Yona

Yona

@yona.moe

Professional (lol) game dev, amateur artist. I spend my days writing code so I can spend my nights drawing Rhythm gamer, TTRPG enjoyer, weeb. Everything I post here is my opinion and mine alone. Ace 🖤🩶🤍💜 | 🏳️‍⚧️ | She/Her | mid-20s

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hi! i'm yona. i am an artist for fun and a game developer (programmer) for work. i also: - play many rhythm games (arcade and mobile) - draw cute girls (i try) - play a LOT of TTRPGs - talk about whatever catches my interest at any given time - do a little bit of gender - rant about media sometimes

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It's time for time...!? Chronal Chain's demo is now available, and can be played through Stage 2! Use the mighty powers of the Chain to forge a path through the challenges ahead. A new adventure is just beginning! #ChronalChain store.steampowered.com/app/3824730/...

store.steampowered.comChronal Chain on Steam"TIME CONTROL" bullet hell action. Overcome impossible odds by slowing, stopping and rewinding time!
k//eternal@anarch.games

Time-bending bullet hell action is coming to Steam Next Fest tomorrow! Slow, stop, and rewind time to analyze and overcome the storm of bullets in your path... and conquer your own limits! Designed for genre newbies and veterans alike. #ChronalChain store.steampowered.com/app/3824730/...

wait wait wait hold on wait what the fuck why am i in this game ????

shows how much ive been paying attention cuz this character is recurring from the first one anyway hyperfight 2 is really cool yall play it store.steampowered.com/app/3032970/...

oh my god why are all avatar discussions like this. i feel like i am being driven insane fandom when the protagonists have a really fun dynamic together: "cool! can't wait for them to be separated" fandom when the protagonist is a child: "cool! can't wait for when she's not a child anymore"

Yona@yona.moe

SEVEN HAVENS IS ACTUALLY GOOD WE'RE SO BACK WE'VE NEVER BEEN MORE BACK

so far the show is Extremely Fucking Good and if it's doing what i think it might be doing (which isn't what a decent portion of the fandom seems to want it to do) it could become my Favorite Thing Ever

SEVEN HAVENS IS ACTUALLY GOOD WE'RE SO BACK WE'VE NEVER BEEN MORE BACK

i love having my trypophobia triggered by an AI generated restaurant menu

in this scenario these hypothetical friends have their own perfectly customized game precision-engineered to cater to their unique specific taste why would they want to play this guy's game

RedFade@redfade.bsky.social

No that same person posted this it’s somehow even sadder than you think

Yona reposted

What sucks about “programming as just a career” to me, is that people that don’t enjoy programming have to make it *my* problem by sending me vibe coded garbage to review. That’s really the big danger of AI, the volume of garbage burning out the people that *do* enjoy coding.

the fact that "this technology helps us make worse products somewhat faster at the cost of alienating our top engineers and making them deeply unhappy" is a pitch that sounds appealing to a non negligible amount of people is somewhat depressing

this echoes my theory that the ultimate form of commercial gamedev is Key Jangler 2000 a game where you press a button to immediately get satisfying audiovisual feedback. for 10% of button clicks, you get a currency that you can exchange for new keys that jangle slightly differently

Tuxedo Catfish@tuxedocatfish.bsky.social

the ideal form of commercial gamedev is a fidget spinner that is also a slot machine it's not about communicating anything, it's about self-soothing. this is the rosetta stone to understanding like half a dozen different recurring game design discourses and the design trends that kick them off

the game can say nothing of value. there should be no real challenge, and no real possibility of failure. there must be an element of chance, and a facade of agency. the player must feel as satisfied as possible so that they continue engaging, regardless of how shallow this engagement may be.

