ari velazquez 🌯
@arivelazquez.com
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technical designer @ riffraff.games ◦ pronounced airy ◦ he/him ◦ american gameboy in australia ◦ prev: coreborn, sims 4, dawngate ◦ fka roxaloxa https://arivelazquez.com ◦ discord: @roxaloxa
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hi new folk, i'm ari! 10 years in gamedev on shit you haven't heard of and one you definitely have, nowadays i'm a technical designer mainly in unreal and doing contract work and a hundred side projects.

one of my fave side things:
arivelazquez.com
life's been in the way of shareable work but here's the last thing i was jamming on: recreating Ys Origin in unreal so i can use it as a mechanical base for making my own game on top of it. would really love to come back to this

#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #unrealengine5
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namataka.bsky.social
ElecHead 4th Anniversary Sale – 50% OFF! 🎉

Available until October 14th!

Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/1456880

Nintendo Switch
www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
arivelazquez.com
my lord, i had no idea pokemon gen 1 was this busted
vexusdylan.bsky.social
I absolutely adore the sheer amount of jank in red and blue.
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narfnra.bsky.social
emulator filter called gameboy advance at night which looks like this
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deadteapot.games
In case you missed it - Shape Sender Deluxe has a demo on Steam you can play now!
⭐🟥🟠
If you play it and wishlist it I'll give you a crisp high-five next time I see you, I promise 🤞🏽

store.steampowered.com/app/2976470/...
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hownottodraw.bsky.social
so, uh, I guess the studio responded to this by replacing their website art!

(not gonna lie, I'm torn between "lol, lmao" and "hm, that's a bit of an immature response from a professional game studio")
A screenshot of the Sackbird website that shows their social media icons replaced with intentionally bad MS Paint-style art A screenshot of the Sackbird website which used to have an AI-generated skyline of Baltimore, and now has an intentionally shitty bunch of brown boxes labelled as "Fort McHenry" and "Sackbird Studios" in Comic Sans. It has clearly been drawn in MS Paint in about 5 minutes
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ethangach.bsky.social
NEW: Nearly 100 current and former developers at MindsEye studio Build A Rocket Boy slam Leslie Benzies and the rest of studio leadership for poor management and botched layoffs.

They say crunch was mandated leading up to release only for 250 people to be sacked afterwards.
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joewintergreen.com
75% off on InFlux Redux this week! That's a pretty big discount, probably buy a few copies!
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headfallsoff.com
how we feeling about the font lads. ready to ship?
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kronok.bsky.social
What UVing in a good level editor tool is like:
Select a face and Alt + RMB on hovered faces to flow it to that face.
I can also flow it from the hovered face to the selected faces with Shift + Alt + RMB (coming in Scythe 0.7).
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sloanelysbeth.bsky.social
this needs to happen more regularly.

famous, and rich, ppl need to be told they can't buy their way out of things.
erinbiba.bsky.social
LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying
Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money
Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.
www.vulture.com
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jtp.bsky.social
new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced
arivelazquez.com
like literally why the fuck not. none of these fucks actually have any loyalty or honor to those that bend their morals their way, they are just a feral negative force that use their valve-given right to sabotage the lives of normal people trying to make a living
arivelazquez.com
very much a fan of being more openly hostile to shitheads on steam. meet their energy.
mikerose.bsky.social
We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it
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mikerose.bsky.social
We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it
arivelazquez.com
whole new flavors of jokerfication
arivelazquez.com
not that this was brand new information of course, but it was just delivered in a way that was i received like a one-way transaction, ripped the plastic film off or something. i will now never stop thinking about this.
arivelazquez.com
as i'm digesting all the talks and presentations from this past week, i think one of the glass shattering moments for me was the realization of how much wealth after maaaaajor indie success does not feed back into the industry. thankful for funds like superhot presents and outersloth, but it's rare
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badvikinggames.bsky.social
>1000 reviews!

Overwhelmingly Positive!

Overwhelmingly grateful to everyone who has played and taken the time and effort to review the game.

Keep playing and reviewing indie games!
An image showing the latest number of steam reviews for Strange Antiquities (1069 Overwhelmingly Positive)