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The cover of Whale Watching Quarterly Issue #1, with the feature being the cast of Kisarazu Cats Eye in front of text reading “The Year of Yassai Mossai 2003”
Featured in issue 1:
- I love Taiko no Tatsujin
- The Year of Yassai Mossai 2003
- First dev update in a while
- Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter and Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City
In a culmination of my long-standing desires to write more, have more fun, and make a zine, I’ve started a little digital zine I’ll be using to contain most of my writing and devlogs from now on
whalewatching.neocities.org
as an additional effect I have gotten very in-depth with godot lighting as well
A booth in a dimly lit diner with a jukebox in the background
A woman standing a the bar of the diner with counters and a fridge behind her
Moved onto some other stuff for the time being but I found out about @ambientcg.com pbr materials and have decided that realism is going to be my thing now
#blender #godot
BYTE’s 50% off for the Steam winter sale right now!! It’s not Halloween anymore but it’s always vampire season 🧛♀️🧛♀️🧛♀️🧛♀️🧛♀️🧛♀️
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Now I get to move onto character modeling and I have to actually learn how to model faces and hands after like eight years of using blender
work on my recreation of Portland’s Pearl District continues I now have a whole bunch of buildings, cars, and started on a diner
#gamedev #godot #blender
So far this has involved porting my road generator over to godot (I want to be in godot now), adding sidewalks to it, figuring out lighting and rendering techniques, as well as learning better-practice 3D art but we’re in business now
I’ve been trying a few different things at once but for a few different projects I want to work on i want to recreate Portland’s Pearl District in game form. So far I have a little pretty corner in progress
I promise I’m doing other things now but am too busy setting up workflows and such to have interesting things to post but hopefully I’ll have new things soon 🙏🙏
It’s not on sale because it launched less than a month ago but byte’s in the Steam Scream 4 Fest right now!! You might see it buried in the rpg tags as you’re searching for cool new things to play 🧛♀️🩸🧛♀️🩸🧛♀️
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A screenshot of the Steam admin page showing that byte is completely Steam Deck verified
Just got the email that byte is officially Steam Deck verified!! You can now officially trust that byte will run with full functionality on the go 🏃♀️
#indiedev #steamdeck #indiehorror
amazing I’m glad to be spreading the good word
also play byte obviously. It’s like at least tangentially cyberpunk
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byte’s out now(🧛♀️) but there are lots of punk movies I never got to so here are my letterboxd reviews of four final certified punk! classics™️
- Ikebukuro West Gate Park (2000, show)
- Repo Man (1984)
- Linda Linda Linda (2005)
- Velvet Goldmine (1998)
I think I just made a critical blunder of trying to release during the autumn sale so all the sale/refund requests were getting prioritized. They responded to my ticket within an hour of the sale ending lol
YEESSSSSS ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thanks! at like 2pm they responded to my support ticket asking me to try again and when that didn’t work a few hours later I got a note saying that the issue was fixed and it worked. idk what’s going on but it seems like they need to fix it on their end. good luck!!!! 🙏🙏🙏
The real joke about a steam bug delaying my release to October 6th is that for like a year and a half I was planning an October 6th release and then moved it up to the 1st so really Steam is just holding me to my plan exactly
PLAY BYTE NOOWWWW
At long last BYTE is out now on Steam for you to buy, download, and play at will!!!
#byte #indiedev #indiehorror
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Day 5(!!!!!) of waiting for steam to respond to me. today you should watch hackers. It’s maybe the most famous punk movie and it’s awesome. Just wall to wall 90s hacker names and rollerblades
Day 4 today’s movie is slc punk. it’s my favorite punk movie and one of my all-time favorite movies. this typically gets a little underrated in punk movie rankings because it starts out with the usual punk movie absurdity but ends shockingly honestly and seriously. I love the ending tho
Day 3 of not being able to release byte until Steam gets back to me. Today you should watch brass knuckle boys. It’s written AND directed by the great Kankuro Kudo and it understands 21st century punk on a level I haven’t seen anywhere else (except other Kudo works)
In hindsight the delayed support response probably has to do with the steam sale (it seems like the amount of support requests doubled from 9/29 to 9/30) so note to self don’t release your game in the middle of a major steam sale next time
Still no response from Steam support so instead I’ll just post about punk movies I’ve been watching lately until byte is out. This image is from wild zero, a 1999 zombie movie that is mostly an excuse for Japanese noise rock band guitar wolf to break stuff and scream about the power of rock and roll
An image of guitar wolf, from the band guitar wolf, in the movie wild zero, saying “Believe in rock’n’roll!”
Steam still has not gotten back to me about the error (bug?) blocking me from releasing byte so I’m choosing to follow the wise words of my hero guitar wolf and believe in rock and roll in order to get this game out there
On a related note, if anyone knows what to do about the error steam throws when trying to release that says “No video files have been uploaded for this trailer” lmk
Actively trying to release byte but steam is just throwing an error and their support team hasn’t gotten back to me. promise the game is coming out imminently, but steam is not making it easy
