Jonathan Hau-Yoon

YouTube video by DevolverDigital Terra Nil Heatwave Developer Overview | New Free Update Coming Aug 7

There's a new Terra Nil update landing soon! 🔥

I love your art! Don't mean to be a nuisance, but there's also a typo in "thundestorm" in case you didn't know.

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Congrats! I hope I live long enough to be old enough to play it!

My partner says this is the greatest piece of illustration that I've ever done. There was a time period where posh, fancy people wore posh fancy hats, and they decorated them with ACTUAL DEAD BIRDS. (She told me this years ago, but it's been lurking, begging for a reason to come bursting out.)

Dressmaker by elyaradine Cut fabric, sew patterns together, and make custom dresses

After three weeks in the prototyping oven, we've launched Dressmaker on itch! This is the most excited about a game that I've made that I've ever been and I don't think I've ever wanted a prototype to be a full game this much. I just hope enough of the rest of the world agrees. 😅

It blew up on short video social media, so we've been working on it full time for the past week to take it from a toy into being a game. Y'know, the other 90%. 🫣

Thank you for the suggestions! Draping sounds really hard to do, but who knows? 😅 Right now we're trying to take this from being a toy into a cohesive basic game loop, and if that really blows up then maybe we can afford to some of the hard things. Adding trims, bows, buttons sounds very possible!

The waddle campaign has reached it's end!  With over 100 penguins adopted, you all have made a big difference.
Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to helping SANCCOB with this cause.
Big shout out to 24 Bit Games who won a well deserved golden penguin award.

Bloom by elyaradine, raithza, sarandipityx Care for your plants and watch them grow. Add decorations and critters to make a lush garden.

We made an incremental gardening game about planting and watering flowers and fungi, and decorating your garden. Try it out at elyaradine.itch.io/bloom

I, uh, was working on this during my vacation, because game dev is especially fun when you don't *have* to do it?? XD

I love talks from peoples' first hand experience. Even if things don't work out, I really enjoy being led down the garden path. I also think it's always someone's first time learning something, so senior peeps who avoid talks because they're "not enough of an expert" are depriving a lot of people.

I really think an account should just be about whatever *you* want to post, and not about trying to play the algorithm/min-maxing game, so that you own the account and it doesn't own you. (Especially if you're salaried and don't need to do the freelance hustle.)

Me too!!

Three children and a very nervous cat ride a mechanical stingray as they... uh... flee from responsibilities and head off on an adventure. The first child points a pencil forward menacingly, with a tie tied around his head. The second child calmly drinks a smoothie, his head protected by a colander. The third looks down at the view below in excitement.

I watched an art demo by Dani Diez where the first few markings of his sketch already had me imagining what the final painting would look like. He ended up taking it in a very different direction, and I left wanting to draw the thing that I couldn't stop thinking about... 😶

From what I've read, it doesn't do end-to-end encryption by default. You have to opt into it via multi-step process using something called "Secret Chats".

I love them all! Also got your book on my shelf last month. It travelled me all the way back to South Africa! 😀

That would be perfect grammar in Mandarin. 😅 晚饭要什么?

This is a great thread @hillsguy.bsky.social, I'll add a bit more context here for anyone interested.

Yes there's no fancy sim - it just uses a water interaction buffer as a target for the particle system rendering, so we could use the power of particle system we already have.

I asked it to improve the short bio I submitted for a talk I was giving (mostly because there's a rhythm to bios, and sometimes end in a light-hearted tidbit). It made it 1.5x the length and worse (lots of flowery pretentious words that mean nothing), and argued that it made it more concise.

The thought that one might put in all of that effort and then have the game completely bomb commercially, and then, depending on the studio, get laid off either way...

My partner just got a vintage knitting machine, and this might be the gateway to turning her into a programmer.

Yeah. I wish there was a tier that had no LLM bullshit and just had the clean searches and the small web. I feel a bit dirty paying for a service that includes tech I don't like. But otherwise it's a little glimpse at what the internet pre ad-infested social media, and that feels nice.

I only ever feel old when I meet my friends' children again after years of not seeing them, and when the phrase "it was really good back then" pops into my head. While on leave I've been thinking about making tiktoks again to reach students but ugh. The ads, the noise, the 1 second attention span. 🫣

I've been trialing a paid search engine. Their "small web" tab is like browsing the old internet. Blog post after blog post of passionate people writing about their interests for the sake of it, not fluff and clickbait for ad revenue. I'm so tired of having to filter out so much noise.

The number of times I type out a reply just to delete it because I don't actually want to spend time arguing with people (even people I know and like) on the internet anymore... I don't know if I've learnt from my teenage years, or if I just don't have the energy. 😅

I confess I don't say this even though I think it often, but I really love your playful shapes. They make me really happy!

I'm staunchly against genAI, but I'd question the idea that "there isn't enough content" is no longer a problem. I think having a lot of low quality chores/padding is kind of a bad solution in response to players equating play-time with value-for-money, but it's something that genAI makes worse.

Also, I was looking forward to hearing why half edge solves these things (?), but didn't get to that!

I think that with this new understanding I can think about how the info on the last slide can be derived (or know what to look for now), but if you have a video or make one, it would be nice to use that to check. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge!