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Joe Wintergreen

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video game dev. weird west, adios, influx redux, etc buy influx redux: https://store.steampowered.com/app/867150/InFlux_Redux/ internet blog on the internet: https://www.joewintergreen.com/ friendly dev chat: http://discord.gg/TyexPhe he/him

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · Aug 24

Because itch.io is by far the best store out there for game developers, and also players imo, and has been given a hard time lately, I just put my game InFlux Redux on there, and upped itch's rev share to 30%. I want 'em to have a little walkin' around money impromptu-games.itch.io/influx-redux

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 1m

Chuck a review on it as well ay

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 2h

75% off on InFlux Redux this week! That's a pretty big discount, probably buy a few copies!

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Kronok @kronok.bsky.social · 5h

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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Pyre;Fiasco @pyreloop.bsky.social · 2h

You too should buy the funny ball exploration game

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 2h

75% off on InFlux Redux this week! That's a pretty big discount, probably buy a few copies!

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 7h

shit like "DEI", that's just 3 positive words! you used to make up smears not just list nice things you hate! is your heart even in this anymore

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 7h

today's evil is bullshit hey. you spend your life learning to perceive the many guises and subtle ways of evil and then evil just drops all that shit overnight, villains just publicly high five over evil shit now. please, i trained for the other thing

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 10h

i'm probably done. i release you from the spectre of my presence. or do i. watch out

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 4d

i'm not "at migw" but there's a chance of me appearing briefly in random locations throughout the week. whether you see this as an opportunity or a threat, vigilance is your friend

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 14h

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 1d

just remembered i was asked for advice last night and came out with "don't be afraid to lie to these fucking vultures", only dimly recall what about. good advice across the board though imo

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 16h

"ugh I like this shooter but i hate the community they're so woke I'll be banned if I say anything" but they live a single-issue life and the issue is "i want to play games" so they mostly shut up and end up begrudgingly immersed in a kinder environment and 6 months later they realise it feels good

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 16h

"it's more complicated than that" it's actually way less complicated than that and the more you do it the easier it gets. good spaces attract good people who repel bad people. attach the good space to a desirable project (like a game) and you can even get a shot at changing a few hearts

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 16h

aura is right and nothing drives me bonkerser than nerds in positions of power saying moderation of online spaces is a hard problem. it's so easy. it's soooo easy. you're lying because you don't want to do it you fuuuucking dirtbag

Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 18h

I feel like the thing I always find myself thinking when ppl are talking about "oh the gaming audience is awful" is that, like... i'm not sure i believe that so much as I believe that any unmoderated space will inevitably surface the most toxic people (who drive away more-reasonable ones)

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 2d

a cool helpful thing i did a while ago is this "isolate" button in the editor, it hides everything except the selection *and* any lights affecting it *and* any essential atmospheric actors that would fuck up the view being hidden

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 1d

related fact: half-life 2 calls its distant low-detail people "cheaple". in a grim permutation, their partially incinerated people are "charple"

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 1d

so cute!

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 1d

just spotted that cyberpunk does doom-style sprites for distant cars and characters... amazing

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 1d

whoever was the first person to patch in one of those "dim most of the screen and overlay text" multi-step forced tutorials on a mobile app needs to be destroyed

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 1d

just remembered i was asked for advice last night and came out with "don't be afraid to lie to these fucking vultures", only dimly recall what about. good advice across the board though imo

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 1d

whatever you think about me hockin' a loogie on your stupid face it's here to stay and there's nothing either one of us can do about it. we just have to figure out how to adjust to this new world

Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 1d

something tells me this has happened to this specific franchise before

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 2d

imagine if you tried for an uptown girl and halfway through the date she's like, yeah i've actually had a backstreet guy before. bricking it

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 2d

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 2d

the editor comes with a "hide everything but the selection" thing but that's pretty useless for a lot of shit because now all the lights are gone so you gotta go fullbright. this is betterer

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 2d

how you doin