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upmultimedia, 7 months ago to gamedev

No cut scene has ever improved a game

#gamedev #gaming

upmultimedia, 7 months ago to elite

It's my obligatory "please buy my new game" post!

Liberation is a retro space adventure inspired by the original BBC Micro Elite and classic UK sci-fi such as Blake's 7, Space:1999, Quatermass, Metal Mickey-- ah too many to list! (I post about them a lot-- follow and we can talk #TheTripods)

It's my first "mastodon era" game, developed entirely since I've been on gamedev.place (thanks!). Made on Linux with Godot. I'd love to make more!

#starcops #blakes7 #elite #gaming #bbcmicro #doctorwho

video/mp4

upmultimedia, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to gamedev

Devs, imagine you have a player who has never played a WASD game before and they find complicated instructions confusing.

How would present the basic controls to them in the clearest, most useful way in an image format?

This is what I have so far. I like that I have used the physical layout of a keyboard to spatially anchor it but I don't love the chaotic lines as much.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated!

EDIT: I should mention this is to print out

#gamedev #indiedev #accessibility

upmultimedia, 9 months ago to random

My old BBS game from 1995 that I found this week was written in Turbo Pascal. I have no recollection of this. I am updating my CV to "proficient".

upmultimedia, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

My favourite genre is American cops learning to love their fantastical creature partners. (I'm serious)

#bright #almosthuman #aliennation #theodorerex

upmultimedia, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to gamedev

When a weapon hits a target who should calculate the damage?

#gamedev

upmultimedia, 1 year ago to random

I want to make a 100 good games

upmultimedia, 1 year ago to gamedev

The difference on Steam between 9 reviews and 10.

Perhaps gamedev.place could support each other's games to get to that magic 10. We didn't create the algorithm but we have to work with it.

#gamedev

upmultimedia, 6 months ago to retrogaming

On my journey as a game developer I've recently been diving into #retrogaming and #vintagegaming. Beautiful hardware, forgotten and underutilised game patterns, respect for heritage... it's a pretty wonderful scene.

Anyway, I saw on mastodon a toot by @Robavince about their #MagnavoxOdyssey homebrew game, Peacekeeper Command-O.

My first question was "What the hell is a Magnavox Odyssey?"

And so began my epic, well, odyssey!

1/3

upmultimedia, 4 months ago to retrocomputing

I'd love to know which computer from the 1980s was in hindsight the most future proof or capable. Not necessarily the most powerful but just kind of had the best throughput for its architecture or had the cleanest design. I think a lot of people would say the c64 or the IBM PC but it'd be hilarious if it was the sega master system or something

#retrocomputing #retrogaming

upmultimedia, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to scifi

Director: In this scene you're going to float gracefully from the airlock to your desk in zero-g.

Actor: Great! Wires, rotating set... or?

Director: No just acting

Actor: Ok! Cool, I can do this. I'm a professional. I did Shakespeare with the Royal Theatre

You are going to turn down the lights or tilt the camera or crop my legs out or something right?

Director: Nope, full studio lights, full body shot, focused on your arse

Actor: Ok, I can do this. I'm a professional

#starcops #scifi

upmultimedia, 9 months ago to random

Game jams raised the bar for games. They blasted open the scene for everyone regardless of background, broke down the dusty top-heavy development model that was weighing down the industry and distilled the essence of "a game" into something more pure and perfect.

But as someone who plays a lot and curates a lot, I think that, having raised the bar, game jams still pushing out the same games are starting to fall under the bar.

upmultimedia, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Babylon5

Some Kosh for you this fine evening

#babylon5 #scifi #vorlon

upmultimedia, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to books

What are people reading at the moment? I'm ploughing through "Silo" by Hugh Howey. It's a page turner but dark!

#books

upmultimedia, 9 months ago to random

oh god 'int* p;' vs 'int *p;' is doing my head in

They both make so much sense but only one can be right

upmultimedia, 3 months ago to random

I have to try that line on people "hey babe, do you know you have an extremely high fineness ratio?"

upmultimedia, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Maybe the actual value of LLM is a large body of data with heaps of metatags.

Me: I would like the cover of every 1980s scifi book that features a pastel car.

OpenAI: We've got a database of those! Do you want them all mashed up?

Me: Errr, no. Thanks for tagging it all though.

upmultimedia, 1 year ago to random

I'm going to get seek/attack/evade NPC behaviour working no matter what. First step, going back to basics.

upmultimedia, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

Watching ye olde post apocalyptic series Survivors (1975) and it is delightfully brutal. Imagine 99.99% of people dying from a virus and the remainers have the moral values of the 1970s.

There's a lot of men in thick woollen jumpers and tight jeans killing pigs to assert dominance in their newly formed hippy communes.

#survivors #survivorstv

upmultimedia, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

The humans in the 2001 Planet of the Apes film can talk?!? It's way less interesting, why would you do that?

Also the apes are a little too sexy this time round. Although maybe they needed to be to match cute 2001 Astronaut Mark Wahlberg.

#planetoftheapes #film

upmultimedia, 3 months ago to godot

How are people doing grass in game engines these days? Not long Zelda-style grass but lawns, sports fields and other short and neat grassy areas? I use #godotengine but I'm 99% sure any technique from #unity3d or #UE5 would probably transfer.

#gamedev #help #b3d

upmultimedia, 3 months ago to random

My train line is offline so often they've printed official signage and made a website

upmultimedia, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to movies

LOVE this TASTY shot from The Fury (1978), the other supernatural horror film Brian De Palma did after megahit Carrie.

A psychic accidently touches the bad guy and witnesses them mistreating someone. The editing, the sound, the 360 pan around the actor ... delicious

Warning contains some fake looking 1970s film blood

#film #movies #briandepalma

upmultimedia, 6 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

If a game developer wants a streamer to cover their game they should pay for it

upmultimedia, 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago) to random

Swords really were the fancy cars of 3000 years ago. You just know every young guy was going into hock to get something ostentatious they probably never needed or could comfortably afford.