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ivy 🥚 sly @ivysly.com · 3d

even if your game is funny and stupid take it seriously and lean in, don't try to be self aware, don't wink at the audience, don't be insecure about it

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · 8d

Million dollar idea: modern retro handheld based on Japanese feature phones. You’re welcome.

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · 8d

Impressive! I knew interrupts had to be involved, haha. If you ever felt inclined to post a breakdown, I know I’d be interested.

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · 9d

How did you pull that off?

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · 10d

If it seems familiar, the car plugin is a stripped-down, generalized version of this prototype:

Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · Apr 5

Light progress for #screenshotsaturday. Got scoring and a time limit in, but mostly some backend work on the pickup/drop-off system, managing locations, messages, etc. without being able to just pull from a database. Gotten real familiar with GBVM, though.

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · 10d

Got to tinkering and ended up with two more plugins for #gbstudio, so if you were wanting to make something car- or tank-based, you're in luck!

github.com/tzschk/gbs-p...

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · 12d

Happy #screenshotsaturday! I doodled a couple niche scene types based on a bygone era for #gbstudio this morning, so I thought I'd share them with y'all. I don't know if they'd be useful to anyone, but feel free to play around with them!

github.com/tzschk/gbs-p...

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · 12d

What about previous finish photos?

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · 16d

If you haven’t already, close and reopen GBStudio. If that doesn’t clear it, restart your computer. Works for me.

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 24d

hey everyone:
I made a pretty substantial youtube playlist of long videos of just.... walking around. Often fall-related, with rain and parks with leaves and stuff, very atmospheric with that nice autumn aesthetic.
great to have on in the background while working

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Lets Go For A Nice Walk - YouTube

long walking videos to play in the background while working, reading, or relaxing, featuring lots of rain-soaked pavement and autumn colours

www.youtube.com

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · Sep 6

Don’t know if it’s a trick, but if there’s room enough on the back of the pin, you could add an additional post with some epoxy.

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sounds like you’ve got a good excuse to learn!

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · Sep 4

I handled that sort of movement on the C side. Wrote functions for various movement behavior updates and assigned them to relevant actors.

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · Sep 1

I think about this a lot. A lot of devs (and players, for that matter) in recent years get hung up on some analysis they saw in a video essay. The point of studying art you love is building your own intuition. Trust your gut. Get weird. Alienate players. That’s how art works.

pc2000s @pc2000s.bsky.social · Sep 1

Doing game design must be wild cuz there could be 1000 clinical reasons why doing something a certain way is wrong but there will still be a gaggle of mfs like "I like it that way"

And if you lean too hard into the preferences of the focus-tested majority, you sand off all the interesting edges

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ivy 🥚 sly @ivysly.com · Aug 31

I want to make a mystery dungeon style roguelike game and friendslop about cave diving and a fighting game and a word game and a puzzle adventure game plus I want to remake my top down shooter about casting spells and I want to make a first person dungeon crawler RPG and I want to make a platformer

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · Aug 27

Started playing Sims 4 on a whim. Have not played The Sims since Livin’ Large. Somehow I thought this would be more relaxing than Death Stranding.

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · Aug 17

I don’t know what your audio plans are, but I can hear their struggle in my head.

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · Aug 9

Haven't got anything new for #screenshotsaturday, so have a thread of some stuff I haven't posted here.

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · Aug 14

Good question… it was probably generating 2D Zelda-like dungeons? Or maybe 3D racetracks. I know those were both pretty early.

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · Aug 14

The internet was smaller, the noise was quieter. No Kickstarter, no Steam wishlists, no youtube essays about the 13 rules of designing an open world sandbox…

a cartoon of homer simpson is holding a newspaper that says old man yells at cloud

ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson is holding a newspaper that says old man yells at cloud

media.tenor.com

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · Aug 14

I could write endlessly about what each of these games means to me. Maybe it’s rose-colored glasses, but being a part of the TIGSource forums at that time was magical.

Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · Aug 14

just a note btw that before cohost went down i copied these into a google doc which should be slightly easier than reading an archive.org snapshot docs.google.com/document/d/1...

games from the Indie Interregnum by zaratustra

(the period where games are too new to be in an http://archive.org collection and too old to be on steam) this will mainly be games from the tigsource crowd games are not in any order Mondo Medicals...

docs.google.com

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · Aug 12

Sometimes I worry I put way too much much thought into what is undoubtably an extremely niche game, but then I remember putting way too much thought into anything is basically my exact definition of fun.

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · Aug 12

Okay, I'm exhausted. Thanks to everyone who asked questions! Please keep 'em coming if you have them and I'll try to get to them whenever.

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · Aug 12

"Detailed" is a very diplomatic way to put it, haha. I'm one of the naive fools who got into procgen because I was shit at level design and it seemed easier somehow, so I do my best to make some sense of it from an odd angle.

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Tzschk @tzschk.bsky.social · Aug 12

This scratches the surface a bit, and it's all a work in progress, of course, but hopefully it gets at your question. Landmarks and parks/plazas are the current task, giving specific things to walk toward, reward exploring, or just take a breather, so that could be a whole other thread, haha.

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