Just uploaded my new Dev Log on Coaster Crash Course! If you're interested in how I took the game from a game jam to a full Steam release in just 3 months, you can check it out on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU8g... #gamedev #indiedev #gmtk #gamejam

I am monumentally shite at souls games

Man, Tron Ares was so good

Mad Men is for nostalgic boomers with dull lives who fantasise about cheating on their partners. Watched two seasons and I'm over it. It is just tripe.

Playing Control and fell victim to the Ash Tray Maze. Looked it up and glad I did as I wasted about 40 minutes as it cannot be solved in the early game.

Having a look behind the paywall of Nail the Mix today and comically it is laid out like a paywall for their not-included premium products and the main landing page is an AI assistant? The YouTube videos that led me here were so good what a let down. Feels like I paid to get into the showroom.

INDIE RECOMMENDATION: Kingdoms of the Dump Earthbound/SNES RPG fans eyes up. Jeremy loves this newly released classic RPG by @kingdomsofthedump.bsky.social. Don't sleep on it! WATCH our Impressions: youtu.be/MiIBoQTOtg0

I have a theory that if someone is presenting a product or concept and they use the phrase "mindset" then it is likely bullshit.

Kingdoms of the Dump is one of the year's most charming RPGs, an Earthbound-inspired game set in a world made of trash, where you fight in landfills and heal with moldy sandwiches. Which is fitting — it was made by two janitors. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

What do you have planned tomorrow, Nov 18th? How about you check the TV Guide and see that at 10am CDT we're playing @kingdomsofthedump.bsky.social!! We've been waiting 5ish years, super excited to finally wander Garbagia! twitch.tv/stacykrugger

@kingdomsofthedump.bsky.social fellas, best of luck for the launch tomorrow! I have read every sanitation report since 2019 and I can't wait to play it. Tomorrow also happens to be bin day where I live, so I congratulate you on the level of immersion already.

As predicted, now a mad dash to round off the year. The last thing I read was pretty philosophical and abstract so I really need three nice, entertaining easy reads.

I think Valve like to check my employment status each time they do a major hardware release. I suspect my unemployment perfectly correlates. Thankfully I’ve a bit of time before they drop these boys on us.

labour government: oh you want affordable housing? best I can do is sex w no choking

Bit o' CAD to sort out the missus for Halloween

99.9% of the time Neo sits on Shannon but tonight he sat on my lap during bake off and I loved every minute of it.

My brain has taken a 5 year hiatus from progressive metal and all of the sudden I am back. Perhaps it is just the best thing to have on when you are writing.

This year has been truly devastating to my mental health. I see it like bad weather passing and I’m hoping I am becoming stronger and more tolerant of the shit, but also it just feels like entropy. I’m lucky I have what I have, and hopefully everything will get better soon.

I’ve decided I’ve done my last lesson of Duolingo for a while. I think the design is good for the most part but it is let down by some particularly tedious exercises and the one size fits all progression rate. I feel no progress, no compulsion to continue. 466 days and that’s all for now.

After over 2 years cooking in Steam Early Access, Mars First Logistics 1.0 is finally here! Engineer your little rover and deliver lots of silly stuff!

The Blackmagic camera app automatically copying video to a network store (skipping iCloud) is such a game changer. If you're filming in your house there's virtually no capacity limit and with fast networking the clips can be dragged straight into Resolve for editing. And that's for free!? Amazing.

Here we have a nice monitor-top DSLR mount for speaking to the camera while making. You can see the cutaway where I was ready to press print and realised the plate would block the battery door. It's designed to slot in at the top of a VESA 100 mount with some slightly longer M4 screws and washers.

Have been converting from Fusion 360 to Onshape and made some great progress this evening. I'm going to do some local workshops on parametric design and my attendees not having to download and install a huge application is why I am switching.

Really want to get Dying Light The Beast but I’m in money saving mode so I guess tonight I might either make something or play Warzone!

Got served Sheoru by the Youtube algorithm and I am loving them. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Today I’m going to get business startup advice for my cosy maker space/non-formal learning idea, so wish me luck 👀

Finished reading The Hallmarked Man and unlike my mother who finished yesterday, I guessed whodunnit 🥹

Rigged up a character in Blender for UE5 and got crouching animations working. It is so much more immersive than a floating camera with no limbs 😍 Thanks to this tut by MizzoFrizzo, who also packaged the animations I am using www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV-s...

Really excited for the James Bond Hitman game.

UE5's comically large Camera gizmo cracks me up every time.

This week I’ve learnt how to rig a character for the engine and now I’m trying to learn animation control in #UE5. I was initially using a first person blueprint but for true immersion I’m ensuring the character can look down and see itself. Can’t wait to get this figured out.

i feel this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Szrot – A Retro CaRPG set in 1980s Yugoslavia #Szrot #IndieGame #MadeWithUnity #LowPoly #PS1 #Šrot

Imsim character status (minus radiation indicator)

they’ll just move him to a different parish and he’ll do it again

I wondered if you could repeatedly tile individual textures from an atlas with UV maps and you cannot easily without adjusting the node setup in Blender/Unreal. This got me onto the idea of trim sheets and hybrid trim sheets- something I had not heard of until last night.

I saw an advert for BedJet and thought eh, how hard can it be to make one of those? Then I realised I have a low-noise extractor fan and 4" flexible tube I've not yet installed for my resin printing fume extraction system. So tonight I will be sleeping an air-cooled bed.

Drag and drop basic inventory is kinda there? Feelsgoodman.

I am getting there. #UE5 #Inventory

Committed the sin of modulus by zero for indexing my inventory columns, and boy did it take me a while to figure out that is what I did wrong. I mixed up the inputs to the modulus node in my blueprint. I was initially kinda sceptical of blueprint vs code but I like it now. #UE5 #Blueprint

Finally attacking writing an inventory system in UE5 and things are starting to fall into place in my mind.

Ordered this a month ago and today received a new patch for my battle jacket which is so shiny ✨

Can’t wait to finally play this in November. I’ve watched the trailer so many times that my other half knows it from the music 🥹

Taking fiction recommendations, if you have any.

Finished The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and good lawd it is wild how PKD always manages to immerse me in existential dread. Some books and games just enter my dreams for days, which is kind of a coincidence considering.

Double the cheese, MSG glaze on crust and diastatic malt powder in the dough mixture seems to be the key to the closest Dominos-like pizza I’ve made so far. Thanks to Joshua Wiessman suggestions in “but better” recipe.

Aaaand now I can play Balatro again. The novel was intriguing. It felt like it was written too literally, almost for screen and I wanted shorter more inferential writing style. What to read next?

Developing video games in this day and age be like

50% there. Opinion TBC. Presently on the cusp of cringe but also good? The things I do to play Balatro.