It seems the bigger the company is, the worse their process of even applying to them. I don't want to point fingers in case of an unlikely event of them checking my Bluesky, but what's the point of automatically retrieving data from PDF or LinkedIn CV when it's all wrong and messy?
The same goes for arts and sciences, and basically everything else.
There has been a post here recently about "how come Iceland is able to produce so many quality writers when it's such a small country" and the answer was, to everyone's and no one's surprise at the same time, money invested in infrastructure, education and gov salaries for artists.
"You know what, I saw the movie yesterday and it really inspired me. Trash everything you worked on so far, we are pivoting into Georgian pastries now"
Stacking wood is extra satisfying. While doing so I thought "wow, there is some potential gameplay in that", but then I remembered that Tetris exists...
also I wish stacking wood could pay bills.
"Pay PR and post anyway" is the norm.
Introducing our Arthurian-inspired narrative RPG, Sovereign Tower!
In your new role of sovereign, balance the inflated egos of your knights, answer your subjects' requests, and ensure harmony across the Kingdom's denizens!
Play the Demo today! 👇
https://wildwits.itch.io/sovereign-tower
I love it ♥️ With the headpiece jewellery and large eyes, she reminds me kind of Byzantine empress Theodora
...talented folks and don't have to worry about the burned out ones, as they simply leave the company. He implore to look for other ways to improve the industry, because "unsustainable" practices such as crunch won't do anything on it's own, as they have no negative effect on the large companies.
I'm baffled at the general reception of this. The guy obviously doesn't advocate crunch, but lays down in the clear the harsh reality, that companies like Naughty Dog live in a closed-off environments where, for them specifically, crunch is sustainable as they have a constant influx of new...
People won't believe these aren't made up names 👀
I see similarities with how the "indie" term was first used, and how it got changed over time. It started to describe a game from a truly independent studio, and now it's basically any smallish game, especially with pixel or 2D art.
tweet reading: GAME TRAILER: “Enter a world beyond belief...” ME: “Yes” GAME TRAILER: “An adventure like never before...” ME: “YES” GAME TRAILER: “Join your friends online” ME: “I’m out”
i stand by this statement every year
I share the "eat the rich" sentiment, but Iberian orcas attack mostly small sailing boats, 12-16 meters in length, owned or rented by regular sailing enthusiasts. Superyachts owned by billionaires are simply too large and sturdy, so they aren't one taking the hit.
Imagine not giving yourself, even in their fake idealised reality, an ability to slav squat. Embarrassing.
We released our tiny horror adventure game (the fuck is a genre?) on Newgrounds. Check it out if you have like, 5 to 10 minutes.
Originally made for the spooky jam hosted by @molegato.bsky.social!
www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/...
Guys. Somehow I look at the progress bar, and for the first time, I don't dread it. This is new to me, but I think it's a good sign.
I can see that. Do you imagine it with a focus on trading, or story? Or mix of both?
'Convoy' checks some boxes of your description, but it seems like a different game you are talking about.
'so you see, there is a map, and you stare at it, and want your colour to be the biggest colour out there '
Those "candies" are used to feed the champion to get stronger. Not the amount of battles with them, not the distance walked. It is how many brothers you sent to a grinder ☠️ Also they have genetic capabilities (IV) you can't overcome by any training, literally antithesis of the show.
It reminds me of my thoughts on Pokémon GO, where players are gameplay encouraged to behave worse than the show Team Rocket, by mass catching Pokémon, picking the strongest, discarding "for candy" the rest, until it is low health or no longer the strongest, then it is most optimal to discard it too.
Does it? The game itself doesn't have any mechanics for crop rotation, companion planting, soil regeneration etc. so the most profitable way to earn money is to just monoculture your whole farm, and automate it with sprinklers, and process your crop into e.g. wine for export, not local consumptions
Same here, just not in a doc.
Some of them are well thought out, a lot of text, diagrams, pictures and references, but some (at least 50%) are just one-liners thought on a walk to the shop like "{popular_game} but different with X" and leave it like that for future me to wonder what I meant.
Somehow, I lived almost three years without being aware of the existence of an absolute masterpiece of story, animation, and especially world building, that is Scavenger Reign.
The big day is tomorrow! Let’s keep looking back at our top games from the last jam!
Day 3: Disco Track by bsky.app/profile/tano...
A puzzle of rhythm and rails — guide trains across a disco dance floor, syncing them to matching tiles to keep the groove alive!
#gamedev #gamejam #indiedev
I have a lot of ideas, but they are all bad plus some of them are bad and on top of that require millions of currencies to make them a bad reality.
A big sheet of paper with random notes and sketches using colored markers scattered haphazardly. Various ideas are written like "Fire is grid based and spreads :(" and "Questions: real time or turn based?"
Matt found the original "brainstorming document" for FTL -
Written on a big roll of paper in his apartment in Shanghai over beers.
You can see a lot of the foundational ideas there, but this was before we even pictured having ship-to-ship combat.
A lore background for a 'dog walks into a tavern' Sumerian joke
TFW you find a new song that unraveled a whole new kind of music to you. It felt like finding a soul mate. You expect the rest of the album to simply flip your entire concept of music on its head, only to find it's the only song of this type in that artist's discography. Also he died 20 years ago 🪦
