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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

5 years

fake it till you make it is about overcoming impostor syndrome... but when taken literally, may be backfire! you'll always feel like a fake! an impostor forever. may I suggest own it while you hone it

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

4 months

new software - big - slow - needs internet - pay by subscription - spyware - GUI changes every month old software - small - fast - runs offline - pay once own forever - no data tracking - GUI stays the same

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

1 year

omg hackers just leaked the full godot source code! now anybody could make their own game engine by pulling it apart, or add any feature they think is missing! I mean you could slap a new logo on it and call it yours and nobody would stop you

GitHub - godotengine/godot: Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine - godotengine/godot

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1 year

it's now illegal to have moving platforms in your game

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@eigenbom

1 year

Oh good, Nintendo patented.. *checks notes* ... regular game programming you do when making games

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

7 years

protip: be the party cannon of your niche.

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@McFunkypants

10 years

This is a million dollar idea. http://t.co/5DmFETfflt

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@McFunkypants

9 years

60fps vs 30fps vs 15fps #gamedev #1gam http://t.co/LDrYUZZZGP

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@McFunkypants

10 years

TIL there's a twitter client for the GBC lol so awesome. Homebrew scene rocks. http://t.co/jpjc3uiYDj http://t.co/OVqoNKGPLK

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5 years

really cool way to think about your game camera's FOV

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Differences in perceived speed

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@McFunkypants

7 years

hey cool, graphicsgale is now free! it is good for #gamedev #pixelart animation. try it, you may love it:

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@McFunkypants

5 years

if you are developing a game you are a game developer not an aspiring game developer

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

6 years

hey cool, math translated to code you actually understand whoa.. maybe we could finally learn university level math this way.. taught using a language we already understand

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8 years

great example by @tonikopantoja of how much subtlety is involved in animation: same keyframes, 7 different feels:

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4 years

wonderful news! inspired by the incredible xbox adaptive controller's massive success, Nintendo has approved THIS wonderful #a11y controller!! The HORI. So many fun #gamedev experiments, alt-controller electronics, and accessibility fun to be had!

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1 year

"hey nice vignette post-processing shader!" oh you mean this big sprite I just draw on top of everything? took me 60 seconds to make (fill all black, select a rect w feather, hit delete, save!). who needs shaders lol

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6 years

makes you feel proud to be part of the games industry

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@McFunkypants

7 months

protip: code badly! you don't KNOW what the good solution is yet. don't over-engineer early. good ideas are not waiting on square one. add a fixme. embrace the hack. love the kludge. iterate from a rough copy: bad is fast. bad is fexible. bad can be thrown away. bad is good.

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6 years

Now THIS is a good use of higher education: a masters thesis called: The aesthetics of science fiction spaceship design! Full discussion of core topics like GREEBLES, KITBASHING, NURNIES, and other essential 3d scifi prostyle awesomeness. Free PDF:

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1 year

it's not the engine that matters, it's the art! any game engine looks pro quality if you throw pro quality art at it. all these mind-blowing unreal and unity demos have million dollar art on display - that same art would also make your favorite alternative game engine shine too!

passivestar

@passivestar_

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Checking out if Godot can render me something pretty. Volumetric fog goes brrrrrrrr

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@McFunkypants

5 years

modders are legit game developers, pass it on

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4 years

mind blown

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

4 years

how to pronounce C# only musicians say "see sharp" only pirates say "sea hash" only twits say "see pound" the # is four "+" symbols! ┏━┓ ┃┏┛++ ┃┗┓++ ┗━┛ we started with C, then C+, then C++, then C+++ now we all code in C++++ always say "C plus plus plus plus"

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

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9 years

Coders are always told "don't reinvent the wheel" and to this I respond: http://t.co/GURhLSqNQe (via @davidjbland )

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2 months

coding videogames is probably the most fun way to learn trigonometry.

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

7 years

Which game engine dominates the game jam community? Here are the GGJ stats: 1. Unity: 4011 2. Unreal: 316 3. Gamemaker: 274 4. Construct: 223 5. Godot: 75 Unity *IS* game jams. They have no significant competition. Maybe there's room in the middle for a mid-size engine?

