Grifdail (Julien)

Bilbo learnin’ hims magics

Underrated big shift in the influencer era in terms of who has cultural capital: away from performers, writers, artists, musicians etc and to people who are really good at running a small business and doing SEO/social media.

Pretty polar opposite political valences in those skillsets.

Like, especially in game dev, most scripting tool I've seen started as something simpler (a dialogue markup language, a json quest data database, ect...) that got many feature added such as conditional, arithmetic and such, that they became extremely powerfully scripting language.

True. I made a whole visual programing tool because I wanted to do some processing animation in bed and I hate typing code on a phone virtual keyboard.

Also I started tinkering with prog language by adding new features to already existing language and that can be simpler than starting from 0.

"You have to have a good reason to make a language" not necessarily, you can do it because it's fun and interesting on its own.

Hi I'm Pierre Corbinais, I'm a veteran game writer and narrative designer and I'll be looking for freelance work starting September.

I love writing dialogues that make you laugh, cry or both in the same time.

Pass the word! pierrecorbinais.com

#nodepainter

A little messing about with particles.
#Blender #GeometryNodes #MotionGraphics

A hugely undervalued part of technical analysis is "What's the vibe like?"

Day of the Shell sort mardi, j'ai vraiment hâte que vous puissiez avoir les mains dessus !
Hésitez pas à wishlist si c'est pas encore fait, ça nous permet vraiment de pousser le jeu à la sortie et de remplir notre frigo 🙏🙏

A little creative text design using coordinate warping.
#Blender #MotionGraphics #OpArt

OMG oui

J'avais oublier les questions du code qui sont juste assez flou et imprécises pour créé plein de confusion.

over 20% of the global game dev force was laid of on the last 3 years and absolutely none of it was because of piracy

screeshot from Pyrene's Steam page, displaying 589 reviews

We only need 11 more reviews to reach 600, so close 🔥🔥🔥

First: Thank for the great thread !
Second, 83ms per frame is like 15fps ? Did it ever really get that bad ? Also did you have a specific target (FPS & Plateform) you tried to optimise for ? Or did you just try to optimise everything that was possible ?

Brennan's announcement

According to the file, this one is "Weird".

No shit, Sherlock.

This, friends, is a rainbow metal planet, I'm informed.

That whole thread is incredible

honestly need more Peggle-inspired indie games.
cheers to @rednexusgames.bsky.social and @wonderbellygames.bsky.social for leading the way!

C'est de l'impression 3D ou de la sculture ?

I'm a very professional adult.

Anyway I'm making yet another tiny side project. It's a note and organisation app that try to replicate the feel of manipulating real life sticky note. There's no column, no tag, no priority, just a bunch of coloured note you can move on an infinite wall.

I'm a very professional adult.

Anyway I'm making yet another tiny side project. It's a note and organisation app that try to replicate the feel of manipulating real life sticky note. There's no column, no tag, no priority, just a bunch of coloured note you can move on an infinite wall.

Digitally drawn three panel comic depicting Rum the Donkey interpreting the words "console.log" on a website called Javascript 4 Babies.

I'm off to a compassionate start!

#art #rumthedonkey #comic

As GDC talk applications have opened, I want to politely remind you that GDC remains one of the most inaccessible, unfairly expensive, and dangerous for-profit game industry events out there - and that offering your labour for free to it just adds value that pressures people into going needlessly.

The Oxymoron of “Data-Driven Innovation” Once upon a time, in the dawn of the internet era, web products came from college dudes. The dudes were almost always wealthy and well-connected, but they weren’t usually market-savvy. These …

“Visionary ideas derive directly from centering people at the margins.”

Fuck yeah. chelseatroy.com/2021/07/30/t...

Did some massive optimisation work on Node Painter. Basicaly i don't redraw the entire graph whenever a single node change or when the user move around. . The issue was only really noticeable when you had over a few hundred nodes on a sketch but still, I knew it was there !

Happy birthday Ian !

Here's how I made it.