Brandon

Brandon

@fidgetwidget.bsky.social

I like to create softwares, design systems and other tools to make building cool things easier. Hobby game developer. Currently a Software developer manager

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My "art director" philosophy is "bring on board the friend who you know can do this shit better than you ever could"

James Wragg@lovelyhellplace.bsky.social

Friendly reminder that we have some incredible top tier talent working on Entropy - @decassette.bsky.social is just casually like 'ig I'll just do a quick masterpiece to say the game is out on the gram'...

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the soviets had a word for it, even if they hadn't connected it directly to collective trauma (which is most certainly the mechanism, with a declining social contract as the catalyst) adbusters.org/articles-cod...

adbusters.orgWhat is Hypernormalization?“HyperNormalisation” is a word that was coined by a brilliant Russian historian who was writing about what it was like to live in the last years of the Soviet Union.
Ash Boo 👻@bookofoak.bsky.social

Pre-Covid, I always thought the 1918 flu memories were just overshadowed by WWI. But now, it’s clearly something about pandemics that just do things to collective memory. I don’t know whether this is unique to modernity but it‘s clear that humans react differently to this type of trauma.

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Note that "Game Pass deals on hold" is what happens anytime there's been a re-organisation, re-structuring, re-alignment -- basically anything corporate starting with "re-". The dev-facing team has great folks but Xbox at large is always messy politically. www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-xb...

eurogamer.netAs we brace for more layoffs, Microsoft reportedly stops Game Pass deals for third-parties, and the question is 'for how long'?Studios are apparently no longer being offered Xbox Game Pass deals. But what does this actually mean?

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The POINT of the Arabian Nights stories is that the genie ALWAYS goes back in the bottle because the genie promises to give you what you want, but the hero always realizes they're better off without the genie.

Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com

This "ai code/art is already everywhere and impossible to avoid so you should just relax about people using it" shit has to stop, it's not remotely true. Same exact shit as "it's the inevitable future!" or "you can't put the genie back in the bottle!!" We can literally do whatever the fuck we want

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in low gear the default "swirl steering" looks like this when you play (you can opt for less immersive "normal" steering if you want ofc)

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Inspiration in technology can truly come at any time. I was dragging a box around but found it was a) heavy and b) causing a lot of friction as it slid along the ground. How did I innovate a solution? Thread below. 👇👇👇

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The fact that "being taxed on a wealth that would take most people dozens of generations to gather" is "the scariest thing she's ever seen" means the world isn't scaring millionaires and billionaires nearly enough yet.

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

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Hi #PitchYaGame ! 🌸MindVenture 🌸- A Creation-Game with a Story Create your own islands, landscapes or entire levels to solve puzzles and explore this world in danger. 🎨 Create, Share & Play other players missions, 🏔️ Explore this colorful world full of secrets, 🐶 Choose your own team members

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Every person who works for a living should enjoy a life of comfort and security. The "punishment" for every member of the billionaire class - the ownership class - the donor class - the capitalist class - is that they enjoy the same comfort and security without the domination of the working class.

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Felt like adding to my Mario Bros. 1 redraw. Fixed Mario, added Luigi and Wario for fun. Peach, Toad and Bowser only work on black backgrounds like the original game. Allowed Koopa Troopa a sprite overaly to get an extra color like in SM3. NES accurate, but probably not optimized. #pixelart #ドット絵

Simon S. Andersen@snakepixel.art

Quick Mario 1 Peach Redraw. Attempted to match the shape to their later iterations. Sprite dimensions are identical, plus 2 8x8 blocks to small Mario and Peach. Would realistically only work on black backgrounds. Now to avoid making this a mockup... #pixelart #ドット絵

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'It was really wearing people down:' The funding challenges that followed 'runaway success' Another Crab's Treasure "One of the biggest challenges of being a studio that works off project investment is that the window is always shifting in terms of what people are willing to fund."

gamedeveloper.com'It was really wearing people down:' The funding challenges that followed 'runaway success' Another Crab's TreasureAnother Crab's Treasure massively exceeded the expectations of developer Aggro Crab, but investors have been reluctant to help the studio dream even bigger.