Aura/Moom

It tells me you're full of shit :) bye!

the point I knew it had its hooks in me was when we hit the final lap of a track and it burst into the vocals from the Sonic R theme. okay FINE you understand what Sonic Likers are here for

After like 4 hours of local multiplayer on the new sonic racing game I am basically 100% sold. Game good

Look like you missed your graph lesson again!

#duolingo

Correct. It is not justified. I've played Horses - have you?

less than one hour left!

If someone asked me to produce an artifact about a feature, I would simply use all my mana to summon an object from the howling dread realm and present them with that and damn the consequences.

the HORSES affair is a startlingly low bar to cross to see if people actually care about protecting games from censorship of upsetting themes because it's far tamer and has way more moral clarity than a lot of stuff that doesn't get banned. but it's also very clarifying to see who can't cross it

Oh yeah that's been on my keep an eye on list

that game DOES look interesting

personally staying away from asbury due to its AI usage for concept art.

I'm definitely more of a "mechanics smorgasbord" idle game person - stuff like anti-idle, orb of creation, perfect tower 2, incremental epic hero 2, etc. Too samey for too long and I get bored, haha

at this point i'd probably wait til orb has its full release, it's seeming like within the next year for sure

I tried the demo last nextfest and honestly was not really feeling it - seemed pretty on the shallow end in terms of mechanics? Is the full version better there?

curses I have been witness to:
* sweeping ambitions give way to conflict over what is actually being made
* sweeping ambitions give way to indecision/repeated huge pivots
* improvisational development fails to lead to anything interesting
* leadership more interested in financial crimes than gamedev

making things is hard and making things as a team is even harder

the perfect tower 2 just finally hit 1.0 so I took the opportunity to restart it

like clockwork, winter hits and I am caught in the idle game mines again. what is it about my brain that I need skinner boxes this time of year

this is fascinating, I don't think I've ever been on a project with this particular curse

One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant.

Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.

ANGELINE ERA releases in FIVE DAYS!!
Want to stream it on launch day? Write a last-minute review?
WE HAVE LOTS OF KEYS!! GET IN TOUCH NOW!!! analgesicproductions@gmail.com

otherwise... BUMP THE WISHLIST BUTTON!! store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

Thank you everyone for joining today's dev stream! After some small fixing and tweaking, this is how the crafting menu looks now! 💚
#lowpoly #gamedev #indiedev

The indie of the week logo.

Over at Kotaku, we are trying to cover at least one cool indie game every week. It's called Indie of the Week!

kotaku.com/opinion/impr...

If you are an indie dev with something cool, feel free to send it to Tips@Kotaku.com!

Good idea using gaussians for tiled floor vegetation:
yunfan.zone/gswt_webpage/ #3dgs #gamedev #rendering

All that fucking bullshit about “HORSES” and for what? Originally this post was going to be about Saltsea Chronicles, Die Gute Fabrik’s beautiful 2023 game about conversation and community after the end of the world, but instead everyone decided …

Spoilers for Horses, Santa Ragione, 2025.

noescapevg.com/all-that-fuc...

Humble has relisted Horses.

We are recruiting game makers affected by the 'NSFW' policy changes on Steam and itch.io for a survey. This survey is part of a broader project on the factors that shape the production, distribution, and consumption of porn games. More info about the project and survey at www.pppproject.com

Releasing Monday, Dec. 8th!

Been looking forward to this! Perhaps answers the exciting question of what a new action adventure game descended from Xanadu, Ys, Hydlide, etc., instead of Zelda feels like?

Spatial warps are the real "magic sauce" of Keeper's morph tech. Since we use an implicit surface representation we can easily bend and distort space before the distance fields are sampled. This example is a showcase for the twist warp... Left: along-axis. Right: distance-from-center.

if you frame your entire worldview on justifying what is 'within the rights' of the massively wealthy and powerful you will look up one day and find that what rights YOU have are very little indeed