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I kinda forgot how fun it can be to somewhat mindlessly poke around on a computer without any real intention.

I'm always working or gaming on them. It's been a minute since I vibed out on a desktop, for lack of a better term.

Anyways yeah that's what I was doing social media sucks bleh :p

Animal Well. I need six more eggs!

While playing Super Mario Odyssey last night it dawned on me that Animal Well is also a collectathon. I need like, six more eggs? Last ones are frustratingly hard to find.

Are games heavily influenced by Hyper Light Drifter called Hyper-Lights? Hyper-Likes?

Microsoft wtf why are you forcing me to change my account PW when I turn on my Xbox. I can’t just play my decade old games in peace? Fucking trash.

Nintendo is definitely gonna put Twilight Princess on NSO GameCube for the holidays right? It seems crazy to me if they don’t

I know it just came out and I haven’t played it but but but it would be cool if Team Cherry made a prequel next where you play as Quirrel

I hope so, I’m basically Sarah Connor when it comes to modern day AI. It seems companies are mostly using it to try and cut costs, but I don’t think it will save them long term. I see it as huge grift from the companies pushing out gen AI to the masses.

Holy shit I called it

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Soo… is Silksong just gonna break the internet tomorrow? I’m personally gonna wait for physical release. Think I heard it will be in January. Stoked they’re only charging $20 🎮 #games

I suggested he could always code his own projects for fun outside of work, if that stuff is important to him. His reaction was basically “well no cuz AI can do the code anyways so it’s pointless if I do it myself” and I just didn’t say anything after that. You gotta make your own happiness dude. 2/2

A coworker who generally advocates for AI recently admitted to me he was saddened by the possible future of coding not being what it used to be. Throw on your headphones, get in the zone, flow state, etc. 🧵1/2

“introduced the technology at over 500 locations in the US, with the aim of reducing mistakes and speeding up orders.”

Bold move, relying on the technology famous for making mistakes that no human would ever make.

What the heck Hyper Light Drifter has co-op?

Who knew that trying to record gameplay footage would be a task in and of itself. I thought it would be “click record”, but there is a lot of set up and trial and error to get the best image quality. #indiegamedev #gamedev

So yeah! I'm gonna start posting dev logs soon on YT!

Reminds me of when I was in a band in college, I was always trying to convince my band mates that we needed to go play venues in the city. They didn't want to and thought we'd just get picked up by "the right person" at the same dive bar we played over and over again. Don't rely on luck.

Real talk though, don't rely on the possibility of a viral post for success. Had to remind myself of this again. Better to start posting dev logs to slowly start building an audience, such as on YT. Do actual market research on games like yours and what you aspire to accomplish.

Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw

It seems like it would be easier once you have an audience, say from your first game.

Why does game dev marketing advice feel so contradictory at times?

They’ll be like, “Don’t post anything unless you have a following and Steampage so you can get those wishlists!”

And at the same time, “You gotta post about your game so you can build your following!”

#indieGameDev

Bro I don't need AI to write buggy code, I got that on lock.

Past few weeks have been kinda rough, cleaning up bugs in my project. Got a lot done but doesn't feel like it. Pretty exhausting. Took a break over the weekend to chill, no code. Played hella games and watched some tube. Will be glad to get back soon to some no code tasks. #indieGameDev #gameDev

Idk man the internet is just like, overrated

That’s not good news…

Learned by accident recently in GameMaker:

If you middle-click a built in function, property, attribute, etc. the local docs will open to the page of said function, property, etc.

Also works on any assets in your project. It will just open that asset.

Super convenient!
#GameMaker

I don’t always use caps lock, but when I do I make sure to forget it’s on and hold down SHIFT so everything is lowercase 🙃

Forgot I had it and been playing 2 recently on my Xbox and having fun. Like with the first one, I can tell it would be more fun with co op instead of playing solo. Also I have save files from 2017 and I literally don’t remember ever playing it lol, only like 4 hours of playtime from then

Kinda hoping Borderlands 4 is good. The fact that it has couch co op and physical release at launch is appealing to me, wish more games had that these days. It’s dumb that the price is jacked up on it but I guess that’s gonna be more standard with AAA games.