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list of all game genres, ranked in order of how fucking hard they are to make

Also my first journal article is finally out lol!!!! Good for me but the other pieces in the issue are probably more interesting, esp. the indie game valuation one: http://press.etc.cmu.edu/index.php/product/todigra-vol-4-no-2/

I'm planning on starting an open source project for a Unity asset. I'll take any advice you can give me, starting with the name, it's an asset that automates the building process and I'm completely blank on what I should call it (it's just Builder now) #opensource #gamedev

also this one. i love so much about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NN9LrCrT9o&index=142&list=PL46vPZCplY9y5MKXZs9DBCsc9V4nt6xDQ

i was just looking through saved videos for reference, and came across this absolute gem. this is so mesmerizing.

i never played boulder dash, but afaict this is a custom level set which revels in some of the messier, more simulationist side of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xroWPQ3rtg&index=20&list=PL46vPZCplY9zr8-KdkqDEU6s-5UlIRfY4&t=0s

just finished the "gutter" option in https://gitlab.com/frankiezafe/anybaker : shapes can expand outside of their limits, and overlaps are managed thanks to depth
#blender #b3d #generative #hack #gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine #openframeworks

Hey, this is nice, Unity's Cloud Diagnostic reporting has been opened up to personal users: https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/11/06/performance-reporting-is-now-cloud-diagnostics

(I just found out about it via yesterday's blog post)

I’m pretty sure there is a party game to be made out of the Ideomotor phenomenon found in the ouija board. It’d probably involve either traitors or secret identities, as people try to subtly control the direction of the magnifying glass.

#Boardgames #tabletop #OuijaBoard #idea

anyways. while cybre was down, i messed around with rpg in a box (thanks to @gamemakingtools for turning me onto it). mostly messed around and added a few new graphics to the example game included.

Fun fact: Mastodon supports link verification by using this thing called RelMeLink http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me#domain_verification

This means that if both parties (Masto and site) have links pointing both ways, Masto can confirm it's being controlled by the parties involved.

I should update https://black.af to do the same as https://jacky.wtf/

Have you never made a game, but always wanted to?

Are you new to game development?

Are you intimidated by the big gap between starting to learn how to make a game, and creating something tangible and unique?

Join #TutorialJam !

https://itch.io/jam/tutorial-jam

#gamedev #gameing

Desperately seeking #gamedev mentors to hang out in discord and help beginners in #tutorialJam. Over 100 have already signed up! I had no idea it would blow up like this. If you've got knowledge to share... 📣

In this week's report, I talk about water features, and my experiments in tweaking shaders.

https://medium.com/@carrotcakestudio/thursday-report-splash-into-shaders-59bb481c2e52

#gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

I've made my new RPG in a Box icons (16x16 px) available for free on @itchio, check them out here! https://zeromatrix.itch.io/rpgiab-icons #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #ドット絵 #gamedev #indiedev

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7800 basic looks kind of neat, something i might want to play with http://www.randomterrain.com/7800basic.html

This is so goddamn true. Also fuck all the corporate enablers who allow and promote toxic gamer culture, and profit from misogynists, fascists, and Nazis, including Rockstar, Twitch, and Amazon. Fuck you for destroying good things.

"The history of left movements goes from one disappointment to another... Being disappointed is a default position. But if we have to be disappointed anyway all the time, we might as well have fun! ...It is very clear how new media will betray every little spark of emancipatory potential in the long-run. In the long-run, we will also be dead. But in the meantime, there are always small windows which open up certain possibilities and it would be completely foolish not to make the best of it." Hito Steyerl

I now have over half of my medium posts on my far superior personal site!! Soon I can take them all down! :) plus my new post on RDR2 and labor issues: https://coleoptera.neocities.org/writing.html