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@UBadler @AirborneGames Surely visuals bait you and once you play it, the gameplay hooks you. though visuals help for sure, they will always go hand in hand.

@AirborneGames Agree, but if I had to choose, I would still bet on gameplay. It is the part that carries every other element of the medium. You can have a game with no graphics at all, like ASCII, but you cannot have a game without gameplay.🫡

This is what you say when your visuals are stronger than your gameplay. It works both ways. Nobody purposefully neglects either. They do their best on both and things happen how they happen.

@_amohs Yeah haha it’s very much a passion project. I had a look at godot but I have zero game dev experience and it was overwhelming and I dunno thought I’d just learn by building. Certainly refreshing from building web apps!

@gerwinvanroyen Oh boy! I've always had a lot of respect for people who do everything from A to Z, probably because I also started that way with a guy who had built his own engine. On my end the industry got to me ahah!

Quick snapshot of the terrain and grass system after quite a few people got tired of our grid floor prototype ahah Also starting to prefer the characters with the black outline, feels more readable. What do you think? #gamedev #indiedev

@_amohs Nah it’s all 2d making the engine from scratch. I’m using pixijs for managing the sprites and webgl stuff but everything else is on me.

@gerwinvanroyen You are in 3D too ? Engine ?

@_amohs Yeah nice. Man looks awesome. I wanna get good shadows like yours in my isometric engine but geez gonna be a bit tricky.

@gerwinvanroyen Thank you! Yes it's running on Unity :>

Re-wrote the tile culling which is much better now and started on the push mechanic for moving stuff around. Vending machine ui is fully functional but rough too now.

@DevonAnnaSmith If it's a tricky one I can highly recommend Dr Karyn up at Fernbrae. She decoronated one of mine in the lower jaw and was amazing.

Vending machine in the snow but mostly trying OBS for screen recording.

@_amohs Looks real good but not sure I quite follow either. I’ve got to try adding shadows to my game soon.

Just did a quick shadow hack to avoid stretched shadows at steep light angles. During the shadow pass, I rotate the billboard toward the sun and push it along the light direction to prevent self shadowing. Works really well, so happy :> ! #gamedev #indiedev

Couple vids showing the guard AI. They can see and follow footsteps and react to sounds such as thrown objects in this case.

@levelsio Me! Not a bot but not exactly got a following either.

Okay and who of you couldn't reply to this? Please please only if you couldn't okay?

Have added sound, camera tracking, basic interactions with the world like inspect and picking up objects. The pink markers show how far the footprint sound travels for enemies to pick up.

@kenwheeler this whole saga brought back a memory where some friends and i brought in the new year by walking up the local creek to the glow worms and blasting afroman at midnight.

it’s magical watching my friends discover the afroman catalog and understanding how formative this was for me

@RPM_PlayStation Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

What PSP movies did you have?

@AlanMomentum What will you use without it?

Can't wait to bail on Adobe. Or can I? 🥴

@RPM_PlayStation Everybody's Golf!

You just got gifted a brand new PSP, what game you putting in first?

@ryanflorence I feel like signing up to an app should be you entering your server's IP. Some contract and the app uses established APIs to store and interface with your data there. Then you choose what apps get to share what data within that server you own. Would be amazing.

Lots of software can get replaced and turn in-house because you don't have to deal with the two hardest parts of software: - Scaling it to every customer (and their customers) - Designing it to work for everybody You only need a shed, not a sky scraper.

@amadeus @maxvoltar that is very very nice!

new board I put together last night /cc @maxvoltar

@dotmariusz @darylginn This is the first 49" ultrawide samsung made! It's not got the same amount of curve as the Odyssey G95C etc have but I kinda like that.

@gerwinvanroyen @darylginn What in the 360 degree FOV is this screen 👁️👄👁️