This is WILD. I don't think folks are as excited about this as they should be.
It's a sea change for how to make 3D platforming/action games more accessible. This generalizes in so many ways, if you start designing from the idea that perspective dictates reality.
one of the ways they've adjusted to make the game easier in 3D is by using positional hit detection based on the camera angle—in essence, even if the attack doesn't truly collide, if it looks to the player like it hit, then it'll hit
Alba is presently free on the Epic Store
It's a game where you TAKE PICTURES OF BIRDS
I mean there's other animals, and you also clean up stuff and do Wildlife Scouting but, let's be real, I spent 20 minutes in the tutorial just chasing the Killdeer around
because lookit himb
THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
Someone is Kickstarting a game where you have a JRPG party with a tiny mouse that fights with a pocket knife:
The mage uses a bic lighter! THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT GAME ON KICKSTARTER RIGHT NOW. Heck with that SkateBIRD nonsense.
Earlier today, it was assumed that the game SkateBIRD was coming to
@GOGcom
. After receiving one message from them that undercut a fellow indie dev, we have decided not to list our game in their store.
Fun fact, Linus did the tests and found crypto mined GPUs are actually fine? They don't seem to have the over-use or risk of failure you'd expect.
You know. Just in case the market was about to be flooded by used GPUs from sources who definitely aren't miners trying to get out.
Do you like skateboarding, THPS, or cute birbs? Then you're probably gonna like SkateBIRD, our next game:
(plz RT and wishlist us on Steam - do it for the cute birbs, they need your help)
Why is my entire gamedev feed not screaming about how UE4 is now free-to-use until your revenue passes ONE. MILLION. DOLLARS.
That is holy geeze good terms. Like. Holy geeze.
If you see the "stolen money returned by Studio ZA/UM new owners" story, look closer.
He returned it TO THE STUDIO. After fraudulently using that money to acquire the studio.
This is just him throwing up a smoke screen to divert criticism.
Oh geeze, you know that chill "take the train in Japan and wander around the town" sim/walker that
@Inasa_Fujio
is making?
They released an alpha build! OMG!
I haven't tried it yet, I don't know how much is in it, but like, looooook at dis
So this is (codename) Project Wander, our next game.
You're the bird who manages the impossibly huge mail room in a teenager's brain. It's a walking/hiking sim!
I'm working on the stumble and trip mechanics lately. Half-Life sounds purely placeholder because they're rad.
@fullbright
Every single toggle platform in Hot Tin Roof is a swing door rotated 90 degrees. Every single vertical lift is a sliding door. Every cruncher is also a sliding door.
Like half the game is technically a door of some kind, pretending very hard not to be a door.
<wheezing> Fish and Wildlife in CA have made MULTIPLE ATTEMPTS at capturing the surfboard stealing otter, and have failed, and are simply advising surfers to avoid her "at all costs"
We stan a queen
The reviews of Biomutant remind me heavily of Days Gone reviews and a few others.
I'm seeing a lot of "this game is bad because it doesn't live up to AAA!" and just... yeah no shit? 20 people.
Sometimes they say "I understand it's only 20 people but" and resume AAA comparisons.
Please don't.
I'm literally begging designers to just go outside. Read widely, in non-fiction. Garden. Take up dancing. Learn to cook. Try painting. Build a bird feeder. Inspiration comes from wide experience.
Please stop copying other media, it doesn't work well at all.
God. Imagine if all games made it a rule that all the idling NPCs doing a job had to actually do a clear job. Not just flick papers, but actually a series of actions that make logical sense to repeat as your work.
Hi, dev here, fuck you sideways for throwing your QA under the bus.
You know damn well they found the issues. QA always does. You just then waived the bugs, or stood on them until they marked them fixed. Because that's what always happens, even on games that don't launch buggy.
Dear gamers,
Below, you’ll find CD PROJEKT’s co-founder’s personal explanation of what the days leading up to the launch of Cyberpunk 2077 looked like, sharing the studio’s perspective on what happened with the game on old-generation consoles.
I'm seeing this imagined PS1 aesthetic emerging, that people say is PS1 but looks nothing like what PS1 was, and it's fascinating.
I think it's kids who grew up with it and have foggy memories recreating something that feels like what they remember?
I hope it sticks. It's NEAT.
People in Unity community, you finally have something up on Unreal dev community.
Due to an odd GitHub glitch that lets you kinda do the reply-to-all email list thing but for development communities,
Uh
Every single Unreal developer got goatse'd
Oh ha I found the Indie Publisher Discourse
So! The statement that deals have gotten worse, with pubs asking for 50% after 100% recoup, is quite accurate.
The counter of "but they give you tons of money!" is also off-base, because
lately they don't take concept pitches either!
Do you like birbs? Do you like skateboarding? Then GOSH do I have the game for you: (wishlists n RTs appreciated ❤🐦🛹✨)
Anyways, we've been in dev for 3 years and now we're almost done, so here's a few prior BIG MOMENTS you maybe missed...
I don't know who needs to hear this but
Volume settings in game engines (like Unity) tend
to be
Logarithmic.
If your volume slider does nothing until the bottom 10%? That's why. I'm literally begging you to get this right. Maybe 1 in 10 indie games gets it right.
AAA devs punching down at indie devs with cringe takes on how our games lack visual variety because we have lower budgets and thus need to get creative sure is... a look.
Back in the 90's, cartoons were cool. Like you know Batman? God current Batman is just missing the point of the character. Animated Series, now THAT's the best Batman.
Know why?
It's the only one that covered him in cum. Just rivulets of cum, running off him. Just look at this.
Every single time you see a "China built in middle of nowhere!" story, the quiet part is that's how ahead of urban centers you have to build with population growth/shift like theirs.
