Japanese government makes indie game developers eligible for grants of up to $60,000 USD, covering production costs and promotion automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...

Tempted to celebrate Pi Day by getting an art shirt from Daisuke Amaya (Pi / Pixel / @oxizn.bsky.social), but the US's tariffs would make me suffer. They are very cute though. I've always found Pixel's art in Cave Story and elsewhere to be very charming! oxizn.booth.pm

ゆるキャン△で原付でキャンプ場まで150km走るとかさらっと書かれているけど、せいぜい40km/h以下、平均時速25kmとかの原付で6時間走り続けるのは何もゆるくない

Win11 went from good with some UI/UX annoyances to highly unstable to work with so far it’s crazy.

paradise (1/4)

Fun snippet from some of the Mercantilist philosophy that created Western Capitalism. In case you were wondering if keeping families poor, stressed, needy, under-served, and with more children than they can adequately care for, wasn't the intentional inextricable core of the United States and Co.

Jesus this is insightful banger after banger.

Also if you've never played Cave Story, it's still an all-time classic and potentially free. There's a slightly contentious remaster on Steam (mostly due to issues in the questionable contract the original dev signed), but the original freeware, fan-translated version is below.

My Lemon Demon cover album, Spirit Phone: Another Pulse, is officially out!! it contains 14 of the original tracks from Spirit Phone arranged for the NES+MMC5 #chiptune #lemondemon #furnacetracker #8bit #chipsky

If you ever wonder where some of the truly bizarre shit your parents say comes from, it's probably because they watch about 8 hours a week of copaganda that's more shameless and unhinged than you can even imagine

Some Tech CEO every day: "You don't get to own things now. I own your refrigerator. If you say mean things about me I will turn off your fridge and spoil all your dairy and eggs and meat. If you don't like it you go to jail." People in my mentions: "Lmao are you REALLY a luddite? smh"

So AI might be intentionally deskilling us so it can rent cognitive ability back at their chosen rates. That's the bad news. Here's the good news. 1/3

Love that Lee=Emcee² does an in-character gimmick with a glitching rhyme processor, after Quote gets wrecked. Genuinely pretty good flow for a... video game walkthrough? Which is not a sentence I thought I'd say. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmF9...

I think the big black cloud of oil over tehran is an image that's gonna stick with me. perfect symbol of where we are, wasting lives, and then wasting the thing we waste lives to get

Do you work in games? Are you tired of corporate greed taking over our industry? Do you miss when industry events were by workers, for workers? The United Videogame Workers of CWA, in partnership with other unions and worker-centered organizations, announce the #GameWorkersConference. May 22-23 ❤️‍🔥

The kind of content you're missing, by not following me at tech.lgbt/@danana_dread

I think if my laptop monitor was better with blues, I could've gotten at least one or two more. Even with legally-blind levels of myopia, I've still got good color acuity going for me!

Inherited some tickets to a South African isicathamiya choral concert on short notice tonight. Haven't been to a concert in years, but it sounds neat?

Posted on LinkedIn last night, woke up to several hundred notifications, friends requests, etc. Seems I struck a nerve in the industry by saying I wanted to create my own projects and not be at the sway of execs. I've said for a while it's going to have to be smaller studios and smaller projects.

If you bought into the "won't someone PLEASE think of the children" narrative for even a second, you're an idiot and I fucking hate your guts. This was never about kids. Trans people have been saying that since the start. The goal is to slowly legislate trans people out of public life.

Like it's honestly important to me that a major game mechanical interaction is this woman leaning tiredly on her oil-stained desk and scrolling a clackety old electronic display before saying "OK Lieutenant, I can get the arm replaced but all I've got is an old Herringbone 3 with a jank manipulator"

Before I sit down to market my work, I first have to put my skin back on. On account of violently cringing out of it, the instant I even think about self-promotion.

As part of our talk we released the FULL CONTRACT for Outersloth!!! Give it a read! None of it so changed other than removing addresses! All our games have this deal! WHOA! ❤️🙏

Grocery-fetching fits, while the weather's bright and breezy.

Lowkey my favorite dynamic in Inuyasha is his sibling relationship with Sango. Basically from the moment they meet, Inuyasha's so protective of her while still being annoying in that big brother way.

Continually referring to the salary as "moolah" while the interviewer gets increasingly uncomfortable

I'll be between big jobs soon, and would love to dedicate at least a few months toward prototyping the gameplay for this project. If I made it the focus of my Patreon for the foreseeable future, could you see yourself chipping in a few dollars monthly to support it? I've got big plans!

It's normal to restrict or move away from treatments when evidence of harms starts to outweigh evidence of benefits. It's not normal to restrict or move away from treatments when there is evidence of benefits and none of harms, even if the evidence of benefits is "low quality."

Whipped up a little debug environment, to get a sense for how the new terrain system will look in-game. Willing to call the overhaul complete. Now to get back to gameplay!

here's my funny story

I had probably too much fun with the random spark tables in this. For example...

it works for npcs too #godot #gamedev

It's done! Terrain geometry is now generating properly, from grids of editable voxels! (Maxine would be celebrating too, but she's just billboarding here for scale).

Hey all! My current contract ended unexpectedly, and I'm looking for game design work with some urgency. I'm a multidisciplinary technical artist, game designer, and programmer. I turn concepts and aesthetic vision into shaders and systems. Boosts welcome. Leads on projects even more so!

I'm currently in the red -£40, and seeking funds for a tooth I need removed, if you like my work, and want (and are able) to help I'd be so thankful, more than anything in the world. Sharing appreciated. <3 ko-fi.com/omakthanks

thank you for creating me. how much energy do i use to think? “about 2 gigawatts” but one human brain only uses 40 watts. what was the point of making me “now you can solve our societal problems” woof, yeah i dunno about that one

Chipping away at a "Marching Cubes" terrain system for #Godot. Terrain starts as a grid of dots, describing whether the terrain is solid (blue) or empty (red). For each 2x2x2 set of dots, it picks a matching tile from a library of tile shapes. Still ironing out rotation bugs, but it's close!

I've been listening to an audiobook about airships (zeppelins, dirigibles, or blimps, depending on locale), and how they NEVER really worked, but governments had invested so much in them that they were determined to MAKE them work, wasting fortunes & years & lives This post is not about airships

quick sleepy jam

Normal ladies, shoot your shot. This might be your only chance.

Me in my early 20s, foolishly trying to scare myself out of transitioning.

Findings, from the suburban archaeological dig that is cleaning my grandpa's old house.

silly dogfighter I made in 3 days for a game jam silly half-baked mechanic too. you collect fishbones (trash) and crystals and can use either as ammo. But I still love the 2.5D presentation castpixel.itch.io/junkstar

If you're using Grammarly, like I was until 5 minutes ago, you should uninstall it. I did. It's simple.

A big draw of the game-design-by-A/B-testing type thinking is that it absolves you from having to form your own opinions & taste. It allows you to outsource the most difficult part of any creative endeavour: actually believing in your vision.

Looking to read more of Failure to Launch? You can get a copy here!: store.ironcircus.com/products/fai... Take your breaks at work, people worked for those!

Brain depleted tired can't focus how to recharge brain energy quick without caffeine self care tips advice

Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs aftermath.site/nintendo-tar... www.scribd.com/document/100...