Hoot Patoots

Hoot Patoots

@hoot.bsky.social

Hi there, I make art and games (Helvetii, Beach Slap) and streams (twitch.tv/hoot_patoots)

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πŸ“’ INDIE FOR HIRE! OPEN FOR CONTRACTS & GIGS! πŸ“’ ATTN: indie devs! streamers! people who need visual sizzle! i'm now on the market for gamedev work (mostly unity, some godot/unreal), commission work and more! i'm an adaptable generalist w pro experience, and i've got some amazing deals for YOU! 🫡

Lil question for fellow game knowers, but what are some games that are kinda similar to Pseudoregalia (or Ico) i could try? Like 3d action platformer with an emphasis on space and/or traversal? Trying to gather some new refs :>

I don't even mean specifically having crazy move tech btw! I'm more interested in just...good ol' 3d action adventure game (Γ  la zelda, almost?) which does interesting stuff with its space

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Hey look, another game made by a real person. I've been watching Cass develop this game for a long while now. Cass wrote her own code, created the pixel art & makes the music. Go try the demo, it's fun! Support actual human made games! I'm eagerly awaiting the full game.

DUCK_BERET@duckberet.com

My game Hyper Bun Buster: Rocket Hammer Action has a demo up now, and absolutely no gen AI was used during its development. It's top-down arcade bump action game where you play as a bunny girl who uses her huge hammer to hit enemies into other enemies! store.steampowered.com/app/3605570/...

I so love now that my job now is to convince people that I did things like a normal human being while my livelihood is looking as dire as ever, being taken over by rapidly increasing garbage while the leader of the industry and even a lot of indie peers clap like seals.

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I also now gotta worry that the stuff I make will not immediately be torn apart and reassembled by an army of assholes. Investors are gone. Expertise in the domain is draining at a rapid pace. Unless things change, beach slap and edifice are probably gonna be the last games I make.

I feel ironically that one of the few avenues we have is to go back to old, 19th century style galleries for indie games. Curated places, locally or online. The liberalised online store is a farce at this point, we cannot rely on it anymore

I so love now that my job now is to convince people that I did things like a normal human being while my livelihood is looking as dire as ever, being taken over by rapidly increasing garbage while the leader of the industry and even a lot of indie peers clap like seals.

It was already very hard before but I have a firm belief that authentic art would prevail. But the powers that be have make it very clear they will specifically target and destroy that until there's nothing left. I still love what I make but man, being a creative has never been worse

It goes also without saying that no I have not used AI for any of the beach slap assets (neither placeholder nor final, all done with my grubby hands), if you're somehow stumbling upon this account and are curious about Beach Slap's demo

Hoot Patoots@hoot.bsky.social

OKAY THIS TIME FOR REAL! The demo for the little slappy-happy penguin game I've been working on, *Beach Slap*, is finally out !!! 🐧🀚 store.steampowered.com/app/4632500/... Get your sturdiest flipper ready and go slappin' ! #SwissGames

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funding

NESbot@nesbot.bsky.social

What are AAA gameplay concepts you'd like to see adapted by indies? www.resetera.com/threads/16...

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Je vous avoue, j'ai une grosse descente concernant le 17 octobre et ce que j'y ai vécu. Je ne sais pas pourquoi mais j'ai besoin d'essayer ici d'exposer le récit sensible de mon après-midi. Parce que l'ambiance médiatique et politique est affreuse et prépare des journées encore pires

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Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

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β€œUh oh our chair on the mocap stage was too short! What do we do? Remodel the sofa? Re animate the characters??” Environment artist: β€œI got you”

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JBRedux@jbredux.dev

I'm writing a mod in C# and it's reporting a warning on line 3 of a file but the warning is blank for some reason so the "problems" overview just looks like this

I wanna get back to work on Edifice but also do more Beach Slap stuff but also illustrations have been so fun recently aaaaaaaaa

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πŸ“Ό NEW VIDEO ALERT πŸ“Ό π—¦π—’π—‘π—œπ—– 𝗔𝗑𝗗 π—§π—›π—˜ π—¦π—˜π—–π—₯π—˜π—§ π—₯π—œπ—‘π—šπ—¦: π—šπ—’π—§π—¬ π—˜π——π—œπ—§π—œπ—’π—‘ Project Reignition is so good it gave me brainworms for a bit. Here's a video about how it improves on Secret Rings, as well as what Secret Rings managed to get right in the first place. Reposts much appreciated! πŸ”„οΈ youtu.be/RKxi0boPklQ

youtu.beSonic and the Secret Rings: GOTY EditionYouTube video by Pagemaster Jordan

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holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!! pinlite.app someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol

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Dieselbrain@dieselbrain.bsky.social

[Smash Bros Brawl announcer] "GUY WHO DOESNT WASH HIS GRAPES BEFORE EATING THEM" [crusty, low battery Wii Mote speaker] "Theyre fine!!"

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Everyone has already fallen in love with the bizarro charms of Biddy Blas saying "scrib dooooooon," but "ding dong bookee, ding dooooooong" is an underrated vocal stim that has entered my brain this week

James Whitbrook@jwhitbrook.bsky.social

Today's newsletter is a love letter to the freak show that is the cast of Star Wars: Galactic Racer, a fascinating foil to the Glup Shitto ideal already explored this year in Zero Company

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Someone just reblogged this on tumblr with this tag and I just fucking died I've been on this shit for over a decade and it's only getting worse