Dan Johnson 🔜 GDC

a person is running on a beach with their arms outstretched . Alt: A man, arms outstretched, running into the surf on a pristine tropical beach

Learning this while still on my first bottle

ayo what the FUCK

@cydereal.bsky.social relevant to your interests

The "Handy Boy" mobile armor for original Game Boy. It's easily as large as the Game Boy itself, and includes a joystick, angled face buttons, fold-out stereo speakers, a telescoping magnifier, and a light.

I don't mean to brag but

What he said.

this and Game Pass i think are sort of unprecedented in what they do to a game - you deliberately "own" something but never "enter the audience" as an explicit action and you mostly never end up playing the game. when it comes up on sale on steam, you don't buy it because you "have it already"

How do you launch a game as a service without a post launch run scheduled and budgeted? This keeps happening to an extent that I assume it’s part of the (stupid) plan.

Gonna open a restaurant, but if it’s not profitable by 7:30pm on day one, I’m gonna burn it down and blame the chef.

Sexual orientation and gender identity are different, and this "article" is transphobic garbage. Hope that helps.

Two hours of talking about Highguard later, its time for this bizarre indie banger:

DEMON DUST

It's a tricky line to walk, to inform about without inadvertently evangelizing. Some of these companies absolutely run on "all news is good news".

GDC schedule showing indie talks at 2 pm and 4:30 pm but none in between where this talk should be

Any idea why it's not showing up in the app? I've seen at least one talk not show if I don't filter for it or search by presenter name, but I can't find this one at all.

“At times, team members were told to stop working with no warning or quietly replaced without notice. Some woke up to find access revoked, removed from chats, and often left completely unaware of their actual status at the studio.”

Again, the indie scene has a problem with lead devs like this

I don't know how long a sealed bag would last (not THAT long), but I had a closed-but-not-sealed bag go rancid in only six months. 💀 Never made that mistake again.

Trying to make my Caribbean RPG but there's... No funding 🥲🥲🥲

Should also mention it's a lot harder to craft the default small country town because even if I wanted to use premade assets there aren't any available 😭

In my experience, anyone claiming genAI can do their job is saying a lot more about themselves than about genAI.

Who can reply: Talented, clever cuties

Changing my interaction settings but you shouldn't need to worry about it

I meeean, who didn't want to discover dinosaurs? 🤭 #dinosaur #game #indiegame

In an attempt to dissuade you: if it is not stale, it is almost certainly rancid. And from experience, that is not an experience you want to have.

See as much as I bitch about it not being London, there are SOME good things about Newcastle.

I'm sure you can play this defeat with

Grace

Mark of the Ninja wallpaper featuring the "Path of Silence" costume, grey and tattered with a mask like the face of a pale, horned demon with no mouth. The character is climbing down the side of a building toward the camera with a cloudy night sky above/behind them

Mark of the Ninja wallpaper featuring the Path of Nightmares costume. The outdoor features high-contrast black and white accents and a screaming red demon mask framed by wild black hair. The character is turning to face the camera, leading with a blood-soaked sword. Behind, a distant palace structure is lit by flames and shrouded in smoke.

In the vein of Hitman and Monster Hunter, Mark of the Ninja. Optional challenges, a level score based on particular on handling each enemy, and outfits that enhance or incentivize different play styles (eg stealth or terror).

It absolutely slaps.

Watching recordings of people crushing the daily challenges taught me I was not nearly as good as I thought I was.

But "you do the job well" was the premise of the question. 😉

I think games that fit the description
1. Often have open-ended "toolkit vs challenge" design
2. Allow for "inefficient" success
3. Report/score "efficiency" via one or more metrics
Bonus: simulate work that SHOULD be judged on skill

Speed- or no-hit runs are mastery challenges, but often orthogonal to the game's native goal structure (particularly if the game isn't scoring or even reporting efficiency metrics).

I think there's a difference between getting the job done and getting it done well. Many games give you a "job" but encouraging replay for mastery is less common.

There's also tolerance for error vs perfect execution. You can't solve an Opus Magnum puzzle with an error, but you can solve it poorly.

When I heard it was Switch 2 only ):

Horses of Hoofprint Bay Demo on Steam Horses of Hoofprint Bay is a lovingly hand-drawn 2D point and click barn buildup game. Take care of your horses, train them to build up their strength and confidence, and compete for prize money! Bree...

I wasn't expecting "one more turn" but this is absolutely a "one more turn" game.

It looks like you're trying to salvage the tattered shreds of your reputation!