Daksuki

Be proud

In the Super Mario Galaxy games, the staff credits text is always loaded into RAM despite not being needed until the ending. While horribly inefficient, this is inadvertently heartwarming as the games appear to honor their creators by keeping them in memory at all times.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Now THAT’S what I’m talking bout! Now THAT’S what I’m screaming about! Now THAT’S what I’m shrieking and sobbing and puking about!!

don’t be something that you’re not

yuumm... butter garlic prawns....

Launch day copies of Super Mario 64 DS contain glitches that were fixed in later production runs. One of them is the Yoshi Squish Crash, caused by eating a Boo in water. The next time Yoshi attempts to lick, he will squish humorously, and the game will crash.

In 2011, a 70-year-old woman in Georgia pierced a fiber backbone line with a shovel and left the neighboring country of Armenia without Internet access for 12 hours.

it's the anniversary of the time a grandma accidentally cut off the whole country's internet while digging around for scrap metal

9 out of 10 dentists recommend!

A piece of concept art in the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book is overlaid with the text "Note: Relief is temporary." While it actually refers to the fact that the design of the relief carving is not finished, it inadvertently appears to make an existential statement instead.

it's been a rough week so i thought i'd rotate a gyro for everyone. as a treat

this is going to sound absolutely insane and frankly idiotic but this picture reminds me of the among drip picture

I wrote a new tutorial! This one's about radial health/progress bars in GameMaker.

yal.cc/gamemaker-ra...

That image is legit the most sinister thing I have seen in a while

Algebra Ridge's protagonist choking one of the game's villain with them big ol' eyes.

Today is Algebra Ridge's 4th Anniversary! Hooray! It's crazy to think it's been 4 years already, time flies! Something much bigger was planned for today but unfortunately, life happened and so it'll have to be delayed...

But here's a wonderful illustration I made to celebrate!
#gamedev

If anyone ever dares suggest videogames aren't art, this post will be my counterargument.

mine is a sequence of games I plan on releasing that have a big overarching story but also work as standalone narratives that shouldn't need context from previous entries to enjoy. So far I've got one out of five of them released!

"No"

Print available here -> www.redbubble.com/people/thecr...

#crow #raven #corvid #wildlifephotography #pnw #pnwphotography #bird #birb #birdphotography #tumblr #photography #washington #bellingham

Try playing through developer commentary on Valve games! They're not books, but a lot of principles and challenges of level design are mentioned throughout and it gives an insight into the thought process of the developers.

Isso não é um game dev, isso é um cringe dev

This picture goes hard... The angle, their pose, it's perfect.

Screenshot from archive footage from Half-Life 2 development showing the Hyperborea (Borealis) ship from an early build of the game.

HALF-LIFE 2 HYPER-ERA FOOTAGE IS REAL, demo_artic AT IT'S FINEST, LOOK AT THAT SHIP ❤️❤️❤️

THEY'RE RE-RELEASING RAISING THE BAR IN 2025. THIS IS NOT A DRILL, THEY'RE RE-RELEASING RAISING THE BAR IN 2025.

WHAT A DAY FOR THE HALF-LIFE 2 BETA FANS

Seems pretty accurate, no idea what the one on S tier is though

I like the alt text

What's up Bluesky, I'm Daksuki! I'm an indie game developer that makes games using (mostly) GameMaker. So far I've released a visual novel about math (Algebra Ridge) and have more projects on the works that I'm looking forward to sharing (eventually)!
#promosky #gamedev #indiedev

This looks absolutely incredible! This is one of the reasons why we need more indie games, I LIVE for this kind of experimental game design.

Shiyoon, from Algebra Ridge, doing a landing pose with a smug expression.

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