Old Megaphone Cloud

Smacks of Cashgrab

This is everything I love about game dev in a single post. It’s all about figuring out what to simulate at what level.

It’s art and magic and wisdom.

Fucking beautiful!

ask not for whom the bananaphone ring ring rings

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

The emotions this is putting me through… it’s nothing, but ALSO, it could ruin my life.

DAMMIT!

I haven’t played either, and I’m not going to be able to sleep until someone explains how this is even possible

A photo of a bunch of NASA research documents, with titles like "STRUCTURAL MARGINS OBSERVED IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO EXCEEDANCE", "PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF UNEXPECTED WOBBLE IN A RIGIDLY NON-WOBBLING SYSTEM", "OBSERVED PERFORMANCE OF COMPONENTS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN INSTALLED BACKWARDS", "COGNITIVE LOAD IMPLICATIONS OF ACRONYMS REFERRING TO OTHER ACRONYMS", "THRMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MATERIALS DESCRIBED AS 'PROBABLY INFLAMMABLE'", "ON THE REPEATED SURVIVAL OF SYSTEMS NEVER INTENDED TO WORK", "THE EFFECT OF CLIPBOARD ON PERCEIVED AUTHORITY IN TEST ENVIRONMENTS", "MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES EXPOSED TO REPEATED MEETINGS", "ANOMALOUS RESULTS WHICH PERSIST DESPITE STRONG MANAGEMENT DISAPPROVAL", and "A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE MOON'S APPARENT DISINTEREST IN OUR ACTIVITIES"

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip

(with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)

A tween cheatsheet for Godot, going over sequences, tweeners, transitions, eases, an example, killing tweens and other usefull methods

I'm officially going ✨part-time✨ to make more free interactive guides for Godot!!

You can support me on Patreon and get early access and cool rewards 😎

To celebrate, I made a free tween cheatsheet in 8 languages, available here:
www.patreon.com/posts/tween-...
#Godot #GameDev #Indie #GodotEngine

Customizable sky shader I made with parallax clouds where the sun follows your DirectionalLight. The shader's free btw

Link: binbun3d.itch.io/godot-skies

#godot #GodotEngine #shaders #gamedev #gameart

Take your time. Every turn matters. ⚔️

Roguecraft DX is a cozy turn-based dungeon adventure with chunky pixels, clear choices, and that gentle one more turn pull.

Coming to Steam. Wishlist now: thalamus.link/roguecraft 🎯

#WishlistWednesday #IndieGame #RetroGame #roguelike

We're launching a website.

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If you like funny, thoughtful games journalism and can't stand adverts, deals posts, affiliate links, and other nonsense - Jank is for you.

I liked my ad tracking better when it wasn’t a chatty snitch

Some Godot Impact and Explosion VFX.Since they're composed of multiple different parts I made a script that makes it easy to customize them.

I've honeatly poured my heart out for these
Check them out: binbun3d.itch.io/impact-vfx

#godot #indiedev #gamedev #gameart #vfx #shaders

there's another group of people who are constantly and viciously being murdered by police, with basically no fanfare, no attention, no sympathy, and it's folks with severe mental illness. i'm not chiding anybody but i guess i just wish it was acknowledged more often

You’ve inspired me to pull out my copy of that book again. It probably could have helped my 2025 be a bit less… devastating.

The most important point to keep in mind is that you call methods of children, while you signal to make a parent/global object perform an action.

Call down, signal up.

I feel like most of my game’s structure emerges from ensuring signals are available to the right listeners.

IT’S A MAJOR AWARD!

Peacemaker on HBO is worth your time, and directly ties into Superman in season 2.

Also, great music!

Related: I love the idea of the pro AI work crowd seeding little bits of UXO into their portfolios. They'll literally have no idea who or how much they're ripping off, until they do.

Same.

I like to pretend that the harder puzzles are just unsolvable background fluff and the protagonist always dies from starvation in front of a locked door about 60-80% of the way through the game.

Love the name!

I want a course called Hell Hole: as each hole (1-9) gets closer to Hell, the cave gets brighter/redder, and there are smoke, fire, and lava hazards.

My favorite remix of this trope is Lethem’s ‘As She Climbed Across the Table’

What’s the bright light out of scene from the left? The other sun?

ok a question: if you could have your students read one thing on genAI that you hope will encourage them not to use it, what would it be?

Can’t wait until it bumps a cart, locks in the bananas, and makes a flambé

Screenshot from a Tumblr post by ralfmaximus: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference. Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false: If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false. Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out

Hey Firefox users.

The frame before the last bit of damage would kill the final boss, freeze the action and roll credits. During the credits, replay every enemy death in sequential order, but include the names of their next of kin and the hole you’ve left in their communities.

Utterly savage.

I’d buy that for a dollar!

The instant an AI can make a tutorial worth watching, the info is NOT WORTH LEARNING because the AI can just do that thing for us now.

Right?

This business has all the structure of a perpetual motion machine, but it’s just a wildly inefficient Universal Basic Income scheme.