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glassbottommeg

@glassbottommeg@peoplemaking.games

Queer af founder of Glass Bottom Games. BAFTA Breakthrough. Now working on something mysterious (previously: SkateBIRD, Hot Tin Roof, etc).

Things I tend to do include: #UnrealEngine, #IndieDev, #GameDev, and I love #Birds

Sometimes a bit of #GamingNews and #IndieGame / #Gaming too!

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kaynSD, to random
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Hours of carving and glueing later and we're ready for sealing and priming these bits for my IRL game, and whatever other things I'll end up doing for tabletop games.

Close up of terrain pieces on a parquet floor. They are made of plaster and floor insulation. The inch high walls are carved and ornamented with debris.
Zoomed out view of a huge amount of terrain pieces made of plaster and floor insulation
Side on detail of a terrain piece; visible on the inch thick insulation are carved details done with a wire cutter and rocks and pebbles representing debris

glassbottommeg,
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@kaynSD um, if I can ask a possibly-very-dumb question

You mentioned you were cutting these out. Did you cut these out of a solid piece of foam? Or do these come in some kinda, big chunks, that you then cut apart into the terrain bits you want?

glassbottommeg, to Birding
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Any / folks have a clear understanding of why Stellar Jay seem to pick up and mimic predator calls?

I think our Stellar Jay is making Osprey noises now? She was doing Red Tailed Hawk noises last year.

honey what kind of rough crowd are you hanging out with when you migrate

glassbottommeg,
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@Puck I think it's more that they're being jerks and trying to scare off competition from the snacks I've laid out? Though sometimes they just seem really proud of their calls.

gord, to random
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Today in "what's Gord doing?"

Can you guess what Gord's doing?

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glassbottommeg,
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@gord I'm gonna go with either "aerating" or "prepping for a really intense kink scene"

maxim, to gamedev
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Today I tried what Geometry Script is in Unreal Engine 5. Cool features, but I won't use it for the game. Maybe only as tools for level design

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glassbottommeg,
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@maxim it's REALLY cool for custom design tooling yup!

glassbottommeg, (edited ) to gamedev
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Been trying to figure out how to phrase the next era of my / studio

If it's my partner and I making games, but she's a very silent artist partner and wants zero exposure, do I just roll the "single creator" angle?

It feels weird, but also a lot of single creator games sure have lots of contractors so shrug?

Like if I say "couple", EVERYONE gonna zero in on that. The angle they'll want is couple interviews. And, well. No.

glassbottommeg,
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I've avoided it in the past because I also don't like minimizing the input of my musician. But a whole lot of solo devs shrug that off too and treat music like a pay-for commodity?

Feels a bit like how "Souls" means something very different from what the words say at this point, or how "indie" has been distended, heh.

glassbottommeg,
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@klord does he just say "duo" then? Does that work?

glassbottommeg,
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@mitch yes, exactly that, also AAAAAAAAA-

glassbottommeg,
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@SmallisBeautiful that's the bizarre thing. Most solo dev games aren't solo. It's- very odd.

glassbottommeg,
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@Sophie heh, lol- but no seriously this perspective still helps!

glassbottommeg,
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@tacitus I suppose having anchored myself as "Glass Bottom Games" sort of shoots me in the foot in this regard, since otherwise, yeah, that'd be an obvious dodge. Hrm.

Though that's how it goes I guess. Either you die as a young studio, or survive long enough to have the concept of a "studio" become antiquated, lol.

glassbottommeg,
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@Jamesac68 ah hah, so it IS getting played out already. That makes sense! Because, yeah. I squint at most of these and it's like, huh, those suuuuure are some long credits for solo dev.

glassbottommeg, (edited )
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@radiofreelunch it's been my policy to say "we" for the last decade even though I'm the only full timer, yep! My thing has always been, folks don't gotta be full time to be afforded the identity of "team".

