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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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4 months

0. The answer is 0.

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10 months

Today's game design tip: come up with an interesting way to counteract this extremely common problem.

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1 year

Idea! When an app asks for permissions, the OS should let you pick any category and let you select "feed the app fake data". Instead of your actual contacts, app gets a fake contact list. Instead of microphone audio, it gets a feed of silence or quiet noise.

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2 years

Random fact that programmers know, but other people may not: A lot of the work is purely in the brain. I'm about to implement a complicated thing, and I've thought about it for a full day and not written a line of code - and that counts as work.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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6 years

Did you know that in the Japanese version of A Link to the Past only allows four letters in the character naming screen, making it the only known game where the canonical name of the protagonist cannot be actually used?

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1 year

Anyone knows why "GUI elements being moved while you try to click stuff, so you accidentally click something else instead" is such a big problem now? I really don't remember this being such a widespread problem a bunch of years ago.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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5 years

It's time for an Ynglet gif!

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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10 months

Tell me a tiny detail in a game you're very proud of! In Affordable Space Adventures, at one point, a shockwave is so strong it cracks the Wii U GamePad (which in the fiction of the game is the ship's computer). The crack is permanent and stays for the rest of the campaign.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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4 years

Me and everybody else at @TripleTopping are 500% excited to announce Ynglet, a platformer without any platforms. It'd mean a lot if you wishlist the game on Steam (), and also tell eight thousand of your friends about it!

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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10 months

Game design tip: Dark Souls 2 features a ladle, which is used as a weapon. It's useless, it's stats are horrible. And it's a friggin soup ladle! Witch means the community makes ladle challenges, Ladle% speedruns, ladle invasions and memes.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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4 years

Ynglet is now part of the Steam Game Festival! ...and you can totally download a demo here: #SteamGameFestival

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3 years

YNGLET IS RELEASED! Steam: itch:

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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1 year

Another Addison challenge solved. This one took me sooooo long to figure out, but I'm confident I found the dev intended solution. Video description next tweet.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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2 years

Reminder: A game developer is following their artistic vision when they do something you like, and betray their entire fanbase whenever they do something you don't.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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3 years

For visual clarity, in Ynglet when you aim a dash through a bouncer, the game punches a hole through the surface. This was quite tricky to do technically, but without it some playtesters wouldn't expect the dash to go through the surface.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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5 years

The average net worth of me and Notch is $0.7 billion! That makes me crazy rich! :O

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5 years

"There are 220,000 or so people employed in the US video game business. They make about $100,000 on average, maybe more. It's hard to imagine what would motivate that crew to unionize" Strauss Zelnick talks unions, release planning, next-gen, E3 and more

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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4 months

@detectonomicon Oooh very nice! Yours keep the billboards neatly on the trailer!

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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11 months

I shall now tell you the truth about game engines. 1: Engines don't matter. It's not the engine that makes a game, it's the dev that does. 2: Engines do matter. They're very different and one may be a much better fit for your game & team than another.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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4 years

I didn't want falling down to feel like "losing" in Ynglet. So, you fall right into your last checkpoint (and you can create new ones almost anywhere by not moving for two seconds). This level is based on Christiania in Copenhagen.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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10 months

Let's face it. If you don't, the player will use guides to find the last items, and odds are those guides will be frustrating to try to follow, and the player will constantly have to cross check which ones they found already against the guide. You can make it more fun than that!

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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3 years

Reminder: When you stream a small indie game, tag the creators on twitter. Many would totally be up for joining in chat!

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3 years

Me: Googles how to fix [specific problem] Article headline: Here's how to fix [specific problem] Article content: Computer problems can be frustrating. There are many different kind of problems. There are over 58 problems a computer can have, and who knows, maybe even more?

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5 years

New rule! Every Friday, you add a secret to your game, no matter how tiny!

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4 years

Reach the goal but don't crash into the animal

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4 years

Third attempt! Does this make sense?

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5 years

Possibly controversial opinion: The world needs more FPS games for game with heavy auto-aiming (just vaguely pointing in the right direction should hit the enemy). Compensate by making it fast placed, platformy and lots to keep track of. Aiming skills isn't that interesting.

