Shawn Clapper

phosphor by loren schmidt fantasy scenery and characters for making roguelikes and other turn based games

in case anyone needs art for #7drl, my ongoing fantasy art pack, phosphor, is free to use. please let me know if you would like anything added! i can patch it in in the coming days.

lorenschmidt.itch.io/phosphor

Tax billionaires out of existence.

"Videogames cause gun violence" was the excuse used to distract from the facts the Columbine shooters were neonazis, and here we are pulling the old Jack Thompson special again, because of course...

Hey, so we got a trojan horse
ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

I really wish Steam's "More like this" actually showed me games that are like the one I'm currently looking at, rather than just ultra popular games that happen share tags. It's really not fit for purpose.

So much this! Also it would greatly help with game sales.

With a plugin like steam peak jigsaw puzzle games show other jigsaw games.

With "more like this" you just see same top selling games with tag filters, none are jigsaw games.

We would have so many more sales if it showed relevant games!

With this Steam Next Fest looming, I cannot overstate how much of a death-nail AI Slop is

With hundreds of Demos to choose from, people like myself will quickly skip over anything with slop in the AI Disclosure sections and then your title is buried under a mount of better games

“I’ve seen this brought up in a few pro-harassment discussions… that toxicity is a free speech issue, where they have a right to be… this… And if you don’t like it then you are not cut out for gaming.

I think it’s interesting because it’s not so much about the reality of the situation anymore.”

Steam, Moderation, Toxicity, and “this shouldn’t be normal”

i wrote a post so i can stop thinking about it...
www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/ste...
"I'm not sure there will even be the bridge building and discussions needed, between gamers and developers, to create something better. You can't have that if it's always turned into an "us VS them" argument."

I just want time.

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Commentary - Star Wars: Episode 1 has one of the greatest making-of documentaries of all time, and JeffM has never seen it. It's available for free on YouTube, so you can sync up your viewing with us as we watch the trainwreck unfold. It pulls no punches and shows every "interesting" decision George Lucas makes. This would also be available in the bonus podcast feed.

The Puzzle Olympics - Janet will indoctrinate the crew into falling in love with custom puzzles in Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams, where you can play online for free with friends. We'll upload MinnMax pictures into puzzles and have a good, chill time.

Cat Camp - Do you like cats? Do you love cats? Leo Vader and Jacob Geller would play Mewgenics while showing off their cute cats in real life.

Is This Curling? - Episode 2 - Let's learn the rules of curling by playing Let's Play Curling on the Nintendo Switch, it's developed by the same folks who made Quest64 for all you sickos out there.

Every week we let $10 supporters at the Backstage Pass tier vote to choose which new shows we create or continue for New Show Plus, here are your options this week...

www.patreon.com/posts/150932...

valentine's day card with Ghostie saying "will you be my boo?"

valentine's day card with BEEP0 (a robot character) saying "I love you to bits and pieces!"

valentine's day card with Wobbles (a penguin character) saying "waddle I do without you?"

valentine's day card with Sky (a polar bear character) saying "I love you beary much!"

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!! 💘

today's the perfect day to play matchmaker in Love, Ghostie (still 50% off on Steam AND still donating portion of sales to the American Heart Association)

here are some vday cards to celebrate (+ an anti-valentine below 😈)

a screenshot of a long winding brutalist staircase. there is a poem written on the wall. light comes through the windows. paint splats are on the stairs.

a screenshot of a tree that looks like a human bowing. the tree is large and covered in dandelion whisps. there is a poem at the base of the screen.

a screenshot looking up at old brutalist buildings. the buildings are abandoned.

a screenshot of a desert filled with dead trees. the dead trees almost look human. there is a poem at the base of the screen.

🌼My new game is here!🥀
"She danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died."
alienmelon.itch.io/flower
A game poem and interactive fiction about The End.
You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil.
#IndieGame #VideoGame #GamePoem #Game

I'm seriously considering *not* making a steam page for my game. Here's why- they take 30%, yes, but they also expose you to a wider audience. To me that is a problem. I want a smaller circle of people who followed development closely and understand my style and limitations. Thoughts? Indie release?

Absolutely RAVENOUS over this co-op game from 2021 called Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams. It’s exactly what it sounds like. You’re doing puzzles together online.

Cancel all my appointments.

I finally fixed this annoying issue for our piano which enabled so many cool new ways to use it 🤩

Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams - Major Optimization of Bevel Creation + New Debug Version - Steam News This update further optimizes puzzle creation to fix user crashes with very large puzzles, and also adds a Debug version to help users report issues.

New update fixes the long standing issue of bevel normal map creation timing out lower end GPU's on huge puzzles.

Many hours of work went into reducing a compute shader from 2 seconds down to just 100 milliseconds!

#indiegame #jigsaw #free

store.steampowered.com/news/app/165...

I had to grab some more screenshots of Crisol's environmental design, because it is incredible the amount of little details there are everywhere you look, like the chair legs have hooves! The cutlery have little fish tails! The bottle is wearing a matador outfit! The art team went *HARD* hard!

After downloading I used powershell command add-appxpackage to install that file on other computer, bypassing windows store.

I encountered another error, but this error had an answer. I needed to open gpedit and enable NTFS file encryption. This was the actual issue and that's why FAT32 worked.

Support gave up but I figured it out. Now you can't copy over installation because windows encrypts the files to that pc but I can capture the download:

Started download on a working pc.
Used net monitor Fiddler Classic to capture download URL.
On other PC pasted that URL into a download manager.

That looks so fun!

Probably don't try this in the real Kamogawa...
Look and feel test for this area inspired by memories of hanging out by the river in Kyoto.
#MadeWithUnity #LostInDreams #gamedev #indiedev

(and yes the video compression is killing me!😭)

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

Gambling commercials were never good but at least with casinos they pretended you were going to have a good time.

Now they are like...

Bro1: "Man I need to gamble but I'm just too stupid"

Bro2: "Hey idiot with Achievement Addict just press this button and the AI will gamble for you"

Screenshot of the Love, Ghostie Steam page with “Overwhelmingly Positive” and “97% of the 500 user reviews for this game are positive” circled in red

Love, Ghostie is now OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE!!!!!!

Thank you to everyone who has left a review, it means so much to our small team 🥰

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Where is the Weird? - Unwinnable I miss AA and AAA being unabashedly bizarro in their design, whether they’re story-driven or not.

"Ironically, despite its whole industry being about play, there’s less and less playfulness in big studio design work."

@phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social yearns for more Weird in AAA and AA games:

Just tried changing usb to NTFS (was fat32 because install disk) and now errors out with same error trying to install to that. I have no idea......

Fresh windows install is probably the best option but I'm not ready to go down that route yet just to install one game.

After that worked I unplugged it and tried change the letter of E to D but still same error trying to install. No idea why it works on that little USB stick and not my actual drives.

Here is a really odd thing I just found. So I have a C drive and an E drive and have tried installing on both. I had a USB stick inserted to reinstall windows and that was D drive. I tried to install to that (not even enough room) and the download worked!?? But it's just a usb stick...