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playmedusa

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I am physically attracted to games, like moths to light or cats to red laser dots. Freelance game designer and developer who also makes games just because.

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playmedusa, to random
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Tomorrow I'm getting two USB sticks (because I've lost all I had). One for a windows recovery drive and one for a bootable USB installer. I feel like trying Ubuntu again for a while! It's been YEARS!

playmedusa,
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@mforester oh but I need a full fledged OS for game development, can't have it on a USB drive! Wouldn't that be way too slow?

jonikorpi, to random
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I think I’m slightly falling into the functional programming well after reading this, and a bunch of discussions referencing an old John Carmack talk. https://betterprogramming.pub/functional-game-engine-architecture-in-scala-2a68ccc76d2a?gi=c57f94df56b0

playmedusa,
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@jonikorpi I find it interesting but fail to see why you are calling it 'functional programming'? After reading your thread and that blog post, it feels like an architecture that heavily relies on events, processing them across successive frames. Which sounds really interesting! But is that functional programming?

playmedusa,
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@jonikorpi So it probably is XDD

Not really important, anyways. But the architecture looks interesting! Might try it at some point.

You might like Defold, it also depends heavily on events if you stick to Defold's scripts, although it doesn't wait for the next frame to resolve them.

playmedusa, to gamedev
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Been working on new features!

  • jumping on enemies or throwing things at them knock them out for a while.
  • you can grab those enemies and throw them to other enemies, to actually kill them.

And we have... PROCEDURALLY CREATED LEVELS! Which are quite useful for gameplay testing.

#gamedev #prototype

old school arcade with platforms and ladders, still in development

playmedusa,
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I am looking for art style references for this one-screen coop platformer. Inspiration comes frome Lode Runner, Nightshift and Burguertime. I personally love Annalynn's classic looks, like Wonderboy or Bubble Bobble/Rainbow Islands. But what does this early capture suggest you?

playmedusa, to random
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How does one hire an artist for a game knowing you can't afford to choose wrong because you have a limited budget? If it's not the right person (for non-artistic reasons, like attitude or compromise) and you find out a few months into the project...

playmedusa,
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@aeva up until now I've never done that. Being a freelancer myself (game design and programming) it's me the one who gets hired, but I've never been on the other side!

Yes, an interview is mandatory, but then it's your gut and a some luck, I guess...

playmedusa, to random
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New enemies! Yep, they look the same, we are still using placeholder assets. But these can climb ladders! There's a silly bug if the ladder ends right where a platform ends (they fall), but we'll get there. Next, that bug. And enemies that actively chase you!

Platformer videogame, testing enemies that can climb ladders

playmedusa, to random
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Well, Sony backs down from the PSN thing. Turns out that COORDINATED PROTESTS ARE USEFUL.

Now let's apply that knowledge to something truly important!

Moggy, to random French
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Chat sphérique.

playmedusa,
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@Moggy Beautiful! This is our own spheric cat :D

ant_games, to indiegames Ukrainian
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Changing the forest zone again

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2382240/Awita_Journey_of_Hope/

video/mp4

playmedusa,
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@ant_games That pixel art is... unreal. Impressive!

sako, to random Japanese
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cross your eyes 2

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playmedusa,
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@sako Soooo good! Well done :D

playmedusa, to random
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Just peeked into and I'm... in awe. So much packed into a very fine piece of software, and that's just the beginning!

Wonder if it will ever publish to consoles! Would that be even possible, @zep ? That would be quite slap on the face for many many game engines! But even if it doesn't, it still feels like a very nice set of tools to work with.

playmedusa, to random
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Just found out about the hashtag and I'm going down the rabbit hole. I used to blog and this movement makes me want to do it once again!

grumpygamer, to random
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The of Slack drives me to Discord but it feels like it was designed for teenage boys.

playmedusa,
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@grumpygamer wait until you read about Discord's lack of privacy and security, you'll love it.

https://austinhuang.me/discord-issues.html

https://cadence.moe/blog/2020-06-06-why-you-shouldnt-trust-discord#my-perspective

playmedusa, to random
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Seems I made it! :D I managed to make something that feels like a game, as cute as I could. I hope it will make you laugh or at least smile. It's very short, as I had to learn quite a few things and lost a lot of time with silly issues due to me not being acquainted with Defold.
Would be nice to extend it for two players, add level progression, a larger game space...

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playmedusa, to random
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Why doesn't LUA have a not-index-based remove function? Makes working with lists a bit cumbersome...

playmedusa,
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@aeva but it's all tables, why can't I remove something from a table? :"(

playmedusa,
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@aeva yes, that's what docs say. But then you have to check for nil all the time. Sometimes you just need to be able to remove and make the list shorter, don't you?

There are plenty of modules that already do it, that's not the issue, but puzzles me :)

beeoproblem, to random
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Holy crap! My machine is so much faster now that my main drive is an NVME SSD instead of a spinning rust drive.

playmedusa,
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@beeoproblem It's magic :D Take care if you keep your mechanical drive. After some time wondering why my PC was slowing to a crawl sometimes, a friend of mine figured out that there was somethine weird about the Swap Disc. And indeed, it was using the old mechanical disc!! Changed it to one of the SSDs and it's a new PC again ':D

playmedusa, to random
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I recently started rewatching all Indiana Jones movies with my family (so kids get to know Indiana). This is SO exciting!!

https://youtu.be/0e17p2IVDUU?si=cF3Iiu5nMs9RrHKe

playmedusa,
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@ridgek I would play no matter the perspective, it's one of my favorite movie franchises if not the most!

vl2m, to random
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I think I have level design block :(

playmedusa,
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@vl2m no pun intended? Because it made me laught out loud! :D

playmedusa, to pixelart
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Back at pixel art? Will I be able to draw and animate all the characters for this game like I did for Nosferatu: Rites of the Skull Cult, while also programming part of it? It's quite a daunting task!

playmedusa,
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@Liquidream Will try the rest of them :D

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