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Just want it to be known that @nprofile1q... is a nice piece of software and I appreciate the care put into it.

It starts and closes instantly, always runs silky smooth, never forgets UI state, follows OS human interface guidelines, uses sensible typography…. It just works.

slembcke · 1w

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Some neat artwork I found browsing https://www.nga.gov/artwork-search. (Credits in alt texts.)

slembcke · 2w

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@nprofile1q... Sweet! Your game seems efficiently built, so it’s actually quite a good fit for the web platform too. Anything with a small file size and low memory usage works great.

slembcke · 2w

Gamedev Fedi: I've been thinking about how I need a *real* demo of nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqn5a5s5sdwn2qu7dcu9rqsn0z9m3urjhvuqjyy8v8qp7zypr9gzasyh5qzs to put on Steam in ...

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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... CrossCode famously has a web demo (https://www.cross-code.com/en/start), but their new game doesn’t. Might be worth asking them if they found it useful or not.

It’s interesting that your demo is close to working well on iPhone. Couldn’t quite play without a keyboard, but an iPad did the trick. Just had some control awkwardness and a periodical lagspike there.

I’m doing a cross-platform web demo for my game either way. If nothing else it’s at least an impressive thing to have?

slembcke · 2w

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slembcke · 2w

Debugging WASM seems to not really be a real thing, and so it's been mostly printf based. Coupled with the ~50x worse compile-link-run cycle makes this less than fun. (from like a few hundred millisec...

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@nprofile1q... If you happen to gave a Mac, Safari’s Web Inspector has a nice WebGL panel. Also no Renderdoc, but beats browser extensions.

Nikita Lisitsa · 2w

I'm somewhat stressing out from my game taking 1-1.5 years more to make than initially planned, and then I occasionally stumble upon some new release which was 8 years in the making, and then I read a...

Joni Korpi @Joni Korpi 1775721230

@nprofile1q... How to get accurate estimates:

other software dev:
estimate * 3

gamedev:
estimate * unboundedMysteryFractalNoiseAlgorithm(x, y, t)

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Might be slightly controversial to say, but I’ve started enjoying Mastodon more after accepting it as a social network mostly for neurodivergent people.

It’s small and probably going to stay that way, but I honestly like having a place mostly just for us. It’s like the early internet again, but this time we know why we are the way we are.

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Thinking about how to show off a game during development today, when a motivated slopper can easily copy at least some of your work and definitely beat you to market.

Art, graphics, audio: easy to copy up to the 80% mark, but the remainder matters most and is very personal. Seems safe to share.

#gamedev

slembcke · 3w

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aeva · 4w

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Joni Korpi @Joni Korpi 1775000306

@nprofile1q... It’s your (my) childhood favourite party-based MMORPG, but you play as the entire party.

I have an SDF-based character portrait system that can do fantasy races, so there should probably be some elves or something idk

(I’m leaving this to my wife, who is a writer, but hasn’t had a chance to help much yet.)

aeva · 4w

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@nprofile1q... lmao

D:\side\>:idle: · 4w

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@nprofile1q... You are right! But indie games make this tricky. Supposed to start marketing as early as possible to offset the zero marketing budget. Difficult to do without a name.

I’m already quite late, and unfortunately won’t have the worldbuilding or overall writing locked down for a while yet.

Some people do use working titles as temp marketing names, but I’m not sure how well that works, so I’m hesitant to try.

Joni Korpi · 4w

I’m way past due coming up with a name for my game. This is a plea for help. Please send me your name ideas: smart ones, dumb ones, puns, anything. I will treasure them all. It’s a tactics game a...

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