Ridgehead

Tidied up and smoothed out the walk animation for my main character...pretty happy with it

#solodev #indiedev #pointandclick

Add a letter, ruin a song

Party In The U.S.D.A.

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I just played through my game from start to finish for the first time.

It actually works. It's playable. All the puzzles work.

It's taken a long time, and there's a LOT still to do, but...it's real now. It works.

#solodev #indiedev #pointandclick

If Daniel Hannan were a stopped clock somehow he'd manage to avoid being right even twice a day

Oof

Are you asking about consciousness specifically or machines generally? You mention both here, but they're not the same thing. I don't think you'd claim that a lathe is conscious

A pixel art scene from a museum, showing a range of artifacts, including a reconstruction of a sabre-tooth beaver, a model of a native American playing lacrosse, a pry bar, a rope, a skeleton key and an electronic speech-to-text toy from the distant, distant past (the 1980s)

Working on a museum scene from my 90s point-and-click adventure game. Which of the artifacts on display do you think are going to be most useful?

#ScreenshotSaturday #IndieDev

Not sure anyone should be taking criticism from the lazy, cowardly liar who co-authored the most recent chapter in Britain's post-empire decline

You don't believe that Shabana Mahmood said the things that she's on record as having said?

Why not?

Is it likely to be moderated fairly?

Also what is your tolerance for being in the vicinity of Michael Gove?

It is, after all, a land of contrasts

They can't even get the title right, there are two bikes

Do you remember when Kal-El left Krypton and moved to a planet with only one sun, well Supergrok is an antisemitic AI that endlessly generates inappropriate images of minors

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

Every ad now

The first three of his solutions to any problem are always sponsored, and they fail

Apology accepted

Exactly my point

Do you honestly believe that those voters would have voted for one of the other parties if it hadn't been for the Monster Raving Loony Party

If only we had some way of knowing who appointed those staff in the first place

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

I agree, there are a lot of really great point-and-clicks out there right now, with some fantastic pixel art. The Drifter, Phantom Fellows, Hob's Barrow, Lucy Dreaming...as an amateur solo dev they're intimidating but inspiring

The initial screen for my work-in-progress 90s-style #pointandclick adventure game...

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #solodev

That map isn't even Britain, it's the UK

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Science says otherwise

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

..."from them", he didn't add

I think it's hard to conceptualize just how much a billion is.

If you go back in time one million minutes you end up in 2024. If you go back one billion minutes you end up in the Roman Empire.

Why not, they can always just earn more

Where's the dossier? You appear to have linked to a Labour PR article

QED

Word of advice, kiddo: a childish reply like that just tells everyone else that you're not mature enough to admit when you're wrong