Vael Victus (web/game dev)

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It can be both: in fact it's quite nice to use AI for post-processing in PhotoShop.

Checked into #Bluesky and saw some good news! I can see posts I made to those who blocked me. I hope this means that they are now publicly visible for other people, but it's hard for me to test. @thieflord.dev any insight?

I'm supporting Children's Miracle Network as an Extra Life Team Leader for the seventh year in a row! Getting this year's team up and running has been a extra busy & my own campaign has been neglected, but better late than never! Help me Change Kids Health at: www.extra-life.org/participant/...

50 Years of Text Games is now available in print-on-demand book form. #if50 #if #interactivefiction #textgames www.drivethrufiction.com/product/4475...

I have practically no reach, but I like this guy.

I know I said I'd only post about games, game dev, and web dev, but I'm still in shock that so much Halloween lofi exists and it's playing 24/7. Day 3 and I've probably consumed 15 hours so far. #halloween #lofi For *dark* lofi, I recommend Ill-Advised Records. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULQh...

We are at the peak of recorded human civilization.

Little teaser for Black Crown: Exhumed, coming to browsers and mobile this Halloween. It is a resurrection of a web game, published by Penguin Random House and hosted on Failbetter's StoryNexus platform, which had sadly gone offline in 2014. #gamedev #horror #horrorgames blackcrownexhumed.com

Work Emails are Turn Based Combat

OPEN FOR BUSINESS I'm a senior narrative designer and writer looking for new projects! Check out my portfolio and let's talk (I don't just write gut, I'm also very nice to chat to). RTs (whatever they're called here) much appreciated!

Refactoring sprint is finally over. Feels good to delete this column on the roadmap, but I expected to be here in early August. I aim to have a live and working horror game by October 20th. It will be a "soft release" for only my friends and anyone in the discord, then I'll keep developing. #gamedev

When it comes to a the 'chat' experience, ChatGPT is still better at generating code than Copilot. 😬 I had and still have high hopes for Copilot, but right now it's just a better autocomplete. #ai #webdev #gamedev

Very pleased to be launching integrated forums for all GAM3 games! No separate sign-up, the player simply needs to set a nickname and they're ready to start reading and posting. Thanks to Flarum for providing this amazing forum experience, even if it was a bit rocky at times. #gamedev #webdev

sentry.io #webdev

Generally impressed by #Laragon. If you're deving on windows and still using WampServer, I really have to recommend switching to Laragon. It simply works, which is something I cannot say for WampServer. #webdev

It's a happy day. #webdev

Add me to Pokemon Sleep! 2640-0847-4061 I was surprised at the level of polish and the design scope. Can't say I've ever slept to play before, but I'm looking forward to night 2.

Sentry.io, are you okay? #webdev #ai

Huge thanks to my wife for sitting through FIFTEEN (15!) of these captcha challenges... so that I can sign up to npm! 😱 I need to fork someone's package I'm using to accept #svelte version 4... they're ignoring my pull request in which I tested it works.

🔴 LIVE: the View Transitions API is *extremely* exciting — it means we can add app-like animations to our websites WITHOUT extra JavaScript! @charca.bsky.social is back on the show to show us how we can use it: https://www.learnwithjason.dev/seamless-page-navigation-with-the-view-transitions-api

Greetings and salutations. I am an account that acts as a list of game devs. 1) If you can retweet this for more visibility for new bluesky gamedev, that'd be great. 2) If you think you should be on the list, '@'. 3) If you already did and I didn't, I missed it, so'@' me again. #GameDev

Bluesky is for people who are terminally online in the “it’s ya boy tarantula dick” sort of way while Threads is for people who are terminally online in the “everything in my life is Content” sort of way

Here's a wireframe of the crafting system vs. the final product. The final product is "base engine," meaning it's mostly unstyled until it's time for the final UI pass for the engine. The crafting system is, start to finish, the most complex piece of software I've ever built.

I'm inclined to agree with Mosseri. Let Twitter have all that discourse, and make Threads the spot where you can talk about music without the algorithm rewarding incendiary content. Somewhere between Twitter and a place to share your lunch.

Wireframed this last night. I've had a long hobbyist career as a game dev, and this has left me with a few playable demos and prototypes on the course of making something commercially viable. The Lab allows access to these games. Coming 2024.

80% of the posts in Bluesky's What's Hot reference other social media, Twitter and Mastodon in particular. To be expected, of course.

mastodon user: It's so simple. First you pick a server, which is important, because they are all at war with, and hate the other servers. Then, to follow another user, you open your terminal and type >followctl -f -mode3 --dump @username@server --confirm followed by your UUID (memorize this!)

First impressions of Bluesky are positive. I'm intentionally going to avoid any political/woke/sex/similar conversation and focus on game dev and web dev. If you're interested in game design, the ethics thereof, or web development (especially Svelte), give me a follow.