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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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Craigp, to random
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@glassbottommeg Hey, is Patreon still stable? Or is another service recommended for new teams.

I remember hearing a lot about VC poisoning.

glassbottommeg,
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@Craigp there isn't a better option for now, other than the one meant for worker-owned co-ops?

And I don't know if they have enough traction either. Your main issue is reducing friction for people to sign up, and the account most people have is a Patreon.

Kofi has some alternative models now I think, so maybe them too?

yonabee, to random
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when i was a little girl i would pretend that i was frozen in time, lying flat on my back very still without moving and telling myself that actually i could not move, never had moved and never would move

and as time continued to pass the fact that i had not moved yet became more and more proof of this fact, until i fully believed it, and i realized it was now impossible for me to move, and i was stuck like this forever, completely frozen, and in a panic i would force my body to move again, with all my will, and the spell was broken

glassbottommeg,
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@yonabee did you ever do the thing where you'd lay on your stomach, grab the floor, and pretend it was a cliff and you were going to fall if you let go?

My kid brain would rewire and it'd feel like there was down gravity - naturally it never worked when I tried to reproduce it as an adult, but, neat!

SirTapTap, to random
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how many perfume spritzes is "normal" anyway? I can't smell it after 1 minute even though I'm doing it for myself but I'd still like to be doing it 'right'

glassbottommeg,
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@SirTapTap two or three into the air in front of you, like you're casting a magic sigil, then walk through the cloud.

Think like, a LARGE sigil, wider than you. Do big fancy gestures while you spritz.

Goal is to create a cloud that then tumbles a bit as you move through, so it spreads evenly. As opposed to a REALLY fragrant spot on your wrist or whatever.

Also this feels much cooler and more dramatic, which gives you confidence, which is the whole reason you're wearing a scent anyways.

glassbottommeg,
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@SirTapTap (but I'm also a weird goblin who never really uses it anymore so for all I know I was using it wrong too, but it felt cool!)

St1ka, to random
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Having a snack

glassbottommeg,
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@St1ka oooooo

what the heck is in the pastry puff pouch?

Seems like a magic bag of holding that can only be opened once

glassbottommeg,
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@St1ka oooooooo

glassbottommeg, to gamedev
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Oh, right! I did a PODCAST thingy!

If you wanna hear me talk about, well, random stuff, you can wrap your ears around this: https://www.rengenmarketing.com/podcast/creative-game-design/

brody, to random
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Jeez, this is Unreal Engine 5's 9-slicing implementation?? This is so awful, good god. I didn't think you could screw this up...

glassbottommeg,
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@brody ahahaha hahahahahahahaha <wheeeeeeeeeze>

Yeah welcome to the hell I spent a while in a few weeks ago

As far as I can tell, everyone basically writes THEIR OWN UI MATERIALS for essentially everything. Or they have no idea what 9 slice even is, because their idea of UI is solid color transparent boxes with rounded corners.

It's a very good UI system that's categorically incapable of making UI that looks remotely good, without a ton of custom code.

glassbottommeg,
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@ben @brody the one in engine right now simply does not work. It would be faster to simply point an engineer at a unity and say "like that". They're not even close to usable right now.

The behavior is such that even if you get it working, you then can't control the relative pixel size, it's like- utterly bizarre.

Oh and it stretches instead of tiles on the slices, to boot!

It basically only works for tiny rounded corner solid color "laser" style windows. Which checks out I guess, that's all Unreal games really ever bothered having.

klord, to random
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I've just robbed @glassbottommeg 's Switch and Twiddler idea (https://www.patreon.com/posts/switch-systems-99406783) and it's super flexible. 👍

glassbottommeg,
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@klord yay! glad to be stolen from, heh

glassbottommeg, to random
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I wonder if someone in my past did the "<snaps/points at me> hey, knock it off" thing, or if I just had latent Grandma DNA that kicked in when I turned 40

The cat gets the snap when he does something bad, and he knows the snap. I can do the snap a room away and I hear him stop savaging the couch.

