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Olexamas 2025 Is Here! YouTube video by QuanticFlux

Olexamas 2025 is kicking off and @quanticflux.bsky.social is an official part of the team!

Go get him closer to his goal and enjoy the rad milestone goals he's brainstormed with his community and save some kids.

Check out the details here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2OC...

Remember to treat your designers well. They put their hearts on the line with every decision they make, frequently with little to no appreciation or respect.

Quick #PSA Reminder!

Game Development is streamed Live on Twitch by a bunch of awesome folks that you can hang out with & ask questions to.

Heres the updated starter pack with some of my favorites:
go.bsky.app/HnmUcCc

Be sure to click through and find their streams! 🥳

#gamedev #twitch #indiedev

Here's your reminder that the school system still has drastic possibilities for improvement through gamification. We've barely scratched the surface.

This just in: Draws in Chess are dumb.

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So jealous you get to experience it for the first time! Enjoy!

And just like that I'm transported to the camp ground. This was such an amazing experience.

Remember, all models are wrong, but some are useful.

What do you mean Rogue was made in 1985, computers didn't even exist back then!

Downloads a PDF. It automatically opens. I try to close the PDF.

The PDF: Would you like to save changes made to this PDF????

Screenshot of the list of books, presented in a grid, with a tag to show which books are free and links to each book

Happy Monday, here comes a great collection of books for anyone who wants to learn design, code, and so much more, from the different authors who collaborated with A Book Apart. Some books are now free.

Resource: alandalton.github.io/Authors-Apart/

A tooltip from Path of Exile 2. It shows an absurd amount of information as well as the ability to hover on top of a keyword to get more details on that keyword. The keywords are underlined with a dotted line. In the top right is a close icon that is normally a pin icon. When the pin is pressed, as I needed to do for taking this screenshot, it is replaced with a close icon.

PoE2's tooltips are absolutely insane monsters and may give you some thoughts on how to progressively disclose massive systems.

Just noticed the little specular highlight that follows your cursor on the health/mana orbs in PoE2. Nice.

I adore how PoE2 automatically activates checkpoint obelisks when you activate a big fight. Like, "I know you missed this or just came from a different angle. No worries big guy, you go have fun."

A highly realistic rendering of Chell from Portal. She stares off-screen to the left with harsh lighting. She has scrapes, bruises, messy hair, and dirty clothes, indicating she's been through quite the ordeal. The Portal logo stands on the bottom left below her gaze.

In the past, I've allowed flexibility to trump self-awareness. Rather than say I'm fine, I'm trying to fight more heavily for what works for me.

Art credit: Philip Sanchez - www.artstation.com/artwork/aYL950

So exciting to see where this is going!

Screenshot of the discord announcement for the Marvel Rivals and Fortnite collaboration. The reaction emojis are filled with flags from various countries, and positive things like hearts, thumbs up, and parties. However, the most predominant emoji reactions are things like black hearts, pregnant emojis, skulls, the middle finger, angry faces, and big red X's. Apparently people are not very excited about this in the Marvel's discord.

The reactions to the Fortnite x Marvel Rivals crossover in Rivals' discord are certainly... Something...

An ice cream taco. It has a shell made out of waffle cone, vanilla ice cream inside, and is topped with rainbow breakfast cereal.

🙃

Gosh I've been dying for something like this for ages since GOG stopped. Thank you!

Not if you eat tacos like I do 😋🌮

Hey, you. You've got this. Take that next step you've been thinking about for a while.

Milk is just cereal salsa

What's even more impressive for me is that the gameplay is spot on too. This is much, much better than I was expecting.

Wow, Marvel Rivals has some super slick UI, interaction, and animation design. I'm really blown away.

The completed icon with the fancy border. A square outline, rotated 45 degrees, in the same color and glow of our icon completes the customization!

Now house your fancy shmancy icon inside of a fancy shmancy container of any type. Simple geometric shapes can make a big world of difference. Done! You've completely transformed what you started with into something bespoke and slick! Congratulations! 4/

Our plant icon now has some color and a glow

Settings in the game-icons.net window for the shadow to create the glow. Blur: 15, x: 0, y: 0, side: out

You can set the icon's color directly in the tool by placing it in Foreground mode, but I like to download it directly as an SVG and take it into Figma or any editing software. Set it to your color and add a shadow similar to these settings. I've included a screenshot from both the web and Figma. 3/

A bunch of controls do modify the icon in a left toolbar. It includes selecting which layer of the icon you want to modify, transformations of position, breaking apart paths, color changing, shadows, strokes, and more.

After setting the Studio field to "background" you should see a type dropdown that you can set to "none" to give it a completely transparent background.

The sapling icon from before still in white but now with no background

First, get used to these buttons on the left. It's a bit intimidating, I know, but these are how you tailor your icon to what you want to use in your game. Use the Studio dropdown to change to background and set it to "none." 2/

A 2d icon of a sapling growing out of a tuft of grass. The icon is in white on a solid black background.

An icon of a sapling growing out of some grass. The icon is housed inside a diamond with rounded corners, and the whole thing is bright teal with a glow in the same color.

Your icons from game-icons.net don't have to suck! Too many indies are just grabbing these directly from the page and slopping it into a UI. With just a few extra steps, you can go from basic to bumpin'. Or something. I don't know what the kids say nowadays. 1/

The Bazaar is great, but every time I try to go for shield Dooley I am met with nothing but poison builds every single fight. Guess my tanky boy has to wait until next patch.

YES! Even if you're making an abstract puzzle game, you're still creating and selling an emotional experience that needs to land across a market segment!