Manuel 'Manello' Bäuerle

Here is the WIP version of our third person shooter "Shrimps of Doom"! Grab your friends and shoot them out of the arena! manello.itch.io/shrimps-of-doom We patched most bugs since the last #gamejam and further updates will follow. #gamedev #indiegame @bitowl

Together with my team I had an amazing experience creating our third person #multiplayer shooter "Shrimps of Doom" at the #GameJam #GGJ25 ! Each player controls a shrimp, shoots bubbles, and tries to pop the enemy's bubble in order to propell them out of the arena. #gamedev

The @globalgamejam 2024 was a great experience! We built a little multiplayer web game which is similar to scribbl-io, with the twist that the viewers can manipulate the painter's tools! This is how far we got: globalgamejam.org/games/2024/cra… #GGJ24 #gamedev #indiedev #games

I finished #halflife 1 today, and to be fair it does have a great story and atmosphere, just as the other games in the series. However, the gameplay is quite repetetive and outdated. I can see that it was great in the #90s, but today its reputation mostly is #nostalgia driven.

So I've been trying out the new #UEFN tools for creating #Fortnite mods, I am just curious about that new ecosystem. => UEFN does have built-in version control, however, you can't control your versions with it. A roll-back to a previous version is not possible. Good troll #Epic!

@PeskyCashew @VRJsy Oh well then I totally agree. From what I heard the worst money sinking campaign in VR ever

@ManelloMB @VRJsy We’re talking about the Cradle of Sins LAN event, not SJ. If you don’t know about that one it’s quite the adventure. There’s a hilarious breakdown of it somewhere but here’s the official recap youtu.be/758txZn6fWg

A brief history of Space Junkies I found lying around in my old stuff. Shame that it never made it over to Quest.

@VRJsy @PeskyCashew Wellllll it actually wasn't the Space Junkies team that failed. The organizers magically did his best to mess up a great experience, as they always do. (If you remember, they copied the game folders from another hard drive instead of reinstalling it to the new pc)

@PeskyCashew Okay but they already hold the title for worst VR Esports event of all time which I actually don't know if anyone will ever be able to beat so they are basically in the Hall of Fame at this point.

@PeskyCashew Oh yeah true, too sad if it happens :(

@ManelloMB I don’t think they’re down yet, but they’re going offline sometime soon as part of Ubisoft shutting off a lot of online support across their titles.

Sad to see some of the earlier VR games like Sparc and Space Junkies finally going dark

@SadlyItsBradley Jeff made my most intense moments in video game history. Besides that, the Northern Star level where you first encounter the lightning dogs. I found the resurrection of the zombies pretty horrifying.

Half-Life: Alyx is 2 years old today What’s your fondest memory of the game?

@bigneutrino @ID_AA_Carmack *optimizing as in rewriting Pythons backend.

@bigneutrino @ID_AA_Carmack I agree that you can already improve your codes efficiency even in scripting languages like Python if you know what you are doing. But in the end it can be only improved so much, optimizing certain things is not possible as it would make it be something that is no longer Python.

"That means that in the time that Python can perform a single FLOP, an A100 could have chewed through 9.75 million FLOPS"

@ID_AA_Carmack There are probably languages which are better suited for scientific problem solving than C++, but the point is everyone just keeps using the snails out of comfort and is unwilling to switch away from ye' good olde tools they always used.

@ID_AA_Carmack The major problem in scientific simulations are often the languages alone. Python, MatLab and many more can be up to 500 times slower than e.g. C++. I really dislike it that Universities still encourage students to learn coding with these outdated, slow relics.

@PeskyCashew Yep I agree, the game had huge potential, but I think the devs didn't spend time on the right things.

I promise I tried to like it, but I won't miss it.

@AgeOfEmpires @TheSixthAxis Is the game already declared dead or will there be new aoe4 patches? The current balance meta kills the game

Wow, what an honor! Thank you @TheSixthAxis and congratulations to all of the nominees, your teams made stellar games this year. ⚔️

@AgeOfEmpires Great Update, but we still need a lot of tweaking. I hope we can get more frequent updates

Starting today, you can update Age of Empires IV with a new patch that includes a few high profile fixes. The patch corresponds with build v. 9369 and focuses on key balance adjustments ahead of the upcoming holiday season. 📜 Read more: ageofempires.com/news/aoe-iv-pa…

@AgeOfEmpires @thegameawards Balance fix asap pls

LAST CHANCE TO VOTE! #AgeofEmpiresIV was nominated for Best Sim/Strategy by @thegameawards! Be sure to cast your vote by tomorrow and tune in to #TheGameAwards live at 4:30 PM PT / 7:30 PM ET / 12:30 AM GMT on December 9th! ☑️ Vote here: thegameawards.com/nominees/best-…

@OhDerAlex @Tonipuuh Das mag sein, aber das Youtube seine Kunden mit tonnenweise Werbung (teilweise 4 Spots direkt hintereinander) zumüllt kann auch nicht sein. Früher war das anderst. Und indem man Premium kauft belohnt man YT nur für dieses Verhalten.

Die Werbung auf YouTube fuckt mich so hart ab. Ich hol mir aber aus Prinzip kein premium. AUS PRINZIP!