DREW 🖱 Pogo3D

next weekend!! click + drag yourselves over to boshi's place for a celebration of the computer mouse and other pointer devices as important and under-appreciated game controllers!

we'll be focusing on novel and unexpected uses of the mouse as well as some custom modified mice.

thats how i know im old man. i laughed at this

money shot of my procgen tool working in my next game. note all the funny room shapes, but it's still got clean looking loops #gamedev

yelling pointless nitpicks at myself from 3 years ago #gamedev

I did a lot of other stuff this weekend… COOL stuff… secret stuff

this one sets up materials for me

it's the little things in your gamedev workflow that bog you down.
not just time-wise but sanity-wise
I spent some time this weekend making some tools!
this one just grabs meshes out of a .blend file and makes prefabs of them

he deserves to be in a different video game (DCSS curse toe)

was feeling evil last night so i made an evil toe #blender3d #gamedev

fixed this xkcd meme #gamedev

That moment when you realize you are in a landry’s

FEEL THAT

I think largely GDDs are useless for indie scale. They are good for maintaining a consistent vision, but you get that naturally with a small team anyway

for indie gamedev i don't really do design docs.
instead i do a "design journal". It works the same except i treat each page as its own iteration of the game, with previous pages just as suggestions.
its a little less concrete and forward-looking but more fluid

The ungodly things you have to do when generics or interfaces are involved though… nightmareish

I love editor scripting its so fun

do nothing -> sleep schedule fixes itself
this is how i win

Why does infinity nikki have a path of exile skilltree

Downtime is sooo important. I swear a game can succeed or fail purely off the back of good quality of life

Whaling tends to slowly ruin a game by compromising quality of content in exchange for better returns in an increasingly depopulated game but for those genres the old stuff sticks around and holds up so its fine

I think if you have a genre where more content is just plain better (rhythm, dressup, story) it’s a good fit for live service because a long lifetime actually linearly improves quality forever, unlike a BR, MMO, or MOBA where it’s just stirring the pot every 3 months

Another productive day of a ton of bugfixes and no cool progress
Oh well

look out stack overflow... hehe

i wonder what its like to be that guy who works for a competitive video game company reviewing unban requests

One of the big problems i ran into while gamedevving for pogo3d is that theres no real ability to stop get off your pogo stick and look at the environment.

For me its all the little things that have stacked up over the years that everyone KNOWS should just work but nobody is willing to spend the time on them because individually they aren’t important
Like how win10 mspaint bugs out when you resize the window while scrolled down

hell is other people's tools

Is there like a small streamer bubble on here somewhere