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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 13h

Why does Global Normie YouTube look like Fortnite map thumbnails?

Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 13h

This is what people send me as their portfolio when they want me to pay them for thumbnail design. I mean, I am usually quite shit at this, but I’m not asking someone else to pay me to do it for them.

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 14h

And I say this as someone who absolutely loved C77. I think it’s at its best when it’s rollicking through pop culture sub genres; you have your Silence of the Lambs pal and your rocksploitstion pal; all of that is the best stuff IMO.

Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 14h

The descriptions of people and places in the second two Sprawl Trilogy books (flawed I know) are still more interesting than most big budget cyberpunk games from the last decade.

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 14h

The thing I really didn’t like about Cyberpunk 2077 is just how committed to the bit everyone is. You’re telling me there’s not a single theme bar in the whole city where the theme isn’t 80s retro futurism? No Great Gatsby parties with nu-swing? No-one’s just, aesthetically speaking, not into cyber?

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 14h

Just fucking at me next time, “Don’t Worry Winnicott”. If that is your real name.

Winnicot quote: artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 15h

Wonderfully cursed. Now I have.

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 15h

now that's what I call videogames

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 19h

a woman in a leopard print shirt is making a funny face and saying `` that 's hot '' .

ALT: a woman in a leopard print shirt is making a funny face and saying `` that 's hot '' .

media.tenor.com

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 1d

“You sort of realise, in my interpretation”

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 1d

Currently watching a lot of Brassic in bed.

Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone in the house has a cold. Will still be streaming 10-2 GMT but probably batting the mic away every time I need to make a disgusting nose noise.

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 1d

It’s very hard to render a Cthulhu in a way which looks unique to the project, but this does! Make sure there’s something clearly block related in there too.

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 1d

my friend told me that his partner's phrase for when he's being anxious about these kind of things is "shy boys get no chocolate", and I really like that one.

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 1d

I made the fungal blocks a lot more colourful, which looked cool and pretty/gross, but also stopped them looking unified. Now there's a dark red shader over the blockers further away while the closer ones reveal the colours in the pixel art. seems like a neat compromise.

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Balmut @balmut.bsky.social · 1d

Alien Resurrection Ripley's basketball scene #sigourneyweaver #ronperlman

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3u4...

Alien Resurrection Ripley's basketball scene #sigourneyweaver #ronperlman

YouTube video by PatrickPredator

www.youtube.com

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 2d

I have a pretty good idea of what I would put in a games museum and the other things I would use it for… I just need to talk to someone who has done anything even mildly similar.

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 2d

Entering my “why not just ask” era (asked some local museum folk what the process of opening and operating a ‘museum of play’ might look like, and do they want to help)

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 2d

Ah thanks Ted! Appreciate it

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 2d

is this cosy?

a little guy hanging out in some mushrooms

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 3d

Listening to the Uzumaki episodes of Shelved by Genre on @rangedtouch.bsky.social while I make my deranged cosy horror game. Perfect combo.

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 3d

I guess this probably fits bsky.app/profile/indi...

Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 3d

having a lot of fun with shaders to create stronger sense of threat in red rooms. also downsampling on the posterise effect the more health you lose.
#gamdev

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 3d

“We make a thing a way and it sells millions of copies”

“Ok time to retool, so we can do it a completely different way, in order to sell copies to… people who would buy it even if we hadn’t done that”

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 3d

When people complain that Starfield had loading screens and wasn’t a completely new engine it stops being a games literacy thing and more like “have you ever worked at a company” or “do you understand the basics of trade and industry”

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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 3d

The book we are covering this month for Game Developers Library is pretty helpful but also contains a few too many Peter Thiel quotes (ie more than none)

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