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6 years

indie #gamedev localization (image credit: @papa_fire )

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

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4 years

you'll never believe me, but I swear: I have been coding with "power mode" on for ALL of 2020 [the plugin that adds particles and a COMBO counter to the status bar in vscode? with screenshake off I feel like I'm playing "coder hero" and I hesitate less to keep my combo going!]

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

8 years

Check out the procedural chiptune music generator I programmed for @pixelvision8 . Infinite NES-style music! I'm proud of it. #gamedev #1gam

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@McFunkypants

8 years

Sid Meier's 10 Rules of Game Design #gamedev #1gam

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

3 years

making a print-n-play roguelike! generates random d&d maps of any size using a seed so you can share good settings with friends #gamedev

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

5 years

it's cool to see the super mario 64 source code, decompiled and partially annotated. you see #gamedev optimization tricks all over. example: a big lookup table array of precomputed sine values, because floating point math.sin() was way too slow for 60fps

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

5 years

#gamedev protip: ❤️ You are not your game! ❤️ - if your game's a huge failure, it doesn't mean you are - if your game's a massive success, it doesn't mean you are - if people don't love your work, it doesn't mean you are unloveable - don't need "likes" to like yourself

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

3 years

definition of success for a #gamedev ? a fan mail that goes "your game helped me get through a hard time"

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

9 years

How to be a #gamedev , by Satoru Iwata "Talent... is the power to continue persevering" http://t.co/si2FNKJtWL

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

3 years

WORLDSPACE SHADERS RULE!!!!! everything just works! throw polygon soup at it and your floor textures tile flawlessly SO SEXY!!! no gid of tiles required! who needs stinkin UVs anyways? unwrapping is old fashioned, this is how you unabashedly kitbash at hyper speed

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

4 years

On this day in 1984, #gamedev Alexey Pajitnov released the masterpiece TETRIS. Here is what version one of Tetris looked like!

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

10 months

dear game industry. the time has come to solve z-fighting. please figure out a way to draw co-planar polygons without flickering when the camera moves. thank you.

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

4 years

make a 9-bit game it'll be a bit better

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

8 years

#gamedev protip learned the hard way: the orthographic camera angle for pixel-perfect ISOMETRIC-ish lines is NOT 30 deg but 26.565 degrees!

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

11 months

imo best way to learn how to code games is by HACKING an existing game's src! search github. find a game you wish you knew how to make. pull the source and explore! edit! add a new sprite! double gravity! start from a working game! why suffer? experiment, dissect, hack, destroy!

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

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6 years

the big news isn't the <8hr days, it's the ** 13.5 year ** average length of career at the company, I mean that includes folks who quit or got headhunted or got laid off or fired.. imagine a gamedev company you can actually have a secure long term career at

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6 years

Average Nintendo Japan employee earns $80,000 working less than eight hours a day

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

8 years

My "sketch-a-game" tool. Now I can just draw in my sketchbook and click a "MAKE GAME" button! =) #gamedev #1gam

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@McFunkypants

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prediction: thousands of indie games are gong to have the exact same gamefeel based on motion-matching UE player default for the next few years! lol find a glitch in one game, it will be in them all! we're all going to get extremely familiar with that epic 1m spin-jump! lolol

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

8 years

YOU CAN reach your dreams! Image 1: Zelda BotW credits Image 2: 2007 forum post #gamedev #1gam #gamedevjobs

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7 years

This is why you think you suck! (image by @Shattered_Earth )

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@joeld42 more like - developer MADE IT BIG! and is therefore a cabinetmaker or forest ranger these days

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

4 years

taking gamedev advice from people who had a hit game

Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋

@poppy_haze

4 years

if your Big Data person does NOT know what this picture means, get rid of them

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@McFunkypants

5 years

IMO the best way to learn to code is NOT to start from scratch!!! Start from an open-source #gamedev project! Edit a text label, add a new weapon, remove gravity, etc Here's your dream learning resource: Open Source Game Clones! HACK ONE OF THESE

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

4 years

this weekend I discovered the very best "idle animations" and "run cycles" of game sprites I've seen in such a long time (in SPIRITFARER, a hidden gem of a game, a cosy management game out now on every platform including gamepass) just one example:

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

7 months

strongly agree. YOU NEVER END UP REUSING ALL THAT "reusable" code you design all fancy, formal, abstract, bloated, brittle, complex. It's a dream. A waste of time. Write code "on demand" not for hypothetical future purposes. Fix it when it breaks in the future. Code fearlessly.

