Zeke Chan 🚢

I need to improve. I need to grow. Because I want a great life. Because I want others around me to have a great life. A simple and powerful lesson from @TheJohnCMaxwell

@DannyLimanseta Hey Danny, just curious, what's your AI stack and how much per month does it typically cost to run everything?

WIP of a weekend project I started with my kids, now turning it into a proper side project. Kinlings is a Pokémon-inspired app where you: - Walk and track your steps - Discover kinlings along the way as you explore different biomes - Pick a kinling to walk with you, level it up and unlock skills - Battle other people's kinlings (auto-battler style) - Evolve kinlings by merging 3 of the same kind If you want to follow along, hop on the waitlist: kinlings.vercel.app Vibe-coded in Cursor, built on Expo, with kinling designs generated using ChatGPT Images 2.0. I've also built an internal tool that auto-generates kinling concepts, stats, and sprites (with my approval in the loop). Will share more once it's cooked a bit longer.

@DannyLimanseta Have you compared the output VS others? Midjourney, chatgpt, etc...?

Nano Banana 2 is pretty impressive. I asked it to improve my game's UI in a dark fantasy setting. It delivered. Left: Current Game UI Right: Generated by Nano Banana 2

@thomasbrushdev I've always made small games since the beginning of my career, not my own but for clients for the past 20+ years. While making big games sounds interesting, I've always enjoyed what I'm doing. Large or small, most importantly is to enjoy what you're building.

As much as I want to make small games, I don’t think I *can*. For new devs, absolutely stay small. But for me, eventually the worlds I wanted to make were just… bigger. There’s nothing like making a big world and a sprawling, moody story. I may make a small game eventually, but I just know what I enjoy building (despite it taking forever…)

@profitsgreen @TheOneLanceB This too pls 👆🏻

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@pawel_developer @benjames171 Nicely done, congrats @benjames171

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@KenneyNL 1st April came late this year?

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@thomasbrushdev @jabrils_ Maybe this would give a general idea to answering that question. dondiegorivera.github.io

Is AI going to replace game developers? Let me know your thoughts below. Also, I had an amazing convo about this with the ultimate genius @jabrils_ youtu.be/M_qLBZu-_Vk

@TheOneLanceB What would be your criteria for selecting top charts? How closely a playbook is followed? R:R? % gained? Just curious 🧐

A great best practice that I would do at the end of each year is to create a folder with all the top charts from the year. Those databases are priceless over time. Thank you Neel for sharing yours!

Trying out @phaser_ title screen generator =)

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@JstFredrik Love the cartoony art style

Spinny Chair🪑 #gamedev #gamemaker

@JuhanaMyllys Red = scorched earth Yellow = toxic. Greatest sense of danger, seems like even the air will kill you Depends of the mood and feel you're going for

Which color scheme do you think works better? ❤️Red 💛Yellow

@RhosGFX Could be an even smaller tileset... Like a blacksmith's shop, library, alchemist, etc... get really specific so it's easier to complete

@RhosGFX I would look around at other tilesets/creators and see if there's a minimal tileset that works and design something similar. Example a tileset with 32 tiles for a desert scene. A minimal tileset would help you gauge response and point you in the right direction

Feeling kind of stuck with this pixel-to-vector workflow. I want to make a tileset, but: a) it'll take a long time to add enough content to make it usable b) it'll have to be free if I don't want to deal with big N. What would you do? 🤔 #godotengine #gameassets #itchio

@thomasbrushdev Count me in!

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@tiaratumgames @babylonjs @Poki That is beautiful. Looking forward to trying it out 😄

@RhosGFX Haha figured it would be a long list 😂

@zekeatchan Ooh, big question. Check out who I'm following, it's too many to mention!

Let's see if this works 😄 I'm Rhos, and I make vector art and icons for games. If you've never heard of me before, come say hi! 👋 #gameassets #itchio #indiedev

@RhosGFX @KenneyNL In that case what are your biggest pixel art inspirations? 😁

@zekeatchan I actually don't follow any vector artists 😅 Besides @KenneyNL of course. Funnily enough most of my inspiration comes from pixel art. The small sizes and high contrast translates pretty well. :)