Josh Guerrero

Hey, Dem candidates: When you are asked about “Boys in girls’ locker rooms,” here’s what you should say: (1/11)

new blogpost 💫 How to make ONE master concept to rule them all charlesboury.fr/articles/fak... #gamedev #conceptart #3dmodeling

As a tech worker, this is 100% happening, we ARE angry and ashamed, and I'm sick to fucking death of trying to explain that the bottleneck isn't "writing code" it's "designing and maintaining a functional system that can be understood, modified and maintained."

I think it can be important to listen to feedback from communities or players in very controlled ways, but taking their opinions as truth and their problems as your problems is a huge danger that must be carefully managed. I identify much more with what Aonuma says here:

There are many devils in the dank, latent realm of LLMs. But the reinforcement-learning-human-feedback devil is one of the worst, most craven and conniving of these devils.

Fun fact if there's no project managers on your project that work is just being done by someone else with a different title. Even solo projects need planning.

SNEAK PEEK 👀 Nothing official yet but us overhauling the slow old VSCode extension and graph preview has slowly turned into making a whole new Yarn Spinner editor experience... (will be backported into VScode, plus be in browser, plus electron standalone may allow it on iPad ??? 🤔)

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Helm’s Deepeche Mode.

This is qualityslop. You just like it because it's good.

This article makes a slew of salient points, but I felt this one in my soul.

YES! We have holiday movies, why not holiday games? This might be the only one I’ve ever seen.

Open ended question for artists in the indie game space! What are you looking for in collaborators? What does an appealing indie team look like for you? What questions do you need answered right out of the gate?

this is pretty solid spiritual advice tbh “Be prudent, be wise, be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth. Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships.”

Celebrating Halloween with a witchy prototype 🧙‍♀️🎃 #gamedev

I know everyone is only playing Silksong right now but I just finished Neva by @nomada.studio and wow, what an incredibly beautiful game. Actual tears so many times.

Rayman 2 on the N64. The ghouls that fly through the swamp are terrifying, but something about that little whispering guy really did me in as a kid 💀

I’m trying to stop waiting until things are “done” to post them and focus on sharing the journey instead. So here’s a half-done sketch of a chef because I’m trying to flesh out the art side of my game dev skills. Feedback welcome! I’m here to learn 💪

1d-Pacman – finished, free, browser-only, reflex-driven Inspired by @abagames.bsky.social ➡️ beep8.org #IndieGame #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #IndieGames #IndieLove #PixelArt #beep8

It took us the first 30h of the jam to land on an idea, but somehow we still pulled it off! Our GMTK Jam entry this year is a cozy puzzle game about conveyor belt sushi. #gmtk incredulous.itch.io/makimono

I’ve been in a bit of a game dev slump recently, so #GMTKJam is the perfect opportunity to kick out the cobwebs and build something! Top goals this year are “complete experience” and “not horribly broken”.

if you'd like more stability in your game and less monotonous QA work, but figured automated tests were complicated and a big investment, you should check out 🌟asset tests!🌟 but first let me tell you about an exploding barrel bug🧵

Mixed feelings about this article. Yes, creatives absolutely deserve access to stability. But this feels like it’s complaining that game dev is accessible now, as though the success of indies is “unfair” to the big studios. Indies make original games that large studios won’t—they could change that.

with the switch 2 price increases i've seen multiple posts lately going "why should i pay $70-$80 for a AAA game when i can buy five indie games for that price" and like. i appreciate the sentiment, but you realize that those indie games realistically should cost more but are undercharging, right

I’m just now catching up on the Nintendo Direct news and I’m so happy this game is finally coming out 😭

@ryansucks.bsky.social we got a new catch phrase

“Success in games has always been a bit of a lie, a bit of an illusion. My measure of success is: did I make something I’m proud of, and has it impacted my life and other people’s lives in a positive way?” Grace Bruxner (Frog Detective)

Reposting mainly as a reminder to myself 😅 There are a lot of lessons in here I definitely learned the hard way, especially the “don’t you say a damn word the entire test”.

As a self-taught indie dev, GDC is the first time I’ve gotten to feel like a “real” member of the industry. Back-to-back I was meeting like-minded creators, developers whose work I already knew, and industry vets with amazing insights. It was pretty surreal. Thanks everyone 🙏

Leaving #gdc

A huge thank you to @merryh.bsky.social @dtrebella.bsky.social and @sarahpodz.bsky.social for the panel they gave on Tuesday– it’s my single most valuable takeaway from GDC so far. I walked away with a (finally!) clear vision of how to structure the marketing strategy for our next release.

I don’t have anything clever to say as a first post so please enjoy this picture of my gigantic dog 🐶