Alex Rose
@alexrosegames.bsky.social
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Indie dev, made Super Rude Bear Resurrection 10 time medallist in Ludum Dare Console porter (Recompile, SWOTS, Passing By, Cluedo, Ticket to Ride) Physicist, lectured dynamics at Technikum Wien My 40 jam games: alexrose.itch.io Site: alexrosegames.com
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Final day of Ludum Dare. 4 hours sleep. Can I still pull it together? Who knows? Who cares? Me! Making the dumbest game of all this quarter, here we go!
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LUDUM DARE DAY 3 - Rizz Collector
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once again I am streaming ludum dare. making a truly ridiculous game but it's starting to come together
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LUDUM DARE DAY 2 - Rizz Collector
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I wouldn't be upset if I got that theme. I like how there's a double meaning of "springs" and "cope"
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oh it's also my birthday which always vaguely coincides with LD so that's cool, although now I am Very™ Old™
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I am generally offline nowadays but IT'S LUDUM DARE THIS WEEK, THIS IS NOW A LUDUM DARE ACCOUNT

post your picks
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dunno if they would realistically do that but it made it out of triage so if you platform switch a lot or would just like to make my life easier

I requested the same thing from unity first and they were like lol nah
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requested a Rider/unity feature a while back: the ability to test platform-specific code/preprocessors without hard switching platform (e.g. use intellisense for PS5 while unity's in xbox mode)

they put it to public voting so if you have a rider account:
youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-...
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honestly any of the main few daws is capable of doing what you want. ableton is easier for rapidly making music with samples but fl can do it too. but fl just has a really good piano roll
alexrosegames.bsky.social
definitely easier to not allow that but also very possible to just set up reference points at the start of each piece of dialogue and just instantly jump the animation states and positions of everything to the corresponding point
alexrosegames.bsky.social
if you want to make music by midi sequencing with your mouse on a piano roll, use fl studio. if you want to make music by playing an instrument and passing the midi into a vst, use ableton
alexrosegames.bsky.social
yeah there's deffs people who reject the label altogether because they know the negative connotation, but I judge it on an individual basis. especially I know a lot of inclusive, nice trophy hunters and fgc players who refer to themselves as gamers just because games are their passion
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imo it's selection bias, the communities we curate and ban assholes from are who we call players, whereas gamers include malicious brigading harassers. yet our lovely communities of inclusive people also refer to themselves gamers. only gamedevs make that distinction because it's a ux term
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imo this is because of a one-way relationship. "player" really just means a user. most nice players identify as gamers too not "players". so devs associate their own "players" as nice because that's their curated playerbase, but "gamers" as a whole as malicious because half of society is hostile
alexrosegames.bsky.social
if I'm talking about players of my game specifically, when thinking about design, onboarding etc. I say players. if I'm talking about gamers in general I say gamers

I don't really buy into the "don't say gamers" thing because I know loads of lovely inclusive people who call themselves gamers
alexrosegames.bsky.social
my mate was on bamzooki. they didn't even show a projection of the zooks on the table, they just told the kids to cheer continuously for the whole battle with no idea who was winning or whether it was over
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Leftfield submissions are now open for EGX London, Oct 24th-26th: airtable.com/appIQDFmYU3o...
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report: 7 storey underground fortress using the most advanced engineering technology ever showcased, trillion dollar project
reality: 6 foot deep concealed pit with an air vent

report: mega mountain fortress with power generators
reality: natural caves. found living in the suburbs in pakistan