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1 year

@FreyaHolmer Yeah! I wonder tho, even if we got a viable replacement for the software, are we in a place where we could build the communities to play & share that type of thing? Like, the flash websites are mostly gone or declined now, and the internet is less about websites these days.

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3 years

I made a video about the super important question "Can you pet the dog in Ynglet?"

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3 years

Ynglet has a version of Coyote Time. It tries to figure out what aim you were most likely after and "cheats" in your favor (it can be disabled in the assist settings).

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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2 years

GAME DEVELOPERS! HEED MY ADVICE! If your character's idle animation is bouncy and rhythmic, sync the animation speed to the BPM of the music! NOW BEGONE! Continue your quest to make your game with this new knowledge!

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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1 year

This Addison solution is unpowered and has no terrain support. It relies only on gravity. Video description in next tweet.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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3 years

While it's cool from a tech point of view, it's so important to know this isn't restoration, this is synthesis. You don't get the old information back, that's impossible. You generate new information to fill in the gaps. In other words, for the love of god, don't use in courts.

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“Computer, enhance!” is now reality! SR3 takes a low-res image (64x64) & progressively adds noise until only pure noise remains. It then learns to reverse this process, removing noise to create a 1024x1024 image.

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1 year

NEW RELEASE! Mystery Artifact is an experiment with algorithmic music. It's halfway between a song and a musical instrument. Conveys no information visually and should be blind accessible. Requires a game pad. Download: Jam:

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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10 months

It's part of an important point because it's around when you start to lose abilities permanently instead of gaining them. The game makes it clear that this ship is not and will never be OK again It's interesting how attached players got to the ship during this part of the story

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1 year

@merrittk I mean, I hope Dr Disrespect succeeds getting homophobes to uninstall CoD, or all online games for that matter. That'd be great! Marginally less profit for a lot less toxicity! I think most game devs would take that deal. \o/

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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3 years

Ynglet's music is realtime generated and runs in its integrated music software. It means the music can dynamically react to everything gameplay related.

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1 year

@drmistercody The original post is outrageous. Like, it just makes me angry when I hear people assigning special magical properties to humans like that. We're animals too. Who TF is she to know for certain dogs can't feel love?

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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1 year

Like, for the user, the choice shouldn't be "accept this horrible privacy invading thing" or "miss out on an app you may really need for work". Plus it's a nice punishment for asking for needless permissions. "Haha, enjoy the fake data filling your databases"

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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1 year

I've figured out how to embed a videogame in a tweet! I made this proof of concept, it's an Asteroid clone set in a universe where time doesn't exist! You can try it right here:

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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4 months

@fenerandom I feel like someone smarter than me has to work that out, but I'd love to see it!

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1 year

So if something like Threads takes off, it can get all that damn privacy invading API access it requires. But, the API simply doesn't give it the real data X)

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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5 years

@skirani A 10x engineer doesn't need a computer screen, they already know what it'd display. Their code is so optimized it consists entirely of empty files. The law states all 10x engineers must maintain a minimum distance of 1 kilometer from each other to not collapse into a black hole.

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1 year

Ooh! I want in on this!

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1 year

what is y’all most liked tweet?

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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10 months

How? No idea :) I bet there are a thousand possible ways to solve it tho!

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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4 years

One more slo-mo thingy, the "ping" effect! (also please do the wishlisty thingy because it helps super much )

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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2 years

A sample editor I designed, I solved the most complicated algorithms for in a sauna, and I greatly appreciate that the people who I worked for back then let me go to that sauna and think about the problem. It was way more effective than if I'd stare blankly at a monitor.

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2 years

Haha, what? (from the new season of Stranger Things)

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6 years

@BiasedJonny @monikasusername @Femmefeministe @_tasteen No, sometimes terrible stuff happens to people who doesn't deserve it, and it doesn't mean anything. It's really hurtful and victim-blamey to imply to someone who suffers that it was meant to happen.

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5 years

Music level! R4L-P4S-22G

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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2 years

I won an audio award for Ynglet! I'm happy!

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2 years

Me: Hi yes I'd like a coffee please USA:

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2 years

Me: Hi yes I’d like a large coffee please Europe:

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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2 years

I'm excited to announce that Ynglet, a platformer without platforms about a space dolphin jellyfish, was just released on XBox Series X|S! Lots of new levels were added, which was also just updated for the PC version! XBox: Steam:

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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1 year

@transitlanta I do agree 95% The 5% I'd like to differ on is it's not "Western" society. This is a very North America problem. In a lot of Europe for example, public transportation is a huge part of how we get around (I never even got a driver's license 'cause I never felt I needed one).

