Being in web dev sucks now. There was this really nice event called Beer.js near me. It's draft beers, web dev talks and a generally cool way to interact with people. They've changed it now. All the talks are about AI and they're advertising is with sending your AI agents to it instead.

Why have sports game player career modes become such power fantasies? Why is my created player averaging 12 ppg in his rookie NHL season? Why did my NBA 2K player score 48 points in his first NBA game? What's up with that? Who finds this fun? It's nothing like the actual sport you supposedly like.

Still have no idea how I beat Max Payne 2 when I was 13. Had a weekend of only turning on my internet-disconnected Windows XP PC and that game fucking destroyed me. Must be because I didn't really understand the story so I wasn't fully depressed and bothered when I got into a level.

I genuinely think that Microsoft's acquisition of Activision will be remembered as the biggest fumble in video game history.

Me when I like a @corvidfood.com #gamedev post.

I think I got added to a bot list on Twitter somewhere. Suddenly got a bunch of followers with new accounts, most of which are "Blockchain engineers" or (surprised they still exist) NFT peddlers.

As promised, my previously-abandoned incremental game prototype is now on Itch. Download, give feedback. I'd appreciate it. Completely free. Completely a proof of concept. corvid-food.itch.io/whatever-lea... #gamedev #incrementalgame #sportsgame #indiedev #indiegame

Trying to find normal Bulgarian dubs of the Spider-Man movies for my kid. It got me thinking about No Way Home. The premise makes sense for Spider-Man but it makes no fucking sense for the MCU. Every character in that universe has their face out, identity completely exposed. They kill people.

Walkable cities are so important for public health. I've lost 6kg in two weeks. Got fat really fast (my body tends to go through these fast changes). Been eating better and walking a lot in the last two weeks. I'm talking weird levels like 30000 steps per day. No gym, just walking everywhere.

Made a REALLY specific thing in my incremental game. But that is the point of it. #gamedev #indiegame #incrementalgame #indie #indiedev

The "Hydration Break" thing in the World Cup is so uniquely American. Nevermind that Americans are for some reason OBSESSED with "hydration" but they also figured out a way to put timeouts in a game with no timeouts because god forbid you watch something for 45 minutes with no big ad breaks.

About that old incremental game I pulled from my SSD - progression is nonsensical, visuals fight each other constantly. Did rile that up a bit and made an actual Start Screen for it. Will release it as is on Itch next week. Here's the start screen I cobbled together, by the way. #gamedev #indiedev

TikTok is absolute bullshit. Uploaded the VOID PROFIT trailer on there (0 views). They flash a message at me saying "Give us €1.89 for a promotion and you can get 2500 views." Of course, I do that, it's 2 bucks. Turns out that I can't promote THAT video but they gave me my money back in "credits."

By the way, I looked through the code, built the game again. It's less of an incremental game and more like a really silly version of Doodle God. Which might be right, I don't know.

Pulling 7 projects from my external SSD onto my PC right now. Haven't touched these things in years, probably (except for one or two). Will clean up the ones that aren't absolute shit and upload some stuff to itch.io soon. Just for testing the waters if nothing else.(And add actual version control)

Finally a #TrailerTuesday post. Here's the first official trailer for VOID PROFIT. - Travel - Trade - Learn - Survive - Pay your rent WISHLIST NOW STEAM: store.steampowered.com/app/4687990/... #indiegames #indiegame #indie #indiedev #gamedev #spacesim #economy #profit #trading

Going on a seaside holiday again in a week. I know I'm going to have to deal with jellyfish, the one animal I don't understand. Nobody eats jellyfish, they're just assholes. The seagulls have been eating kebabs and pepperoni pizzas from the trash cans for years now. Chill with the stinging.

Going on a diet has been surprisingly tasty. I've had two weeks where I'm eating a small amount of rice noodles with chicken for lunch. Good thing is, those two products, specifically, can be completely different meals depending on the spices you put on them.

I'm so enthralled with the way AI companies try to market things. Sam Altman is all "It can do your chores. It can educate your kids. It can do everything." while the Anthropic guys are like "We are scared of what we've created. We do not know how it works but we're scared." and it's all not true.

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I'm interested in how we've moved away from "vibe coding" into "AI assisted programming." There's always a term for "I don't know shit."

I hate when people go "Wow! This is like that sci-fi book I read once!" No. Absolutely not. These books didn't just pop out of people's imagination. They have themes, which we did nothing about. Like, for example, the Strugatsky brothers' "Hard to be a God" is not a "What if..."

VOID PROFIT runs great on the Steam Deck! Text scales correctly, Steam Input works. It's also a great Steam Deck game. #gamedev #spacesim #indiegame #steamdeck

There is a positive to AI. It's getting rid of the stupid "coding task" step of job interviews. Like, yeah, I've been a developer for 10+ years and you need to check if I can work with a RESTful API. Fuck off, really.

The devlog for the NEW Manifest system is up on Steam. Check it out to understand what this is all about and why I love it so much. A new thing that really affects how you communicate in the universe #spacesim #indiegame #indie #gamedev #indiedev #devlog store.steampowered.com/news/app/468...

