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btsherratt

@btsherratt@mastodon.gamedev.place

Making games and things.

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psychicparrot42, to random
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Yelp! My kids are both getting into Warhammer 40,000 and there’s no way in hell any of us can afford those prices!! 🙄

btsherratt,
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@psychicparrot42 I remember back in the 90s my interest in warhammer evaporated upon reading their catalog and seeing the price tags…

btsherratt,
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@psychicparrot42 gotta have a lot of confidence in your painting skills to do it yourself… 😨

btsherratt, to random
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🐈 For the TweetTweet Jam

:pico8: Is this a Pico-8 game about a sneaky kitty?
🎵 Or a musical toy?
🍦 Or both??!!

https://itch.io/jam/tweettweetjam-9/rate/2701158

Code in reply.

Orange pixel art cat sneaks between moving yellow circles to a house.

psychicparrot42, to random
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    btsherratt,
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    @psychicparrot42 you’re a good person.

    btsherratt, to random
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    Why not round off your evening with a nice game of 52 card pickup?

    https://bts.itch.io/52-card-pickup

    grumpygamer, to pixelart
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    Quickly trying to address an issue that the press is now calling "Pretzelgate" before it spins out of control.

    btsherratt,
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    @grumpygamer "You won't believe the TWIST in this story..."

    psychicparrot42, to random
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    @psychicparrot42 I try not to be too harsh but that phrase is an immediate 'where is the exit' phrase...

    renkotsuban, to random
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    It is so funny to me that Pikmin Bloom have these like, mini events in a couple of locations in the whole world, but advertise it to everyone in all languages like it's a worldwide event. The next one is going to be on Miyajima in Hiroshima, I guess? And it's like sorry, nobody is traveling all the way out to Hiroshima just to play Pikmin Bloom 😭

    At least the Nexco page about it (highway operator and sponsor) is only in Japanese, they're realistic about who's actually able to get there

    btsherratt,
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    @renkotsuban I'd have to look it up again but there was a place near the Peace Park which was basically this multi-story building FULL of okonomiyaki places and it was delicious....

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    @psychicparrot42 “The way to be successful in indie games is to firstly make a successful indie game…”

    btsherratt, to random
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    So I tried writing this AI with two differing approaches to playing the game:

    🧠 The first one tried to evaluate the board and compare moves to each other, playing more how a human might do.

    ♟️ The second was a super simple weighted board, increasing/decreasing values for each space depending on what was next to them and then just choosing the space with the highest weight.

    The second (much simpler) version works a lot better and doesn't get stuck anywhere near as much as the first. 😂

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    In all seriousness, I've now left it playing by itself for 1-2 hours and it's not managed to get itself into a situation where it's stuck and that's all I ever wanted in a video game AI... 🤩

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    @psychicparrot42 does “contra24in1” count as 1 game or 24…? 😆

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    @psychicparrot42 It's pretty surprising they chose an R18 game as the bundle-in title, can't really buy a headset for a 13 year old's birthday and be like 'here, play this extreme violence game in VR...'

    grumpygamer, to RPG
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    What are your favorite quests in a RPG-ish game? Personally I like the one where you have to kill 10 rats.

    btsherratt,
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    @grumpygamer Two series of quests come to mind, the ones where you buy/renovate a house in Zelda BoTW and the series of quests to make Crescent Isle in Skies of Arcadia.

    Although they weren't quests I also really liked the little storylines the people in Sonic Adventure had, and how they'd change over the course of the game.

    wrench, (edited ) to random
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    I'm fanatic for the Black Thunder chocolate, and last week we found this colab product between a cereal brand and Black Thunder. It is quite good!

    btsherratt,
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    @wrench 👀 OMG

    btsherratt,
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    @wrench How was it? That granola is super sweet and Japanese milk tends to be sweeter IMO, so that's kind of giving me a sugar rush just by looking at it... 😆 (I also want to eat it)

    coffeentacos, to random
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    If you’re not on but would like to be, you can follow this link and solve today’s Typeshift for a guaranteed key. The link expires “around noon ET (UTC-05) tomorrow” (Nov. 12)Also, let me know and we can be friends on there! https://launch.puzzmo.com/?c=VDU4VkZGTExZLTA=

    btsherratt,
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    @coffeentacos Thanks! I managed to figure out the words and get access. I wanted to try it out before but they never seemed to have keys when I had time to try it...

    glassbottommeg, to random
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    So if you're in games: you've either just survived one of the big 10 year(-ish) industry cycles, or (maybe) you just died at the end due to the massive pinch that hits there.

    When Mimimi games calls it quits off the back of a massively successful self-publish? All the layoffs? Yeah. We're there.

    Which means we're entering some really, reeaaally lean years where everyone battens down the hatches and just tries to survive. Everyone will poke around, and try new things as they crop up. Eventually one of those will catch, and the early-in folks will be richly rewarded, and then it starts again.

    btsherratt,
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    @glassbottommeg It's pretty terrifying just seeing the amount of folk getting laid off right now... This year has been terrible up to now but it's just seems to be getting even worse.

    btsherratt, (edited ) to gamedev
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    Because it's spooooooky season, I'm gonna put up the demo of Scared Little Ghost on @itchio for a limited time.

    Enjoy!

    <It's over! Thanks for trying it out!>

    btsherratt, to gamedev
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    I released the jam version of Little Cyan over on Itch.

    https://bts.itch.io/little-cyan

    It was fun to try out after looking at it for a while, so I'm pleased that I did that. This was a submission for the @indietsushin 勉強会ジャム, so thanks to them for running it.

    The game itself is quite short and not that difficult IMO, but hopefully it's fun. I have mixed feelings about how the story came out, but it was an interesting one to try.

    btsherratt, to random
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    I guess it's gonna be a lot of folks' '1 year left twitterversary' in a few days... Including me.

    btsherratt,
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    I do miss a bunch of folks I lost contact with because they didn't move off it, but I don't miss the platform.

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    @glassbottommeg The handle thing sounds like a nightmare… 😬 When I lived in Japan Twitter was fairly popular in the ‘talk to friends’ sense, and it’s those folk I miss; little updates about their lives/projects. I can still contact them if I needed to, but it’s not quite the same. When I left Japan (2016) is around the time it felt like the nastiness on Twitter really ramped up, although I did still enjoy gamedev Twitter. I’m glad that vibe seems to have made it over here generally.

    platformalist, to gamedev
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Be a cute mouse!  
Hop around the clock!  
Survive!

<https://eggnog.itch.io/clockhopper>

#pico8 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

  
  
[video/mp4](https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/111/287/701/507/148/290/original/c9f3b44c563e67fe.mp4)
    btsherratt,
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    @platformalist This is really cute and a lot of fun! Congrats on the release!

    btsherratt, to gamedev
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    🤖 My puzzle platformer "Factory" recently launched in Early Access on @itchio! Navigate tricky architecture and find out what is going on!

    https://bts.itch.io/factory

    Free to play online, consider picking up a copy (.p8.png included) to help me expand the game!

    🔄 Boosts appreciated! ❤️

    Title screen "factory" is shown over a maze-like structure. The game starts and a robot head falls onto a conveyor belt, eventually fixing onto a robotic body. Collecting a computer disk shows an interface with a manual and EULA. No time to waste reading those, we close the interface and then fling our head across a chasm to another body. Avoiding the skull-like helicopter guard robot we advance to the next screen...

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