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Game Developer, writing and programming and stuff. CK3, Curious Expedition 2, Terra Nil, Haste: Broken Worlds, Saint Ghizard

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The "were" in werewolf means "man", so Sonic's normal anthropomorphic state is already a "werehog"

19.03.2025 10:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You'll finally be able to try HASTE: Broken Worlds next week! ๐Ÿ™Œ

We're releasing a demo on Monday the 24th of February as part of Steam Next Fest and we can't wait for you to try it! ๐Ÿƒ

The demo features one Shard-run from the game and a tutorial to teach you how to perfect your landings.

19.02.2025 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 304    ๐Ÿ” 63    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
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I'm sorry, you can *kickflip a surfboard*???

07.02.2025 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A cozy night on the patio at the Belle Flower Inn. Spot illustration for Gwelf the Survival Guide. Watercolour.

08.01.2025 14:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 562    ๐Ÿ” 118    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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I asked chat gpt for a labeled map of the Mediterranean at the outset of the second punic war and got the attached abomination.

29.12.2024 19:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 493    ๐Ÿ” 101    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 72    ๐Ÿ“Œ 71
There used to be a man who published a very influential fanzine, a reviewzine, and he always gave me very bad reviews. The thing that he really hated about my work was that it was different from other works and it wasnโ€™t the kind of thing that he was used to reading. He really resented that. I would write him and say, โ€˜There are thousands of books of the kind that you want, which are simple straightforward stories along story-lines that you have explored often before. The shelves in every bookstore in the world are groaning under these books. There are tons of them. Why does everything have to fit that?โ€™ He wouldnโ€™t tell me, but eventually I realised that as long as there was one book that didnโ€™t fit, he felt threatened by that. Not all books were familiar comfortable things. There were these strange pseudo-books that might leap out at you and bite and suddenly make you think of things that you had never thought of before, regret a missed opportunity from thirty years ago, or whatever. He was very disturbed by that and very angry at me because I try and write that kind of book. PW: It seems strange that anyone would object to novels that challenge both conventions and the reader. GW: Well, it seemed to me strange at that time but I learned that it does happen and the fact that you tell people you shouldnโ€™t do this, you shouldnโ€™t feel this way, doesnโ€™t have any effect. They continue to o it and they continue to feel as they feel.

There used to be a man who published a very influential fanzine, a reviewzine, and he always gave me very bad reviews. The thing that he really hated about my work was that it was different from other works and it wasnโ€™t the kind of thing that he was used to reading. He really resented that. I would write him and say, โ€˜There are thousands of books of the kind that you want, which are simple straightforward stories along story-lines that you have explored often before. The shelves in every bookstore in the world are groaning under these books. There are tons of them. Why does everything have to fit that?โ€™ He wouldnโ€™t tell me, but eventually I realised that as long as there was one book that didnโ€™t fit, he felt threatened by that. Not all books were familiar comfortable things. There were these strange pseudo-books that might leap out at you and bite and suddenly make you think of things that you had never thought of before, regret a missed opportunity from thirty years ago, or whatever. He was very disturbed by that and very angry at me because I try and write that kind of book. PW: It seems strange that anyone would object to novels that challenge both conventions and the reader. GW: Well, it seemed to me strange at that time but I learned that it does happen and the fact that you tell people you shouldnโ€™t do this, you shouldnโ€™t feel this way, doesnโ€™t have any effect. They continue to o it and they continue to feel as they feel.

Thinking about Gene Wolfe on bad reviews again

28.12.2024 18:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 423    ๐Ÿ” 157    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
Text describing a fragment of Coptic writing ending with the line "Jesus said to them: 'My wife'"

Text describing a fragment of Coptic writing ending with the line "Jesus said to them: 'My wife'"

Jesus voice:

27.12.2024 20:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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EGG HARVESTER

We made a game for #7DFPS about building a giant mysterious egg harvesting machine!

squidcor.itch.io/egg-harvester

13.12.2024 09:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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I almost recoiled at seeing the top image when looking up Saint Mark because it's digital art instead of being "historical", but actually they're both equally accurate Bible fanart

28.11.2024 13:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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bird sounds

16.11.2024 15:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29595    ๐Ÿ” 6048    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 206    ๐Ÿ“Œ 228
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f r o g

15.06.2024 19:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 474    ๐Ÿ” 93    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

just made this really dumb bed lol. canโ€™t wait to see who has to lie in it

16.01.2024 15:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Up until this point I honestly thought Boss Baby was technically a criminal

25.10.2023 16:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Since it's October, it's a good time to remember that there used to be a manga magazine called Monthly Halloween that routinely featured the best covers ever produced by humans.

05.10.2023 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

itโ€™s sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing โ€œOK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powersโ€โ€ฆ man, you would have loved Dragonball Z

27.09.2023 20:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4435    ๐Ÿ” 1123    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 56    ๐Ÿ“Œ 65
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Unity's Just Not Into You, Indie Developer How can you trust a business partner that will radically change the terms not only of your future relationship, but your existing one as well?

Featured Blog | Unityโ€™s Just Not Into You, Indie Developer

"Unity isnโ€™t particularly interested in keeping developers of premium games as its customers, especially not small ones. Indie developers are merely collateral damage."

www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/unity-...

14.09.2023 17:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Text that reads: "Unity is not a game engine company that also provides operating services. It is a mobile F2P services company that also provides a game engine."

Text that reads: "Unity is not a game engine company that also provides operating services. It is a mobile F2P services company that also provides a game engine."

I wrote a BLOG about why this is par for the course for Unity now, and why it will never go back to being a good engine for indies:
pettervil.com/f/unity%E2%8...

13.09.2023 20:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Everything about this has the vibe of an April Fools joke

12.09.2023 15:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A meme of a man labeled โ€œyoโ€ throwing down a card titled โ€œel problema es el capitalismoโ€ onto a table titled โ€œuna conversaciรณn casualโ€

A meme of a man labeled โ€œyoโ€ throwing down a card titled โ€œel problema es el capitalismoโ€ onto a table titled โ€œuna conversaciรณn casualโ€

Hmm yes why canโ€™t other studios just build expertise in a genre for 21 years, growing a core fan base, then get licensed the largest IP in the genre, to make a new entry in a beloved but defunct series, with full price early access for 3 years, then release after a popular movie in the IP?

13.08.2023 18:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 130    ๐Ÿ” 38    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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choose your fighter

02.08.2023 12:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 92    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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A lot of you have never been taught how jellyfish reproduce and it shows

29.07.2023 01:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

bro, you're going gentle into that good night... dude wtf

25.07.2023 19:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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