Just seemed worth checking if norms had changed heh.

glassbottommeg,
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@radiofreelunch oh yes, obviously- not sure why anyone thought I meant shorting people out of the credits, heh. Even the other devs who state Solo Dev end up with long credits. That's why I asked in fact.

charlesrandall, to random
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I am so deeply tired of every games job interview trying to find out how much I'm going to love their project or how much it aligns with my tastes.

Look, I am a professional. I have been doing this 25 years. I want to do my job at 100%, make whatever I am building better than it otherwise would be, get paid, and then go home.

I'm not in it for the passion. The passion died a long time ago. Now I just want to pay my mortgage.

Anyway, here's a bunch of stuff I can't say in interviews.

glassbottommeg,
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@charlesrandall "Hi, gosh can I just say that I am SO excited to play this hero shooter that looks like literally every other hero shooter on the market- just, wow, it's got so many characters! and art, great art!"

glassbottommeg, to Games
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Oh, hey, Dread Delusion hit its full release yesterday! It's essentially an indie swing at Morrowind, and apparently it's very good. Looks like they added gamepad support too, YAY! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574240/Dread_Delusion/

Bobbins, to random
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I think Jon Blow complaining about not being able to find Braid on PSN without scrolling to the bottom of the list of new releases and having to be told to stop sorting by best selling and it goes to the top will give me strength for years to come.

glassbottommeg,
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@Bobbins Oh my god it gets better

llamasoft_ox, to random
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Hats are important.

glassbottommeg,
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@llamasoft_ox Wait, are hats still a thing there? Can you wear hats without folks thinking you're a bit of a weirdo?

Hats are rad, and it's a bummer that culture in the US is stubbornly looping the last 50 years only. We should bring back HATS.

glassbottommeg,
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@llamasoft_ox Ah, yeah, I too have a "going outside when it's pissing rain" hat. Wandering around the property in the winter months is otherwise just a fantastic way of getting soaked, heh.

Well, that and hooded jackets, but meh, most times jacket is overkill.

sinbad, (edited ) to random
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I’d heard a couple of people say that Xbox was basically not worth aiming for anymore as an indie, unless they offer you a chunky Game Pass deal - which they probably won’t, unless you’re a known quantity by reputation or sales on other platform. This article backs that up; good to know if like me you’re an outsider to console dev and would be going in blind https://www.patreon.com/posts/do-game-still-to-104149801?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

glassbottommeg,
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@sinbad Also applies to PlayStation, with the same "unless you get PS+ or diversity fund money" caveat

It isn't that PlayStation can't make money, it's just that what sells there isn't remotely what most indies are making. They've more or less captured the AAA Gamer audience.

DarkestKale, to random
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Good morning folks

glassbottommeg,
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@DarkestKale both the book and the movie are great, but they're pretty different

glassbottommeg,
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@DarkestKale It's been ages since I read it, but it wouldn't surprise me if it hasn't aged well, either

eniko, to random
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For my birthday, I'd really like it if my beloved fedi could spread word far and wide of Kitsune Tails. It's a platformer with a heartwarming story featuring queer main characters and personal discoveries in classic SMB3 style. You can find trailer, screenshots, and wishlist links here: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

It's coming out this year and the team and I have been working hard on it for several years now. Most of the team is queer in some form so by boosting you'd not only be making me happy on my birthday, but supporting a bunch of queer creators making queer art as well

yuzu kitsune tails, a purple haired fox girl, picks up samurai armor in a tower that's rapidly filling with lava. she jumps away from the rising lava and sticks her spear in the wall, doing a dashing twirl to get on top of it. she walks off the spear and into a new scene, fighting a ghost fox with armor and spear. it stabs and she jumps over, but is caught by a follow up stab. the ghost fox over extends and its ghostly powers wane, giving yuzu a chance to bop on its head

glassbottommeg,
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@eniko I appear to have brought you the power of Satan, you're welcome

glassbottommeg,
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@eniko oh hey, 746 now, I really did I guess

Hail Satan? Thanks?

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