him a stupid kid. You come at the king you best not miss

polishing and finalizing the skill tree / progression system before the demo #gamedev #cyberpunk

now working on: skill tree and progression. It doesn't have to be perfect, yet. But this is already a major improvement. #gamedev

my review of Excalibur (1981): big wet movie

zoom filter that provides this effect

There's now 58 unique types of loot and counting! #gamedev #pixelart #cyberpunk

Before indie folk, there simply was no outlet for young men to sing wistfully about trains and whiskey with a sensibility beyond their years

Saw a squirrel in the apartment complex parking lot and for him that's probably like a dungeon crawl

15 new loots for the "medical" category, and the loot inventory is looking pretty good #gamedev #pixelart

The final result after composing the scene and wiring up aircraft and atmosphere really works to sell the setting of the game and set the tone, what do you think? #gamedev #cyberpunk

Lastly, the large-scale arcology. This thing was so big I had to build it in parts. I really pushed the limit of what Crocotile 3D could handle. Lots of detail here that you'll probably never see in-game. #lowpoly #cyberpunk

The third and final medium-scale building I made for the skybox has a very sweet private residence with helipad - something like an executive office 2/3 of the way up the tower. #cyberpunk #lowpoly

new skybox looking good #gamedev #cyberpunk

for balance purposes, rifles cannot be concealed by default. To support this, I've had to add more information to my sprite metadata system. #gamedev

This standout focal piece is "medium 2". I use larger windows on the bottom, smaller windows on the top to enhance the effect of the scale. #cyberpunk #lowpoly

Now we're into the "medium" sized buildings. This first one took me a long time and it's ugly. It looks like a big factory to me. Very little in the way of a unified design aesthetic here. #cyberpunk #lowpoly

The final "small" building I made for the skybox. A nice combination of the high-rise residential and the high-tech industrial. This is when I made the first satellite dish. #cyberpunk #lowpoly

Here's another couple small buildings I made for the skybox. You need all types and sizes, but you need a lot more small buildings than large buildings. These two were my favorite, nicely balanced structures that look kind of high-tech. #cyberpunk #lowpoly

Here's the second batch of small buildings. To me, these almost look like nice, respectable, high-density residential buildings you'd want in your SimCity. #lowpoly #cyberpunk

Crocotile 3D is the best software I've come across in a long, long time. I'll be posting the building assets I made as part of the title screen tableau / skybox. First up, my first couple small buildings: #lowpoly #cyberpunk