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Cala @calastorylord.bsky.social · 7h

Y'all. The demo is out for the game I've been working on for the last year.

store.steampowered.com/app/3960980/...

#gamedev #indiedev #indie #demo #indiegame #VotA #cozy

Village of the Ages, or Vota, is a cozy village sim / colony sim game.

Follow @villageoftheages.bsky.social for updates.

Village of the Ages Demo on Steam

If a giant tornado ended it all, can you rebuild? Guide villagers from the Early Ages to Middle Ages and beyond in this cute chaos village simulator. No progress bars, no tech trees. Paradise or infer...

store.steampowered.com

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Cala @calastorylord.bsky.social · 7h

Y'all. The demo is out for the game I've been working on for the last year.

store.steampowered.com/app/3960980/...

#gamedev #indiedev #indie #demo #indiegame #VotA #cozy

Village of the Ages, or Vota, is a cozy village sim / colony sim game.

Follow @villageoftheages.bsky.social for updates.

Village of the Ages Demo on Steam

If a giant tornado ended it all, can you rebuild? Guide villagers from the Early Ages to Middle Ages and beyond in this cute chaos village simulator. No progress bars, no tech trees. Paradise or infer...

store.steampowered.com

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René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 23h

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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🦇🩸Hexavier🩸🦇 @xavierck.com · 14h

We desperately need someone with your very specific set of skills, like, RIGHT NOW! OMG!

But ooooooooonly if you're willing to relocate so you can sit in an office and desperately try ignore other people so you can get half as much work done in twice the time 😎

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Cala @calastorylord.bsky.social · 17h

Investigating the target, especially if the investigation is a whole 'stealth' mission in and of itself.

Planning can be fun, prep tends to be boring, and the actual heist itself, depending on execution, can either be fun like the stealth mission or boring; it varies.

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Cala @calastorylord.bsky.social · 17h

With alt text.

em j. @yagye0n

"me, isekai'd into 16th century korea: 'i wonder if anyone else from my timeline made it, i sure wish there was a familiar face around.'

Joseon Derulo:"

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Cala @calastorylord.bsky.social · 1d

Yea, I get that. Chaotic Good or Lawful neutral for me. I tend to use tissues as bookmarks. They're always nearby, don't leave a mark in the books, and are easy to spot for returning to the appropriate section.

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 1d

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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Cala @calastorylord.bsky.social · 1d

With a title like that... I'm not really all that surprised that nobody watched it.

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Mike Futter @futterish.fsquared.biz · 1d

Every developer should read this. Print it out. Put it under your pillow. Put a little sugar on it and have it with your breakfast. Make it part of you.

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 2d

Dear game developers, please remember what 'on the record' means

Let's discuss the role of journalists and journalism in the video game industry.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 2d

This would single-handedly transform the lives of everyone I know in such profound ways it is difficult to fully articulate, but it would also let us actually make more and different and crazy things

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Cala @calastorylord.bsky.social · 2d

Truly just guys being dudes.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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Cala @calastorylord.bsky.social · 3d

It's peak, that's why.

It tastes great on its own w/o milk, and if you do have it with milk, it makes the milk *even more* tasty to drink after you finish eating the cereal.

Cala @calastorylord.bsky.social · 4d

The idea that a vaccine could make my allergies go poof is phenomenally exciting, as someone with life-threatening food allergies, and also allergies to the most common pets. It would be life-changing to be able to eat somewhere without worrying about what is in it.

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QT 🔞 @forbiddenqt.bsky.social · 4d

Not to stir shit up but I'm at a sapphic/nonbinary event, and it whips, but I do think it's interesting how the performers range from every gender and identity under the sun as long as they're not AMAB

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4d

A better world is possible

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4d

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.

Just the start.

Common sense.

Paris before and after street transformation

New urban forest planted in front of Paris City Hall

A Paris “School Street” where cars are removed and people space/tree planting are added

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Cala @calastorylord.bsky.social · 4d

...like a bodega cat?

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · 4d

Incredible.

TLDR: vaccines containing mRNA that encodes for allergen-related proteins have had promising results in mice, and might even be a stepping stone to an asthma vaccine.

Lee Scheinbeim @lee.scheinbe.im · 4d

what????????? www.vice.com/en/article/s...

Scientists Are Working on an Mrna Vaccine To Wipe Out Allergies

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania may have developed a vaccine for seasonal allergies and food allergies.

www.vice.com

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Cala @calastorylord.bsky.social · 4d

Truly, reading trashy novels gives you a better appreciation for good works.

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Cala @calastorylord.bsky.social · 4d

Social media skeets aside, do you communicate to your dates that touching your tits on the first date is fine?

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Cala @calastorylord.bsky.social · 4d

youtu.be/agWwSsCP6KI?...

Since we're doing Primo Victoria posting, I must include this banger of a version.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 9d

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

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Cala @calastorylord.bsky.social · 5d

Left, probably, but I have no context for this. Could you also please add alt text to your pics? Would love to share them, but I only do that for pics w/ alt text.

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 6d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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