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@rootvegetableboy.bsky.social

26 - they/them ⭐️ chiptune popstar & hobbyist game dev πŸ‘Ύ currently creating CHORUS MACHINE, a top-down bullet hell soulslite made with GameMaker 🏰 rootvegetableboy.itch.io rootvegetableboy.neocities.org

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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 it’s our turn to step up - what are YOU gonna do about it?

radd@ethanredd.bsky.social

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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No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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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

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social

⚠️ 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 Paramount’s content is very notorious of getting leaked) was the cause.

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Replying to @goddessblade.bsky.social

What I’ve seen often over the years is that cis allies will enthusiastically embrace a lot of 101 trans basicsβ€”β€œeveryone has a right to live how they want,” respecting names and pronouns, etcβ€”but visibly balk once we start having to challenge norms about trans women.

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Annihilation is about a summer in a beautiful wilderness on the coast that brings four strangers closer together as they work for a crusty old lighthouse keeper.

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This is one of those arguments that sounds like slopulism but is actually, if anything, understated. 56% of Colorado river water goes to GROWING FEED FOR LIVESTOCK IN THE DESERT.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

STOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE

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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.

Nathan Savant@baldsavant.bsky.social

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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Your work will be called "porn" the moment it is convenient to power to define it that way. Solidarity is our only useful option.

Bruno Dies@brunodias.dev

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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One thing video games have over film is collecting shards. Regardless of how big Christopher Nolan goes with his camera, his movies will never allow us to collect shards.

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Replying to @brandon.insertcredit.com

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...

uvw-cwa.orgGame Worker Hardship FundWho is eligible to apply for this fund?This fund is for game workers in the US and Canada impacted by record layoffs & other hardships in the games industry within the timeframe of January 2024 to the...

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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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and you may find yourself standing at the pizza hut and you may find yourself standing at the taco bell and you may say to yourself "i'm at the combination pizza hut and taco bell"

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really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...