tony howard-arias:slay the princess/scarlet hollow
@tonyhowardarias
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indie dev. married to
@abbyhoward
. writing, game design + business on Scarlet Hollow and Slay the Princess
i just lurk and rt our studio acct
@blacktabbygames
sci-fi using "credits" as a universal currency: boring, unrealistic, no world-building
sci-fi using meme-currency: inspired, realistic worldbuilding, you're invested in the exchange rate between Mars Corporation MuskBucks and dogecoin (standard currency of united earth order)
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feels weird doin one of these hashtags but sure.
#IAmNonbinary
and Scarlet Hollow, the horror game my spouse
@AbbyHoward
and I have been working on for the past year JUST went live on kickstarter this morning.
check it out if you're interested!
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watched it's a wonderful life for the first time and it feels like the whole movie would have been better served if it abandoned its main premise entirely
george spends the last 20 minutes running around like a terrified muppet and then the main conflict gets resolved on its own
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Hey GDC folks! My narrative summit talk about how we built Scarlet Hollow to feel like player choices actually matter is TODAY at 3:00 pm in Room 3016, West Hall.
It'll be cool!
#GDC2022
#GDC22
@Official_GDC
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@KeithChristma10
@slimyswampghost
These models are trained off of thousands of images scraped off the internet with compensating or crediting the artists who made that source material.
And that level of obfuscation is used to avoid copyright claims. I think its fair to call AI art–as it exists now–immoral.
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george doesn't learn a lesson from seeing an alternative timeline, he's just scared and confused that people don't know his name.
clarence: the reason you took 300 years to get wings is because any other angel would have just told George about the money.
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Twitter is broken for verifieds so I'm tweetin out
@AbbyHoward
and my stream info today.
Right now we're sharing our meme stash before playing World Of Horror!
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it's also kind of weird that the big final conflict is this extremely material thing (Scrooge McDuck stole $8,000) and this terrible angel (who knows about the McDuck situation) is like "ok but this is what would have happened if you'd never been born."
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There are a lot of things I love about Boston, but sometimes it feels like we're living in a combination World's Biggest Home Owner's Association and That Town From Footloose.
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• Young whippersnappers not allowed on rooftops
• Everything closes at the same time as the Golden Corral
• "You can't build houses here, we need more PARKING"
• People dress up like the Revolutionary War
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At our current pace, we're 2 days out from hitting out next wishlist goal, which unlocks a special livestream where
@AbbyHoward
draws your fav monsters and ocs! w your help we can hit that goal even SOONER!
Tell every1 u kno to wl Scarlet Hollow on Steam!
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Landlords need more accountability, especially during the lame duck period of a lease.
Once the incentive to keep a tenant is gone, most of the landlords I've had have either stopped caring about how their actions affected us or have actively tried to screw us over. 1/12
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It's been a while since my last blog post! Here's a dive into our marketing strategy for Scarlet Hollow that focuses on our eventual pivot into a new Steam page.
We've been excellent tenants, and honestly more accommodating about helping w/ this than we should have been. Just goes to show you how worthless that is to landlords.
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People here like hearing about customer support nightmares/callouts, right? Well I've got a juicy one for
@Spotify
.
They set up some fancy Florence + the Machine concert for premium users who streamed a bunch of their music for this weekend.
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How do you build tutorials that blend seamlessly into your game while still teaching players how to play? Next Thursday, November 18th, join Tony and Abby from Black Tabby Games as they take a deep dive into how they built the tutorial for Scarlet Hollow!
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We decided not to renew our lease this year, and provided our property manager with a video tour of a clean apartment, dozens of photos, and offered to conduct occasional video tours on the condition they not show our apartment in person, which they agreed to. Until today.
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When they decided to give us less than 24 hours of notice for an in-person tour, apologizing for the "inconvenience" (funny way 2 describe a plague) and stressing it was just because these folks were probably gonna sign so it'll only happen once. Absolutely livid.
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TGIF, am I right, folks?!
Thank
Gosh
It's
Ftime to plug my Kickstarter again :)
Reminder that the big specialty tiers with original art and credits are half-off for the rest of the campaign!
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So I reach out to their support team (
@SpotifyCares
spoiler alert, they don't), half to complain, half to see if maybe some mistake was made. I explain my situation, their first response ignores that there's even a problem to begin with.
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"Don't worry, your feedback has been noted?"
No,
@Spotify
and
@SpotifyCares
, my feedback *hasn't* been noted, or you'd have given me something at least a little more empathetic than saying "ok thanks" and essentially ending the conversation.
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After a year and a half, I’ve finally finished every stage in Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle.
Victory, but at what cost? I felt nothing as my LR Teq Broly (Nightmare Impact) dealt the finishing blow to the final Piccolo.
I am but a mote of dust in a cold and expanding universe
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the irs couldn't get either abby or my very normal US phone numbers to work with their SMS authentication so they're sending me an authentication code via SNAIL MAIL.
so infuriating but also so funny.
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Congratulations to our
#AttUnlockedGames
winners. 🏆 We are so excited to support your work as we bring much-needed attention to women leading in
#gamedev
!
Grand Prize: Lab Rat
@diregoldfish
💸
Runner-Up and Gamers' Choice: Scarlet Hollow
@AbbyHoward
💸
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I then send them screenshots of the emails I received and get the shittiest, most canned customer support response I've received in a *long* time.
Then they stopped responding.
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I've been lurking on /r/conservative for the past couple of days and someone there actually said that people calling for consequences for insurrectionists is woke mob cancel culture.
absolutely incredible what these jackasses think are their god-given rights
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we are in a global pandemic, mr stocks man. what kind of relationships are you expecting people to form right now with their look at the numbers go up time?
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