@adammcdlt
Game dev from the Vancouver area. Senior Game Designer at Studio MDHR. Views are my own. Making Chronoblazer, a 2D shmup with progression and light exploration, in my spare time. https://adammcdonald.itch.io/ https://adammcd.com
In 2021, I had the dealership offer me MORE than we paid for the car in 2020. But the market was crazy at the time - we'd have had to buy a replacement vehicle and all prices were super inflated. I guess it would have been a nice out if we had been in over our heads, though.
And the fact that it's inspired by a real death, of a friend whose name the band has stated publicly, makes it worse. 20+ years later, sweaty reddit guys are trying to learn about the guy's life to better analyze the lyrics. Oh well... the music is pretty good.
Looking into the meaning behind the insane lyrics of this album led me to a PDF of the book where they explain the full story... and the writing style of that book is just as insane as the lyrics. It is honestly quite bad.
Cicatriz ESP is his favourite track. He loves a song that gets quiet or sounds like it's about to end and then gets loud again. This song is like... the ultimate form of that.
Between my wife and I, we have a few hundred CDs. My 6-year-old is fascinated by them and wanted to listen to one in the car. He settled on the first Mars Volta album. I don't love this band like I did when I was 15, but listening to it now with my kids feels like giving my teenage self a first bump
grid of 9 games - Super Mario World, Super Metroid, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Dragon Age: Origins, VVVVVV, SoulCalibur, Mother 2 (Earthbound), Unreal Tournament 2004, Animal Crossing New Leaf
Hastily thrown together in that "I'm probably forgetting something" kind of way, but here it is. More of an impact grid than a favourites grid, but I do like all these games a lot. my9games.com
"Circle" of designers, as in talking in circles.
Yearning for the era when you could search for every picture of a celebrity on the internet and the number was like 20.
"HeY GuYs LeT mE eXpLaIn wHy wE jUsT *hAd* tO kILL 85 LitTLe GiRLs WiTh bOmBs LaSt nIgHt"
The Democratic party are full on collaborators in this horror and we need to treat them as such. Anyone who isn't aggressively anti-war from the jump needs to feel pain.
Fuckin' clownshow, man. Go to hell.
Adding support for a new system to a bunch of objects in my game, and it feels good that the newer objects are much easier to understand and edit than the old ones. My code is more efficient and concise. But also... I'm not about to rewrite the older ones, lol
I do not seek out or play these games, but come across them in places where people share the games they make. I do genuinely appreciate the lack of caring about what’s trendy, but also wonder about the lack of evolution.
Some of the most interesting indie developers to me are the ones that make one game a year with the same art style (crude, possibly in MS paint) and similar gameplay (whatever genre is their favourite, executed in a way that’s very janky). Just pure love of the game(s).
The worst is when you have more than one kid and they do this stuff to each other. I had a miserable time with my sibling as a kid so it triggers me hard.
kill all fake lovers
His frame of reference is also Switch emulation, which makes many N64 games look and play worse than they originally did.
In light of recent events, there has been some discussion around the positions of hockey players. Basically, some are right wing and some are left wing. Some are centre. Some are defence and some are goalie.
I did think of jokingly posting "woke Americans should cheer for Canada" during the hockey game yesterday, but I didn't expect all this.
The game is kind of run-based but not randomized, and you’re constantly being motivated to push forward and clear a path for yourself, so I want that feeling that if you cleared out a path it stays clear. Even if you load a checkpoint, if you decide to go backwards you’ll see evidence of your path.
Why I want it (leaving out the learning/motivation aspects): if someone DOES backtrack, I don’t want the thing they just killed to be alive and kill them by surprise, plus the game is shaping up to be pretty reactive/logically consistent and this felt like how the game should behave.
I’m making sure that enemies don’t respawn if you backtrack in my retro-style game (retro games rarely kept track of this kind of thing) in which you’re constantly being chased by a giant wall of doom (motivation to never backtrack).
If I wanted it but didn’t really feel like actually doing the work or thought I wouldn’t learn anything new by doing it, I’d probably kick the can down the road, maybe ship the game without the feature. If I was a pragmatic game producer, I wouldn’t even begin to touch it.
Had a realization that the task I’m focused on for my game is very “will not fix” from a game production perspective, but from a hobbyist perspective it’s high priority - I want it, I’m motivated to do it, I’ll learn something by doing it. May write a longer form dev log about this in the future.
I can’t really think of a least favourite fruit but this is funny to me because blueberries are my absolute favourite. When they’re in season here I buy several pounds a week and eat handfuls of them.
My 6-year-old is coming up with chants during the gold medal game. Latest: “United States are poo!”
They’re saying “BOO S A”
Crazy, bread that’s how it goes
Lookin a lil…
Perfect demo kiosk game. A shoe store near me had a Genesis with this game in it for some reason.
Nice to have the confirmation I'm not doing anything crazy. Thanks!
