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btsherratt

@btsherratt@mastodon.gamedev.place

Making games and things.

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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...'

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    I've had web hosting for 20+ years and given how much cheaper all the components in the service have gotten in that time (CPU cycles, bandwidth, storage), by rights we should by now all have our own hosting for federated services for pennies or bundled with our internet service. Why is it still so expensive? I used to run databases on a potato compared to now

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    @sinbad I’d guess the main expense would be the team required to maintain the services rather than the hardware itself. Having said that, my current hosting is £1.20 per month for a VPS (not a promo price either) so it’s definitely possible to offer something affordable.

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    WOW you know what was not a good idea? Buying Balatro when I am once again behind on all my work 😭

    The willpower needed to tear myself away from this game is... so great... hnnnngh... help... help me...

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    @renkotsuban Hahahahahaha, now you can live like the rest of us… 🤭

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    @wrench @renkotsuban We’Re wAiTiNg FoR YoU… 🧟‍♂️

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    @psychicparrot42 kinda reminds me of re-volt which was a childhood fave!

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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

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

    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..."

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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…

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

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    btsherratt,
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    @psychicparrot42 Probz come from Annapurna Pictures... 😅

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    @psychicparrot42 Ouch…

    btsherratt, to random
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    Today in Pico-8 code crimes: setting the meta table for _ENV

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    I guess (contrary to my prior words) I can show some of the cutscene stuff I wanna add.

    Robot head connects with a body, collects a disc and an install process begins.

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

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    Anyhow I guess my Linux story is that I owned multiple big box editions of SuSE Linux that existed back when you had to buy it. So there you go.🦎

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    @sinbad Nice! It was a long time ago but I remember it being a pretty great choice of distro.

    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 you’re a good person.

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

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    I'm finally getting around to writing this WASD retrospective, although it'll probably take a bit due to being a lot of writing... 😬

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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

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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.

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