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@littlepolygon.bsky.social

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Independent Game Programmer solo developing an anime/mecha arcade-game, NIGHTSHIFT GALAXY. He/him. WISHLIST: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3038700/Nightshift_Galaxy DISCORD: https://discord.gg/EAncTCUnHY

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hey bsky! I'm Max, and this is my game NIGHTSHIFT GALAXY about perpetually-broke freelance mecha pilots. Classic arcade gameplay with modern polish.

Gunning for Early Access soon, but solo-dev is hard! WISHLIST: store.steampowered.com/app/3038700/...

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 3h

I get it as a solution when you see that error, but I go crazy seeing unnecessary trailing {} everywhere, e.g.

std::string result{};

Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 3h

Also I think... maybe... more greebles...

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 3h

Doing trace overs to thinking about color... and running headlong into my combined color-blindness and bad-taste in palettes, haha.

Drawing of a hero character I'm designing for my game, Nightshift Galaxy, alongside headshots of the pilot, Kit kanzaki, and her frog-mechanic, Rikart Druse.

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 4h

Obligatory Rigging Dance

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 5h

"What if we just provide a good service that people want and was enough to pay our salaries, but nobody became a billionaire" is unthinkable in America.

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 5h

It was a relief to cut the Adobe cord -- not strictly financially, but also going from a corpo that treats you like a product and their investors as their customer to a Normal Ass Company that treats the product as a product and their users as their customers. Why can nobody be normal anymore??

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 5h

They also shut down their forums and shunted everyone into an unmoderated discord where everyone is flaming each other. PR clownshoes!

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 5h

Serif has stopped purchases for #Affinity apps in preparation for a "big announcement" and are responding to user concerns about subscriptions or genai with meaningless doublespeak. Feels bad!!

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Creative Freedom Is Coming - Affinity

Creative Freedom Is Coming. October 30

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Max! @littlepolygon.bsky.social · 5h

I must be Mr. Magoo because I've been coding C++ for 25 years and never had this problem, lol. For default ctors just omit the parens/braces altogether.