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ben driscoll

@daisyowl.com

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I'm Ben Driscoll, I make games and stuff 🚀 Cobalt Core bit.ly/CobaltCoreSteam 🛠️ Sunshine Heavy Industries tinyurl.com/n88fsmee 🌼 Daisy Owl daisyowl.com

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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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ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 1d

(link to the actual article) hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...

By the way, what’s a AA?

Instead of fuzzy labels like 'indie' and 'AA', we propose a new data-driven system to classify video games based on their actual production scope. This new framework reveals the real economic and crea...

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ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 1d

imo an ideal version of this graph would be install size VS person-years of labor, which would obviously be really hard (perhaps impossible) to realistically pull out of the data available

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ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 1d

but by this metric we'd be comparable in scope to a game with 53 in-house developers who didn't get localized, which is obviously not the case. the actual labor hours done by the loc teams combined is less than one person-year of labor

(also, the numbers for us here are 166mb, 68 credits)

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ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 1d

i think this article + chart are a really interesting idea, but i think the # of credits axis needs some refinement. the core team for cobalt core was 3 people, but for instance we also have like 50 people in the credits for the various localization teams (which we are happy to credit, of course!)

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Aggro Crab 💥🔪 @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social · 6d

welcome to 💥CRASHOUT CREW💢

form a crew of up to 4 overworked friends and drift into a frantic co-op forklift experience where teamwork is key, disaster is inevitable and managing stress is all on you.

DEMO drops Oct 13th as part of Steam Next Fest‼️

it's time to clock tf in.

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ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 4d

lmao

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Beastieball @beastieball.bsky.social · 4d

hi ben

An image that has been altered from the original text: "The Rat is the final antagonist of Disney's 1955 animated feature film Lady and the Tramp. A silent, predatory rodent, the rat is in constant pursuit of Jim Dear and Darling’s newborn baby." to have a picture of trat in place of the original "rat" while saying "The Trat is the best Beastieball feature. A rodent, the trat is cute and Darling baby."

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ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 4d

what's this guy's problem

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ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 4d

a few hanging pothos plants in the right spots and i could make it work

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ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 5d

Was there a couple months ago and was really impressed

ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 9d

We have stuff like this too. The “make the whole thing” part of making a game is a lot easier if you make tools to help you do it (and especially ones that give you an overview of your progress / remaining work)

Trinket Tom | Battle Suit Aces OUT NOW @tom.trinketstudios.com · 9d

One of the most useful tools we built to manage the massive number of illustrations in Battle Suit Aces was the art production sheet.

We update it from the editor so we have in-game usage info and it pulls thumbnails from git. And then direction notes and progress tracking happens here.

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ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 13d

is that really what you want

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JDAG @jdag.bsky.social · 22d

when cloud services hound me to pay for the 50th time

An edit of the infamous "Almost christmas means it wasn't christmas!" screenshot of phoenix wright, edited to say "Almost out of storage means I'm not out of storage!"

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ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 23d

I assumed this was because they didn’t want to scan a file twice back in the ancient times c was designed in but I actually have no idea and know very little about c

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ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 23d

Ok but this is a really good idea

ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 28d

Nope different guy

ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 28d

There’s the pubg guy

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · Sep 8

my favorite thing reading opinions about writing C is you get professor malmo stroopwaffle like "the thoughtful engineer would be remiss in assuming operations of— " and then the next quote is linus torvalds saying "anyone who does this is a slime brained sack of shit"

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