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MrBehemo

@MrBehemo@mastodon.gamedev.place

#IndieGame generalist at Aetheric Games some of the time, and #GameDev lecturer at Edinburgh College other times. Undercover, queerly neurospicy mess, attempting to infiltrate the normals with a big coat and a fake moustache. Currently working on ... something new? #Edinburgh, #Scotland

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konstantinosd, to random
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Would you play a contemporary game with this style of graphics? Honest answers only :P

MrBehemo, (edited )
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@konstantinosd
yes, but... my tolerance/appreciation for retro graphics is much, much more forgiving than for retro control schemes, mechanics and ludic design choices. So I might be interested in a modern game that looked like that.

abyrd, to random
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One of the harder lessons in programming for me is understanding when not to generalize or try to enforce a pattern. I like things neat and orderly, but many things just aren't.

MrBehemo,
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@abyrd
Same. Show me a one-off, specific procedure, and I immediately want to abstract it.

raodaozao, to random
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The problem with having a Wordpress site is that it's really hard to experiment with your theme. There's no safe workspace to build them up to only apply when you're done, you just kinda have to do them piecemeal in prod.

... guess who just blatted all his customisations? 😩

MrBehemo,
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@raodaozao
Ikr. My "solution" is to have a fairly static "under construction" page to hide behind while I do something unsightly.

MrBehemo,
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@raodaozao hehe
Real answer though - there's got to be plugins that let you have a different theme for members and guests.
And if not, I've been getting a lot of use of a plugin called WPCode (free version) for inserting modular snippets into the framework. I'm pretty sure you could insert something early that would override whatever php function returns the theme, so that you could work on a duplicate theme that only you see.

loosenut, to random
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MIdnight emerges from the darkness in an attempt to manifest snacks.

Midnight, a dark rat, sticking his head out from under a blanket, perhaps to ask for a snack
Midnight, a dark rat, sticking his head out from under a blanket, perhaps to ask for a snack

MrBehemo,
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@loosenut did it work?

MrBehemo, to edinburgh
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Only a couple of days to - the Edinburgh College Games eXpo!
If you're in town on Tue 28th 5:30-8:00, come along to CodeBase to try out 🔥25+💖 student-made games, as well as a bunch of locally made demos!

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/edinburghcollegegames/1230607

MrBehemo,
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Are you, or someone you know in , interested in:

  • learning at college + unlocking new skills and goals?
  • hanging out with local ?
  • chatting with current students?
  • playing some cool new stuff?
    ...then come along! There'll be snacks!

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/edinburghcollegegames/1230607

ElectronDance, to random
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Me, writing on Immortality: "We construct entire identikit personalities from mere scraps – imagine trying to work out who someone is from promotional events, let alone any fictional portrayals. But then something goes wrong."

You, reading on Immortality, here: https://www.electrondance.com/psychopath/

MrBehemo,
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@ElectronDance
Joel, telling us what to witness meant.

MrBehemo,
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@AmicableAnimal @ElectronDance
It is a technically sound joke. Thank you; I'll take it. But also, it's an observation of a thematic link between the two analyses, and a kind of a "harbour master done it again"-high-five.

MrBehemo,
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@ElectronDance @AmicableAnimal
Something jokes and praise have in common is that they're both definitely improved by having to explain them.

MrBehemo, to random
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Good question, Outlook. What do you think?

mogwai_poet, to random
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Did you know: Paypal me $20

MrBehemo,
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@mogwai_poet
hsve you ever had a dream that you had you could you’ll do you want you could you want to know so much you could paypal $20?

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.

MrBehemo,
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@glassbottommeg
My tagline seems to have become "Aetheric Games is a tiny indie studio in Edinburgh, Scotland" sometimes followed by "consisting of Nick Bell and collaborators."

I try not to call myself solo, partly because I'm talking to young folks a lot and trying to get them to collaborate and acclimatise to teamwork.

But also, I like to have a label that's exactly one step away from me personally. Sometimes, I feel like being the front, but sometimes Aetheric is [closed for business].

ghosttie, to random
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I have a weird desire for a piece of clockwork, small enough to fit in your pocket or hold in your hand, that vibrates strongly once a second. Like a pocket watch but without the clock face and with much stronger vibration.

I kind of want to hold it when I'm talking, to help remind me to slow down and enunciate.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to exist.

MrBehemo,
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@ghosttie
Tangentially related, I sometimes set alarms or reminders to make my phone vibrate regularly throughout the day, to keep me aware of the passage of time. It helps a lot with my perception of time, but inevitably, I start to find it annoying and delete them all 🤣

MrBehemo, to random
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so, what I'm picking up from the trailer is something like... "what if Dizzy was better?"
Is that on the mark?

llamasoft_ox, to random
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Bottle art in the wall of the roundhouse

MrBehemo,
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@llamasoft_ox
that's definitely a puzzle. did you try tapping them until they were all white?

AmicableAnimal, to random
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I'm so impressed the physics engine can handle this mess - there are about 400 coins under all those chips too 🤣

MrBehemo,
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@AmicableAnimal wait a minute... that art style... is this SOLAS 4096?

Bobbins, to random
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Which of you buggers have a videogame related blog, channel or site I can link to from mine? Gimme those sweet, sweet URLs.

MrBehemo,
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@Bobbins I've got a one of them "urls"! aetheric-games.com

Sophie, to random
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it feels pretty awesome to throw stuff. Try it out if you're human.

MrBehemo,
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@Sophie
Strongly suspect that the reason games tend to focus so much on combat is because mamals get a kick of out making something go away.

"This sprite-man is a problem you have. Press the button to make problem-sprite-man go away."

(cf. cats vs objects on tables)

MrBehemo,
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@Sophie
(wonder how people would react to a game that presented puzzles or care-giving acts as if they were enemies to kill, coming at you...? or what that could even look like)

MrBehemo,
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@Sophie
huh - yeah, guess so

maxim, to gamedev
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In Unity, I liked creating my own editors to work with game data, scene object states, quick testing, etc. Today I tried similar possibilities in Unreal Engine. Editor Utility Widget it's a much more cool system, and with blueprint it's a whole other level of tool building

video/mp4

MrBehemo,
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@maxim isn't it great? So fast and flexible... really useful speed boost for a solo/small team... unless you get so into tooling that you forget to make the game. 😅

fallible, to random
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I think? I might have wired up all my server logic? am I freed for a brief time now? can I work on visuals and design? fucking hell.

MrBehemo,
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@fallible I've got kinda the opposite going on. I've spent months and months (on and off) on shaders and look dev, but when I wonder if I can demo my game any time soon, I remember that it's functionally unchanged from this time last year, including the buglist. 😅

MrBehemo, to random
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Welp, I suppose I needn't worry about SEO for aetheric-games.com .... Google just simply won't search for it. Searching for "aetheric games" returns results for "aesthetic games" no matter if you use the "search instead..." link, if you use quote marks, or even if you use "verbatim" mode. 🙄

The web has never lived up to its promise, but remember when it used to work kinda, maybe sometimes?

MrBehemo,
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@afreytes well yeah, I appreciate that 😀 but 99% of people probably aren't going to do it.

Buuuut, 99% of people aren't going to be searching for it anyway 😅

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