Tom Waters - Shallow Thinking Games

Tom Waters - Shallow Thinking Games

@shallowthinking.bsky.social

Solo dev, former Rockstar and Argonaut. Tiny plastic guys enthusiast. Purveyor of retro textures. Currently building a small narrative-focused first person exploration game. Available for work! https://everlink.tools/ShallowThinking

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I think i did it! Responsive card container that works with any Control (as long as they are all of the same size) in less than 100 lines!! #Godot #GameDev #Ui

Exploring some solutions for a potential deckbuilder page (for my free Ui guide)! I'm extending a HBoxContainer, but I think I should try with a custom container instead 🤔 #Godot #GameDev #Ui

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Not enough games have "a new tight space" in the update notes.

2 Fights 2 Tight Spaces BIG UPDATE! 🤜💥 - Custom decks - Pick-up dropped enemy weapons - Weapon damage indicators - Endless mode - A new music track - A new tight space Full build notes on Steam here 👇 store.steampowered.com/news/app/373...

Edgerunners II is constantly going to Night City locations where notable 2077 NPCs should be and then not showing them. I don't want them to have a conversation or anything but would it kill them to show the right bartender? (This is my most Toxic Star Wars Fan style take about this show.)

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1k pixels for 1k followers tbh that's a number i try not to think about because it makes me anxious, but thank you so much to every single person for enjoying my art. it means more than you know. #pixelart #art #ドット絵 #neonmoonlight

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Replying to @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social

Here's a better example of how the engine runs out of colours to make fog shades and ends up with areas of solid colour. (You may have noticed I have a bit of a thing for old, imperfect, graphics techniques 😅)

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Thinking that it's about time to start working seriously on a new game, so I dusted off this old terrain engine prototype I used for texture practice, added a model loader / renderer and put down this structure thingy as a test. Going to try build this into a full game environment. #lowpoly #gamedev

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We are deeply saddened by the passing of Richard “Levelord” Gray. From his legendary work on Duke Nukem 3D to the countless players and developers he inspired, Richard leaves behind a lasting legacy. Rest in peace, Levelord.

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There's a brace of reasons for getting to this point, not least that although I have many shipped games in my history, this is first attempt at making a commercial product alone. Even with all my past experience, that makes it one of the hardest projects in my life!

My life has also been through a challenging period for personal mental/physical health, with very worrying family illnesses and injury as well. I think these are all things that would have been easier to shoulder and keep going through if I'd been working in an office environment during this time...

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Scirocco class assault cruiser MCRN Hammurabi. #LowPoly #BlockBench #PixelArt #TheExpanse

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I haven't really made a point of this, but you can hire me to do games stuff for you! I've been working in games for about 25 years and have done all kinds of things in that time. I'm primarily a designer but I've worn an environment artist hat on occasion too.

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I made a sky for DOOM using the Gale Crater panorama from Mars that NASA recently released! It felt rather fitting.

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The Thunder Helix engine has a feature I ripped from Quake 1 - the 'impulse' command. It lets you send an integer into the mission script. I'm using it to measure the distance from the player to the 'disarming facility'. Gonna fly around and pick out hiding spots at a fixed distance. #gamedev

What flavour Quake engine does everyone use these days? I was a FitzQuake enthusiast because I liked how it was tuned to render a wider range of tones in the lightmaps. Unfortunately it hasn't been updated in ages so running now chucks all my open windows onto monitor 2 which is less than ideal 🤣

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This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

Hope For The Planet@h4tp.bsky.social

We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews

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Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

Edd Coates | Game UI Database@eddcoates.bsky.social

Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.

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the gargantuan number of games released each day is great. just means I can buy a wholesale stock at the autumnal farmers market and store them in my cellar to get through the hard winter each year

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Hey, you there! Not only is FITS2 on a big discount for the next couple of weeks, we've also got an exciting update planned very soon, AND all the recent reviews are good, so treat yourself. What else are you going to spend $10.39 on? An Amazon basics wire stripper and crimping tool? Get real!

Twice the Fights for 20% less! 💥 Get 20% off 2 Fights 2 Tight Spaces during the Steam Autumn Sale (or gift a copy to a friend and fight together 🤜 🤛 ) store.steampowered.com/app/3734890/...