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obsessed with the description for the witch in aria of sorrow's bestiary

you ever crawl in a hole for like 5 months

One of my favorite and most effective design patterns is "tell the player exactly what you're gonna do to them, then do it." You can be SIGNIFICANTLY meaner to the player if you simply tell them ahead of time that that's exactly what you'll be doing, and also the suspense of the warning is a delight

guy whose alibi is "I was distimming doshes with the Gostak"

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind

IGF entrants, I am BEGGING you, submit more keys... Judges want to see your stuff!!!

IGF season!!! I love IGF season

rip annie dillard

I've been wanting to blog more, so here: a short(ish), off-the-cuff ramble about wolverine, guidance in games, and the void of conscious thought: auratriolo.com/blog/2026/09...

Jellyfish dev progress It can now be grabbed anywhere~

As someone who's barely ever messed with Python: I can't decide if I think Python's relationship with whitespace/tabs/indentation is genius or insane

got diegesis on the brain

suspense is a lot about the player’s mental model and uncertainty / expectations within that model. but your players don’t come to your game with a blank slate! all these things affect the mental model even beside your gameplay

I do love me a good Kill Confirmed notification. #CherubDev #UE5

D&D elves: lol you die?? You die of old age?? After like 70 years? Lmao. You're like vermin to us. You're like a shitty animal Silmarillion elves: you can "die"?? What the FUCK is that??? Where do you GO? Why can't I come??? *foaming at mouth* why the fuck do you get to go to 'Die' and not me

My new free interactive guide on #Godot Control Nodes and #UI is out!! qaqelol.itch.io/gui My free #Tween guide also gets a new update! qaqelol.itch.io/tweens AND You can now get the All-in-One version, that regroups all my guides + extra features to support me!! qaqelol.itch.io/guides #GameDev

heyyyyy IGF submissions for this year are open! If you're making a cool indie game I would love it if you would submit it! If you're thinking about it but not sure, I outline some reasons why you might (or might not) in detail here auratriolo.com/blog/2024/09...

Kill the puritan in your heart that pipes up with its shrill little voice every time you see something that you find off putting. Ppl publicly sneering at sex in art – including porn & kink – may as well just carry water for Mastercard, PayPal, and the conservative animus rn. I don't respect it

Lots of excitement about the squeaky beach sounds in Big Walk! You'll all be happy to know it's the real thing! Was absolutely giddy to get to record them on an actual Australian squeaky beach in Wilson's Promontory. Yes, if you didn't know some beaches there really do squeak. It is pure joy.

rip Akaboshi Intetsu, you would have loved League of Legends

bro's so dead they painted him into the background

Gotta make you own fun😁#b3d

modern fps devs spend SO MUCH time trying to figure out how to keep their 'main queues' full and deleting game modes for it but like. I guarantee you if they allowed player hosted servers there would be a "24/7 rush mode" lobby that was only half full all day & everyone would be satisfied with that

games need to be a sequence of pranks again

Just imagined how 2016 me would've programmed something I just programmed... Guarantee it would've been a pile of Unity prefabs in a scene together, instead of anything remotely flexible

OK I can't believe I almost slept on Rhythm Heaven Groove's multiplayer games.... some of their best stuff is in here

gamefeel stuff really is all in the details sometimes and knowing what you're trying to make so you can seek it out when things are close is such a valuable skill

one of the weirdest things about working on games is how quickly something can turn from "this feels awful and unplayable" to "this feels great and polished" in the span of like a week with highly targeted adjustments and no major redos at all

Heartbreaking: The Worst Social Network You Know Just Added a Great Feature

Seeing vague and conflicting results out there, this is a hail mary: Has anyone gotten hot reloading working with C# Godot and VS Code? Can you tell me what you did?

Girafarig sighting

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

hydra

Just finished The Incident at Galley House... yep, that's one of the all-timers Strongly, STRONGLY recommend this one