James Patton

A sales report with royalties owed on a specific date are supposed to be set in stone, something you can plan your LIFE by and many of us at Unbound did. We trusted them to run an honest business. And now we are fucked. I’m working 60 hrs a week in a basement barely writing anymore

Pretty sure that's just using a template rather than an LLM (they just change the content of each phrase slightly but keep the same order). But yes, this is automated text.

aaaaaaaaarh narrative design is so finnicky, why do I have to support like 8 different branches in my main quest's climax?

(I know, player agency, but this is taking soooo long.)

Gonna toot my own horn here, but these are some reviews for "Silicon Dreams", my cyberpunk thriller which sold badly but everyone loved.

The last one's from PC Gamer. They loved it.

store.steampowered.com/app/1272070/...

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"illegal adult content"

Porn isn't illegal.

smut isn't illegal.

adult content is legal, and people should be able to purchase it with their money.

How an anti-porn lobby on payment processors censored thousands of video games | CBC Radio Video game developers are speaking out after thousands of games and other digital artworks were hidden or removed entirely from two popular PC games stores. They say many of the vanished titles were u...

Wow. CBC just covered the Steam / itchio situation. DONT STOP CALLING MASTERCARD, VISA, PAYPAL, STRIPE

www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/s...

Duskpunk on Steam A dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city powered by corpses. You escaped the War, and made it to the capital. Explore the city, manage your health and stress, build your skills, find allies, and spark a...

This post is a bit niche, but if it sounds interesting, consider wishlisting the game. It's a strange beast but I'm passionate about telling this story of struggle, survival, hope and revolution.

store.steampowered.com/app/2610880

I'm hoping to capture a fraction of this film's strangeness: when a revolution happens, the old norms crumble and the will of the people demands something radically different - which can look strange!

There are these wonderful, surreal scenes where the Red Army storms the palace.

Gunfights in the Tsar's wine cellar.

Soldiers creeping through the Velvet Jungle of the palace staterooms, using marble pillars as cover.

Spent a big chunk of today writing my game's revolutionary climax scenes: storming a palace!

It was inspired by the climax of "October" (1927), a brilliant Russian movie made by communists depicting the October Revolution.

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At first I was like "oh no, the menu is busted!"

Then I touched the mousepad and realized it was "just" the cursor.

This raises more questions than it solves. 🙃

You are wrong, obviously the point of art is to get from A to B as quickly as possible.

Cutting those sex scenes could improve your Narrative Efficiency Quota by up to 12%!

First try at a Mac build is going well 😐

Epilepsy warning!

#gamedev #indiedev

What does Biden have to do with it? He's just an oldschool capitalist. He torpedoed a major railway strike, he is not a friend to regular working people.

There's no anomaly here. People, globally, volunteer their time to powerful public goods the moment they're not actively terrified that they'll lose their home, their food, and their freedom. Which means that capitalism requires us all to live in fear, always - because it can't compete with free.

Duskpunk on Steam A dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city powered by corpses. You escaped the War, and made it to the capital. Explore the city, manage your health and stress, build your skills, find allies, and spark a...

I hope that the takeaway of my scene is that yes, sometimes you want to storm the palace, but it's important to weigh up the forces on both sides first.

If you think Duskpunk looks cool, give it a wishlist!

store.steampowered.com/app/2610880

Andor's "Ghorman massacre" is much richer and more fleshed out than Duskpunk's one scene, but mine
1) is part of an ongoing multifaction struggle for revolution
2) puts player choice front and centre: if people die in this scene, it's because YOU made a bad call.

🧵

As I was rewriting this "mass protest" scene for Duskpunk, I realised I was in the same territory as Andor's chilling scenes from S02E08.

(Andor and Duskpunk spoilers below.)

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Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv

They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

Why should some rich assholes get to dictate the direction of this massive company? Why can't Microsoft be owned by its employees - the people who do the actual work and know how to run it best?

I planned to work on Duskpunk for a cool 8 months or so: just a scrappy thing to bring in enough cash to survive.

It'll be 2 years in August. I pushed it back for good reasons, but a bit of my brain is like "OH GOD JUST GET IT OUT ALREADY"

It shows how obsessed I was with that show that I could immediately recall what they were to check your math.

The final refuge of those running from the truth.

Not to mention the secret military bases hidden in the mountains.

The Welsh mountains.

I need you to know that I've been working on this for over two years now!

Commenting so I can also follow, I enjoyed Silent Hunter 1 ages ago

Woke up, thought about game while brushing my teeth, created impromptu torture sequence by lunch.

Narrative design goes to strange places sometimes.

Woman who is transgender swims topless in protest against rules A woman who is transgender has taken a stand against a national swimming organisation after they disallowed her from competing in the women's…

Legend

www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/2524145...

"Slow days" or something? "Lazy sundays". something in that area