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The more games that I see the source code of, the more I'm convinced that good design patterns actively working against the success of a game

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@McFunkypants

4 years

yessssssssss

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@McFunkypants

6 years

a one second long videogame! created by @mnstrcndy28

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@McFunkypants

5 years

#screenshotsaturday working on a hacking game based on the MS-DOS disc sector defragmentation tool. What I did was fill an array with random ▓▒░ ascii characters, then render each step of a "bubble sort" algorithm! I find watching it work very satisfying somehow.

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

10 years

If Norman Rockwell painted game posters... http://t.co/umri7Zafq9

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

6 years

Happy to announce I've been contracted to write my 3rd #gamedev book! Hands-on Game AI Development in Javascript Learn how to code a simple Doom style FPS in threejs, then explore AI and ML using state machines, pathfinding, and neural network machine learning via tensorflowjs.

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a symbiotic relationship! #gamedev 💙 #artist (img credit @darftey )

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MS-DOS source code is now on github. There's something really special for me to see the actual production source for, say, the "DIR" command. did you know that parsing the path was called "CRACKING THE PATH"

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@McFunkypants

5 years

Game dev advice: you don't suck

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@McFunkypants

7 years

1 like == 1 like if you like this tweet I will go into your timeline and like one of your tweets bet you have something good in there

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9 years

http://t.co/m3D08YJTbe

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@McFunkypants

10 years

Brilliant #gamedev workflow productivity wisdom by @Locomalito :

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4 years

your hardcore #gamedev zoom background

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6 years

been playing video games almost daily for over 30 years I got gud for the first 15 and got bad the next 15 used to dominate in mp games, q1 tf1 ut1 etc but now? I'm like a noob again, with bad aim and slow reflexes so be nice to noobs, they might be has-been elite war heroes

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@McFunkypants

3 years

remember to price your game at one dollar per hour of gameplay

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@McFunkypants

7 years

BEHOLD THE COOLEST PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE BY FAR.

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@McFunkypants

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my little kid came home with a handwritten scrap of paper he was guarding like a treasure. his big crush in class had written her roblox username on it it's adorable, he's excited and nervous and very serious, I had to be cool and not dad it up by giggling

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@McFunkypants

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My gameboy jam game, ZOMBOY, is almost done! #gbjam #pixelart #retrogames #unity3d #screenshotsaturday #1gam http://t.co/6qk29ypryN

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@McFunkypants

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know what brings me JOY? @Crocotile3D brings me joy! after years of pain and suffering at the hands of a janky open source behemoth it is fun to make lowpoly meshes in a tiny little editor like the doom/quake days. grid-snapped speed sculpting rules. 10x productivity gain.

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@McFunkypants

3 years

#gamedev poll Which is the best sphere? 1. UV sphere 2. Icosphere 3. Quad sphere 4. Goldberg polyhedra (more info: )

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

3 years

Recently my wife told me that she would gladly support me if I quit my day job to take the year off to make my dream game! I am not going to. But the fact that she loves me that much is something I will always be grateful for. Willing to sacrifice for my happiness! wow

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@McFunkypants

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of the 500x I wrote "reusable code" almost none was ever reused! don't believe the reuse hype! design code to solve one problem well. for one project. use it 1x, profit, repeat.

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6 years

Had an uncomfortable moment of realization: Game jams: Training for crunch?

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@McFunkypants

6 years

protip I've learned the hard way: the work you talk about a lot is the kind of job offer you'll get in the future. so, on your portfolio and twitter, share the stuff you want more of and hide the stuff you wouldn't do again.