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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1 year

Update: I'm not well. I'm definitely not well. I haven't been for quite a while. I don't know when, if ever, I'll be well. I'm so sorry.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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3 years

Games consists of lovingly crafted game feel, animation, exploration, story, graphics, music, sound, challenge, and so many other aspects. Gamer replies: "What's the point without challenge?" Requiring challenge for the game to have a point is such an insult to our job.

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Psychonauts 2 will feature an invincibility toggle, as developer Double Fine believes "all people should be able to enjoy games."

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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2 years

The particular sauna had a tiled floor, and wooden planks for walls. I pictured 2-dimensional arrays on the floor, and 1-dimensional arrays on the walls, and considered how they'd have to overlap for solving my particular problems.

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10 months

All the devs needed to do (well, apart from making an excellent game) was to add an absolutely terrible joke weapon, and it added so much value to the community.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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5 years

In Ynglet's early development, testers thought it looked weird that dashing instantly moves the player to the destination and suggested I make it move instead of teleport. I always insisted the solution was instead that I need to sell it better. Here's what it looks like now.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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3 years

A random game idea I've had for years is an inverse open world game. It starts with the whole world accessible for exploration, but it's in the process of slowly disappearing. Near the end there will only be a small cave remaining.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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4 years

Another Ynglet gif from one of the more challenging areas. Grab the demo now at !

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3 years

The latest version of Ynglet's glitchy Depth of Field effect, and how it's entirely geometry based - no textures or post-processing.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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10 months

It's not only the stats that matters though. It's the combination of the worst stats in the game, and the absurdity of the player running around bonking enemies with a soup ladle. It makes ladle runs extremely silly and memeable.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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3 years

New rule! If you stream a game by a smaller dev, don't be afraid to tell them in advance. Many would be super excited and join in to watch the stream, if they have time.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

@Nifflas

3 years

✅Invading and colonizing another state ✅Killing their people ✅Attacking the press Help me out, I'm unsure who to side with here. It's too complex for me.

Al Jazeera English

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3 years

⭕ LIVE footage of the moment an Israeli air raid bombed the offices of Al Jazeera and The Associated Press in Gaza City ⬇️ 🔴 LIVE updates:

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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3 years

Here's one of Ynglet's percussion "tracks" in my custom music software. Every time a cursor bounces, a percussion sound plays determined by where on the screen it happens (though with some randomness added to avoid repetition).

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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2 years

What's the best videogame title? No, not videogame, only its name. (It's very hard to beat "An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs". Maybe it's a good game too? I haven't tried it.)

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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3 years

Random, but did you know that Ynglet was developed using both its own graphics and music software. The game does a lot of funky dynamic graphics and music stuff that needed its own custom tools.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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1 year

Breath of the Wild was fantastic, but Tears of the Kingdom really needs to fix weapon durability. In essence, make the Master Sword permanently breakable too this time!

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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3 years

Gonna tell you a secret. Game designers will go "Well, DUH!" Many others will go "WTF??!!" When designing a local multiplayer (non-sport) video or board game, you want: * Completely random winner * Winner to go "I DID THIS WITH MY SKILL!" * Loser to go "I got them next time!"

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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2 years

Let's do this again!

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3 years

Ynglet is all about keeping a nice flow, and I didn't want falling out of the level (uhm, "dying"?) to feel like it stops the momentum. Here's my solution.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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1 year

This is amazing, hilarious, and outrageous! So clever on every level, both as a statement and as a well designed game that looks super fun! Also, always happy to see games that are played in public spaces. We need more of those.

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NEW PROJECT: How (not) to get hit by a self-driving car 🚗⚠️💥 A street-based game that challenges visitors to avoid being detected by an AI-powered camera. Can you fool the AI and reach the goal? Collab with @tomokihara as part of @wshed @PlayableCity

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2 years

Possibly really controversial opinion time! You're ready for this one? ... Unity is pretty good actually.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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1 year

I'm drunk and Imma share my opinions right now and you'll just have to deal with them. There's "golf". Worst sport ever, with a century old history of using land for absolutely nothing. But just add four letters and you get.... "mini golf" which is the best sport ever!!!!!!!!!

