After dabbling with my RTS game again, I've realised that I would like to really get it done because people get genuinely excited over it. If I could secure a few months dev time I think I could start pitching it for (crowd) funding.
I have a tight criteria for the subjective use of the term "good". 😂
Probably hundreds! 😬 Most publishers are, hence the bad ones playing the string-along game to a lot of desperate indies trying to get signed.
It pains me that the pitches and games I put together for other people always got funded by UKGF and the pitches I made for my own projects were rejected. 😂
Anyone know of any funding opportunities going for game prototypes/Microbusinesses etc in the UK?
15/85 😍
Went on Linkedin again to see if there's any interesting freelance kicking about and.. the bloodbath continues. Feels like the UK games industry is shedding about 500 jobs a week.
If this were factories or manufacturing closing it would be front page news.
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I saw a post the other day where a guy had used a monitor arm to clamp to his bedframe for his gross gaming set up. Kinda wish I'd thought of that last time I was sick.
I finished up more base defence stuff tonight, so tomorrow I can turn on the A.I player's attack code and then we are not far off having most of the core skirmish gameplay loop locked in.
Paying nearly £2000 a year to Unity for them to pull crap like this.
Not a day goes by where I don't think of this conversation from Deus Ex
Me in my weird hood with ears and fangs in.
So we had a cool, very alternative, gig in Oxford tonight.. But then I missed my bus and went to a normie bar for a quick half dressed in my handmade #goth #techwear and.. people were properly terrified of me?? 😂
RTS update: A few more placeholder assets in today along with a lot of fixes for core systems and computer-player base building. It's starting to come together.
Now if anyone has a spare £100k down the back of the sofa, let me know so I can make this full time.
RTS update: A few more placeholder assets in today along with a lot of fixes for core systems and computer-player base building. It's starting to come together.
Now if anyone has a spare £100k down the back of the sofa, let me know so I can make this full time.
A C&C style construction building.
Upgraded to 5.0.1 and there are less bugs! Modelled a very quick placeholder, but not sure I really have the time to completely re-skill up to a production ready level. Might just have to take the hit on a £300 Maya Indie subscription or install my old 2014 license off DVD!
Seems a build from 2023. I'll try Blender 5 and see how it goes!
Seems it was bugged. 🥲
Now my transform widgets have disappeared and won't come back again. 😑
I really wanted to give Blender a proper try again, but after jumping right in I needed to know a short cut key for something.
So I googled it and the first result was a Reddit post of a user being a condescending prick to someone asking the same question.
War never changes.
My biggest ever tweet was one suggesting we crowd fund the replacement of a certain character with Jar-Jar Binks. Months of death threats. 🥰
I mean MS have such consistently poor leadership that it's borderline plausible. I can't blame anyone too hard for falling for it.
Indeed the PCWorld article it's quoting is entirely speculative and has a few suspicious emdashes, so if you hate AI slop, maybe stop sharing low quality rumour content?
Yooo that tech4gamers "Windows 12" article everyone is sharing is completely made-up fluff. I hate Microslop more than anyone but it's a complete fiction.
It's based on a bunch of leaked speculative strategy docs from 3-4 years ago, completely misunderstood and headlined to make you rage-share it.
Luckily in the first case a family member could drive out with a battery starter and the second I found someone with starter leads.
I've picked up a high amp battery starter myself now so (along with my air compressor and tool kit) can deal with most breakdowns myself.
So, I didn't think it newsworthy, but the RAC did this to me too. Twice!
Had the newborn in the car, in literally freezing temps, and both times they quoted 6+ hours.
Needless to say I recommend never going with the RAC for breakdown cover.
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Your sleep paralysis demon is probably just the resurfacing of a deep, decayed, memory of an extremely tired parent standing over your cot silently pleading for you to go back to sleep.
Throwing basically every technique I can at it. At the art stage a lot of hand editing and procedural systems doing erosion etc to simulate the sand flows. Then some really chonky heavily layered materials blended onto the tessellated terrain.
A desert scene with rocky outcrops.
I made the pipeline for building the terrain for my RTS years ago now, but I still love how good it looks even in an editor window and how quickly I can build new maps.
A photo of a book
A 1977 print of Player Piano showed up in the charity shop. Timely.
