Christiaan Moleman

YouTube video by LAIKA Studios Wildwood First Look: Where Magic Takes Flight | LAIKA Studios

Check out this amazing bird we made (I work on it's silicone feet a lot and was on a lot of the car/road shots):

youtu.be/3HQ-HrwIgOc?...

Indeed, imagine being this proud of being too lazy to experience art yourself and form opinions of your own and have so little respect for film (or any art) that you think a summary will do, AND being that defensive about it. Easy block.

And so many more: Grim Fandango, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Deus Ex, Mass Effect, Bastion, Beyond Good & Evil, Shadow of the Colossus, Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, AC IV Black Flag, Sands of Time.

YouTube video by Poldsola VGM Little Big Adventure 2 Soundtrack - 01 Song for Gabriel

And Little Big Adventure 1 & 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuep...

YouTube video by signatux soundtracks 05. Isolated (By Chiasm)

Also Vampire Bloodlines: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgAr...

Outcast (1999) score by Lennie Moore: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

No, you literally don't understand what media & art are for. You don't blindly consume max amount of content. If you don't have time to watch a thing or don't want to then don't watch it! Why pretend to know about it by watching summaries??? That's insane. What an empty way to experience the world.

The illusion of thinking you have experienced a thing by checking a summary. The real reason to watch video essays and such is to supplement and contrast with your own views AFTER seeing/playing/reading for yourself. If you can't find time to watch a movie, why bother at all?

Adaptive Music Adventures - YouTube In this series, we explore existing adaptive music techniques, and try to merge them into a hybrid method for scoring video games.

Same composer Kejero did a really interesting video series on adaptive music for games a while back (he also did the music for Guppy): www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

YouTube video by Kejero Starship Troopers Terran Command - Behind the Music

Old video but I just saw it. Really neat way to do more dynamic interactive music in unpredictable strategy games: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tGT...

What's pretty handy is you can subscribe to someone's main channel or only to their sub-channels depending on what you're interested in.

Christiaan Moleman I make games and animation. Trying out Peertube. Will upload more videos later. Mastodon: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@ninjadodo

Makertube is nice and open to join; just have to submit a request. I like how easy it is to create separate sub-channels for different topics, like so: makertube.net/a/ninjadodo/...

What is PeerTube? | JoinPeerTube A free software to take back control of your videos! With more than 600,000 hosted videos, viewed more than 70 millions times and 150,000 users, PeerTube is the decentralized free software alternative...

Only real downside is it doesn't have the reach of YT. Some servers are more niche than others, but like other Fediverse platforms you can interact between servers: joinpeertube.org

As long as you don't want to create and maintain your own server it's pretty easy use, about the same as Youtube.

MakerTube A home for makers, musicians, artists and DIY folks

Peertube is pretty solid if you can find a server you like that is taking new members. I like this one: makertube.net

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.

Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

Nice example of how more detail is rarely better. With atmosphere / without atmosphere.

Will never understand why people (esp Americans?) think it's totally fine and 'normal' to be xenophobic as long as it's about Europeans. (it's not)

Developers report delayed payouts from itch.io Itch.io may be struggling to pay devs after enduring pressure from payment processors over adult content on its marketplace.

Hopefully they'll fix it soon, really unfortunate situation. I expect they have to put out this fire first: www.gamedeveloper.com/business/dev...

Hardly fair since itchio is a tiny team dealing with multiple crises at the same time, and are stretched super thin. Can't blame them for not insta-fixing every problem. They're already swamped.

Could ask on AnimState Discord as well maybe?

something that I’ve been thinking about since DICE is that a lot of highly skilled devs are subject to management labelling them as ‘difficult’ and sidelining them simply because they point out and want to solve a problem, mismanagement which I think has contributed to a lot of failed projects

Only 4 days left before the Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle sale ends, and about $8,000USD away from hitting $100k USD.

Please RT and help push this as far and to as many people as possible for this last stretch.

Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

From what I can tell running and maintaining your own Mastodon instance is waaay too complicated for all but the most tech-savvy and determined.

Imo they just need to improve the portability of accounts so you can easily export and transfer not just follows and followers but also keep ALL your posts, and maybe have an optional backup system that allows exporting even if your instance server ends unexpectedly with no warning.

Unlike twitter on bsky posts are not suppressed by the algorithm for having links so you can just put the link in the first post. Probably would get more eyes on it that way.

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

I keep thinking about "3D impressionism" as a much needed term for the way we think about art direction in games

To me measuring how "better" or "worse" the graphics are only in terms of their relation to reality is like claiming the photo of a street in Arles is objectively superior to Van Gogh

Mysterious Cities of Gold: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ycG...

screenshot of vaguely oak-like procedurally generated 2D trees in a pencil sketch style assembled from different sprite parts on a paper grid background with tutorial text and statistics above and below.

Improving my sprite-based #procgen trees, currently working on oak trees but still a ways to go. ninjadodo.itch.io/procgentrees