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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6 years

Also, as it was pointed out to me, it can be typed in (ゼルダ) so my tweet is even more ignorant than what I aimed for! I have no idea if that's a good or bad thing.

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1 year

I picked up Red Dead Redemption 2! I'm really impressed by its mirrors!

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1 year

Did you know I have an Ynglet tattoo? I think Ynglet is my most tattooable game.

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7 years

HAHA TOO LATE! :D

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3 years

OH MY GOD! 😍😍😍 Look what I found when I was out walking with Hotdog!

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2 years

Jesus Christ I miss going to the sauna! When will this covid stuff be over?

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7 years

Which do you agree with most of the following two statements? 1-based indexing is the best. 0-based indexing is the best.

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2 years

If you can't agree that Russia's invasion of a sovereign country is terrible and wrong for whatever reason such as "the US invaded countries", make yourself known so I can unfollow you. Also, I'm not open to any debate about this, please respect that.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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5 years

10x engineers don't use compilers. They write their executables directly in a hex editor. Every year a total of 136 10x engineers dies of heart attack because they accidentally view the word "goto".

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1 year

Maybe I got one after all! It's ok to do a Telltale and ask the player to do a dialog choice that doesn't affect the outcome in any way. Some choices are just for self expression, and doesn't need any consequences.

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1 year

What is an *actually* controversial game design opinion you hold?

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5 years

Since this got attention, this is important: If you need revenge on your twin and travel back in time to punch them, don't mistake your old self for your twin. Otherwise your old self will think it was your twin who punched you and that's why you wanted revenge.

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4 years

Anodyne 2 has really nice out of bounds glitching.

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2 years

@mikeshinoda Imagine an NFT, but it's a physical shoe that changes its size to match the feet of the NFT owner. I mean, you can dream, but if you try to implement this you'll pretty quickly realize tracking the ownership of the shoes isn't really the main challenge.

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@mcclure111 It's super frustrating! Also, it frustrating to have America-based platforms imposing their most conservative views on sex upon everyone else in the world.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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1 year

Godot is killing it lately. I really hope I can use it one day as my main engine of choice, if it does the thing with the thing I need.

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1 year

GMTK Game Jam weekend, Let's wait for official numbers, but I can't seriously believe this. Completely out of this world!

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Gonna share a secret. Ynglet's checkpoint system was designed to let you save often. Yep, simple, but I could easily have automated that and make you respawn at the latest position that makes sense. So why did I make you manually wait in a bubble to activate a checkpoint? (1/?)

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2 years

* When the dash connects with the mirror, the reach of the first line segment increases by 8%-ish, making it more unlikely to disconnect with the mirror directly after connecting * When the line is about to disconnect from the mirror, it flickers to indicate this (1/2)

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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3 years

In 1996, Moe McMac read this tweet and didn't RT it. That night, Moe got a visit from the Spooky Ghost 👻 Now you've read it. What will you do??? 👻👻👻 Steam: itch:

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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10 months

So many was like "imma follow this Nifflas person" the last 48 hours. Want to make sure we're on the same page! * people are the gender they say they are (not up for debate, different opinion = block) * I'm a total lefty

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2 years

Ynglet is a game where you swim in bubbles floating in the sky like a space dolphin, reflect off surfaces and ride the railroads!

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3 years

Ynglet's dash in slow-motion.

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1 year

Beyond the hardest modes, add in a bunch the developers aren't able to beat. Add a disclaimer that "unverified modes, we cannot guarantee it's possible to beat them". Add many of them with varying difficulty. It'll be a big community thing figuring out which can be beat.

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

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5 years

I've developed games so long I don't really have impostor syndrome anymore. But I've heard people saying every developer has it. Am I... even a real game dev?

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@Nifflas

1 year

Hey! The chaotic stuff that was making life a mess and completely outside my control is resolved! I can still not give any further details but I'm finally in a better place practically and as a side effect, mentally too!

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Nifflas (@[email protected])

@Nifflas

5 years

Since I'm posting Ynglet gifs, here's one of how the game's depth of field works.

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