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  Hrm. Ok I'm making a dungeon crawler with a very framed-in view with a thick HUD with lots of big character portraits and, is there some way of getting vector art to look pleasingly crunchy? so it works alongside a crunched-up viewport? Or do I embrace high-res HUD to create aesthetic distance?

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  RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@glassbottommeg/117174027124139342 HAH. Ok, so fun thread blah, but in the process of math'ing out my UI file dimensions, I realized that at 1080, with my chunk factor: the reason that factor looks "right" is because that's functionally 640px. The actual res is 640x360 cus wide-screen but still. It's a 640x480 dungeon crawler. RAD!

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  Momentarily despaired that finding pixel art sets n stuff was impossible on the modern internet, since even itch.io has tons of GenAI, then discovered there's just a no-AI tag you can use that artists throw on there, where fucking around and lying on that is punished with a store ban, and gosh! YAY

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  Finally building a UI pipeline that genuinely leverages Affinity's weird behavior where you can open Design files in Photo. (make the files as transparent Design files, do all work in Pixel layers via Photo, then do final export setup back in Design because of the Slice-based workflow Photo lacks)

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  Ok Godot people, so I got a named node dingus here, in the world. This code over here is in an Auto, meaning, auto-spawned node. It can't find the named thingy. Why? Does a named node have to be in the same "hierarchy"? And the Autos are separate so this doesn't work? How should Autos find nodes?

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  My Summer Car is one of the best games of this decade

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  So a friend of mine made basically a fan game arcade machine based on Old Man's War and HOLY SHIT https://madgoatlabs.com/halcyondawn/

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  Godot just, has this? GODOT?! Sure, Unity doesn't have decals for LITERAL DECADES, and three kids out here in a fuckin robot costume, just, add it? And it works? We can have nice things here?

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  So we're working on a new thing and it's, weird, and the offroading rally game you think you know I'm working on is not what it seems You should... join our mailing list https://glassbottommeg.myflodesk.com

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  Me, constantly, loudly: "and remember your local library has games and movies too!" Me, quietly: "except mine, of course, we had those at my old larger branch, but now I'm in a tiny town, only a tiny selection 😭" "Wait I can put a hold on games and they just get sent here?"

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  So I'm trying to go back and add sounds, and it turns out this code is always generating lateral force, I think? But it's balanced by the lateral forces by the other wheels or... something? Uh Hmmm. Hmmm. Hmmm yep everything's fine in here.

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  Made sense of yet another part of The Holy Tomes: https://asawicki.info/Mirror/Car%20Physics%20for%20Games/Car%20Physics%20for%20Games.html Got stuck figuring out what slip ratio units were. Like great, zero to one, of... what. Ah. Load. Scalar x load force from vehicle weight share on wheel = max load. Bam. This ONE fuckin website is the only good ref 😭

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  you kids wanna see a dead body

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  If the team that made a game gets immediately laid off it's perfectly legal to pirate it Look I don't make game law but I do fancy myself something of an expert on this so you can definitely steal the pirate game whose devs got laid off and they didn't even let em have a real launch party its legal

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  Folks struggling to make it as indies should probably read this: https://klangmag.co/lifers-dayjobbers-and-the-independently-wealthy-a-letter-to-a-former-student/ Also he only mentions rich kids and day jobbers, but there's also "has a spouse with a good job", "their parent died and left them just enough to get ahead" and "managed to pay off house so don't have rent"

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  So been looking at the "code" from uhh, a tool that a lot of you are talking about, and my primary issue with using vibe coded tooling at this point is that the "code" in them is impossible to read, so they're impossible to support You often need to update tools yourself across engine versions/etc

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  Lol Spent a few hours fighting to get a GUI-driven git client that'd work on Linux Finally gave up, used console ... Oh hey this is kinda nice, why did I want a GUI again

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  So apparently there's a Godot For Switch port on the Nintendo forums? Like I thought I had to go with one of the handful of publishers or do it myself, but if I can just, go grab the open source Switch version of Godot? Holy fuk https://old.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/1n88gwx/i_ported_my_godot_game_to_switch_1_2_and_nintendo/

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  <making a fantasy game> Geeze, I wanna do books and signs, but I don't want to have to localize. Wait I know! <makes a custom runic language that players have to solve as a substitution cypher> nailed it

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  Like two fuckin weeks on Linux and I'm already a "telling my artist that, really, console git is simpler to use than a GUI anyways" person I AM ON RECORD AS LOATHING GIT AS RECENTLY AS THIS YEAR Linux: not even once

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  I admire all you planning to pivot if the entire game industry dies, but personally I think the fallback job I'm best suited for is: Old Dude Who Eventually Falls Behind On Property Tax That Builds Tank In His Shed

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  Good morning only to the let-your-birds-masturbate article author who opened it like this "An investigation into acts of self-pleasure among parrots and other birds has reached a climax, with the results providing welcome relief for vets and researchers" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/01/masturbation-birds-natural-healthy-behaviour-study

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  Nostalgic games about working at a convenience store in a different country with a (mostly) functioning economy are DEFINITELY a recession indicator But also this does look cozy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft0IuX3sxNI (though the devs are Japanese so iunno maybe just "nostalgia for what we thought was a shitty job but now Oh No" in general as a recession indicator)

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  Gasp. Truly shocking. Who could have forseen this. https://english.elpais.com/health/2026-02-04/groundbreaking-study-finds-no-evidence-that-trans-athletes-are-a-threat-to-womens-sports.html It's meta-analysis, but still, we're unlikely to get a better study operating within ethical boundaries shy of simply getting way more trans women into sport

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  Probably silly to worry over, but what time of year is the "nicest" time for knocking back a spider's webs? (mostly I try to leave em be, but I kinda need to knock 'em back at some point or they tend to take over corners/etc)

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  more indie game devs should make dungeon crawlers like Wizardry 8 and Ultima Underworld It's a fantastic business idea, and it would make me, personally, very happy You'd sell tens of copies!

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  We all agree the new Steam controller a wee lil man with pinchable cheekies right https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamcontroller (it's up, goes on sale April 4th, and I'm totally grabbing one cus I LOVE the prior one and still use it) #gamedev #gaming

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  Brain: want new game Me: we have game at home <shows eyeballs 49 games currently installed> Brain: No, New game Me: <tired> ok honey fine what do you want to play Brain: New Me: and? Brain: ... Survival cr- Me: WE ARE NOT PLAYING ANOTHER SURVIVIAL CRAFTER

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  So #Linux gamers, do you even care about whether a game lists "Linux support" in general terms anymore? Or do you just scroll down on Steam, find the #SteamDeck green check, and that tells you if it works on Proton, and- well there you go that's all you need, whether you're gonna game on the Deck specifically or not

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  The power of love will save us all But More specifically it saves the friendly little mouse mooks in Verminsteel that earnestly get in your way, because the Resistance canonically "loves" eachother, whereas the fascists' alignments never result in "love"