bearcabin.itch.io

aside the obvious influences of wizardry, etrian odyssey, etc during this drpg project i've also found myself thinking a lot about castlevania

in these dark times, let us remember: free software collection 8 fm towns wakesurf dog

Lula Goes HARD

i just want to clarify that this is my day job experience and i'm not generating anything for the corporate-themed game i'm developing. the corporate bullshit in my game is handwritten and comes from a deeply resentful and rancorous place in my heart

this was my entry for the jam, an fps in which you shoot skeletons: bearcabin.itch.io/skelejam

a few of us did a game jam last week! check out our entries: itch.io/jam/goblin-b...

this has been my experience with text-generating corporate slop as well: it is verbose to appear reasonable, thoughtful, and thorough. it is meant to satisfy someone who is looking for surface-level signifiers that indicate a lot of effort has been expended in pursuit of their idea

I know it’s sorta cheesy but someone posted this from Paris on Reddit and I felt this immediate rush of hope

I do sort of want to make an fps for real now. It’s been fun jamming on one. Fun to make a skull gun and skull bullets and summonable skull meteors

the fps i've been making for a jam this week

the tea leaves are saying tonight is going to be a banger in Ottawa!! games. friends. vibes. 8PM @avantgardebar.bsky.social

thinking about the excorites of Kirroth

R.I.P. to Zou Bingliang (邹炳良） Legendary shou Puer tea maker passed away yesterday at age 88

Tonight! I’ll bring the jam game I’ve been cooking up this week

teaposting attracts the bots, not sure what's up with that

Untitled Mech Game - I added some blend modes copied from the #PSX - so we have Add, Add 1/4 and for gloomy weather Subtract (shown here) and there's a subtle bit of dither on there too for extra texture / grit. It's all tunable from parameters, so there can be a lot of variety. #gamedev #lowpoly

urge to make a metroid prime-like is rising

I’ll have more drpg to post soon but this week I’m indulging in a little community game jam

"This work of fiction was designed, developed and produced by a multicultural team of various cultures, faiths, sexualities, and dental plan eligibilities."

Fucking hell, man.

Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands has many cities and villages to visit and explore. I wanted each one to have a different vibe, based on Lovecraft's detailed descriptions in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. Of course there is also quite a bit of creative license at play... #ScreenshotSaturday

Please ignore the MTL release of Meremanoid that came out today. We have had a hearty band at work (Chapu, Popi, Mr. Nobody, Misty, Shentok and I) working hard on an all-human patch. Fully playable in English, in it final editing pass now. Popi provided these screencaps today. More news later.

Gotta finish this game.. I need people to get to the final boss and hear this music

it’s worth underlining that the amount which a modern live game is not this is directly the result of devs fighting inch by inch, for months if not years, against the guy at every corporation who demands an explanation for why you aren’t doing this at all times

//\// OTT/\W/\ \\/\\ October Show n Chill spoopy edition gamez n palz n frightz We'd Oct 21st @ 8PM @avantgardebar.bsky.social 👻😱👻👻😱😱👻👻😱👻

I need some of that tea they press into a mushroom shape

this is a great recording and also has cover art that looks like wizardry www.youtube.com/watch?v=srXT...

PSA: TEXT MODE GAMES! There are now 380 DOS games tagged 'textmode' on the site. For people like me who are weirdly obsessed with games made with the standard Code Page 437 charset, this is a goldmine! dosgames.com/tag/textmode/

It was absolutely the correct decision to pause my complex drpg to make this simple one. Not only because it will give me a leg up on the development of the complex one, but also because this simple one is turning out to be a very good game in its own right

I’m revisiting the notes for my next drpg and getting so excited. This is going to be great

Continuing work on what I'm now calling Blackmarch. Here's some footage of golden hour #IndieGame #GameDev #Godot #DarkFantasy #ScreenshotSaturday

Nice. Good game

This is important: your boss wants to keep you insecure, afraid, and passive. Your boss benefits from you infantilizing and de-responsibilizing yourself. Your boss doesn't want you to know the power you have. Your entire life can pass you by while trapped in this kind of reality distortion field

If you're serious about game development or design, PLAY OLD GAMES I can't overstate how many good ideas are sitting there waiting to be discovered. Sometimes it's not even stuff that was there at the time, it's only there now looking from a modern perspective.

BTW if you haven't please wishlist Revertices! Being at the whims of the Steam algorithm means I have to be annoying about this... store.steampowered.com/app/3236560/...

Thunder Helix - returning to base after a successful mission. store.steampowered.com/app/1906230/... #lowpoly #flightsim #gamedev

I've got my own space corridor right here.

I don’t think I’ve ever said this publicly so I’ll say it here: I don’t use any of that generative ai. My cooking is too hot for snake oil

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i've been tempted throughout development to add imsim-like elements and i've had to redirect those ideas into a design document for another game to keep this project on the rails and focused as a turn-based drpg

i've built out all the floors and now i'm going back over them to add decoration. then i'll do another pass for NPCs, events, etc. slowly but surely the game is coming along

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