Is this working? YouTube video by DitherDream

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I got a Linux box as a home server and I now prefer it to my higher spec windows laptop. At this point I’m only retaining windows for testing my games and playing the occasional non-Linux game, but most games work on Linux and I use Godot so even the testing angle is feeling pretty thin.
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You’re allowed to be excited about cool art that you made!

New game announcement soon! It’s very exciting!
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But…why?

What a beautiful flesh tunnel!

Always have a tagline!

Yes it helps for marketing, but it also focuses the game very succinctly!

DitherDream is a “trippy little exploration game,” and anything that didnt fit that got cut. Thats the only way I was able to break through my own scope creep tendencies and release it.

I’m starting to think that I should really pull that Holographic Night game out of my backlog at some point. Might be something to learn from there. People seem to like it.

Oh interesting, I hadn’t heard of those, thanks!

We need to think systemically and recognize that until we have some kind of systemic alternative to these institutions we’re not going to win against them.

And we need to win.

Cryptocurrencies claim to provide this, and I think that one day they will, even if they fall short right now.

Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs

Visa and Mastercard have killed more art than every studio combined and most people don't even know about it

I saw a talk at GodotCon about someone who made and published a game entirely on their phone for the challenge/fun of it!
It was a small game, but still, it can definitely be done!

In case people still aren't aware:

There is sanctioned boycott on Microsoft and Xbox from the BDS movement going on *right now*.

If you haven't already done so, you can start now.

You don't gotta say anything, no justifications, nothing. This is something you can start doing now.

That looks lovely!
I’ll have to try it out myself, thanks for sharing the code too!

Yeah I always feel a bit dodgy rooting for one megacorp against another, but anything that helps to break up the steam monopoly and their 30% cut is probably good news for devs.

Not unless I just need the money to survive, and then it’s a temporary gig until I can find a better way to get by.

I work to live, and creativity is pretty core to my existence.

Hey I’m one of those!

I made DitherDream and a bunch of other little things, and I’ve got a nee project in progress now. I imagine occasional help from friends isn’t disqualifying?

I've been having trouble settling on exactly what I want my next project to be, so I'm just gonna start posting prototypes here! That'll be more fun than silence anyway. 8)

Sunrise in the Way of Ones :)

A strange little island with beautiful clouds above.

I added clouds today!
They exist entirely within the sky shader, which feels right for DitherDream, and I think they look quite nice already! They really help anchor the scene in just a little bit of reality that I think was missing before.
They'll be in the next update in a few weeks!