Even the US should be way faster. Every infrastructure program we start is 5-10 years too late.
This right here is why all the shared currency AAAA platforms are screwed long-term, and why all the games feel like each other.
The nanosecond you weld game economies together, any imbalances become dangerous- yet imbalances are precisely what make games interesting.
I don't get how this keeps happening. Do other UI designers not get up, walk back from their desk, and see if they can read the text from across the room?
It's like... really easy, and takes 30 seconds, and then your players aren't doing this.
Anyone wondering why Bandcamp would sell?
They were VC funded. This is what happens when you take VC money. You're not able to structure in a way that would block their exit, and they will insist eventually if they can find or get given an offer.
Earlier today, it was announced that the game Devotion is coming to GOG. After receiving many messages from gamers, we have decided not to list the game in our store.
Die Hard is a Metroidvania.
He starts with all his powers, then gets stripped and spends the rest of the film acquiring SMALLGUN and then BULLETS and then MACHINEGUN and then FOOTWRAPS and then at the end he's gotta run around collecting all 6 DETONATORS to get the good ending.
Extremely cool thing I can say, now that I've got first month sales reports for everything:
SkateBIRD was profitable by month one, EVEN IGNORING the Game Pass deal. Including that, we're uh, pretty dang ok!
Wasn't expecting that. Thanks all!
@glassbottommeg
@PartlyAtomic
Hahaha, yeah, this was me. I placed all the background characters in Bioshock Infinite & the dlcs. It was a large part of my job. Here's why there is a bread boy:
🧵
Valve doing a cost benefit analysis on rape fantasies, in public, should be taught in philosphy class to amoral utilitarian freshmen engineers.
"I know you don't get it, so look - this is how you look to literally everyone else when you do this. Do you want to look like this?"
In watching a special on Jim Henson, heard the line "people said it was overwork or this or that, but no, he just died of bacterial pneumonia" and
um
That's what dying of overwork looks like. Something that would have been treatable if you'd just gone to a doctor, kills you.
This is a yikes of epic proportions.
It doesn't matter what deal your people signed. If your game shoots past a million units (not dollars, Units), you morally need to kick them at least fuckin min wage for hours logged. It's a rounding error for you. Christ.
Juniors, remember, it's good to spend a few years at AAA before starting your own studio.
... no not because of experience, but because when the studio inevitably dies, you can steal yourself an Aeron chair that'll last your entire indie career. It's great!
Cool, so if you bought into the smart speaker bullshit?
You're now the product. Congratulations! You're going to help Amazon be an ISP.
but it's okay. You can opt out! On every device! Because average users know how to change obscure settings they didn't know existed, right?
Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors. "If you use Alexa, Echo, or any other Amazon device, you have only 10 days to opt out of an experiment that leaves your personal privacy and security hanging in the balance."
Valve says that Metro Exodus becoming an Epic Games store exclusive is "unfair to Steam customers"
Steam version and any DLC will be fully supported for those who preordered game
Wait, so in Unreal Engine land, when a new version of Unreal is available, you just. Upgrade? And it doesn't trash your entire project? You don't find random new bugs introduced? Your entire render pipe isn't suddenly marked deprecated?
Is this even game development?
"why drop them now?" - because they reached my breaking point of put-up-with-shit.
"didn't they already do bad shit?" - yes, and then they would fire that social media person and say oh hey we'll do better, so I'd give em benefit of doubt etc. I've just run out of doubt benefit.
I... really don't know who needs to hear this but like:
probably don't sexually proposition people that are subordinate to you in your job. Especially don't proposition people applying to a job.
It really, truly isn't that hard to not send "I love your boobs" to your jr artist.
The joke Bloodborne Kart game, which is now actually a real game in development, has better Kart Combat than any other Kart Racer I've seen.
What a time to be alive.
You might see we have another game on there now. I've sent an email to start the process of them removing it. I wouldn't advise buying it during the sale as a result, since no idea how they handle that.
That said, it's an old game that sold near 0, so prob not an issue for ya.
Holy shit, I just learned the craziest thing: bees are apparently allergic to pollen.
It's WILD, it took a ton of research to isolate, since bees weren't heavily studied before the great insect die-off, but they finally found the proof:
.
@JeffBezos
speaking truth after successful
#BlueOrigin
flight:
“I also want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all of this.”
"will there still be DRM free SkateBIRD somewhere?" - as a rule, we never enable Steam's DRM stuff anyways, but yes the plan was always to offer a DRM free version via . That's likely how we'll distribute the game to KS backers too (itch key + Steam key).
The most exciting RPG of the last decade (Disco Elysium) was made by first timers who weren't heavy gamers.
It's almost like an outsider perspective is critical to the creation of exciting art. Gasp.
one time i tweeted that i don’t believe you should have to play a lot of games to make games and a game publisher quote rted that and said they muted me like this shit is SO SO SO insular
Megan Fox, Founder and Game Programmer
@glassbottommeg
's Breakthrough project is the video game SkateBIRD, a game about a little skateboarding bird that tries their best.
This is some of that cursed "we twisted the entire deer's body up inside the walls because we didn't want to make a unique mounted-head model for the hunter's room" and I love it
In this house, shoes come off when you enter. Characters have no shoe variations. Shoes and jacket is actually a fully rigged character posed with body hidden.
#gamedev
hacks
Come on discourse, let's talk about Hades instead. Yes I know we already talked about it, but let's do it AGAIN again. They avoided crunch! The game is great! yay!
I'd like Valve devs who see this to think hard about what it means to (indie) musicians, that I'm not even allowed to mention the existence of the band camps where one can find their music on SkateBIRD's OST page.
I don't mean links, I can't even say "check out their Bandcamp".