Oakum Studio

One of my favorites has always been:

"So long and thanks for the fish"

I've never seen this either and I've lived in the Mt St Helens area for 30 years. I have been where the picture was taken, Yale Reservoir. The view looks correct and the skiing equipment for that time of year is also correct (very cold water).

Here's a another view north from Yale Reservoir.

Sad news -- both in terms of layoffs and the direction they are going by trying to integrate more with the ironsource teams.... ick.

What's up, Chuck?

I added some automatic logging events to Butcherland that track how players progress thru scenes or where they get stuck.

Takeaways:
1) Level design is tough.

2) Some areas need more breadcrumbs.

3) Keeping scenes roughly the same size or relative difficulty allows for easier/better analysis.

Doom 2.

I was 8 years old with a brand new computer setup in the basement. I finally finished installing the game (3.5" floppies) and drivers for the joystick (yep, no mouse) around 10PM.

About 90 minutes later, an imp scared me so bad I screamed and broke the joystick in half.

Interplay's splash screen used to include their logo of "By Gamers for Gamers".

I seem to remember Idiocracy having a Masturbation Network on TV where people would just cook/eat food and talk about the news.

I'd love to be included - thanks!

I would love a deep dive into the 8 years during the XP -> Vista-> Win7 progression. I actually consulted briefly at MS during this period (2006) and it was very <ahem> interesting. Some of the stories I could share are bananas.

Watching A New Hope with my 4 year old daughter was perhaps the best movie experience I ever had.

I tend to measure "skillset" progress in terms of game mechanics. Have you implemented any kind of inventory system? Or how about a save game system? Fast travel to a different scene? Etc...

Now "progress" for the business side of game dev is a whole other animal.... ;)

I agree.
The dull stuff gets a free pass and only REAL art is criticized. ;)

YouTube video by Austin1982 Bill Hicks Waffle Waitress

That's a famous Bill Hicks bit about a waffle waitress asking him "why you reading?".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=soAz...

Elbows too pointy.

Winamp was the best. It supported streaming music from college campuses all the way back in early 2000's maybe 1999(?). Nobody else was doing anything like that then.
Chronix Aggression anybody?

I built for my first computer in 1998. It was a K6 with voodoo2 graphics card. IIRC all the components, including a 19" CRT monitor weighing 60 pounds, were around $1500.

Our #gamedev / #indiegamedev / #podcast journey.

(visualized by Yoann Bourgeois filmed by Mathieu Stern)

Even just downloading and rating mobile games helps new people so very much. That is to say folks who are really attempting to make a game and not a copy-pasta job to sell ads.

If there's ever a Sekiro DLC, I'll be disappointed if this guy isn't guarding a bridge waiting to kill me 3,4, or 58 times.... ;)

Please let this be the truck owner:

I once spent a year building a C# reporting app for a group of chemists who built 100's of reports using excel VBA and VB6.

Those were dark, dark times in my SDE career.... (shudder).

I only had a retainer for a couple years but used to have a lot of unpleasant dreams about teeth falling out.
You're not alone. ;)

ButcherLand - Offline RPG - Apps on Google Play A cartoon 2D platforming adventure with RPG elements.

We released Butcherland this year. Technically its still in open beta but the first chapter is complete.

Would love to be considered for the list !

play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Looks awesome!
Gives me some Diablo2 paladin vibes 😀

I'd love to be included!

I believe dinosaur popup books and aliens can coexist in a learning environment.

Disclaimer: I'm unemployed.

Looks okay to me.... Ship it!

Maybe use an AI image generator like stable diffusion to help with art assets? I purchase a lot of assets and then have to use AI to help fill the gaps that I cannot draw myself.