and they chose the perfect one

Early #screenshotsaturday Worked on more of this weird puzzle fighter concept but focused on the puzzle part for now. Trying to get most of the puzzle fighter functionality working. Idk if I love my implementation yet... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Having a rough one. Feeling very directionless atm.

Eyeball River (1991)

How‘s it going?

Making progress but off some of the MerFight code I wrote is...has me saying "how did this game even run before?"

Ooof... relatable

...had a thought... I'm nervous for whatever movies comes after Obsession... I liked Get Out and Hereditary but didn't like the directors' next movies...

Proof of concept is getting closer...still...sort of weird and like...oof...probably lots of little "feel" things with puzzle fighter board placement and movement I'm missing BUT it's something... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #fightinggame #puzzlefighter #prototype #proofofconcept

The kickstarter for Nested Dreams is starting up soon! Now you can get to see what we've been working on these past four years. Link in the comments below #godot #indiegame #gamedev

Nested Dreams for PC/MAC/LINUX, by artists SynaMax & Shoffur, via @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/syn... Cousin is working on a game; here's the KS page.

Proof of concept is getting closer...still...sort of weird and like...oof...probably lots of little "feel" things with puzzle fighter board placement and movement I'm missing BUT it's something... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #fightinggame #puzzlefighter #prototype #proofofconcept

Tbh I'm having a really rough decision paralysis moment of wanting to work on a lot of different things but the context switching is making it really tough...

MerFight Quantum port is...inching...inching its way there...think I'm gonna take a break though...

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Ok. Got Quantum into the MerFight project. Sadly I can't use the scene toolbar cause the stupid project has like 8 million scenes... (400 but still a lot for a single toolbar to render)

me removing all the old PhotonNetwork code from MerFight

CupKick (or any 3d fighter I do) won't be as good as SC2 but dang it if I'm not going to try and make some aspects close.

indie dev who heroically does not play or study games so as to maintain their pure creativity: "once you complete the procedurally generated level you pick between one of three upgrades"

taking some time to do the very fun work of updating merfight to unity 6 so I can do the eventual Quantum 3.0 update. I need to remember that I need to SHORTCUT this and not rewrite the entire game; doing that would just be a sequel.

Holy fucking shit this is horrific. Was this during October?

Now that I'm feeling better after whatever the hell I was dealing with since Sunday night, I wrote about my experience with showing #HAFO at #Anthrocon: www.patreon.com/mattrified/p... . #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #patreon #HAFO

game budgets in general. the monetary value of the video game has been warped by.. -15 yrs of firesale discounting -crowdfund numbers, often a drop in the bucket to net further investment -industry secrecy kept to maintain a lowball environment -libertarian cultures of online platforms like steam

Tag yourself, I'm a "Scrappy Unconvential"

It's high time we get rid of archaic labels like "AAA" and "indie", and I like the classification proposed by The Architect of Games

Ok. Think I'm recovered from the con crud...gonna still take it easy today...at most write about my anthrocon HAFO experience for Patreon .. patreon.com/mattrified

This is one of the many reasons we need a universal basic income.

Tbh adding curse of the arctic prince is my least favorite thing about merfight. A). That story needs adjusting and i don't really care for it B) what's explained here.

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"How private equity ruined..." could probably be an entire YouTube channel on 2040201s of topics.

Recently after anthrocon and the fighting game jam, the term microfighter has come to mind and idk what that means or if I want to explore it lol

Big HAFO lessons from showing at Anthrocon: * Probably not the most expo friendly game * Using LP/LK instead of the exact button on the command list is bad (should probably be swappable) * Need to adjust balance and combo limits as well as just modes in general. * Need a break from the game tho lol

Girl, get in line.

See...in HAFO you can play the main game endlessly or the single player mode to get accessories. I don't care. Also i realized how much the game really is just for combo sickos and I need to lean into that more.

In this annoying middle zone of con crud that is either the most severe dehydration exhaustion episode I've ever had or like day 0 of covid and atm I'm over it. Pick one, body: get better or kill me already.

Well then, I shall simply leave the game industry and join a more healthy and stable indus—oh no

The most infuriating part is that it did work great, somehow. The industry DID make an impossible amount of money, and it didn't matter

And here we go for another season of "this industry is fucking over"

Why not? Well...

I was told by Nickelodeon Execs that my Paw Patrol script about a tornado that flings pies was way too scary for midwesterners and that it presented (and this is an exact quote) "A DIRECT THREAT TO MIDDLE AMERICA."

now that the 4th is out the way, it's time for a real holiday to show how it's done

Once I recover I'll wrote about my experience with showcasing HAFO at Anthrocon more thoroughly. Overall, not great but mostly because I don't think HAFO is a great expo game or at least the build I had made.

... can't tell if this is exhaustion from a very exhausting weekend or the start of con crud...really hoping not the latter...or at least not covid...

...not making 48 sound geriatric...

Underoos becoming game devs

So many opportunities to use this...like right now waiting to pick up my food at this bar...

Sadly HAFO at anthrocon is def killing my motivation for that puzzle fighter hybrid. You mean I have to explain a fighting game AND a puzzle game? Eesch maybe not...

Showing a fighter at a non fighting game convention (esp. a non game convention) has a similar effect as watching a game in a mystery tournament. Unless it's simple, most people don't really do anything effective and I think there's also like...a con anxiety new players experience at game booths