when people talk about player counts or readership or any other mass metric I need you to think of real places for me. When people say Marathon is a dead game because it started at 88k and it's "only" at 77k I need you to think of the capacity of the biggest stadium you can think of. how big is it
this is really what it boils down to, right, is like. no matter what anyone in an executive position says, these companies do not care about the people who make their money for them. They don't. a hundred million people needed to play BF6 for it to be viable. That's bananas. That's fucking asinine.
Pretty sure it's fake/just rumours.
This is a compromising photo of me getting changed
no
I could have used this time to get offline for a bit but unfortunately I have brain worms.
Weirdly the PDS for my main account is down so I can only use this one. While the state of the video games industry is obviously grim, it's nice not seeing wall to wall covering of the devastation inflicted by western imperialism.
I don't think it's useful for Indie devs to think in terms of a "Dream game" for the reason that you should be cultivating many cool ideas & not hyper focusing on one.
I think that all your ideas should be a high level of interesting to you. Those ideas will change as you get better at making games
Eh, ok. So. Mobile games have, for a long time, accepted that there's a massive audience out there who is simply not interested in playing Steam games. You get some conversion as they age into bands, but they're just very different cohorts being grouped on graphs by biz-brained types.
This is that.
I printed it and stuck self-adhesive copper tape to it. There's copper tape with conductive adhesive so you can add multiple overlapping pieces and it counts as one conductive surface. Then I used the second part of the mold to shape the copper, so that it sticks inside the recessed traces. Then I used sandpaper to file away at the raised ridges. The copper traces are now electrically independent of each other. Done! But if I want, I can remove the extra copper tape.
The companion mold at the bottom. This second 3D-printed part pushes the copper tape down into the recessed trace channels so it conforms to the shape. The two parts sandwich together with alignment spikes to keep everything registered.
screenshot of QZW Labs' raised pcb idea! here is their youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLliKgzKKUI&t=592s
Adobe Illustrator on top (you can use any free tool that makes SVG vector files. I just own an old illustrator version. Bottom: the PCB Forge tool I made
I made a tool that turns PCB designs into 3D-printable molds. you sandwich copper tape between the parts, sand the ridges, and you have a real working PCB. no etching, no chemicals. I am losing my mind
castpixel.itch.io/pcb-forge
That is so cool
Cruelty Squhead
Why are people trying to get ahead of the curve on AI? The whole point is you don't need to be good at it.
Screaming Head is out now!
store.steampowered.com/app/3372460/...
Ouchie I have a boo-boo but that’s what the friendly coagulator is for.
#indiegame #indiedev #Metroidvania #Boomershooter #SteamNextFest
a screenshot of a long winding brutalist staircase. there is a poem written on the wall. light comes through the windows. paint splats are on the stairs.
a screenshot of a tree that looks like a human bowing. the tree is large and covered in dandelion whisps. there is a poem at the base of the screen.
a screenshot looking up at old brutalist buildings. the buildings are abandoned.
a screenshot of a desert filled with dead trees. the dead trees almost look human. there is a poem at the base of the screen.
🌼My new game is here!🥀
"She danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died."
alienmelon.itch.io/flower
A game poem and interactive fiction about The End.
You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil.
#IndieGame #VideoGame #GamePoem #Game
This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous.
Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
Makes sense, Bela Lugosi was an anti-fascist and would have hated ICE too.
sick
This happened to me and I lost 3 hours of work
I loved Control, probably one of my favourite big games from the last 10 years.
Everything just gets worse these days.
rip
(discord screenshot) "anyone using discord from a desktop pc is verified over 30"
shoutout to @amazingthew.bsky.social for the actual answer to discord adult verification
Can we talk about how Vanilla WoW's Trees are the best low-poly trees ever? pt.2
They woke up one day and chose to cook.
150 tris.
HWFG
Having a problem with Jolt physics in Godot and when I try and search for it all of the solutions are just: "Switch from the default engine to Jolt!"
People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie
A screenshot of TR-49, showing a machine made of lots of wires, a round screen and other bits and pieces.
I just wrote a list and it turns out I used photos I took at roughly 12 different locations as reference and inspiration for TR-49. Physically travelling to all those places has gotta be like, the opposite of slamming a prompt into an AI generator. AND much more fun
Another one done!
Only had about 3 days to finish this, so didn't get as much done as I'd like but I might finish it later.
The prompt was "repurposed" so I made a game where you chop up your dead bodies to build a raft.
#gamedev #gamejam #godot
kheto.itch.io/corpsework
We traveled back up to Edinburgh to be there as Rockstar Games and its fired union members took their case to court:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnui...
