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the CHORUS MACHINE Demo is now available for pay-what-you-want download on @itch.io. go play my soulslite. go get your ass kicked! #gamemaker #gamedev #indiedev #chorusmachine rootvegetableboy.itch.io/chorus-machi...
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26 - they/them βοΈ chiptune popstar & hobbyist game dev πΎ currently creating CHORUS MACHINE, a top-down bullet hell soulslite made with GameMaker π° rootvegetableboy.itch.io rootvegetableboy.neocities.org
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the CHORUS MACHINE Demo is now available for pay-what-you-want download on @itch.io. go play my soulslite. go get your ass kicked! #gamemaker #gamedev #indiedev #chorusmachine rootvegetableboy.itch.io/chorus-machi...
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more plainly: your goats are aging out at best, washed or dead at worst. the youth of today deserve the same inspiration you did at their age. if that means something to you itβs our turn to step up - what are YOU gonna do about it?
he's 100% right. endless sequels, "spiritual successors", AAA third-person shooter with special-vision mechanic frankensteins, and nostalgia-bait are where actually novel design goes to die. we've barely scratched the surface of what's possible to do and feel through this medium
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I'm still sorting through these but like this thing has folders which contain hundreds of joel valentine's original sound effects for powerpuff girls and this is like fucking christmas for sound effects artists. this is like finding the ark of the covenant
β οΈ A massive leak containing model sheets, puppet rigs, storyboards, and other materials from Cartoon Network shows have been spread on the internet. Fans are speculating that the Skydance merger (as Paramountβs content is very notorious of getting leaked) was the cause.
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vistapro, 3d scenery generator, magazine screenshot, amiga (1991) archive.org/details/cu-a...
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Replying to @goddessblade.bsky.social
What Iβve seen often over the years is that cis allies will enthusiastically embrace a lot of 101 trans basicsββeveryone has a right to live how they want,β respecting names and pronouns, etcβbut visibly balk once we start having to challenge norms about trans women.
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FULLY ANIMATED EPISODE 1 IS OUT NOWWWW π youtu.be/6_7L80WaIuU?...
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For my newest video I took people's assumptions about game development and... addressed them! Including why crunch actually happens, how much money game developers make, and the unique way that making games 'ruins them' for you: youtu.be/WnfKzdTUjtw?...
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One of the best things indie devs can do to improve their craft is to cultivate a broad variety of interests. If you can be conversant in graphics, writing, animation, music, sound design, etc then you'll be way better-equipped to make cohesive games, and you'll be MUCH better at collaborative work.
Focusing on your craft does very little. Games, movies, etc that are bad are not bad because the people making them are bad at their jobs individually. They're bad because the people making them were unable to coordinate. Learning a lil of other peoples' jobs is what will make you better at yours
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mission elevator, concept art (1986) www.mobygames.com/game/13131/m...
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Your work will be called "porn" the moment it is convenient to power to define it that way. Solidarity is our only useful option.
if you are any kind of creative or artist or writer you *have* to understand sex workers and porn/erotica artists/authors as being members of the same class as us. to the extent society recognizes a difference between "legitimate" art and porn, it's only as a tenuous, convenient, temporary fiction.
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you're telling me you haven't listened to/watched our ultra-collaborative narrative album, Feira's Tale yet??? what are you waiting for?!?!? www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNrH...
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I wrote about building an almost-daily practice while making computational art with creative coding π± ilithya.substack.com/p/on-buildin...
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All money, minus processing fees for itch, goes to out of work game developers to pay for food, housing, healthcare, and whatever they need to make it through. Neither we as the organizers nor UVW take any of the money from the bundle. Game developers can apply here: uvw-cwa.org/hardship-fun...
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Replying to @alice.averlong.com
it's mostly a matter of perspective, but it's too easy to think "I can't wait for THING to go away, and we can go back to..." nope. there's no going back. we march on ever forward. THING may end, or diminish, or just change into a new form, but things will never be how they were before
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The GMTK Game Jam 2026 theme is... COUNT DOWN Submit your game here: itch.io/jam/gmtk-jam...
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apropos of nothing, here's an old blog post i did about piracy and when/whether it's ok and things like that when the people who make the games aren't even getting to keep their jobs, far less profit from a game's success, pirate those suckaz tbh www.joewintergreen.com/one-time-a-g...
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animorphs, screenshot, game boy color (2000) www.mobygames.com/game/19668/a...
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