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Zarkonnen

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I make games about bad things happening to tiny simulated people. He/him.

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Zarkonnen, to steam
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There's a lot of demos up on right now, and you only have so much time. Why you should play mine: it respects your time.

📦 150 MB download
🚀 Instant startup
🖱️ One click and you're having fun

Give it a try: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2858150/Airships_Lost_Flotilla/

Zarkonnen,
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@holarse It's developed on a Linux machine, so, yes. 😃

Zarkonnen, to random
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I am pleased to announce my new steampunk autoshooter game called Airships: Lost Flotilla, inspired by games such as Brotato, Binding of Isaac, and Luftrausers.

So go and check out the demo, let me know what you think, and put the game on your wishlist.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2858150?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=Reveal

eniko, to random
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fuck it post deleted it's not worth the risk just to vent about the gatekeepers of success in gamedev

Zarkonnen,
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@eniko Yeah, I'm about to do a game reveal tomorrow and I'm trying to do it all in the Way It Is Done, and it's all so backwards to me.

Zarkonnen, to random
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Klingon version of Marie Kondo: Take the dagger and ask yourself: does it still spark rage?

Zarkonnen, to random
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40th birthday selfie

Zarkonnen, to random
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Sam Bankman-Fried

gamingonlinux, to linux
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Nature-expanding tile-stacking puzzler 'Preserve' has a demo up on Steam https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/nature-expanding-tile-stacking-puzzler-preserve-has-a-demo-up-on-steam/

Zarkonnen,
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@gamingonlinux This is really cute!

Craigp, to random
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Boston.

Zarkonnen,
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@Craigp Nether Wart

Zarkonnen, to gamedev
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Zarkonnen, to random
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I wrote some very silly Sunless Sea drabbles: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53866636

mcc, to random
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Learning Monogame. So far, it's generally quite nice, a few antiquated decisions mixed with a lot of very nice ones. And then for the first time I try to incorporate a shader, and…

…wait. Seriously?

The monogame toolchain for building shaders requires wine?

Zarkonnen,
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@mcc I've been getting into Monogame on Linux for the past few months, so feel free to ask me questions. There's some gotchas with DesktopGL mode, such as sound panning not working correctly.

Zarkonnen,
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@mcc Yep! I've also found that it doesn't install right on Linux, and you need to follow the instructions here https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/7905#issuecomment-1256108696 to get shader compilation to work. Once I did that it then worked very smoothly.

Zarkonnen, to random
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This tiny pub generator is cute and alternates between normal and "clearly cultists in the basement" pub names: https://watabou.itch.io/tiny-pubs

SirTapTap, to StarTrek
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Oh my GOD

https://imgur.com/gallery/jGGowgS

Zarkonnen,
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@SirTapTap Too soon!

Zarkonnen, to random
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Anyone else feel that as you get older your worsening health and increasing experience just about balance each other out productivity wise?

Zarkonnen, to gamedev
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I made a small platformer/brawler game about St Nicholas for Secret Santa Jam 2023 - punch your way through evil pimps, tax collectors, and butchers to perform miracles.

https://zarkonnen.itch.io/the-works-of-saint-nicholas

Zarkonnen, to random
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I wrote some thoughts about why I'm bored with city builder games: http://zarkonnen.com/city_builders

In short, cities have history, geography, context, and they are grown, not designed.

mcc, to random
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"Penguin Random House" sounds so much cooler than it is

Zarkonnen,
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@mcc It was obvious from when they chose not to go for the much better "Random Penguin House".

maxim, to gamedev
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I heard several times that ChatGPT does a good job of translating to other languages and its quality is good for game localization...

Do you use it?

Zarkonnen,
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@maxim I really doubt that. Even real translators don't do a great job without adding enough context in the translation notes.

Zarkonnen, to random
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If you're announcing an online event, please don't use "12 AM" or "12 PM". I have no idea what those times mean in normal language. Which one is noon, which one is midnight? Both are on the meridian, FFS.

SirTapTap, to random
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Epic gamer move:

Wait for Melon to formally abandon Twitter

Mastodon registers the trademarks for Tweets etc

We're twitter now

X is the weird off brand thing

Social proof is off the charts for masto retroactively

Time paradox

Zarkonnen,
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@SirTapTap Use the original original twttr branding.

b0rk, to random
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PATH

permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/path/

Zarkonnen,
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@b0rk I just got back to back posts from you and @mcc about fish shell and fish smell and got reallly confused for a moment.

Anyway, that does sound really useful, instead of having to look up how to add things to path every time.

Zarkonnen, to random
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Cf last RT: I have been tempted to make a post-apocalyptic 4X game where the bunkers of dead billionaires are the equivalent of those little tribal goodie huts in the Civ series.

mcc, to random
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Suddenly hit with the perfect Inspiration Particle but 25 years too late Oh man a really good name for a LAN party would be "LANarchy"

Zarkonnen,
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@mcc I always wanted to do a LAN party called GameLAN that would have gamelan music playing in the background the whole time.

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