I did talk about not adding any more systems and mechanics...but I added a new one. Now you have to keep a Manifest of your cargo. You can lie on it, of course. If you think that you have enough reputation to pass by on manifest/documents alone #spacesim #indiegame #indie #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Just in time to catch #WishlistWednesday. Some new VOID PROFIT screenshots with dialogue changes, market changes and some slight visual changes. - Travel - Trade - Learn - Survive WISHLIST VOID PROFIT ON STEAM: store.steampowered.com/app/4687990/... #gamedev #indiedev #indie #spacesim #trading

VOID PROFIT has passed the 50 wishlists mark. That seems insane to me. I expected 5 or 6. Work is still going on. MASSIVE changes are coming. Wishlist it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4687990/... I love that people seem to care. #gamedev #indiedev #indie #spacesim

I'm in the audience that thinks Troika Games is THE best video game developer of all time. They have three (3) games and they're this:

I've said many things about this game because I love it. It has the best first start experience. You see guys spraying NOS into their engine, a segment where a beautiful woman and a race driver tell you to wear your seatbelt, followed by "To the window! To the wall! Till sweat drips down my balls!"

‪ 🔉🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨🔉 The VOID PROFIT Steam page is now LIVE. ADD IT TO YOUR WISHLIST. store.steampowered.com/app/4687990/... #gamedev #indiedev #spacesim

Oh is it now? Fuck these people, man.

The Jedi vs. Sith conflict is completely useless and brings ABSOLUTELY nothing to the story as a whole. Could cut the whole thing out and it will only make the franchise better. The whole Light Side/Dark Side thing. Useless. Get rid of it.

‪A little #ScreenshotSaturday post for VOID PROFIT - Travel - Trade - Learn - Stay safe - Make a profit - Pay your ship rent. Aetrocor makes no exceptions. ⁽ⁱᵗ'ˢ ʰᵃʳᵈ ᵗᵒ ᵈᵒ ˢᶜʳᵉᵉⁿˢʰᵒᵗ ᵖᵒˢᵗˢ ᶠᵒʳ ᵃ ᵍᵃᵐᵉ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ⁱˢ ᵇᵃˢⁱᶜᵃˡˡʸ ᵃˡˡ ᵘⁱ⁾ #indiedev #indiegamedev #spacesim #gamedev

This #ScreenshotSaturday I give you several screenshots of different parts of VOID PROFIT - the space trading sim. - Travel - Trade - Learn - Stay safe - Make a profit - Pay your ship rent. Aetrocor makes no exceptions. #indiedev #indiegamedev #spacesim #gamedev

So the stupid AI text checkers made me pay because they're stupid. I'm going for a formal, "contract" tone in my Steam description. Wanted to make sure someone won't accuse me of using AI and I ran it through a checker. Came out at 88% AI. You know why? It flagged [img] and [b] tags as AI.

First quick trailer for VOID PROFIT is here! - Trade - Travel - Take Jobs - Earn enough to pay your ship's rent fee Coming to a wishlistable Steam page soon! #gamedev #indiedev #spacesim #gamedevelopment

they're making beautiful people with interesting hobbies work 40 hours a week

As I'm not good at making actual dev logs with everything I've added (I forget about this stuff). Here's a few of them in a post Void Profit Devlog 4-5-6-a lot: Accessibility, markets and presentation, many changes, a lot... corvidfood.com/blog/void-pr... #gamedev #indiedev

First quick trailer for VOID PROFIT is here! - Trade - Travel - Take Jobs - Earn enough to pay your ship's rent fee Coming to a wishlistable Steam page soon! #gamedev #indiedev #spacesim #gamedevelopment

First quick trailer for VOID PROFIT is here! - Trade - Travel - Take Jobs - Earn enough to pay your ship's rent fee Coming to a wishlistable Steam page soon! #gamedev #indiedev #spacesim #gamedevelopment

Void Profit Devlog #3: Route selection - You now choose how you travel, not just where. corvidfood.com/blog/void-pr... #gamedev #indiedev

Added a new dev log. corvidfood.com/blog/void-pr... #gamedev #indiedev

Possibly days away from starting work on the Steam page for Void Profit. I'm currently "de-Lorem-ipsuming" my company's website. Need to make sure that I post all the Dev Logs I have in a completely unformatted, train of thought style, text file right now.

Shattered my phone screen a few weeks back. And I can't complain about it because it happened in Pompeii so I'll just sound like an asshole. "DUDE! You know what happened in Pompeii? I dropped my phone and broke the screen! Fucking awful!"

So OpenAI is just straight up lying. I have Codex for work and I had a notification for new plugins, one of which is gamedev and it can do "playtest" for you. What it did was e2e and unit tests for my meticulously crafted game. Tests I already had. But it gave me screenshots so I guess that's better

Oh, no... they've opened a Warhammer store in a 10 minute walk radius...

My only issue with Bulgaria using the Euro is completely separated from the Bulgarian right-wing "losing our identity" shit. My issue is that there's too many coins. 5 BGN was a nice bill, now it's 2,50 which is coins all the way down. I like to carry my cash in my pockets. I'm just cling-clanning.

I can finally share some more refined screenshots from my game. Still pre-0.1.0 in versioning but it's a bit nicer. This is Void Profit, coming to a wishlistable Steam page soon. #gamedev #indiedev

Game dev's going fine. Had to add a new property. That's how it's going with factions. #gamedev #indiedev