Joe Wintergreen

Joe Wintergreen

@joewintergreen.com

video game dev. weird west, influx redux, much much more buy influx redux: https://store.steampowered.com/app/867150/InFlux_Redux/ internet blog on the internet: https://www.joewintergreen.com/ friendly dev chat: http://discord.gg/TyexPhe he/him

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JoeIO is on Fab now. Buy it and tell your boss to buy it at the much higher corporate price (or whatever it is called) www.fab.com/listings/94c...

fab.comJoeIOJoeIO is an input/output (I/O) style system for level scripting in Unreal (currently 5.7 and up). If you don’t know what that is or means, I have an informative blog post all about it,&...
Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com

I have released my level scripting i/o system, it's called JoeIO and it works great for me and at work but it's early so be gentle and just holler if you come across any weirdness. An explanatory video is below www.joewintergreen.com/joeio-a-leve...

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people are always asking me what my favourite "cutaway to a flashback in a video game where the audio fades in a cool way" is. it's in oni

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when i was 7, my family bought a van from a place called "just buses", they had a sticker on the back that said that in kind of a sexy cursive font. i peeled it off, rearranged the letters and forgot about it. nobody noticed. finally my mum goes "wait since when the hell has our van said Lust Bus"

in 2020 i awoke in a cold sweat with the realisation that the burger chain in Interstate '76 has the same name as the antagonist burger chain in Good Burger (1997), googled it, and stumbled upon someone's tripod site, which, blowing my own mind, i remembered visiting as a kid in like 1998.

the lad was right about Interstate '76 being the best game of all time, but his views on environmentalism suggested that he may have missed the message

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sorry i need to publicly be a hater for a second but what do you mean the giant 230k+ signature save mass effect petition is only about the IP and not the devs that were laid off

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Putting out the call, I'm currently organizing prizes, if you or you think someone / a company you know would like to take part and offer some kind of prize for a human made game jam please shoot me a message, we already have a few locked in. #GameDev #GameJam #HandCraftedJam

Dylan Browne@dylanbrowne.bsky.social

Hand Crafted Jam is running for the first time next month! A week long game jam celebrating human made creations Prizes to be announced soon, check it out. itch.io/jam/hand-cra... #GameDev #IndieDev #GameJam

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devs and art folks: could you please constantly post your cool shit you made? like instead of every now and then there's a hashtag and everyone is showing off their work? just do that every day? makes my feed better which is why we're all here after all. to make my feed better

at the time i didn't care one way or the other but these days i am glad to know that tim sweeney read my blog post where i called him psychotic and a madman

he's not missing anything either - since Fab replaced the Unreal Marketplace everyone's sales have dropped off a cliff

Kenney@kenney.nl

Actions speak louder than words, personally I was in talks with Epic to get all my game assets on their Fab.com marketplace (for free) but cancelled the deal immediately. If they want slop, let them have slop.

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Actions speak louder than words, personally I was in talks with Epic to get all my game assets on their Fab.com marketplace (for free) but cancelled the deal immediately. If they want slop, let them have slop.

Between Tim Sweeney being an absolute AI chud and the harassment of our beloved @kenney.nl, we've decided to cancel our previously announced Epic Games Store release for Shape Sender Deluxe 🚮

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Feeling down about the AI focused re-launch of a certain game jam? fear not, I am putting together a week long gamejam celebrating Human Made creations, come join us and make some cool stuff in the Hand Crafted Jam. itch.io/jam/hand-cra... #GameDev #IndieDev

itch.ioHand Crafted JamA game jam from 2026-11-12 to 2026-11-26 hosted by Dylan Browne. Welcome to the first Hand Crafted Jam, a Game Jam all about Human Made Games and things because Human Made art rules and we should cele...

a terrible, piece of shit guy obviously, but also extremely stupid. this is a dude with no understanding of business or economics or anything he ever talks about just smug-poohing his way through life

Sinnoware 🔶 232.778@sinnoware.bsky.social

Tim Sweeny's comment on the closure of Looking Glass Studios.

so eager to maintain a simple, reductive, victim-blaming world view. if something bad happens to you you deserved it. if i have good fortune it's because i'm clever

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Hey! Me too! I had the idea for a feature where you could take pictures for your notebook but I decided to scrap it.

This is an old video (map looks better now) but a while ago I was setting up a Polaroid camera and to get what felt like a pretty realistic film grain result, I was actually turning on path tracing for a sec and not giving it time to denoise

I watched The Four Seasons (1981) the other day and man oh man, just almost any movie from back then looks fucking incredible compared to almost anything from now, hey

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Please share far and wide, to help it find mates who might need gamedev help 🙏

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wow. i made it 1000 metres into the black hole in holedown. i'm not good at speeches so i'll keep this brief i'd like to thank everyone who supported me on this journey i couldn't have done it without you, thanks to the whole cast and crew of holedown, thanks mum who i know is watching at home haha,

i know this is a non-bummer prompt but this is mostly the same list for me. very many things were getting way better for quite a while there before all taking the same nose dive a few years ago

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

which i do think there's worthwhile optimistic ways of looking at it. a lot of the worst shit is evil backlash to banger shit. you can beat a backlash

apc had game demos on their cover discs in the 90s. how i got to play Interstate '76, Carmageddon, Outlaws. banger discs

tragically the disease of "responds to a software feature request by asserting that technically it's already supported in that you can arrive at a similar result via some labyrinthine technical gauntlet" is treatable only by euthanasia

in Fight Club the guy is like "when one of our cars has a defect that kills people horrifically, we only do a recall if it's cheaper than dealing with the lawsuits" which was dystopian and everything but now i feel like he could go "we just never do a recall no matter what" and you'd be like "sure"

Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com

It no longer matters if it's cheaper not to do layoffs, or you stand to quadruple your money doing some cool thing...if it's cruel they do it. it's strictly about immediate-term wealth transfer. They will sacrifice a billion dollars next week if it means fucking an extra million out of you right now

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For me one of the things that has made last-10-years-ish capitalism so much worse was you used to be able to say things like "firing people is expensive", or otherwise prevail upon the basic truth that the right thing to do is sometimes also the strictly profit-motivated thing to do... now you can't

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"make new IPs instead of sequels and remakes" with what money you dickhead. "take inspiration from outside of games" we are dickhead, there's no fucking money. "why does nobody even try to make x thing anymore" WHAT MONEY

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steam should have tipping. it should have tipping. there should be tipping on steam. on steam, you should be able to tip the developer. the tip money should go straight to the developers who worked on the game and not the publishers or valve. they should make it so that on steam, you can give a tip

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Warren Spector believes that the idea of using a vertical slice to “find the fun” is total nonsense, and that if anyone says “find the nugget of fun,” you should run screaming in the opposite direction