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lol interestingly this is the exact opposite of humans, who are small and fast when new and big and slow when old

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3 years

I would love if all indie game main menus were like this [] PLAY [] OPTIONS [] CREDITS [] OTHER COOL GAMES TO TRY - a few games by other people you like with proper clickable buttons to their store page

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8 years

"What's the most used language in programming?" "Profanity." - Alejandro Alkoba

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Don't worry about competing on graphics. You can make something awesome with stick figures. Focus on "feel" #gamedev http://t.co/CbHQpWiWI6

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@McFunkypants

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If you like pixelart palettes, check out @gamecolorwheel #gamedev #1gam

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Cool #gamedev idea: predict player physics in your level editor so you place things well!

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if you can make video games you are literally one of the coolest people on the planet, you do realize that, don't you?

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10 years

http://t.co/rzTW3JXWxo

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steam vs mobile

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hey almost every single game kickstarter right now your prices are too low! why are you promising to do 500 hours of work for $1000 PROTIP: ADD A ZERO TO EVERY NUMBER especially your stretch goal prices - they are so incredibly unrealistic. why do you do this to yourself

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@McFunkypants

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as a computer person do you ever daydream about being a physical labour person? working with your hands, bulging tanned muscles from a hard day's work, building real objects, changing the universe? how empowering and tangible it must feel! wandering vast fields of greener grass

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@McFunkypants

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this is a shader and the gfx do not have polygons, the curves are infinitely smooth at any zoom prediction: game art in the future will not have polies, it won't be built out of triangles at all

inigo quilez

@iquilezles

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A procedural animated creature, raymarched SDF as usual in @Shadertoy . It's a first basic attempt to some character animation. Live-Stream with the Making-of and QA soon! In the meanwhile, source code:

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the danger of using dollar signs in godot code

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there's a new way to identify a "probable success" in the #gamedev industry. it is the new elevator pitch. we refer to it as: "THE TWITTER GIF TEST" if a 5 second looped lowrez anim of a game gets 1000 likes, the game will sell! no elevators required

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Mobile is messed up. Didn't this game come out like 48 hours ago?

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WOO HOO just got the signed contract for a killer new freelancing #gamedev gig!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2021 is going to be epic

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@McFunkypants

5 years

Gamedev advice: your likes on twitter are often from colleagues not customers. being popular with your fellow devs is not the same as being popular with gamers.

Martin Nerurkar /// Sharkbomb Studios

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5 years

Gamedev advice: Only make games in a way you enjoy. You might not sell. You might not finish. Make sure that the process is fun for you. It's the one thing you truly have control over.

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if you work fulltime as a solo indie you could make an AAA game in only 2000 years

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4 years

Over 2,000 people and 14 outsourced studios worked on The Last of Us Part 2

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Truly the secret to #gamedev success: Every iteration should be a PLAYABLE mvp. (via http://t.co/JSwmyzF7I7) http://t.co/8jTDHRjHjm

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This is the bane of all #gamedev . http://t.co/ZVtZURRQGv

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5 years

protip: when coding, code as little as possible

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@McFunkypants

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if you have ever struggled texturing/unwrapping a mesh (and who the heck hasn't) I think you will really smile when you see this image! it explains the power of "hotspot texturing"! automated UV mapping of tricky shapes in a click (link to git repo for the blender python below)

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#gamedev PROTIP: avoid alcohol at #GDC mixing drinks and business is for noobs. it's how big tough bizbros trick lightweight naive young people into making mistakes! they built up alcohol resistance over years. remember all the drink-spiking last GDC. order a soda and kick butt!

AstridMie ❤️🔜 GCAP + SXSW

@Astridmrefstrup

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GDC coming up + partying and alcohol When I started in games this was very difficult to navigate- so here is a small thread of my personal thoughts and tips to navigate business, friendships, alcohol and safety. First of all remember it’s absolutely okay not to drink. 🍺 🍸🧵

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I wish you could *bold* certain words in your source code to make them run harder

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Christer McFunkypants Kaitila

@McFunkypants

3 years

edge case bsod warning! it is mathematically impossible to cover a sphere in only hexagons hex planetary strategy tactics games are impossible

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