Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon facing to the right with wide eyes
Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon sitting on a bench
Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon sitting on grass with one ear pinned back
Low resolution image of Pikachu from Pokémon looking towards the sky
Thinking about low res pikachu.
how I be making my UI
Stream going live now~!
(Beartato and Reginald, in a museum, gaze upon the Mona Lisa) BEARTATO: There it is. The Mona Lisa. The most famous painting in history. REGINALD: Wow! What's it do? BEARTATO: It... what? REGINALD: Why's it famous? What's it do? (Beartato thinks.) BEARTATO: I don't know. REGINALD (to nearly museum employee): Excuse me! Sir? What's it do? EMPLOYEE: You're the first person to ask! Watch this! (The employee yanks a pull-string. Mona Lisa's eyes spin around and her mouth opens like a puppet) MONA LISA: Honk honk! Honk honk! (Everyone is delighted. This is true art.)
True Art
"Zilch" kinda stands out to me
Some old personal work.
We used this to test the rough line treatment that ended up in the Hyper Light Breaker trailer.
Composite by Craig Nowicki
an edit of onion_lmao's post, as I recall, on Twitter of a dude doing the "ooh, hot dog" finger wiggle gesture it's been edited to add "you" near the guy and "my gamedev stream" near the hotdog
Yo, waddup!
I'll be streaming again today at 12PM this time, over on Twitch~
#gamedev #indie #golang #streaming
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An edited version of the Ten-Thousand Bees meme, where instead of "Come Outside", it says, "make the game"
Yo! Going to stream a bit earlier today at 3PM PST, in about 15 minutes:
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#gamedev #indie #golang
When Family Feud for the SNES was in the prototyping phase, the team thought to implement an old text parser from a prior project, allowing the game show host to converse with the player as their estranged father.
Unfortunately, the feature didn't focus test well, and was excised prior to release.
The DREAMTONE demo trailer. Out now!
Most of the footage of the famous 2000 "Super Mario 128" tech demo was recorded with handheld cameras by the audience, with the presenter drowning out the game sound. Only 10 seconds of direct feed footage exist, which reveal that the sound was a cacophony of Marios screaming.
A picture of a newsman with the text "Absolutely disgusting" at the bottom
Yo, hello! Going to do something different and stream some gamedev with my custom engine + renderer today right about now, at 12PM PST!
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#gamedev #indie #livestreaming
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Yeah, good names evoke a feeling captured by gameplay, are kind of a pun / known phrase / form a mental image, have a rhythm to them, and are unique.
"Doom"
"Burnout"
"Super Smash Brothers"
"Jet Set Radio / Bomb Rush Cyberfunk"
"Dicey Dungeons"
"Mirror's Edge"
"Nuclear Throne"
"Risk of Rain"
THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU
My main way of controlling difficulty was through the game speed. But at one point it becomes impossible to avoid oncoming cars. So I'm adding a "hard mode" to the different hazards. For instance, having a train of cars rushing from behind you instead of just one. #pico8 #gamedev
I don't tend to share my pixel art as I'm making it, but I've been working on some very large assets for this new windmill level in Vikings on Trampolines. I mean... you know Owlboy, I have to have my clouds.
#pixelart #ドット絵
Publishing a webpage in #picotron 0.3 by dragging it into podnet ~ each user has write and listing permission for podnet://{userid}/*
they started working out recently
Ah, sorry, gave it away! Would you like:
John Wick Hex
Hard West
Gears Tactics
Hellblade
Octodad
Nuclear Throne
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Lethal League
Costume Quest
QUBE
Sir, You're Being Hunted
Planetary Annihilation
Xenonauts
Delver
Thief Gold
Don't Starve
Or a random unknown pick?
Photo of a pan pizza. Text says “Worse than you remember, or your money back.” And the Pizza Hut logo
Incredible ad in my digest email from The Onion
Yo, whaddup
Streaming some handmade 3D #gamedev live here~!
#livestreaming #tetra3d #golang #b3d #blender
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I feel like that is part of it, but I believe friction can be defined as anything that imposes a challenge, not just to provoke negative feelings. Having limited i-frames on dodges, having to backtrack, and having limited lives are all friction, but so are the things that makes puzzles puzzles.
It's the stuff you *can't* do that makes friction, and it's the stuff you *can't* do that makes the game / fun - the question of "how do I do what I want without doing what I can't?"
Is hardware friction notably different there? Sometimes, but not others. It's a deeper topic than I thought, haha!
Maybe it's developer intention? "NES Hard" games were made hard to make the game longer, or maybe were balanced unintentionally poorly. But then there's games that are intentionally unfair, like I Wanna Be The Guy. For those, it's the friction you're playing for. But isn't that all games?
Heck, what defines good vs. bad friction in games in terms of something like difficulty?
What's the difference between a game being too hard to the point of being unfair (many NES games) vs. a game that is generally regarded as being "properly" designed despite a high difficulty (Dark Souls)?
Hello! This is indeed a hot take - in some ways I agree. But I also think that games are made under hardware constraints or assumptions and that separation can worsen the experience. What defines bad friction (a murky CRT) vs. good friction (a CRT that elevates pixel art)?
two otters one is showing off her baby and the other is showing off a pipe with a headline that says that
being at the age where everyone you know is having children
this is the stupidest thing and it absolutely undid me
Inmate noodle #pixelart