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the ideal form of commercial gamedev is a fidget spinner that is also a slot machine it's not about communicating anything, it's about self-soothing. this is the rosetta stone to understanding like half a dozen different recurring game design discourses and the design trends that kick them off

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to me sayolara felt like a bait and the switch where i thought i'd get girls' love and instead i got an excellent trans metaphor, a very strong portrayal of what it's like navigating comp-cis-het, (and also some girls' love) but that ending really cemented it as a trans story first and foremost imo

‍@hazr.faith

I think sayolara wins for "the most transgender an anime can be without ever directly addressing gender"

ah but you see, dear uninformed interlocutor. you have a limited understanding of the topic, for you believe artificial intelligence is solely generative. i, however, am capable of perceiving the nuance of the situation. there are, in fact, fields, such as medicine, where - hey wait come back wait

people complaining about the sportsmates and me just here thinking that they're kind of adorable and i wish they were a system-wide avatar and not just for switch sports (i think i just resent miis because very young yona couldn't make a mii of herself due to lack of hair color options on the wii)

the ocarina of time remake is making me think about how long it's been since we've had a mainstream Adventuring Child game. i can't really think of one other than like. wind waker and god of war and pragmata don't count; you can't have an Adventuring Child situation if there's a parent right there

xenoblade 2 i guess? but rex's shonen protagonist ass is too battle-ready to be an Adventuring Child. also he is too knowledgeable about the world he lives in to qualify.

i'm genuinely confused as to whether this is this supposed to be a dunk or something because like yeah exactly. i want to write the code

Wil Gieseler@wilgieseler.com

way back then i used to draw schwi almost every other week, i wanted to see what she'd look like in my current style 😌 #art #fanart

yet more proof that media could get away with so much more creative bullshit than we think

the yuri sorcerer@yurisorcerer.bsky.social

Was watching today's Goodbye Lara and loud piano music started playing when Lisa showed up. Like, drowning-out-the-dialogue loud. I sat there, accepting this as a bold, interesting artistic decision, for a solid 30 seconds before realizing a song had begun playing in another window. Literally:

i wish i could preorder the commodore callback (i love the form factor and the OS) but i am absolutely not a fan of "we have decided which apps are Bad for you and blocked them on system level". if we're evoking retro tech, it's gotta come with the freedom of retro tech. this is just vibes.

these slides are always funny because yes i get it the product does not make the product, the people make the product, so you, dear investor, should value our people because we will in the future make more valuable products but also like. lmao.

thinking about how It Was The Goose That Created Value

Yona reposted

I've been making changes in my personal life that I haven't spoken very publicly on, but one thing I do want to be public is that my close friends call me Bea now. And if any of you want to call me Bea or B, that would make me very happy. <3 But no pressure, I won't be upset if I hear Martin.

your model had a cybersecurity incident? well my model had THREE cybersecurity incidents! i'll call my model after school and he'll beat up your model!

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

BREAKING: Anthropic announced that its artificial intelligence models had breached three different organizations during cybersecurity tests that went awry, a little more than a week after its chief rival, OpenAI, disclosed a similar incident.

stuff like mysekai is so weird to me why are you ordering animal crossing at the chunithm restaurant

oh god the avatar trailer oh no if those twins end up for real fighting each other i will not be ok 🥺 i feel like it's inevitable that they will end up on opposite sides and i can just pray that it's a "unite against a common threat" type situation and not an arcane type situation 😭 writers please

guys stop it with the AI recomps and translations and patches we're tired enough of execs telling us that all future games will be made with AI we don't need all *past* games to also be made with AI

i haven't played xenosaga (i probably should) but xenoblade 2 momo is cute with her lil weapon omg (not too sure what's going on with the dark form tho)

playing mario kart wii again confirms my opinion that if you want your game to have cool shit, it needs to also have absolute bullshit. those are two sides of the same coin. so much cool shit is either when bullshit goes in your favor, or when bullshit is narrowly avoided.

rewatching madoka in 2026 and realizing that kyuubei's grand plan is literally just effective altruism 90% of silicon valley would go "well he has a point. consider the expected value of the universe succumbing to entropy vs. a few girls suffering"

of course the mario kart wii community has an AI situation going on of course it's 2026 what *doesn't* have an AI situation

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another one. im gonna try and doodle more often to keep my creative spirit alive so get used to seeing these scuffed little things

smorl girl@blivveries.bsky.social

been in a doodling mood lately. fill tools are for pussies (as is actual art skill)