Spencer Melnick

Basically every time I get new game industry news

It's increasingly depressing how many people are okay with gen AI replacing _other_ people's jobs

Every once in a while I think about @freya.bsky.social's magic 480 Hz at 60 Hz video: xcancel.com/FreyaHolmer/...

I'd love to try an experiment to render and combine subframes in realtime to simulate a higher refresh rate in an actual game and see how it looks one day

Animal tracks Animal tracks are an environmental feature occurring in both Animal Crossing: City Folk and Animal Crossing: New Leaf where the grass in the player's town slowly...

Good article, but grass wearing away didn't exist in Wild World - it wasn't added until City Folk! nookipedia.com/wiki/Animal_...

I remember arguing with my siblings, trying to make sure no one ran in City Folk (and being annoyed with the new feature)

I choose to believe that he's slowly feeding it 12 inch subs like logs into a wood chipper

I have no idea why you would do any version of this though

To me there are a lot of things, how the training data was obtained, how much energy it takes, the intentionality of the algorithm (is it actually doing something you control or is it a magic black box) , etc.

But at the end of the day I don't have a concrete metric and it's really a personal call

Congrats!

Oh, how is SDL_GPU? I started looking at it instead of trying to do Vulkan for a hobby project

I saw you already had a solution, but if it helps you can use the child actor component to automate the spawning of another sub-actor. Iirc one benefit is that you can move the sub-actor in the viewport as well

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Daisy was with me for almost 17 years, but she passed away earlier tonight. I'm really gonna miss you buddy 😢

Sorry - I'm not trying to pick a fight I just thought you misunderstood something

I mean this in the politest way possible, but I think you've misread what @matthijs-den-daas.bsky.social said. They're saying that just because some disabled people beat a game that does not mean all disabled people can beat a game. They didn't say anything about gen AI

All UPROPERTY Specifiers Sample code, screenshots and comments for all specifiers, including undocumented ones.

If you're comfortable with C++, adding a custom picker to a property is pretty straightforward. @unreal-garden.com has a nice explainer here: unreal-garden.com/docs/uproper...

Our #GMTK2025 submission "Circe" is a gallery shooter about banishing demons by drawing circles with your wand!

Jump, dodge, and banish demons for free: sleepysunset.itch.io/circe

#gamedev #GMTK2025 #GMTKJam #GMTKGameJam2025

Not even remotely correct. FF16 is not a competitive game, the whole goal is to destroy the crystals not steal them back, the main character is not the "True King"

Anytime I’m in a new social situation

Seconding this one!

I like it, but I'm pretty biased since I worked on it 😆

Oh, yeah! If it's part of the premise or basic knowledge about the game (like DK getting costumes is a major feature!) then I don't consider it a spoiler, even it's a departure from the series.

Though maybe someone would be surprised that the final boss is DK's dad or something and that'd be a spoiler to them, I dunno lol

But that's *generally* speaking. I don't think DK: Bananza will have any significant plot other than DK wants his bananas and Pauline wants to leave 🙂

If Nintendo has a twist ending where Donkey Kong dies at the end of Bananza, and you told me before I played I'd consider that a spoiler

I think every new game is its own thing and you can play like it's your first ever experience with the series - that doesn't preclude you from having the story spoiled

Like I'd consider it a spoiler if you told me at the end of DQ: 25 that the villain was actually your dad because if it's a meaningful twist within that entry's story, even if the story beats are the same as the other 24 entries in the series

...unless the villain in *every* game was your dad

I think you can have spoilers within an individual story regardless of the series lore, though I guess it'd have to be a somewhat engaging story and I personally am not expecting any deep story within DK: Bananza

"Hey boss, I fixed that issue where a random fault _might_ cause a crash?"
"Oh good, so the car won't crash now?"
"You're not gonna believe this, but..."

I'm jealous! When did you place your order? I placed my order on May 10th and it's still stuck on "Preparing to ship"

How's the taste? I'm trying to diet more and having a food that instantly fills you up sounds great

It's my birthday today!

If you like shoegaze at all, maybe My Love is Cool by Wolf Alice?