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@chrisdeleon.bsky.social that's mighty interesting, thanks!

Meeting notes from Day 1 of Uprise, our recent Amnesia Fortnight project.

I stepped away from socials back in 2020. Coming back, I find a games industry that's changed a lot since I left - in good ways, and in hard ways. I'm looking forward to being part of the community again. 👋

I'm pleased to announce that around 200 pages' worth of tutorial resources are coming to the Game UI Database for FREE via a brand new blog. No ads. No paywalls. No email signups. Here's a preview of the first piece dropping next week, all about crafting cross-platform control schemes and layouts!

These look awesome, keep it up!

Best of all, Bob sent me ~70 floppy disks of unreleased 3-D rendering demos, source code, light pen software, internal development tools, and more. I got the data and shared it all here: forums.atariage.com/topic/392145...

Akira Sakuma, the former Data East/TAD programmer, was going through development documents for the unreleased Toki sequel and found image files that were created on development hardware. Since they are not in a standard format, Sakuma wrote a tool to view them. x.com/reddrag64988...

Having received so much love for our good old #MoonChild game, we are happy to give love back to the game community by releasing the Moon Child source files + assets. Details can be read in the ReadMe text. We're looking forward to see what you're going to create! 💚 bitbucket.org/rhinoid/moon...

someone asked about these a while back...

Looking to move some rare stuff I've already scanned if anybody is interested as well. Just shoot me a DM if you are!

As promised, here's my #Game Design Doc - definitely DON'T read it until you've played the game though. docs.google.com/document/d/1... #gamedev #indiegames

The absolute gut punch of seeing mentors and heroes fall for the ai grift. Seeing their avatars flip to ugly generated art, their posts start to read like they were generated… lashing out at people who’ve clearly privately tried to walk them back to reality. We’re losing a lot of 50+ nerds to this

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hello my fellow podcasters, Audacity is running a survey and as you'd expect, there are AI questions on there! Very leading questions, at that! Tell them you do not need AI baked into this useful recording/editing software! thank you! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The irony is they are replacing all their non-union humans with agents run by a single organization that can demand changes in wages (aka token costs) overnight without bargaining.

Thanks! It's really getting ridiculous

I am waiting for your support on Steam. Thank you. store.steampowered.com/app/4524700/

Thanks!

I am still very much available for work! Skills: Art direction, concepting, prototyping, workflows & documentation, art implementation, strong communication and collaboration with programmers & designers. Please reach out via my email on my website for any opportunities 💖 fensartden.com

Friday afternoon I posted my first YouTube vid, about why mid tier games are becoming difficult to get funded or be discoverable. I was hoping for 50 views but surprisingly it somehow hit over 5000 views with 140 positive comments. Happy to welcome more feedback/discussion: ▶️ youtu.be/REZiMNDy0l8

Was really interesting to look this up online, I did not know it existed! Thanks!

lmao the eurovision mascot is so ugly I literally screamed at this reveal

“The concept of Donkey Kong Bananza is…destruction.” “Destruction.” “Destruction.” “Destruction.” Donkey Kong Bananza talk is off to a fantastic start

I would like to remind people that when Nintendo made a brand new web based Star Fox 2 manual for the SNES Mini, it also included actual old design document scans for the game and I think it's pretty rad: www.nintendo.co.jp/clvs/manuals...

Really awesome, such cool devices. Thanks!

Stacking's 15 anniversary sharing continues! Today I'm sharing the Game Design Document I wrote for that game, all those years ago, which was part of our pre-production deliverables. You can download the PDF here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8jk0e...

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

Hope you can figure something out!

Ah, awesome! Really cool you found these documents and files, thanks! ☺️

@chibigstudio.bsky.social that looks interesting! A bit like Zelda, but still different. Good luck with the kickstarter!

In the Risk Assessment docs where Monolith goes over risks and offers solutions, they discuss steps to distinguish themselves from Arkham Asylum and its in-development sequel. They held monthly calls with Arkham people to avoid collisions, even pivoting away from maps planned for Apollo.

My Discord account was compromised over the New Year - if you've ever heard of the good old "just try my game" attack, well, I fell for it. For more information, see my writeup on the matter: jethachan.net/security/202...

friends! acquaintances! help! i'm looking to hire a game designer (living in the Netherlands) to help build games in The Hidden Folks Universe, starting with a sequel to the indie hit game Hidden Folks. know someone who's a good fit? pls forward this, ty! hiddenfolks.com/job-opening/...

If anyone is interested in learning basic programming or python, I HIGHLY recommend this. Granted, I didn’t take the course, but I followed the book on my own and it is an OUTSTANDING way to learn some python skills to do what the title says: Automate the Boring Stuff! 😎👍🏼

New year, time for the quarterly update of my #gamedev resource at www.startmakinggames.com This is a completely FREE resource, aimed at folks wanting to make games for the very first time. So if you know folks whose New Year resolution was 'I want to start making games' this is the link for them!

Hay 3d artists Thomas is very much someone you should give a follow to ⬇️⬇️

So im gonna need all of you who want to support my sweeper dreams to follow this. Teaser coming soon!!

@bencloward.bsky.social thanks for the awesome shader and other gamedev tutorials on your YouTube channel ( youtube.com/bencloward ) Hope you are doing good yourself!

When a platform starts treating your art like an AI training dataset — that’s a sign 😌 So I’m giving Bluesky a try. Let’s get to know each other again: Tasha, concept artist & storyteller 💜 #PostTwitter

Finished reading the book "Attack of the black squares" from @as-king.bsky.social . It's really good, and gave me food for thought. The book is especially relevant in the time we live in now.

Introducing my next documentary project. This is my concept, and my synopsis has had really upbeat feedback from the LucasArts and adventure community people I've shown it to. We'll have more to share in January, but for now please follow @scummdoc.bsky.social and sign up to the waitlist.

Last bit of The Banished Vault posting: I wrote fifteen design diaries during and after development! Everything from simulation, complexity, dice, art design, teaching, art, and more. People have told me they found them interesting and helpful! Find them all here: lunardivision.net/the-banished...

@leepetty.bsky.social Thanks! I love the fact that you keep sharing these game design documents!

I'm no purist when it comes to participating in things we all know are bad. I try to reduce my harm but I'm an honest hypocrite. I won't judge you for still using Spotify, just try this rad alternative. I'm listening to music from Dar es Salaam. Where will you listen to? radio.garden/listen/furah...

Thanks! @ everybody take a look, it's a great course! I already took it, and learned a bunch.