in 'Bringing Clarity To Your Audio Mix' @caiojacomini from thatgamecompany talks about using the audio mix to aid to player awareness within a games soundscape, and gives some helpful vocab for communicating about the topic!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqf6...
We also have Christian Gabbianelli with 'Visceral Combat Design for 3rd Person Melee Combat', with Christian talking about how he learned from other titles to iterate on combat in his game Crazy Arena Chaos christiangabbianelli.itch.io/crazy-arena-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxpI...
First up is @chrisdeleon.bsky.social with '15 Principles for Project-Based Game Development Learning', some strategies for helping folks learn by doing that Chris applies in the game dev club he runs at devpods.gg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8rE...
Talks from the Boston Gamedev Week Minicon are starting to go up on YouTube! Here's the playlist they'll all end up on:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Swirlies for the lobbyists that fund them.
Last week we wrapped up another incredible Boston Gamedev Week! This wouldn't have been possible without the tireless work of our wonderful organizers and YOU, all the people who came and brought the party! Vid from Make Games Make Friends, more highlights below 🧵
#gamedev #indiedev
That's right, BGD will be on the show floor at #PAXEast in booth 13085!
In addition to these glorious pins, you can also play these great locally made games:
Of the Devil @nthcircle.bsky.social
Never’s End @hypersect.com
Nocternum @normalhorsegames.bsky.social
Wilderbard @respite-dev.bsky.social
See you Tuesday and Wednesday at our MiniCon! Lots of good talks and roundtables.
boston-gamedev-con-pretix.onrender.com/bostongamede...
HI I MEANT NEXT WEEK. fill out this form, ok? docs.google.com/forms/d/1z5r...
Considering today a win. I didn't reply, "You too" when the cashier told me to enjoy and that's about as much I'm good for today.
Also thanks to @petricoregames.bsky.social for sponsoring!
Go get your tickets!
"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world"
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
Wait a minute, what in the heck is going with Yerba Buena. I'm not at GDC this year. Is the nicest part of the con gone!?
It's actually the technology behind the browser and Celsius is so strong it counts as screen time.
Beautiful!
GodotCon Amsterdam here we go!
📅 23-24 of April
🎟️ Get your tickets: tickets.godotengine.org/foundation/g...
📣 Submit your proposals: talks.godotengine.org/godotcon-ams...
Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are.
In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.
How did You JUST put that together for me despite being served the trailer 10,000,000, times?
Boston Game Dev is excited to be partnering with PAX East to bring some Massachusetts indie games to the PAX show floor!!
We're looking for FOUR great teams to join us in our booth and represent the local scene; more info on the form below
Apply here by midnight on 2/14 ➡️ forms.gle/qJNjrD1MKX3u...
A few strands of hair on a brown shower tile perfectly align with a brown spec in the tile texture for a nose in the outline of a dog.
You've heard of hair of the dog, but have you heard of dog of the hair?
Coming to PAX East from out of town? Please hit me up so I can pester you with offers of networking, coffee/drinks, and give you a platform to speak.
We must share the blame even if we didn't vote for him, in my opinion.
Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers
How long until someone gets grok to spill everything it slurped up in the classified data?
The only thing I've seen is a abandoning feature branches. That definitely was an improvement in terms of reducing asset merging. The negative there is you need judicious and sometimes accident prone feature flagging to share any work in progress stuff.
A Christmas tree is lit up. Next to it, a TV is on and Bruce Willis has yet to get off the plane and make his way towards the Nakitomi Plaza.
The holiday season is finally here.
