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MrBehemo

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#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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MrBehemo, to gaming
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📣 is back! 31st May, 5pm, Granton Campus

It's the show for students at Edinburgh College and for 's to show off their work together. If you wanna play and student projects, find out about at EC or just hang out with us, check out the details in the this thread!

MrBehemo,
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It's on Wed 31st May, at Edinburgh College Granton Campus. Here's the eventbrite with more details. 100% free, no tickets or signup required.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecgx-2023-edinburgh-college-games-expo-tickets-626269618287

Everyone is welcome whether you're a current or prospective student, their friends and family, a local game developer or hobbyist, a gamer, or you just want to see what's up.

MrBehemo,
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On the night of there'll be free snacks & 20+ games playable. Enough to keep you busy for a couple of hours! Over the next few weeks I'll post some more details about the projects you'll be able to try out, and the who will be featured.

MrBehemo,
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I'll be noising you up more over the next few weeks! RTs and likes are appreciated. Get in touch if you have any questions and be sure to tell your gang about it on other sites!

MrBehemo, to random
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theory: you can tell a game dev's age by whether they think "I write games" is something said by a programmer or by a narrative designer

MrBehemo,
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(this is not a snarky comment about generational tastes or whatever, I litterally mean people mean the verb "to write" differently)

TomF, to random
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What's everybody's favourite Mastodon client for Android?

MrBehemo,
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@TomF for me, nothing works as well as a browser shortcut and the mobile website. Every app seemed to be missing something, and I really prefer the ui and layout.

MrBehemo, to random
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Thinking this morning about how Flash taught me OOP, in a special visual IDE, where the code objects you create are also art objects you create.

I'd tried to teach myself that stuff previously (without knowing what OOP was, I just knew that classes were a thing and at the time it seemed hard) but I didn't really get it until I was using AS3 to instanciate library symbols.

In fact, I still didn't really "get it" until some time later, learning C# or C++ and I was like "oh! it's like Flash!"

MrBehemo,
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@AmicableAnimal Around that time I also had a lot of fun with Wintermute, a PnC engine that has a similar "2D objects with code on them" concept. It also has all the game logic driven by interfaces, except I don't think it ever called them that ... but I had a similar experience years later learning what an interface was. "Oh! it's like Wintermute!"

MrBehemo,
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@AmicableAnimal Last update 2010... wonder if it still works? http://dead-code.org/home/index.php/

MrBehemo,
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@AmicableAnimal TIL Wintermute is supported by SCUMMVM, and my game is on it 😅

MrBehemo, to random
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I keep toying with different android apps for masto, but none of them seem to be as good as just having a broswer shortcut on my home screen.

MrBehemo,
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@AmicableAnimal Same! The mobile site does everything I want it to do, which isn't true of any of the apps I've tried. I also like the layout. But like, philosophically? What if all the apps that are basically just websites were...just websites?

AmicableAnimal, to gamedev
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It turns out I absolutely can't help myself when it comes to this SOLAS 128 demake series of puzzles in my new game...

So, enjoy the double bass of the prisms pieces, I guess! 🔊

An orange-lit room, with a square golden device on the wall. Once an orange button with a double clef icon is pressed, yellow symbols start to flow from an emitter with an arrow, which are split into red and green symbols by prism pieces. These them flow into similar receiver pieces with arrows pointing the other way to the emitter.

MrBehemo,
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@AmicableAnimal can't wait to play with this and hear what beautiful non-solutions I get stuck on 🤩

MrBehemo,
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@AmicableAnimal hehe, I mean, I like being stuck ... but I meant more like, even while figuring it out, it'll still make lovely music

MrBehemo, to random
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I thought this week would be the week my new project would be ready for screenshotsaturday, but I'm not quite feeling it yet... probs next week?

MrBehemo, to gamedev
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graphs on the steam backend do this thing where, sometimes if y=0, it just skips over the x instead of dipping downwards, and my theory is that this has never been fixed because nobody wants to admit they have beta scrub zero-filled sales data, like me

yet I have no shame, so look at this nonsense

ElectronDance, to random
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Look, I know gamedevs hate making UI but...

MAN I used to LOVE it. Took me years of effort to focus on "making the game" instead of "making the pretty".

My 1980s gamedev non-career is littered with orphaned menus and title screens. In some ways it was a terrible waste of time - effort devoted to works that would never be finished.

I'm very practical today - too much so, where I think ahead to all the brutal reality that awaits any project I start. I miss getting invested in the fluff.

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MrBehemo,
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@ElectronDance I certainly don't love making UI, but I do have a thing where I can't get on with making the game when I know the UI is incomplete. It feels like arranging the furniture before the roof is on.

MrBehemo,
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@ElectronDance it's a load-bearing analogy

richardcobbett, to random

I kinda want to write an incredibly serious, dramatic cop drama about a broken detective seeking redemption for past sins, except with the twist that in the penultimate episode the Elder Gods return.

MrBehemo,
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@richardcobbett for real, I've toyed with the idea of a game for years, with a sudden and surprising genre switch. Like a puzzle game that sudden reveals itself to be a horror game.

I think it would have to go 1 of 3 ways: either it's not at all surprising, or you need to completely spoil the twist or embrace the fact that it's going to get thoroughly spoiled anyway, OR it works and you pull off an effective and sudden rug-pull... And everyone is mad at you for it. 10hrs played 👎

NinaMarie, to random

i really miss the days of active forums and chatrooms. i just want to find a vintage fashion community, but the only active people are on insta or reddit, which i don't want to use... so i guess i will just enjoy my hobby alone........... daydreaming of fellow vintage collectors on an irc channel and feeling sad lol

MrBehemo,
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@NinaMarie I have a silly little hope that, in the ashes of social media, we somehow go back to just straight up old fashioned forums.

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