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Gary White - GameDev

@invidious.bsky.social

πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ Solo Irish game dev. I am slowly making an existential horror first-person game about traveling underground and dehumanising yourself. I have unreasonably strong opinions on games and film.

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Is that showing the real size and shape of the Earth's shadow or is it just an optical artifact? Because if so, that's a really neat side effect of this kind of composite.

01.03.2026 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, Steam provides a lot of value but 30% from dollar 1 is so excessive when it's already an endless money printing machine.

01.03.2026 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a baby owl is standing next to a tree in a field with cows in the background . ALT: a baby owl is standing next to a tree in a field with cows in the background .
28.02.2026 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a group of people dressed as turkeys are dancing with the words eat me in red letters Alt: a group of people dressed as turkeys are dancing with the words eat me in red letters
27.02.2026 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Prime Video is excellent at digging up movies from 2002 with 3.9 on imdb.

27.02.2026 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think URP is actually pretty good but the on-boarding is horrific. Explore the four new places we've put various setting and the several places with override settings and the various new asset files which control settings for the scene and the project and ALSO the RUNTIME scripts that control it.

27.02.2026 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Kind of annoyed this isn't a game I can play! My first thought was wishlist.

25.02.2026 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This invites the question "What is exploration?" If you're literally just walking around looking at things, I don't think that's exploring. Exploration requires the possibility of discovery, and discovery needs to hook into other mechanics. Without discovery you're not exploring, you're wandering.

24.02.2026 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The advice is always to grey box it but I honestly find it demotivating looking at ugly placeholders for too long.

23.02.2026 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The idea that we're in danger of trees taking over is deeply laughable.

23.02.2026 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Graphic design in 1999 was wild.

23.02.2026 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whomever you are quoting I already have blocked lol

22.02.2026 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"I spent an entire session of therapy talking about it." Can you imagine being this guy's therapist?

21.02.2026 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Cos it's a cool name regardless. Evokes a switchblade. Switchboard works, too, in a world full of advanced retrotech.

20.02.2026 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think magic should always be better; otherwise it's not magic, it's just another gun. Magic should be a way to break the normal rules; turning it into just one more tool among equals sucks all the fun and fantasy out of it.

20.02.2026 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whatever about the legality, it's incredibly tasteless and cliche.

18.02.2026 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Then perish.

18.02.2026 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's like the camera is hard-coded to 16:9 and they couldn't find an easy fix so you get this...

18.02.2026 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am begging my hardware to stay alive because it would break my heart to have to replace anything.

17.02.2026 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Neat! Looking forward to spooling up the FTL.

17.02.2026 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good flickering is actually a lot more subtle than you would think. You need tweening and not-entirely random randomness.

16.02.2026 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

*old one, not only one

16.02.2026 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it good for Unity themselves to be reduced to a slop machine that destroys the livelihoods of actual developers? Is it good for the shareholders to cannibalise the market their product depends on? I literally can't think of a single stakeholder in society who benefits from this.

16.02.2026 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Is that good? I would love to hear someone at Unity explain who this is good for. Is it good for gamers to be subjected to an endless parade of slop games drowning out games made by human craft? Is it good for the market to be saturation bombed by the inevitable hyper-automated slop-game-factories?

16.02.2026 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 156    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Unironically a very enjoyable movie. It got a bad rep in pop culture because of how expensive it was and therefore flopped, but I've never actually met someone who watched it and thought it was bad.

15.02.2026 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That bit about learning a language rich empty people can't speak is poetry.

15.02.2026 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like a stumpy Sovereign.

15.02.2026 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"This isn't disappearanceβ€”it's transition". This thing can't stop sounding like its inane, insipid self even in a tearful love letter.

14.02.2026 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fond memories of sneaking down after everyone else was in bed to boot up the PC!

12.02.2026 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0