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Don't use the plagiarism machine, not even to dunk on how shit it is at counting.

VISA and MASTERCARD are now refusing all calls related to their policy changes. So call up as a concerned shareholder, prepared to short-sell their shares to reduce financial harm and loss to their portfolios.

They're trying to ignore us. Don't let them.

Evangelical Censorship is death to progress

Schilling incoming🎙
TODAY is Bandcamp Friday: the event where purchases on BC end up 100% going to the artist, Bandcamp takes NO cut

It's the first BCF since I released the DLD OST, so if you were thinking of snagging it today would be a splendid-ass day

deadletterdept.bandcamp.com/album/dead-l...

Portfolio Hey I’m George Young, and I’ve been writing about those wonderful uses of time video games for about a decade. Whether you’ve found me via my Vita obsession, other writing, or jus…

Portfolio Update!

Reminder that I am currently freelance, and I'm always looking for opportunities, so hit me up if you need help with news, reviews, guides etc.

You can find my favourite pieces here - vitaparadisa.wordpress.com/about-me/

RTs welcome. I love you all. Yes, you too.

This is Into The Unwell:

✅Silky-smooth rubber hose animations
✅Play solo or with up to two other co-dependents
✅Chaotic combat for the chronically incurable

Wishlist now on Steam! #WishlistWednesday

store.steampowered.com/app/2024600/...

#gamedev #indiegame

I occasionally get "Rami you've radicalized, I don't like it" and yeah I hate it too but if you're saying this the problem really is that a literal 600 day genocide in our names with our tax money on our televisions from journalists being murdered as our politicians lie hasn't radicalized you enough

YouTube video by She Was Such A Good Horse The Into The Unwell Closed Beta Just Dropped 🔥

Did someone say "Closed Beta"? On a Monday?

Yeah, that's right Misfits! Today's the day and you can read all about it here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/202...

Or watch our latest video: youtu.be/McZdq-oswWQ #gamedev #indiegame #intotheunwell

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

Meet Kajan — one of Looptown’s quirkiest citizens! 🐦 This bad bird’s got a sharp beak and a sharper tongue… especially when speaking Swenglish!

What's your favorite Swedish word? #gamedev #indiegame #intotheunwell

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to

askvisa@visa.com

they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

📢 ISO of Devs Affected by Itch 📢

If your game got:
• Deindexed
• Removed
• Payouts turned off

Especially if you make Adult &/or LGBTQ+ #IndieGame or #VisualNovel, I want to talk to you.

🗣️ Please reply below with how you were affected. This is for a #Journalism piece.

🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁

Evan DeSimone Every time we're forced to talk about Joe Rogan I am reminded of my best and most immutable axiom: Nothing that only men like is cool. Everyone is mad about this so let me just clarify that I am 100% correct.

PaperKlay Switch version is progressing well, will have more information in a few months.

But a reminder that @paperklay.bsky.social is on Steam and runs wonderfully on Steam Deck!

"It was at this moment he knew... he fucked up" #gamedev #indiegame #intotheunwell

Coming soon: On The Go - The PSP's unofficial history An unofficial, hardback book covering the entire history of Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP)

👀

www.kickstarter.com/projects/2o4...

Inquiries minds wanna know: Are you team left or team right? 🧻 #gamedev #indiegame #intotheunwell

hi #PortfolioDay I'm crisp and I primarily do video game soundtracks! feel free to hit me up!

I'm taking a little break from devving, so I'm instead gonna do the type of dev post that I enjoy seeing!
Here's a short thread about how I got ""PBR"" reflections and a roughness workflow working on a PS Vita. 🤓
With a snazzy breakdown video!
#purified #indiegame #gamedev #vitaisland

Haha, hell yeah!

It's still my favorite console, such a good travel companion as well!

Here's the best sketch I've ever made of Uriel and the Council, the end!

For the characters I use an Albedo/Diffuse texture, an Emissive texture and a two channel Mask texture containing Ambient Occlusion and Roughness.
Giving me everything I need for ""PBR"" while keeping the Vita above 60 FPS, the target framerate for the game. 🤓

Knowing that mips work on normal textures I decided to render my cubemaps into lat-long textures, then I do a bunch of reflection math in the vertex shader (to avoid per pixel reflection calculations) and sample mips like you would any normal texture. 🦾

Cubemap sampling without border mip-maps. Image courtesy of "Waz" from https://discussions.unity.com/t/cubemap-mipmaps-inadequate-for-reflection-probes-for-pbr/557283

Usually you'd use cubemaps for PBR and then sample lower mip-maps to simulate a rough surface.
With the Vita being about 14 years old it does not support the border mip-maps needed for sampling between cubemap faces, so you get sharp lines between the faces like this. 🤢

I'm taking a little break from devving, so I'm instead gonna do the type of dev post that I enjoy seeing!
Here's a short thread about how I got ""PBR"" reflections and a roughness workflow working on a PS Vita. 🤓
With a snazzy breakdown video!
#purified #indiegame #gamedev #vitaisland

Thank you so much man, that means a lot!
And same, love all your stuff! 😄

Very nice! 📸
Same mechanic but different ends of the vibe spectrum, haha!

The petition is moving full steam ahead and only 200k signatures are left to make the cut.

It takes seconds to sign, it changes history forever.

#StopKillingGames

Yeah, this feels like a non-issue, just use Pink Checkers and "TEXTTEXTTEXT" like god intended, cowards.
If a placeholder asset doesn't look like dogshit you can assume the game will ship with it, so make them terrible on purpose.

Brace yourselves... Monday is coming. ☕⚔️

What’s your battle plan?

#gamedev #indiegame #intotheunwell