Mark Simmons

@_ClulY_ Thanks mate. It means such a lot that you say that. Stay in touch.

@MarkDJammer Best of luck, Mark! You made the best game I ever played and that studio is lucky to have you.

A quick update from me. I am no longer working at Freejam (it is complicated). I still love all the devs and wish them all the very best with RC. I am now working on a AAA console title as a Project Director with the company I previously made 2 Silent Hill games with.

@sebify Hard to find key features like Nanites and Lumen in other engines.

Halo moving to unreal engine cannot be good news, can it?

@xewlupus sciencedirect.com/topics/physics….

Anyone ever dealt with aliasing artifacts on "scaffolding"? It's not just an LOD problem because foreshortening causes it even close-up. All my ideas off the dome are, like, overengineered shader tricks :( #gamedev

@TheGree29853368 I do remember you. That is a lovely thing to say. Thank you. It means a lot.

@CoolReaper99 Perhaps we will deliver on your promise in time?

More Info Coming Soon™

7th most wanted upcoming free to play game on Steam. Our launch is on November 7th. Wish us luck.

@FirebladeSoft Knocking it put of the park! We’ll done @FirebladeSoft

Ranked the second most wishlisted Tower Defense game in #SteamNextFest you say? Not bad for a tiny team!

@_ClulY_ Sorry to hear it mate. Keep your head up. You have skills and you’re smart. Someone will notice and they will be rewarded for it.

Another day, another job rejection. 🙃

@unity Thank you for not taking revenue from charity games 🥰

@strongestgimp @Freejamgames @unitygames @Robocraftgame @CardLifeGame @Robocraft2Game I have been meaning to learn more about developing in Unreal for some time to broaden my knowledge. I have managed teams that use Unreal but have never developed my own prototype in it, so it would be fun to learn. I am a huge fan of open source and so Godot is also appealing.

I have made prototypes for all of @Freejamgames games in @unitygames all of which evolved and grew thanks to years of hard work from the devs at Freejam. Games like @Robocraftgame and @CardLifeGame and @Robocraft2Game. I will not be making any more prototypes in Unity.

Apology from Unity #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #unity #unity3d #humor

So this means no demos, no charity keys, no prologues, no gamepass, no ps+, no indie f2p. What a sh*t show #Unity #Unity3D How can a game company be so out of touch with the current market situation!? gamedeveloper.com/business/unity…

When I was young I spent 4 hours typing out the code for a game from a magazine into my grandads Sinclair ZX81. It was a terrible game but I was proud that it worked. Now, using ChatGPT4 I can type a short sentence I’m a few secs and get something 100 times better. Mind blowing.

@PathForger Some of these ideas are interesting. But we need to avoid any incentive to shoot Tower instead of enemy when two players are within range of each other. Gameplay should focus around players needing to combat each other.

@MarkDJammer Blues in a proximity charge the shield up. Over time this charge is lost (allowing players the freedom to move away from their towers) - and the charge is also drained by enemy fire. Could start matches with charged tower shields to have pacing up from the start.

New reassembly worked out quite well. The additional polish items we’re adding to it will improve it further I think. New tower defence gameplay is promising but needs quite a bit of improvement to work properly. TTK overall is too long for this kind of defensive gameplay I think

@PathForger Doesn’t this ignore the fact that a smaller block is bit less often by raycasts from laser or plasma?

@MarkDJammer Which is why it was suggested to add 4 or 9 to the perimeter part of health calculations. The percentage gain is greatest at the lowest end and such would help reconcile RC1 and RC2's build systems for players working in smaller blocks. Materials could be adjusted to compensate.

@PathForger @Robocraft2Game Interestingly I think it would not have been possible to add the defence tower gameplay without a working re-assemble.

@MarkDJammer @Robocraft2Game It'll be good to see how the weight/distance reassemble changes interact with the game. Less keen on the ghosting of non-destroyed parts during reassembly (which was a thing with reassembly from the start) but let's see how that plays out. Curious to see tower changes play out.

Really hoping to get the new reworked Re-assemble feature live today in @Robocraft2Game as well as the new defence tower gameplay in Helas Basin and Iana Chaos ahead of EU multiplayer test this evening.