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Sophie

@Sophie@dice.camp

I/we make games, dice, and other nerdy stuff ❤️
(Trans/NB/AroAce, they/them, autistic but the puzzle piece is just because I love jigsaws (because I’m autistic))

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glassbottommeg, (edited ) to gamedev
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Been trying to figure out how to phrase the next era of my #GameDev / #IndieGame 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.

Sophie,
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@glassbottommeg for me I usually credit myself primarily “Game by Sophie, Music by XYZ.”

If your partner doesn’t want exposure you can credit them with an initial or even an X.

Personally I call myself a solo developer, but I’d never say a game was made by one person unless it really was just me.

I get that you probably do more press than I do though, so you need concise and clear messaging, not sure I can help with that as concise and clear isn’t my thing… I mean, look at this toot lol.

Sophie, to random
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It’s fucked up the way people act like we’re so much more advanced than ancient humans.

Can you imagine INVENTING bread? I don’t think I could figure it out with what I know now. And I live in a world with bread and farming everywhere.

Sophie,
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I know you need grain, which needs to be… milled? Maybe? And yeast. I have no idea what the fuck yeast actually is though, some kind of mould?

So yeah, some mashed up grain, mould, and maybe some water. That’s my literally best guess.

Oh also I need to build an oven, how is an oven different from a furnace? I don’t know.

Ancient humans were fucking awesome.

Nifflas, to random
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Making a 1-button game. Won't have time for rebindable controls because this is a small game, but I can assign any number of buttons to act as the button. Going for Space Bar, Z and X. Should I add more? Which ones?

I want to avoid buttons that trigger stuff like Windows Sticky Keys tho.

Sophie,
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@Nifflas just have players press the any key?

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

Sophie,
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Not only do you get to make a thing go away, you get the tactile sensation of it leaving, and it will often say goodbye like "bang!" or "thud!".

Pretty dope experience ngl

Sophie,
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I'm a proud descendant of some jerk ape that picked up a rock and was super psyched about it being somewhere else very fast.

Sophie,
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Anyway if you've got motor tics you might get what I'm talking about. That instinct to throw is strong and sweet but it was not designed for apes carrying expensive touchscreen devices. Gotta get those sturdy cases and let off the impulse to lob other things when it's safe.

Sophie,
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BTW if you try throwing, and like it? I recommend "jumping".

It's like throwing but what you throw is you.

Sophie,
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(Realisation that being human is mostly about throwing and jumping and that's why we have videogames)

Sophie,
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@MrBehemo undertale?

Sophie, to random
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I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been asleep today.

It’s fucked up that I was able to catch a cold at all given how distant I am from other people. Did someone sneak up behind me and breathe or something? How did this happen. What the hell.

Sophie,
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Fun thing I'm doing during this cold is dissociating so much I keep forgetting that I'm currently porting Return of the SLIMEPIRES to picotron.

The graphics are still WIP but most of the game itself is working fine.

Sophie,
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If you haven't played it yet, I recommend it! One of the games I'm most proud of, and you'll probably get one of the games endings within 10 minutes.

(also, leave a tip to get extras like maps and a manual, and also a huge video of me talking through the thing!)

https://sophieh.itch.io/return-of-the-slimepires

Sophie,
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porting to from is pretty chill tbh

Screenshot of the safe room security doors from return of the slimepires. Three heavy doors block the way.
Screenshot of the slimepire emprex boss room, a large space with a floating slime person in the center.

Sophie,
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(most mobs are still using the pico-8 graphics, there's a buuuunch of animation frames for them and I'm procrastinating wrt that stuff. The boss art and most of the level art is redrawn now though.)

Sophie,
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It's done, buuuuuut now that it's in and doesn't have pico-8 limitations, I can afford to thoroughly comment the code for anyone wanting to study it. So I'll do that before release. Might take a while tbh.

A screenshot of the game where many slimepires swarm a room filled with pipes
A screenshot of the game where the player shoots at a boss made of red floating eyes

Sophie, to random
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ENView for has been updated thanks to a BUNCH of cool work by @pancelor

Get it with: load

Main things:

  • Search Bar!
  • Bug Fixes!
  • It's faster!

Be sure to say thanks, I've not looked over it all yet but this was clearly no small amount of work!

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=147549#p

Sophie,
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Veditor for has also been updated, though only with a small addition to the documentation on how to associate .vgfx files.

Also it's worth pointing out, picotron v0.1.0g has made saving/loading and working in general so much better. If it felt awkward before I'd give it another try!

Get it with: load

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=141774

zep, to random
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0.1.0g is up // http://picotron.net

Sophie,
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@zep oh wow there’s some really cool stuff here! I’ll have to give check it out soon! Thanks for all your work, you’ve been doing great! 👏👏👏

Sophie, to random
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Here's where I've gotten to with my lemmings clone.

Tomorrow I get back to work on my marble game, gonna try not to do any more lemmings stuff until that is done.

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=142051

Sophie, to random
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Hypothesis: birdsong in the morning is not a beautiful rendition of nature and the celebration of life.

Those poor birds are screaming “ahhhhh! Holy fuck! I want to go back to sleep! Not the sun! The fucking sun means another day of struggle, pain, and fear is beginning! I don’t want this!”

Sophie, to random
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I try to make light of it as much as I can, but I have to say: three decades of masking without knowing I was autistic absolutely destroyed my connection to my body, and my body itself. There’s only so long you can brute-force yourself to be something you aren’t. It will break you.

Sophie,
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I get that it seems scary to face sometimes, but trust me when I say that ignorance could be way worse for you.

Besides, even if the bad times are bad, even now I love my autism. Understanding your autistic joy can let you embrace it more freely and fully. It’s awesome.

Sophie,
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(I don’t like to make assumptions about people I don’t know but… if you’ve chosen to follow my account then that’s one thing scoring high on the “that’s a pretty autistic thing to do”-o-meter. Maybe there is neurotypical appeal here but it’s beyond my ken to recognise what it is lol.)

Sophie, to random
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So yeah, since I finished the vector editor I've been remaking lemmings in as a little hobby project.

It's nice to potter away at something that can't possibly become a work project, but I still get sucked in as if it was... so today is the last day I work at it seriously.

As of rn I have all the mechanics working (except metal and one-way surfaces) and 3 of the early levels.

Screenshot of my picotron remake of the lemmings level "This should be a doddle", where lemmings cross a chasm and dig through a large rock to reach the exit.

Sophie,
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This has been taking up way too much of my attention. you have no idea how powerful I'd be if I could choose what I focus on, but in the meantime I am conclusively proving that can run lemmings.

Screenshot of a classic lemmings level in picotron, in the hell setting lemmings are becoming bombs to clear the way for others

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