Dom Camus

I don't understand how anyone can possibly want this feature. Some of the other intellicode stuff isn't too bad, but this is just painful.

Today I updated by VS install from 2019 and now it has some kind of AI suggesting autocompletes for all my lines as I type them. It's like having a dim but very enthusiastic undergraduate finishing all my sentences for me.

This lasted less than a day before being switched off.

If I needed this to be really fast I'd just store precomputed lowest vertices for the full set of angle ranges, exploiting the fact that the egg has (I assume) radial symmetry, so you only need the answer for a single circumference loop and can therefore do the whole lot.

Urgent help wanted, as mention by Tonda in this talk. One of the lead playtesters really urgently needs a living kidney donor. Read www.iggyland.org and then consider reposting, please.

My talk is in one hour, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eb-...

Pretty!

Have to admit, that title successfully trolled me for a while before I realised it was unlikely to be what it looked like!

A poster which says "I'm speaking at ThinkyCon 2025 on 6th November. Dom Camus, 'A Journey Into Space'. Watch at thinkygames.com/thinkycon. Discuss on our Discord".

The nice people at ThinkyCon made me a poster! Also, don't forget ThinkyCon starts on Wednesday 5th - I'm on day two.

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.

We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

ThinkyCon last year was pretty great, so mark your diary!

Also, I'm giving a talk again... actually live this time. :-)

Don't tell the Git illuminatii I told you, but you can just type this into a shell:

git config --global alias.uncommit "reset --soft HEAD^"

...and then when you want to reverse your last commit before you've pushed it, it's just:

git uncommit

...which you might have a chance of remembering!

Look, those four between them account for 8% of the volume, I don't think you need worry about the rest.

This game is so well made. Just a pleasure to play.

So this means when we quote you as having said it we need to prefix it with "reportedly, John Walker said"? ;-P

"iPhone build only bug"

Not only is it not worth it, typically it's actively harmful. The reason being, when you do your future projects you'll leave your audience behind and have to crosspost if you want them to know about it.

Yes! This is my favourite kind of talk! Looking forward to it. :-)

"after playing it an unhealthy amount of time"

Only 10 and already he's internalized ideas characterizing fun as harmful!

You're not wrong, but the other thing is live service games. A lot of players mainly want to play with their friends, which means giant megagames that reward heavy time commitment. Singleplayer experiences have a much smaller slice of the gaming pie now.

Definitely moving in the wrong direction, but is this maybe the chance for a high profile indie event not based around huge amounts of air travel and expense?

Pieced Together Demo on Steam Pieced Together is a cozy scrapbooking game that takes you on a heartfelt journey about friendship, getting older and learning to let go. Sort items, solve gentle puzzles, and decorate the scrapbook a...

The demo for Pieced Together is out!

I've just been coding on this project, but @katekillick.bsky.social & @ellieeady.bsky.social at Glowfrog have done incredible work. Check it out, then give it a wishlist! (Reposts also welcomed. ❤️)

store.steampowered.com/app/4005690/...

The cat on the right seems to have settled in slightly deeper than intended and is now looking concerned at the possibility of being stuck in Autumn.

Reminds me much more of Luck Be a Landlord than Balatro. (The former being a major inspiration for the latter.)

Easily @thinkygames.com - literally every post is worth reading. Might not be for everyone, though. :-)

I wish people would, a lot more. We get so many safe-but-dull design decisions because they don't seem worth criticising. It's the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" of game design.

Also, I want him to still have a big saggy face, not look all perky and kittenish. Also also, I have very high standards for marvellous, mechanical mouse organs!

In Unity, a runtime script handling a prefab can add components to it. If it does, they stay there on exit. However, it cannot remove components "to avoid data loss". A classic example of seemingly reasonable design causing chaos... BRB, off to remove a few hundred duplicate components by hand. :-/

Be careful, I think this means there's going to be a boss battle!

Update: Yes, this is really good! Everything I hoped it would be already. Would recommend.

It has made them feel stupid and so must be destroyed. There is no worse crime.