Scott Foster

Kirby and Waddle figures (amiibo) on karts. Kirby on Warp Star, Waddle on Winged Star.

Kirby and Waddle figures (amiibo) on karts. Waddle on Warp Star, Kirby on Winged Star.

Kirby figure (amiibo) on the warp star kart.

The Kirby Air Riders Amiibo might be the coolest amiibo I own. They are big, heavy, bold and are interesting functionally. You level up the rider as a companion during races and can change cart by littlerally moving the character to the other cart. Would love to see more ideas like this...

These would work great in a game with rouge like movement (rescue team style) or maybe a FF1 style demake... Great work!

@charalanahzard.bsky.social recently raised a question, what defines an indie game? From my pov, it has to be money. We borrowed AAA from the finance world and it scales down. Define a modern line for AAA, AA and so on. 'Indie' going to anything above $5mill a year feels wrong imo.

#Google has become even more useless to me, failing to be second nature at spell check. I would prefer not to burn literal jet fuel by using #AI to get over my Dyslexia but here we are...
(Copying from the input is unformatted. Now I need to actively mess with the text, messed up many times)

Excited and happy to be apart of it! 😍

Found time to start working on my #GameEngine and added an Asset Browser and ability to add meta data to assets. ImGui makes this remarkably easy to prototype. Next to add proper selection/inspector editing.
#GameDev

And this is why Vibe coding will never take off. It's hard enough to use AI as a search engine, let alone a pair programmer:

After math of a circular reference in CMake... 😢

Love the PS2 box. *cough* came out in 2000. Premium rage bait.

Agreed. Even: ‘Started implementation of X’ is better than figuring out you messed it up half way through. Branch your features and even bug fixes so you’re not afraid to do it (GitHub desktop or built in to VS and JB). Also it’s nice to merge it clean which needs confidence you didn’t break it.

RollerCoaster Tycoon was the last of its kind. YouTube video by Ahoy

A must watch for any GameDev.
Also it's nice to see Ahoy still making videos.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jou...

Niche post: Coding a #GameEngine in C++. Installed #ReSharperC++ in #VisualStudio and **Moved a File to another Folder** so elated that I no longer need to take 5 minutes to consider exactly the correct folder, every, single, time, I make a file in my project. www.jetbrains.com/resharper-cp...

Twitter (and Threads) Have Made a HUGE Mistake YouTube video by hankschannel

Hank Green posted an interesting video about a(nother) tangible difference between blsky, Twitter, and Threads.
The information about link downranking might be obvious to some but is super important for #gamedev (posting links to trailers or steam/itch/other stores)
youtu.be/D4ghgVq9z4M?...

I might have already guessed it could be null Visual Studio 2022... 🤦

@ozone.birb.house Could I please get a Game Dev label please. Currently in triple A.

Agreed and I'd rather them get it right. As much as I too was looking forward to this installment... They can take as much time as they need to give us a good game.

In the case of Thor I don't think it's financial. His game is not live AFAIK. The Ludwig publishing job I imagine he could take or leave. It's seeing experiences which would die. The law needs to be reworded imo but the EU tends to be alright at that. An issue with the current wording is fine.

Indie studio pulls its first game from Steam after realizing it lost the source code: 'We had no established routine to back up our data' A heartbreaking testament to the importance of backups.

Studios first game needs to be pulled because they can't find the code🔗. Please just use a private GitHub to backup your projects if you cannot think of anything better. You do not need to use a console - use GitHub desktop. Please at least backup your projects!

www.pcgamer.com/games/indie-...

What I've always liked about these mock ups is the removal of the words next to the game icons. You can see what the game is from the tile... You can read it from within the tile in most cases. Unneeded clutter. Keep it for accessibility, heck by default... But give me the option.

Second making whole video games is not the same thing. To make a game to the level of some of these mods you would need x2 x3 the teams. Then getting new IP sold more than mod DL? Forget it. For SP games we need to foster this creativity. & Unfortunately we are yet to live in Startrek times. 2/2

This feels angrier than it should. The legal restrictions are due to the publishers nothing more. Mods are software. When mods are mature they are more akin to plugins which there are already legal frameworks to sell independent of selling rights to base property. Hence why Bethesda allows it. 1/2

At least a quarter of the posts in the game dev feed! 🎮

Are backbones any good? Heard mixed reviews about the value.

The issue does not just stem from 'give her action'. She had action in spirit. The issue is up until now she has not been a protagonist. In warriors/spirit she is not the main driver of the events almost a deuteragonist. We want a purer straight up protagonist game with Zelda. More 2D Zelda Games+

.dart? What is this platform/framework? Looks like you're hand coding the animations instead of a data approach.

Cool but: The trees overlapping are triggering something in my mind because gameboy games (original) did not use overlapping tilesets. Maybe like actors below the tiles like a metroid style situation...
(I can't think of one in this pov given the limitations away)

Quote: and she’s playable as a ghost in The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass; she’s also playable...

Wasn't it spirit tracks? Not phantom. Phantom it's like two cut scenes and Tetra you see her.
(Happy to be wrong but it does seem to checkout with even some Searching online)

Conker's bad fur day when?

This looks perfect for prototyping or ideating during a game jam!

Amazing work! ♥️

In the UK, I do not see this. Studios are grouped together into a couple areas and I see people moving up the ranks never once touching management and moving studios (some picking and choosing). & protections for permanent work is decent enough to gain confidence. (EU protections better afaik)