#evo2025 is here and, once again, I'm thankful for multitwitch.tv
Ze-brah!
Credits rolled for DK Bananza. The number of layers stretched a bit, but the final few battles were great. Couldn't help but bob my head when the music started rolling.
New books have arrived.
One of them describes the staff engineer, a role that isn't commonly defined in the games industry.
The other is chef Edward Lee's book about his travels through American cuisine.
Finally a show about Boolean logic operators
Unicorn chaser.
It's good to reinvent the wheel sometimes!
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Great post by Matthias Endler.
It helps understanding how wheels work, how you can fix them when broken, how to make better wheels if really needed, or how to find creative use cases for wheels by thinking outside the box.
And a little bit of Diamond Dallas Page at the end there too.
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Insert rainy day lofi beats.
Turtles catching rays. 🐢
Credits rolled for Crashlands 2. There were some really great peaks in their humor. The music towards the last few hours constantly reminded me of a Muse track.
A blazin' hot wok and a cheery attitude.
Monkey's paw, Jerry.
Been spending my evenings for the past week playing Crashlands 2. It's such a fun and goofy game.
Butterscotch Shenanigans sent out a newsletter with their Discord link. While tempting, I want to avoid spoilers. A feeling similar to the modern day strategy guide that I don't want to open?
Crashlands 2 released yesterday. A humorous survival crafter adventure.
I played it for several hours today on iPhone with a Backbone controller and everything works great. It's not apples to apples, but I appreciate the lighter weight and grip compared to portable gaming consoles.
Werewolves had it rough since the touch ID days. Face ID was just rubbing it in.
Dead Talents Society was tonight's viewing. A low-key release on Netflix today of a horror comedy produced out of Taiwan about ghosts chasing fame. Very goofy and funny.
Thanks for sharing! Before I had my coffee, my head had the wild idea that there was somehow a mouse sensor underneath one of those keyboards.
Tangentially, I was looking at keyboards that have those IBM TrackPoint nubs. Something nice about the close access like your setup solves.
Genuinely curious about this setup. How do you mouse around?
Hard to say how many AAA places do this, but I don't think there are many and it's certainly something that would be nice to see more of.
There were some years working at a studio where I took part in an annual game jam culture. Something about being silly and getting it done in 2-3 days and sharing it with dozens of other people doing the same thing. It was creatively refreshing and reset peoples' brains a bit.
Which sadly makes the "Run Under One Process" setting in UE so difficult to maintain, and renderless load testers a pipe dream.
I'm thru the first few episodes of Frieren. It has a very gentle and heartwarming storytelling style, similar to Natsume's Book of Friends.
The feels when typing www.
Some good news. It's increasing to 3 minutes.
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By the time I get to the second box, I wish we had portals.