glassbottommeg,
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@sinbad you gotta snap with intention. You gotta project your command through the snap. Would video of The Snap help?

glassbottommeg,
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@Arxosnox we don't possess the great magics of our ancestors, but we have The Snap, and that makes us at least hedge wizards

glassbottommeg, to gamedev
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I'm working on proper FX for the first time. Not just particles, but this stuff! I'm making FX meshes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFgS5pzG1Qs

What I've realized is there are two uh, schools? of thought about FX meshes. The other one I'd seen more of is this sort, where you muck around heavily and render to a texture and bleh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nv28O2OIoQ

But- I don't like it as well? I associate the dynamic shader-heavy sort with crass, messy aesthetics. Dunno tho. Maybe I'm being unfair? Could just be my own aesthetic tastes bleeding through?

(spent the entire morning being SUPER ANGRY about studio closures, but aaannnyywaaaaays trying to focus on something more fun, so woooo FX)

foone, to random
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So I got this thing at ewaste.

It's a Richtech Automated "AI" Temperature Screening System.

Time to open it up.

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glassbottommeg,
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@foone oh shit! One of those bullshit face scanning things they deployed everywhere during COVID lol

mcc, to random
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Pondering the parallels between the Christian myth of Adam and Eve approaching a tree with a snake in it and attaining knowledge of good and evil, with the snake and the gained knowledge seen as evil; and the Buddhist myth (new to me) of Mucalinda, meaning the Buddha also sat under a tree with a snake and there also attained enlightenment but here the knowledge so gained is good and the snake is seen as a protector

Could invent some really fun heresies by developing this line of thought further

glassbottommeg,
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@mcc the one my friends always struggled with is there are Buddhist groups who engage in violent resistance and that, well yes, that's also Buddhism. Just not the ones who believe in pacifism. Which also isn't the rest, there's some in the middle!

glassbottommeg, to indiegames
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Wow! This wasn't on my radar at all, but Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo looks absolutely fantastic. It isn't like Shovel Knight at all, but I want to say it has Shovel Knight Vibes anyways. Very worth a peek. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2870350/Pipistrello_and_the_Cursed_Yoyo/

Craigp, to random
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Holy shit, these expensive new shoes kicked my walk speed way up. Around +50% sustained speed.

glassbottommeg,
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@Craigp wait. Really?

Shoes with movement speed buffs are a real thing?

glassbottommeg, (edited ) to PCGaming
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fuckin Roll7 just died https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2024/05/olliolli-kerbal-space-program-teams-shut-down-by-gta-publisher

EDIT: Fuck, this is also Kerbel Space Program 2 toast. Didn't realize Intercept was the new team that was on that.

glassbottommeg,
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They were literal contemporaries! OlliOlli launched like a year after I founded my studio. Their work inspired SkateBIRD a bit, then we were launching just a bit before OlliOlli World, just! Like. AAAAAAAAAAAA.

glassbottommeg,
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@jannem I thought KSP 2 was someone else entirely? Like didn't a new dev take that over?

glassbottommeg,
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@DKesserich @jannem no clue - if so, fuckin hell 😭

glassbottommeg,
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@DKesserich @jannem SHIT https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/kerbal-space-program-2-developer-intercept-games-may-be-closing-as-part-of-take-twos-big-layoff-plan/

glassbottommeg,
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@raptor85 @jannem Yep, this. You could totally make Skylines 2 with Unity. I mean I ditched it, but that's due to future planning - right now, sure.

They just... uh... did not. Or I mean maybe they would have on a longer timeline, but they shipped it before putting in that last year of polishing and tightening.

eniko, to random
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If you have any curiosity about Nim as a language let this be a warning to you: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/10312

Dude just went off 110% unprompted, holy shit

glassbottommeg,
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@jessechounard @dmbaturin @che5hire @eniko 40s here also, yep same. Occasionally I catch myself starting to use old terminology out of habit, then I stop, go "no no brain you know the new word stop it", and move on.

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