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PierSF

@piersf.com

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🎭 Storyteller building characters and the worlds they live in. Currently solo developing a Cyberpunk RPG in Godot 👾 AI Engineer @ Fortune 500 by day exploring digital and human minds. ✨️

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PierSF @piersf.com · Jan 26

Hello world. I've been working on a cool weird hybrid RPG in #godot, and I need to start talking about it. That is all.

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PierSF @piersf.com · 10d

5/5 Kaijus

would stomp humans again 🦖

KaijuStory @kaijustory.bsky.social · 10d

In a couple of weeks the Kaiju will finally be released. Play it with your friends or match up against a random, in a game of mind games!
Wishlist now on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/3697310/...
#gaming #indiegame #gamedev #multiplayer #indiedev #strategygames

KaijuStory on Steam

In a game of great minds and Hide-and-seek, save the city or destroy it! Play as an agent of the Earth Defense Force or a Kaiju and try to defeat your opponent before they defeat you!

store.steampowered.com

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PierSF @piersf.com · Aug 13

Sometimes, the key to productivity is to just add another side project, probably. That's what I just did. I now have 3. Surely none of them will suffer 🙏

PierSF @piersf.com · Aug 13

"I went down an insane rabbit hole, it didn't work - anyway, I don't get why people don't see it"

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Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival @hellraisergame.bsky.social · Jul 22

⛓ She is hellbound. Follow her, for we have such sights to show you...

Introducing Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival! A single-player horror experience like no other, coming to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.

Wishlist now at hellraisergame.com

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PierSF @piersf.com · Jul 22

That looks really good! ✌️

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PierSF @piersf.com · Jul 21

I'll be working on story. Right now I'm wrestling with an issue with Inkle's editor software Inky for the Ink narrative scripting language, where it's not saving the files properly and/or messing them up on save.

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PierSF @piersf.com · May 22

Cool! It's always fun finding new little things an engine can do for you. :)

PierSF @piersf.com · May 22

I'm prioritizing and maximizing for the time I get on my own projects. Lately, it's been working out surprisingly well! Usually it's a few days tops if I'm particularly busy.

PierSF @piersf.com · May 22

Glad I'm moving to Linux at just the right time.✌️

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Gh0sstly @gh0sstly.bsky.social · May 22

spreading my attention across several things at once to make no progress on any of them at maximum efficiency

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · May 22

Some of y'all are gonna think I've gone completely nuts, but I'm gonna talk about rounded corners and why circles suck.

Most devs take it for granted that rounded corners are circles. Spoiler: They don't have to be!

There is a much more aesthetically pleasing and cheaper alternative. 🧵👇
#gamedev

A picture showing two diagrams of rounded corners, one using a circular equation and the other using a parabolic equation.

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PierSF @piersf.com · May 21

It's tough being in a small niche. Getting word out there and competing for people's time.

All I can say for sure is that I've told some people about your game and I'll be getting it later this week, and I don't do that with just anything :)

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Kranbert @kranbert.bsky.social · May 21

Today we release a Singleplayer mode for KaijuStory!!! Practice and get a feel for the game using this new mode before challenging other players to battle! #indiedev #ue5 #solodev kranbert.itch.io/kaijustory/d...

KaijuStory!!! v0.7 - Singleplayer mode

To make KaijuStory more accessible for players we decided to add a Singleplayer mode where you can battle as Kaiju or Human against an AI controlled opponent. This is a way for you to try the game out...

kranbert.itch.io

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alice @lexd0g.eu.org · May 20

what the fuck goin on at google 😭

google i/o screenshot showing sundar pichai introducing API (Artificial Pokemon Intelligence)

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PierSF @piersf.com · May 19

Happy birthday and good luck with the launch! Fingers crossed

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Jesse Makkonen @jessemakkonen.com · May 19

I will release Without a Dawn on Steam in 9 hours!
I've been getting nothing but positive vibes from everyone. Thank you so much for your friendly support! 💚💛 store.steampowered.com/app/3145620/... Oh, it's also my birthday! 🥳
#visualnovel #gamedev #indiegame #steam

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PierSF @piersf.com · May 18

That's something a lot of people don't get, sure. But as much as your points here are true, I wouldn't want to argue that we necessarily need handmade pottery for everything. Some just want to drink / eat. "Writing" also serves a basic function like that - there's a time and place for everything.

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Nicky D and the Birds of Prey @dicnepper.bsky.social · May 16

Alright fine. I'll learn Godot.

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PierSF @piersf.com · May 16

Even as an AI engineer, yeah that's ... fair

PierSF @piersf.com · May 16

RNG is a feature not a bug #gamedev

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Veridian Expanse ⇨ Open Sauce @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · Nov 27

So Unity recently decided that the tiny startup I dayjob for needed to upgrade to Industry at 5k/year/seat. We had no chance to contest it because they would have killed our only product. They even threatened people we worked with in the past with the same.

It's not just us.

DO NOT USE UNITY!

From the Unity3D community on Reddit: Unity accounts suspended after releasing our indie game on Steam

Explore this post and more from the Unity3D community

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PierSF @piersf.com · May 9

I can't tell you why, but if Roko's basilisk ever becomes real I am toast. #ai #superintelligence

PierSF @piersf.com · May 7

I can imagine! But it's really cool when you start with just an idea and you finally see it come to life. That's dope ^^

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Ian Part-Time Experience @parttimeexp.bsky.social · Apr 30

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

If you can't imagine someone who looks differently than you as a main character, then you suck at imagining.

#writing #gamedev #indiedev #videogames

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PierSF @piersf.com · May 7

Oh! I know the title, I'm just keeping it a mystery for a little while longer 😁 but you are right, the city is in it. A bit of a city-as-a-character situation, so I think it makes sense.

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