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@littlepolygon.bsky.social

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Independent Game Programmer solo developing an anime/mecha arcade-game, NIGHTSHIFT GALAXY. He/him. WISHLIST: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3038700/Nightshift_Galaxy DISCORD: https://discord.gg/EAncTCUnHY

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hey bsky! I'm Max, and this is my game NIGHTSHIFT GALAXY about perpetually-broke freelance mecha pilots. Classic arcade gameplay with modern polish.

Gunning for Early Access soon, but solo-dev is hard! WISHLIST: store.steampowered.com/app/3038700/...

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 14h

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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 14h

i love when they accidentally shoot each other

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 17h

"they did not even send proper knights to kill her" my man is not a critical thinker

Dialogue screenshot of Final Fantasy Tactics from the Windmill Battle with Wiegraf.

Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 17h

The Wiegraf meme is a pet peeve for me not because it's mistaken for a real screenshot, but because _Milleuda_ should be saying it.

Wiegraf's whole arc is getting jokerfied by his inability to reconcile knight's honor with the radical necessity of his faction. He's not this articulate!

Artemis Octavio @stopcar.ing · 19h

New article is live on Stop Caring

This one from @otomeniki.bsky.social, who argues that Final Fantasy Tactics memes engages audiences in a unique form of reader-response theory. Which *is* art criticism, even if it doesn't *look* like art criticism.

Give it a read and a share!

Final Fantasy Tactics Memes Prove Video Games are Art

Final Fantasy Tactics memes engage audiences in an unique form of reader-response.

www.stopcar.ing

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 18h

Inafune: "JK, JK, that one was a joke, haha, anyway, about the new Azure Striker Gunvolt..."

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 18h

"I call him the Mighty Ato-ummm... er... Number 9"

The Mighty Number 9, Inafune's failed successor to Megaman -- himself at least partly based on Astroboy AKA "The Mighty Atom"

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 19h

Up & Atom!

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 19h

The Junji Ito "This is my hole!" Guy. THE JOKE IS THAT THE WORLD IN DOROHEDORO IS CALLED THE HOLE, GET IT. EVERYONE WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH MAX'S WIT, AND THOUGHT LATER UPON REFLECTION HOW HANDSOME HE IS, IN ADDITION TO SMART.

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ananth @ananthhirsh.bsky.social · 1d

The BARBAROUS Chapter 6 Kickstarter is on! ✨ We're
climbing our way up through stretch goals, including the addition of a new Fortuna matchbox sticker to certain tiers... check it out! 💖

www.kickstarter.com/projects/746...

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 1d

Rockman!

Doodle of our little blue friend, Mega Man

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 1d

Love when I'm debugging a programming problem for half an hour, and the solution is to just add a few iterations to a numeric solver. 🙃

Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 1d

I inadvertently picked the Jehuty colors, huh? www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT_e...

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jenna @rainynebula.bsky.social · 1d

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 1d

Point: I cannot freelance to eat AND make an indie-game on my own AND draw a comic.

Counterpoint: I fucking *love* drawing greebles.

Drawing of my Rebel Ace mech "The Rabbit" from my game Nightshift Galaxy, with a lot of fiddly details of "greebles."

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 1d

Ok now you're doing corpo PR

Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 1d

Hopefully, but Serif was bought by Canva so not "probably"

Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 2d

I get it as a solution when you see that error, but I go crazy seeing unnecessary trailing {} everywhere, e.g.

std::string result{};

Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 2d

Also I think... maybe... more greebles...

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 2d

Doing trace overs to thinking about color... and running headlong into my combined color-blindness and bad-taste in palettes, haha.

Drawing of a hero character I'm designing for my game, Nightshift Galaxy, alongside headshots of the pilot, Kit kanzaki, and her frog-mechanic, Rikart Druse.

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 2d

Obligatory Rigging Dance

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 2d

"What if we just provide a good service that people want and was enough to pay our salaries, but nobody became a billionaire" is unthinkable in America.

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 2d

It was a relief to cut the Adobe cord -- not strictly financially, but also going from a corpo that treats you like a product and their investors as their customer to a Normal Ass Company that treats the product as a product and their users as their customers. Why can nobody be normal anymore??

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 2d

They also shut down their forums and shunted everyone into an unmoderated discord where everyone is flaming each other. PR clownshoes!

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 2d

Serif has stopped purchases for #Affinity apps in preparation for a "big announcement" and are responding to user concerns about subscriptions or genai with meaningless doublespeak. Feels bad!!

affinity.serif.com/en-us/

Creative Freedom Is Coming - Affinity

Creative Freedom Is Coming. October 30

affinity.serif.com

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 2d

I must be Mr. Magoo because I've been coding C++ for 25 years and never had this problem, lol. For default ctors just omit the parens/braces altogether.