It’s so important to engage with other art forms as a game dev. This is a medium heavily influenced by ones older than it, for better and for worse. A lot of your favorite horror games have roots in amazing movies.
And read! Please read! There are folks who think that this isn’t relevant. It is!
Imagine being a coder but thinking there's no artistry to writing code. What an empty existence
An isometric pixel art rendition of an old flooded with water temple. There are a few scaffoldings build from wood, and a little rowing boat in the water, showing that there have been signs of life active even after the flood. Some of the walls have worn down and colapsed into the water.
I really wanted to get back into practicing isometric scenes. So grabbing one of my older obsessions felt appropraite, pixeling a run down, flooded templeground of some sort. Adding clear, but small details that'd make it more alive was challenging, but I'm proud! 💪
#PixelArt #ドット絵 #Art #Isometric
THANK YOU would love to hear what you think!!
play my weird little free game demo that makes you feel like you could shine a light up my nose and see the religious trauma inside my brain
rootvegetableboy.itch.io/chorus-machi...
left 4 dead and its sequel are full of some of the best small details and bits of environmental storytelling you can find in games. valve's jay pinkerton told me it's because the team opened up the writing process to the whole studio. as others have said about L4D's graffiti: AI could never
anyway, once again, if you liked lady of the shard, you need to read soulsov. it's mandatory. i'm not kidding gigidigi.itch.io/soulsov
the most impressive thing about my game's demo release is nobody has encountered any bugs/errors yet. be the change you want to see in the world →
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if you want to read my toxic yuri then read soulsov. "but isn't that het?" god rewards the patient. "but i want it now" okay well read lady of the shard. it's basically wholesome or whatever but it gets a little evil for a minute
Oh, also if you have a switch 1 or 2, this is on sale, and y'all already know I stand 10 toes down on this being one of the best deals for music creation out there
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Experimenting with the idea of running save files on the title screen for very smooth game-loading ...
waow. toxic yuri vn jam TWO. this time with a combined of $6000 in prices, were strapping a bomb collar on every participant that only unlocks once you release a yummy toxic yuri visual novel.
this is a beginner friendly jam. come make your first vn now!
itch.io/jam/toxic-yu...
#TOXICYURIVNJAM
this easter you should play soulsov. for literally no reason
I refuse to be hopeless. I would rather be delusional.
Howdy chipfam! We're launching a new CM endeavor, our Chiptune Monthly YouTube channel! For now it will be hosting monthly playlists of all things chiptune happening on YouTube, but we have some ideas for ways we can use the channel for other stuff in the future! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The process of creating art involves asking yourself "what the fuck am I even doing??" over and over, and feeling proud of the finished product.
The process of consuming art involves saying "YUM YUM YUM YUM YUM" over and over, and asking what's the point afterwards.
spend Zero Dollars on my game with Three (5 star!) Reviews
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im bound in blood to being nice to you no matter what happens
from tumblr user exeggcute: I need a polite and effective way to say "hey your heart is truly in the right place and your anger is often righteous but I think sometimes you’re getting recreationally mad about things that are frankly not worth the amount of energy you’re spending on them, and every time you do this you're driving yourself slightly more insane with nothing to show for it," and then I need a way to broadcast that message through a loudspeaker to roughly 30,000 people at once, and THEN I need a time machine to send that message to my past self lol. and maybe a second time machine in case past me tries to be clever and sabotage the version of me who comes through the first time machine
good post
The most effective way to prevent trans adults is to eliminate trans children. The far right understands this, so the focus of its anti-trans strategy is to create an unlivable environment for trans children. Trans people also fully understand this. The democrats and mushy center don't understand it and react as if it's just reasonable "adult" things like transgenderism be kept out of schools and kids' media. They act as if those kids aren't trans already, in the schools already
Trans people are a wedge. Attacking gays stopped working, so Republicans attack trans people to get at gays. Trans minors are the wedge of the wedge. They pick on the subgroup that can't defend themselves and which Democrats are least likely to stand up for To Democrats, this is a reasonable "compromise". Let go on the trans children, focus on the more winnable rights for trans adults. For trans adults this is obviously, axiomatically unacceptable because *we are all ex-children*. Anything done to children is something that was done to our past selves
Somewhere right now there is a ten-year-old child who is, for all practical purposes, me. She is experiencing something she cannot explain or yet understand. She is in an unfriendly environment (Texas? Alberta?) that does not help her understand, punishes her when she tries to figure it out herself.
When I see trans children being legislated away, I think: I care more about what happens to this child than what happens to me. I want her to reach forty-one without being broken and damaged, like I am from all the things cis people did to me. I want the next me to have a better life than this one.
This is my trans agenda
In the spirit of trans visibility, lemme just plug my ongoing project to document as many pre-2010 games as possible that had a trans person on the dev team. You might be surprised by what's on there. There's games going right back to the sixties!
dotmaetrix.neocities.org/classictranslist
holy shit this is incredible
i spelled visibility wrong goddamnit. happy #tdov i cant spell
happy #transdayofvisbility !!! im a trans person making a top down bullet hell soulslite about being a mean troubled lesbian and stopping the rapture. you should go play the free demo
It's also a more unique case given the mechanics, but this video on Return of the Obra Dinn also exemplifies how nuanced and challenging this is, beyond the cost.
(And make no mistake, it's a BIG cost; can be in the tens of thousands easily depending on word count.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMi6...
incredible post
if you want less “marketable” games that do interesting things with games as a medium you have to support devs directly or fight for larger structures that’ll allow tiny devs to live off of their work.
saw discussion about how a lot of indies are funded by larger corporations & we need government funding for the arts, so i wanted to share this article about how gov funding can fail to actually reach creators
often it just ends up going straight to the corpos who know how to apply
Picture of Brian, a cig and salmon The text: If smoking is so bad why does it cure salmon
