Mike Bithell

It’s been a while, but timescale in project settings if I remember right

Hehe, not at 16x, but yeah, playing double speed is great when I’m doing anything other than game feel / design forward bits… anywhere I can shorten the time to get to the bug I’m fixing is super useful.

Like turning audio off, it’s best done when needed only, otherwise you can let stuff rust

A corner or a window, showing that I’m running a game at 16x speed

Godot feature that just sped me up: there’s a time scale selector right there on the project preview window (spoilers for the top left corner of my next project). That was like 6 clicks and three windows in Unity

Right? Lazy, lazy universe

Fingers crossed they listened. I just got in an elevator with an ai generated recycling poster and my brain melted in frustrated ironic agony

If someone in their late 20s in a low level management position actually figures out that not laughing at one of our jokes in a meeting could impact our quarterly productivity then we are all of us doomed.

My fellow men in positions of some power: we have to stop publicly revealing how susceptible we are to criticism. People are gonna realise that they can sting us with a few mean words or a low number out of 10. They’re gonna work out that we’re little wimps clinging to extrinsic validation.

I feel really bad for the person at the end accused of ai use.. that’s gonna be a growing problem this year. Lots of witch hunts are gonna get it wrong.

This is fun, the refrains of ‘for now’ from the author while referring to the bugs in LLM are a fun meta misunderstanding too though.

Earth Must Die on Steam These moronic Terranoids think they can just roll in here and take over my beautiful Tyrythian kingdom? The kingdom that I built from the ground up with my bare hands, and only sort of inherited from ...

TODAY'S THE DAY

It's Earth Must Die Day. Unlocking at 6pm GMT, your purchase on the dot will HUGELY help us out with Steam ranking etc, so if you're around to grab it as soon as we press the button, please do

Until then, pls contribute to wishlist and share

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We want your games! Black folks making games, we want to see and share your dope trailers for your upcoming releases!

OR some developer commentary over gameplay.

Only requirements are - game must not be out (or released in the last few weeks) AND footage must be dope.

No, you really shouldn't start with your magnum opus. But I think a question you should ask yourself at the beginning of any project is: if something went wrong and this was my last work in comics, would I be happy with it. And I think you should focus on the projects where the answer is yes.

I have a lot of respect for the homegrown indie funds, and hope to join in if I’m ever prosperous enough to chip in, but they should be supported and bolstered by bigger institutions

Unvarnished truth. This is the one area where I give a crap about games being taken seriously ‘as an artform’.. because as it stands, funds are limited, and frankly select for charlatans.

If you’re unwilling to lie about a 10x return, you’re fucked. So liars get funded

Yes, they’re doom-clones.

Until recently I thought it was a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

I dig it :) but yeah, if it doesn’t click for you that’s totally fair enough.

Watching this got me to go dust off my (unsuccessful) trek game pitch from a few years ago. That would have been a fun project. (Not gonna share any details, who knows, might get a chance to play in that universe some day)

The place we need to get people to, on both sides of the Atlantic, is immigration enforcement is not a priority. It should rank far below littering on our priorities as a society. We're talking about paperwork here.

Voiced by Stephen Colbert

There is no honour in denying your feelings. Also; big theatre nerds

Yep. 3 eps in and I stand by it: Starfleet Academy is some good trek. Benefits from lower stakes, flawed characters and a slower pace. Doesn’t talk down to a younger audience.

Real shame the computer’s not gonna have a voice in s2 because of capitulation to the rising tide of fascism.

Nothing to say that’s not already being said, but thinking of my friends in America. Seek community and organise.

‘She sits on the chair wrong’ could genuinely be a video essay about misreading a character and what the text is setting up for you via visual metaphor.

I assume @jessiegender.bsky.social already made that video, in fairness, I’ve not checked

The criticisms I’ve seen seem to be rooted in constraining what trek is. Echoes of ‘you can’t do trek on a spacestation’, ‘you can’t do trek without teleporters’, ‘women can’t be captains’ from old heads when I was a teen enjoying the 90s versions.

That there Starfleet Academy pilot is the second best trek pilot (after emissary). Interested to see where it goes, but yeah, already into it. Fixes a lot of my frustrations with nu-trek, largely by building bigger contrasts between characters and setting up some classic trek philosophy debates

Shoji Yamasaki // LITTERED MVMNTS

Every so often I hear of indie studios working without version control systems, and I am shocked and appalled. This is seriously dangerous and you should stop immediately and get your shit sorted. Perforce or GitHub are right there, they're free for small teams, go use them NOW.

Take a look at the Kujisama 500 in game model. Rigged and ready for action! All our assets are made with Blender.

Aww Tim, congrats mate