Jameson Thatcher

High scores aren't shared, it's literally just your scores you're seeing - I didn't want to write a server for hosting scores, especially when people will just cheat anyway!

And I don't get paid at all unless someone hits the 'Support this game' button - itch lets you set your price, and I chose $0

There isn't really more to do on it!

I might add an attract mode, and maybe make it pausable, but honestly unless it suddenly picks up a stack of players I might leave it as it is and work on the next thing 😅

Here's a low key, fun game that was introduced to me by @levparikian.bsky.social in one of his newsletters a month or 2 ago.
And I'm almost embarrassed to say that I think most of those 1500 plays might be me. 😬🙄😆

Thanks for playing!

Can I suggest you *don't* play my new game? It does speed up and it's pretty stressful 😂

...I've always been of the opinion that all advertising is some kind of assault on the psyche, but I live in britain so could it really be less bad elsewhere? America certainly doesn't seem any better!

Post Launch Analysis Hi! I thought it would be worth writing a little about this game now it's out, and its biggest hiccups have been addressed. The game initially launched without the plates at the bottom of each column,...

Wrote a bit about Lunch Rush, how launching it went (not great) and why I made it the way I did (hubris)

sireel.itch.io/lunch-rush/d...

Haha, never got caught by that trap. Just CSGO, and a lot of smash bros with coworkers

That sounds familiar, I didn't play much on ps2 though, except for vice City and final fantasy X

It's maybe weird to only have started finding the fun in hyper competitive games as an adult

I don't really know. Except CS (and only really CSGO) I never really got into any fps unless it had guns named at least as interesting as 'devastator' or 'farsight'

The weird thing for me is games like cod are neither as good as time splitters, nor as good as counterstrike. It's like they wanted to be both things and just didn't appreciate the things I like about either

Of all the ways to go 😭

I think you've inspired me to try playing it again though!

Yeah! The feeling of terror as you try to simultaneously run like hell and remember how to clear a jam and refill your only magazine with rounds is unmatched

Nothing like receiving a like to let you see the absolutely unhinged autocorrect you wrote.

"simulating the weapon's physical mechanism"

I need to stop using swipe keyboard on my phone, it only ever embarrasses me

Writing! But also I did spend a lot of the time I played it worrying as well too be fair

Receiver 2 was a fun game. I'm not at all into guns outside of games, but stimulating the embryos physical mechanism made for much more compelling gameplay than I expected.

A+ creepy worrying and execution as well

Oooooh I now know why I was so reluctant to hit publish on lunch rush. But I did it, so I need people to play it so I'm not a failure of a gamedev. (please and thank you) sireel.itch.io/lunch-rush

I saw someone posting their earnings numbers, and they were reporting something like 7k post deductions and rev shares for the month on steam, and like fifty bucks on itch.

So if I publish my games on steam, I could make 150x as much

That's still zero, but it's a thought 😂

I've not tried to find work since getting laid off this year but this hurts to read. Thinking of all my friends who are or have been job hunting this year

Good Morning! To all who celebrates October 3rd!

Running into gamedev takes on Silksong is funny cause it's almost like the thing where they say "You can trust how testers feel but not identify the actual problem OR the solution" only it still applies to devs because we're all idiots with actually pretty narrow domain knowledge.

I kid, I know exactly why I'm doing what I'm doing, and how privileged I am to be able to do it.

I wouldn't know where to start to get a game funded, and I don't envy those who need to

... Help help I'm being attacked on blue sky dot app

Frustratingly that looks like it was added long enough ago that I should have been using it from the get go, but I know I messed up my initial emscripten setup

Thanks for the info, I'll upgrade my framework for my next project!

I must live under a rock, I've seen a couple of people talking like this but I can't figure out what the cause is. Can you clue me in?

The real solution is to download data asynchronously and show a loading screen, but that will take at least a day or two to figure out in emscripten, so I'll leave that for the next project!

Everything else is basically fine. There's an old font asset I can delete. There's a few other small savings I could make

But I've cut about 25% of the download time, at no obvious cost to quality. Not bad for fifteen minutes work!

Well, it turns out the music I used for the game over state is nearly 3 minutes long, and over 4MB (oops).

I don't have the time or skill to cut the mix short, so I cut the encoding quality down massively. It's a lo-fi hip hop track, so it won't notice too badly

That sounds fast enough to download, that's 1 second on 5G. Of course, if someone has iffy signal and is dropped to 3G speeds that's uh... Forty seconds at best. 4G is Fifteen at worst, which is still pretty bad!

A few people mentioned that lunch rush hung on a black screen for to long on boot.

This is because it hangs while it downloads everything. Up to some data size this is fine, breakfast game got no complaints, and that's around 4MB

So I checked, and Lunch Rush is closer to 10. Well...

Thanks!

I'm developing on windows which makes everything just a little harder and I tend to avoid cmake like the plague

I can wait longer for the ports 😂

(excuse auto correct typos in the previous, my kingdom for an edit button etc)