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Our slimes are evolving ✨

Main goal: as a resident, see how you are affected by various placement proposals. And beyond that, our best predictions at how they would affect wildlife.

It's not done yet, but with an extra evening or two of work it should have all the core parts in it, and play like a little optimization game.

I started making it when I was sent a pamphet making all sorts of wild claims about placing turbines in back yards, and other scaremongering.

Weekend project: playable wind turbine placement in my local municipality, where this is a divisive election theme.

Issues: shadow flicker and infrasound reaching houses, bird strikes, and comparison to alternative energy sources.

Try it here:

observablehq.com/@frantic-wal...

i was righter than i knew... this plays so much better without any dialogue

Huge fan of this. I once spent a whole day making an edit of a mission impossible film to remove all the spoken dialogue. Love the change of focus that it brings, how you get meaning from the screen this way.

Oh hi ✨

Giving our desktop buddies an environment to live in. 🟥🌳✨

No underwater world yet. The assets are not ready. So forest it is!

Integrating all of this tightly with the Windows desktop experience is taking a lot of engineering time, but the result is so satisfying.

Offended my desktop bros 🥺

If games are most similar to theater, then the desktop background is a very interesting place to perform some.

All the rules are different.

Oooh, underwater is where we should be. 🫧

I really adore the design space of interactive desktop backgrounds. So many fun ideas opening up! Looks like that is February's jam locked-in.

Little desktop buddies

unbelievably grim to see Valve announce a delightful and exciting compact Linux box approximately 15 seconds before RAM became the more expensive material in the known universe.

Literally the first post I see after completing the game Horses. Poetic.

Second game jam of the year was a total blast! Dualtris turned out amazing, very thankful for the experience with this team.

Play: franticwaltz.itch.io/dualtris
Jam: itch.io/jam/composer...

#unity3d #gamedev #gamejam #tetris #arcade #dualism #trailer #fmod

Dualtris: Tetris with a twist. Switch sides and play in Mirror Space.

A game produced in 7 days for 1st edition of the Composers 'n Devs jam.

Play: franticwaltz.itch.io/dualtris
Jam: itch.io/jam/composer...

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

This Brazilian woman hates AI

Beautiful 🥵

Ein Screenshot aus dem Spiel Seed of the Dead. Darauf zu sehen ist eine junge Frau mit großen Brüsten und eng anliegendem, bauchfreien Oberteil, die an einen Holzpfahl gefesselt wurde. Sie blickt auf eine riesige Kreissäge, die sich scheinbar direkt auf sie zubewegt.

Die neue Folge von Random Encounters ist online!

Wir haben uns eines sehr komplexen Themas angenommen, zahlreiche Interviews geführt, Studien gewälzt, und intensiv über unsere eigenen Moralvorstellungen nachgedacht.

insertmoin.de/random-encou...

CW: Sexismus, sexualisierte Gewalt, Mord, Inzest

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no idea

At first you're like, why does this have a wiki page

Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever

I started on Pikuma's PS1 coding series, and the MIPS32 assembly is super jumpy. 😁

Gotos in C#, not so much yet... But there's an algorithmic music engine taking shape so I'll keep them in mind.

Blender Development Fund Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org

📌 Three new papers at #aiide25 from me:

1. A 'vision' paper about why game design is like procedural design bsky.app/profile/mtrc...
2. A new system for generating mechanics called Pixie bsky.app/profile/mtrc...
3. A big group paper about speedrunning as an AI challenge bsky.app/profile/mtrc...

Mikaylaaaaaa!!! ✨

i owe so many video game designers an apology

After nine years, Rez Infinite remains gaming’s greatest tease “If we're using the word ‘prologue,’ obviously something has to come after...”

We're kicking off a series of music game oral histories with a look back at Rez Infinite -- and why it's been nine years without a follow-up.