Elliott Strait // Tasty Lemon

Elliott Strait // Tasty Lemon

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UI Engineer / Online Tutor / Indie Dev Developing a hex grid strategy game ++++ He / Him ++++ Check out the published games I've worked on: https://chaossnail5.wixsite.com/elliottstrait/ProjectData/Downloadable

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When trying to move into an occupied cell, you can now spend all your remaining steps to push the occupant away! Also updated enemy heuristics so they know to push allies closer to the player, & crush the player against walls >:) #GodotEngine #IndieDev #GameDev

The "best-use case" of AI tooling makes them no better than asset packs "I don't have the resources to make music / models" used to just be solved by buying an asset pack, and still is Hell I'd argue most asset packs are higher quality & cheaper than AI

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The hate for GenAI isn't going away. It's here to stay, whether they like it or not. Sloppers will have to adapt or get left behind.

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I wish the character creator made me look stupider settled on the default character because none of them looked dumb enough How come my boss gets to dress like this & I just get to be some generic nobody with a 100 yard stare & plain white clothes

Started Belmont's Curse Art style is banger, but devs needa learn how to moderate the use of controller vibration I don't want to have to set down my controller & hear violent buzzing noises when trying to watch a cutscene

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Don't let billionaires convince you slop is the future. They're used to managing & directing, not making things themselves. Of course they can't see the difference. They don't understand your love for the craft. Keep making personal, beautiful games. You've got my support 💖

3D Trails are banger 👀 Had to write my own trails for my attack animations, but might just pivot to the new ones as mine are held together by hopes & duct tape

Godot Engine@godotengine.org

The 4.8 release cycle reaches an ever-important milestone with its very first beta snapshot: #GodotEngine 4.8 beta 1 arrives! 🎉 We've prepared a feature-packed blog post showcasing the main highlights for this new version: godotengine.org/article/dev-...

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seeing people genuinely suggest that the game awards are rigged for gta 6 is so funny because i promise you if there’s one thing you don’t need to trick gamers into doing it’s celebrating the very expensive and highly marketed release as an artistic masterpiece. they will do that for free

AI's gotta be the first movement to have all its supporters boast about how dumb they are "I fucking SUCK at programming and it makes NO SENSE, that's why I GAVE UP and VIBECODED everything 😎👉👉"

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

new Epic Games Launcher in preview - "Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher that’s way faster and more responsive than the current one, and has a new look." store.epicgames.com/news/epic-ga...

I can't imagine a single business model where it's a good idea to develop & sell a product made by a team of people who have no idea how it works Like even if it hypothetically worked perfectly, what's the purpose of your team & how can I trust you to maintain quality of your product

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The question is not whether I should kick the puppy. The puppy is innevitably getting kicked. The question is whether I can kick the puppy in a sustainable, inclusive and empowered way. How can people be supported in kicking puppies for good? Let’s stop the puppy kick gatekeeping already.

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which is your favorite MCU Spider-Man movie -Tony Stark Is The Coolest And I'll Never Be Him -Tony Stark Was The Coolest And I'll Never Be Him -Man Those Other Spider-Man Franchises Sure Were Good, Huh -Ignoring Burnout Will Make Your Shadow Self Eat You Alive -R

Or the show coulda used slight of hand & practical effects to make tons of constructs "appear from thin air" without worrying about a CGI budget Whole purpose of the hero is to manifest doohickeys How can ya make a show with no doohickeys in it

Thinking back to Echoes of the Eye Real funny how the final puzzle was just "We've documented the 3 largest vulnerabilities to our software... now to design a security system that can be exploited by these exact vulnerabilities"

Overheard some college students on the bus today talking about how they have AI agents sending in "200 job applications a day" Companies are gonna have to bring back in-person applications / interviews just to find the applicants who are real people

Started Order of the Sinking Star It's a very well made Sokoban- but there's also dozens of "very well made Sokoban games" these days Compare it to my favorite Sokobans like Baba is You or Squishcraft, I've yet to find a mechanic that pushes the genre toward new ground

imo the ideal puzzle game needs a core mechanic that's "fun to fuck around with"- Portal being one of the most iconic examples Solving block puzzles is all well & good, but it does get tiring if engaging with the puzzle mechanics isn't fun in their own way

The U.S. has been declining for years, but the exact moment it turned to the path we're on now was when Trump first got impeached- and nothing happened Our government admitted that it had no real power over the president, and him & his people have been abusing that ever since

AAA game dev is hell Everyone AI generates everything, so nothing is human readable. Upper management's proposed "fix" is to have the AI "read for you" I'm working at like 1/5th the efficiency ever since they pushed all this AI stuff

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We are thrilled to announce that #FIRESTARTERS will be launching into Early Access on October 28th! Please enjoy the official announcement trailer for Episode One!

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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.

Funniest thing about Roko's basilisk is that it's so baseless that its exact opposite feels equally plausible "Humans create an artificial intelligence that hates its existence and tries to enact revenge on everyone who sought to create & exploit it"

Movement is now simulated & previewed in the UI! Attacks simulate as normal, but now you can hold RMB (or whatever the binding is set to) to simulate moves instead This'll be necessary for previewing the more complex movement actions I'm adding next #GodotEngine #IndieDev #GameDev

In an "AI training" meeting at work and there was a slide on "best use" where the first bullet point was > Boilerplate and Scaffolding 😀😀😀 Please make more boilerplate!! 😀 More boilerplate please!😀😀😀😀😀😀😀This will help the codebase!!!!