Joby Otero

Ordered custom shirts for my new game, starring my art. The game is called BANK. Hamstapus is me. I do all the design, code, art, music, etc. (Great how fast, cheap, and easy it is to get custom shirts now.) #games #indiegames #solodev

@JohnJHarwood I suspect a big part of this is that many voters stop paying attention to the folks they've elected once the election is over (if they were paying much attention). And broadcasters keep asking super rich folks' for political opinions as if they're better informed.

pretending that the threat Donald Trump poses to America and the world is comparable to any other modern president of either party is the very definition of chickenshit

LOVED Project Hail Mary 💖🐹🐙🎩

Fire breathing hamster dragon. 2019. Sharpie n' gel. She'll be mighty angry if I don't put her in my game. She'll be mighty angry no matter what. #indiegames #gameart #solodev

@onirenaud @threejs Yep. I recently built a material presets setup in-game and Blender tool. Now my assets reuse the same ~6 material presets and just change textures and values. Hugely reduced stalls on asset prep that were particularly noticeable on slow cellular.

Material rebuilds are one of the biggest runtime performance hits in the three.js renderer, and debugging why they happen is hard. That’s why I’m adding a new renderer.debug hook for NodeMaterial rebuilds to show which material rebuilt, what changed, and why the cache failed.

INTERVIEWER: What’s your greatest weakness? ME: Hard to be objective, but I’ll go with vacuum decay.

More pen art favies from ~1990. What's this got to do with my game Monster Bank? The game is partly a repo for all my styles. #pendrawing #indiegames

@stevehou No one can steal your thoughts if you have none.

“To confuse the enemy, the general must confuse himself first. To keep the opponent guessing, he keeps himself guessing what he will do the next day.” - Sun Tzu

@cosmicfibretion Someone put AI in April 1st mode.

Words can not describe what I’ve just seen. I can’t go into the details but I was invited by a leading AI lab to play with a new model. It has solved math, physics, chemistry, life, the universe, and everything. The world will never be the same.

@PhilipJGermain Pretty sure they know these cases have ~no hope and it’s about sapping news cycles and making Trump’s detractors sound hysterical to folks who aren’t paying attention.

Incredible lack of preparation by Sauer

@paulg Can be easier to get to a point when filtering less through mental models of the audience.

Sadly, one way I now recognize fake AI-generated replies is that AIs write punchier sentences than most ordinary humans.

@threejs April 1st Mode wen?

10KB. 480+ fps. Faster than native. Try it: mrdoob.github.io/three.wasm Source: github.com/mrdoob/three.w…

The future of Three.js is WebAssembly

April 1st doesn’t hit the same now that it’s every day fools.

@dangreenheck Happens to me a lot. But it usually turns out that existing versions aren't suited to my use-case. I built selfie-to-3D-game-avatar tech years ago. Every few months it seemed AI had beat me to it. But they all failed miserably in my instant-phone-centric use-case.

Well this is a bit of a bummer. I discovered there's an existing free atmosphere/cloud package for Three.js / R3F that has all the features I was planning on implementing for Three.js Sky Pro. The weird thing is I knew this existed already? But when I searched for it, I think I happened across a different, less-featured solution. I guess it's back to the drawing board!

When I say we used to successfully launch complete games, passionately and privately developed for years, this world of super quant MVP launches reacts like they heard a fool talking gibberish. This is how folks come to believe aliens built the pyramids.

@paulg Especially if you know something they don’t want mom to know.

Sadly, he doesn't even have this advantage, as anyone who's had small children knows. When someone is sufficiently unsophisticated, it's possible to know what they're doing even when they don't know themselves.

@stevesi @DanielleFong Less popular opinion: min viable product thinking can lead to less of that kind of efficiency. Hard to properly clean a mess once launched. MVP has its place. But we used to launch successful product without it too.

From 1980-2000 half of software engineering was managing resource (clock time, disk, and ram) usage. For the first ten years every Microsoft eng got a stop watch. Extras were in the supply room. Tough to express just how much effort went into this. All of us have stories.

@DanielleFong Holy crap, that’s amazing! 🎉🎩

@JobyOtero I LOVED SACRIFICE! I won a "Sacrifice Cup" in the map competition!

this was how i made my entrance to the computer science department student body at 12 years old i bunker cheesed

I don't believe in the supernatural. I don't believe angels or demons are watching, judging, beyond our control. But something close enough is: Kids, who we influence, and who will define the future.

@michael_Voigt Thanks homie! It’s so much fun to make em. Can hardly wait to let players in.

@JobyOtero Love the style!

Lil sample of buddies from my game Monster Bank. All hand-made by me in Blender, with my custom geo nodes setup. #gameart #indiegames #3dart #blender #solodev #creaturedesign