If anyone is willing the share the following, I would be so grateful!
We just launched Piece by Piece on Steam 🎉🎉
It's a cozy repair shop sim, you play a woodland fox who inherits his grandfather's store. You fix up items with your hammer and paintbrush 🔨🖌️🦊
store.steampowered.com/app/3179050/...
Agreed, but, I think the first question would be -- cost of living where? At what age? Esp with the inequality globally it'd be a different case if Valve answered how many "make a living" even in Seattle vs Montreal, never mind Latvia... or 20s vs trying to retire...
encouraging! I gotta be careful though or I'm gonna start playing AAA games or something
as someone normally turned off both by cinematic narrative and superheroes, I was shocked to discover myself quite enjoying the first bit of Dispatch. can anyone confirm how the plot and gameplay overall holds up, if I keep going?
my most unpopular opinion is that I like daylight savings*. yeah it's finicky and inelegant, but then I get longer evenings in spring, and I don't go to work in pitch-black as long in winter. this lets me sunmax! sorry!
*in Canada. agreed they are pointless in eg Los Angeles
you, a fool: but Tanya, categories hold us back from enlightenment
me, a wise philosopher: only with intuitive folder usage may asset production remain manageable
game dev sometimes requires contemplating deep philosophical questions such as 'is a mannequin furniture, a tool or an appliance?'
thanks to the fan asking me to dig up my 2013(?) article on co-operative design. attention friendslop admirers, you can here see how it solves all 5 unique co-op problems through deliberate friends-only, comedy-as-lower-expectations, and other cleverness: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
We are live now answering your Dwarf Fortess questions:
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Cover designer: Tyler Comrie
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important science
mindfulness, meditation, journaling, and therapy are all excellent dietary practices to keep your numibiome diverse and healthy, producing actual thoughts and observation nutrients
by isolating compound gestures and phonemes, scientists have discovered a third type of chromosomal makeup separate from eukaryotes and prokaryotes, the numikaryote, a distinct evolutionary line whose metanucleus responds to prayers and chants as if it were light or food
Dawnglider! Embroidered my favorite little run killer in Caves of Qud 🫶
ah! just seeing this! boo Riot! but fingers crossed you find something even better.
That said- I’m immediately looking for my next role! I am:
- remote or CA based
- 18 year veteran
- looking for principal designer, lead, manager, director roles
- love souls games, ARPGs, and MMOs
- expert systems designer, esp gear, progression, economy, skills
- easygoing, skilled communicator
Introducing the <Low Poly Rat Jam>!
Team up or go it alone - submissions open 6 - 22 March.
No ranks, no prizes, only a promise: I will play and review EVERY RAT GAME.
itch.io/jam/low-poly... #ratjam #gamedev #lowpoly #lowpolyratday
Still looking for my next role - if you know anyone who needs an award winning game designer, narrative designer, or content designer with technical skills and people managing experience who has been at it for 15 years and has made stuff that is taught in schools, hit me up at zoe@unburntwitch.com
Arrival and Annihilation are both in the running for me. Interesting films that bring a new flavor and insight to the old material without changing the core texture.
it's hilarious that if you send something to Slackbot, it'll reply "You can also send things to yourself!"
I could, but I didn't. slackbot engineers are clearly annoyed with people using their features "incorrectly". too bad. explain to me why it's wrong. don't be pass-agg. shush.
this is based on a true story, my dev today, except it was tables not chairs, and this was changed in order to not confuse the poor programmers, who already have enough going on
sometimes game development is staring at a spread of 12 chair varieties, finding #11 is missing, was never put in the game, and trying to figure out what to name it without breaking everything
This is in 2 hours!
it is disorienting to communicate in professional spaces with people whose names are UnleashTheGiraffe or ApplePieButt, which makes me old I guess, but, it's also a joy. this is their true selves, or reflective of some fragment that was true, once, and that's beautiful. dizzyingly kaleidoscopic.
HBO executives, I am available to negotiate on Qud's behalf
this morning, my 6yo asked me that question every parent dreads. "mom, is there a space between video and games or not?"
thanks. from now on when I am served goat or lamb or venison I will taste it and nod appreciatively. "Tastes a bit gamer"
perhaps you have already eaten a WeeabooSmore, but allow me to share it with you, which we (re?)invented from first principles:
1 pocky
plus 2 large marshmallows, skewered first with chopsticks, then put on the pocky
toasted or roasted
equals
DELICIOUS
you're welcome
I genuinely love this as a look
When the timeline delivers.
