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Here is a weirdo open question for all of the indie devs here.

Other than money and time, what would you say you struggle *most* on your game projects with?

#indiedev #indiedevs #gamedev
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Mastodon be like:

"Wow this Windows update made everything really slow!

Edit: I can't switch to Linux, this is a work laptop
Edit2: Yeah I'm aware of what Wine is
Edit3: This thread is getting out of hand, muting this post"
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Alright peeps, I'm scheming on an idea so this is mostly thinking out loud.

We have a local game dev group and right now its locked into Discord. This is proving to be annoying because its a walled garden.

A few people have moved over to Matrix and have attempted to start the same thing, but its been difficult to get people to adopt, and Matrix has been a little ~quirky~.

I'm considering proposing a PieFed/Lemmy instance dedicated to this, so dev discussions will at the very least be open.
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Weirdo personal story:

Long ago I applied for an AAA studio job and the interviewer said he wouldn't even look or consider my indie games as experience because they were irrelevant to how AAA works.

At the time I kind of shook my head at this.

Well now that I know a lot of people in the industry, unfortunately he was "correct". AAA is pretty far removed from how indies do anything (as far as I've seen) that I don't think that experience translates over very well.
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I am still experimenting with this noir style. I feel compelled to do a little short with it.

Its pretty quirky though, depending on the scenes, could be a real headache.

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ghosttie · 5w
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Yora · 6w
Thinking about humor in games, and it had me suddenly stop and wonder: Does Metal Gear Solid have jokes? It's certainly a funny series at many points throughout the games, but I can't think of a sin...
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@nprofile1q... There are some but I think most of the jokes are the developers putting humor that the player can 'choose' to engage with.

I think this works because MGS breaks the fourth wall often and it let's you take the story/characters seriously or not.

The actual ~intended~ jokes tend to be goofy. Such as Snake and Eve in the cave where they are trying to resist each other, but their shadows are depicting them fighting each other in a boxing match.