Jonathan Whiting

@hplemke delightful!

reminder that i have a new single out. just a little synthpop tune about chance encounters with an infinitely higher order of being open.spotify.com/album/6bfhqNvp…

Want a prototype of something tricky? Need a hand reaching the finish line? Looking for a core team member to set out on something big? I'm interested! If you're not looking yourself, but know someone who is, please do pass my details on :)

I have some availability, so I'm looking for projects that could use an experienced games programmer. I do a bit of everything, but I really like areas where disciplines meet, e.g. gameplay programming, tech art/shaders, prototyping, and tool dev. My CV: jonathanwhiting.com/cv/

@v21 @tambourine @smestorp and the attempt at locking it down kinda removes all the joy/creativity/humour from it too

@v21 @tambourine that was me too! (kinda wish I'd called it something different though) jonathanwhiting.com/jam/pirate_gdc… but I wouldn't have thought of that without @smestorp trying playfully to lock down the original

with hypertext/IF poetry has anyone made poems where each word links to a new page, and so on, and so on? like a kind of fractal poem. needs a limited vocabulary, lol (or some kind of procedural generation engine i guess)

@lorenschmidt I did a bunch of mucking around with SDFs some years ago, and I swear I now use that knowledge like, every few weeks since. On a broad range of problems too.

hehe all that mucking about with SDFs is going to come in handy yet again

@Nifflas was curious, so tried sticking it in graphtoy tinyurl.com/mpex2mxm looks plenty close enough for a synth to me!

@v21 @MaxKriegerVG While there's plenty of fancy stuff to i.e. facilitate the slicing mechanics, I Am Dead is fundamentally low-ish poly vertex coloured models rendered with simple un-lit materials. The core Look of the game is really all art direction + 3d modelling, not tech choices.

there's lots of talking about unity's mounting issues, yeah, but i guess the real question is "what realistic alternatives are there for shipping commercial games with stylized 3d graphics on a small team?"

@marekventur @vvitling same :(

@aloobyalordant this loops mesmerizingly nicely!

See if you can spot the 0.5-second window where I think about something else and forget what I was doing #spelunky2

@vvitling @marekventur Yep, filled out too! :) Hard to be completely certain about any plans atm, but it really is something I've been missing a bunch!

@doougle .. and that's the seed I finally beat the game (conventionally) on! haha

Oh and yeah, our game is out! Explore Shelmerston, unravel memories, look inside _everything_. If you have a PC or a Switch you can go play it right now :) store.steampowered.com/app/951750/I_A…

It was a great pleasure to work with this bunch, and it wouldn't have been the game it is (or maybe even existed at all) without the lot of them! ❤️

@KommanderKlobb @AlexStrook Yeah, I definitely intend to write something up on how both of these things actually work at some point, not sure when I'll get round to it though :)

I AM DEAD from @hllwpnds comes to Nintendo Switch, Steam, and Epic Games Store on October 8. Available for pre-order now on the Nintendo eShop: bit.ly/IADSwitch

@jazzmickle did you ever play the quake mod Slide? not that this looks the same exactly, but it does fondly remind me of it.

@Mrs_G33k thanks! we don't have a specific date yet, but not too long now, next month or so hopefully :)

@Mrs_G33k Did you know that I'm working on a game that's _full_ of this kind of stuff? 😁 youtube.com/watch?v=RvcOYP…