Lurking Ninja
@lurking-ninja.com
Solo developer || Working on an unannounced project || 🇭🇺
Converting coffee to program code since the 90-ies.
https://linktr.ee/LurkingNinja
Converting coffee to program code since the 90-ies.
https://linktr.ee/LurkingNinja
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I don't know, but it feels really better to be on a good old forum 🤷🏻♂️
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I don't know, but it feels really better to be on a good old forum 🤷🏻♂️
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FRIENDS! 💛
My team at @bluebackpack.bsky.social and I just released The Berlin Apartment, the game we’ve worked on for the past 4 years! 😭💛
Give us so much love, wishlist and buy! ✨
store.steampowered.com/app/2280430/...
My team at @bluebackpack.bsky.social and I just released The Berlin Apartment, the game we’ve worked on for the past 4 years! 😭💛
Give us so much love, wishlist and buy! ✨
store.steampowered.com/app/2280430/...
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
FRIENDS! 💛
My team at @bluebackpack.bsky.social and I just released The Berlin Apartment, the game we’ve worked on for the past 4 years! 😭💛
Give us so much love, wishlist and buy! ✨
store.steampowered.com/app/2280430/...
My team at @bluebackpack.bsky.social and I just released The Berlin Apartment, the game we’ve worked on for the past 4 years! 😭💛
Give us so much love, wishlist and buy! ✨
store.steampowered.com/app/2280430/...
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Discworld fans: rejoice! 🐢
In 2026, there's even more coming! The boardgame Discworld: Readers Digested, the card game Kill Sam Vimes and Discworld: Adventures in Lancre and Uberwald are coming to crowdfunding next year. 🥳
@terrypratchett.bsky.social
Read more: buff.ly/VWkn1d3
#discworld
In 2026, there's even more coming! The boardgame Discworld: Readers Digested, the card game Kill Sam Vimes and Discworld: Adventures in Lancre and Uberwald are coming to crowdfunding next year. 🥳
@terrypratchett.bsky.social
Read more: buff.ly/VWkn1d3
#discworld
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Discworld fans: rejoice! 🐢
In 2026, there's even more coming! The boardgame Discworld: Readers Digested, the card game Kill Sam Vimes and Discworld: Adventures in Lancre and Uberwald are coming to crowdfunding next year. 🥳
@terrypratchett.bsky.social
Read more: buff.ly/VWkn1d3
#discworld
In 2026, there's even more coming! The boardgame Discworld: Readers Digested, the card game Kill Sam Vimes and Discworld: Adventures in Lancre and Uberwald are coming to crowdfunding next year. 🥳
@terrypratchett.bsky.social
Read more: buff.ly/VWkn1d3
#discworld
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I have wanted to organize an online con that centers accessibility and liberation for years now but I don’t have the bandwidth or desire to lead such an endeavor solo. Consider this me putting it out there that I would welcome collaborators and co-dreamers.
March 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I have wanted to organize an online con that centers accessibility and liberation for years now but I don’t have the bandwidth or desire to lead such an endeavor solo. Consider this me putting it out there that I would welcome collaborators and co-dreamers.
Good night sweet prince, RIP Monolith. And fuck Warner Bros.
a pixel art of a man wearing a hat and sunglasses in a dark room .
ALT: a pixel art of a man wearing a hat and sunglasses in a dark room .
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February 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Good night sweet prince, RIP Monolith. And fuck Warner Bros.
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There are numerous Fighting Fantasy books written by Steve Jackson, but which ones were written by the Steve Jackson that founded our company? Do you know the answer?
Pledging for the first five Fighting Fantasy books is now open! #FightingFantasy
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...
Pledging for the first five Fighting Fantasy books is now open! #FightingFantasy
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...
February 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
There are numerous Fighting Fantasy books written by Steve Jackson, but which ones were written by the Steve Jackson that founded our company? Do you know the answer?
Pledging for the first five Fighting Fantasy books is now open! #FightingFantasy
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...
Pledging for the first five Fighting Fantasy books is now open! #FightingFantasy
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...
Apparently @unity.com only the lay offs are stable. They are coming like no tomorrow. Oh and the stupid doubling down to AI, GaaS and mobile. It is not a game engine, it's a Skinner-Box generator. Now with (de)generative AI.
Sadly, there are more dark times ahead at Unity, as several employees have posted about being laid off and CEO Mathew Bromberg released an internal memo describing the layoffs and internal restructuring at Unity.
gamefromscratch.com/more-layoffs...
#gamedev #indiedev #Unity3d
gamefromscratch.com/more-layoffs...
#gamedev #indiedev #Unity3d
More Layoffs and Restructuring at Unity – GameFromScratch.com
More dark times ahead at Unity Technologies as CEO Matthew Bromberg releases an internal memo describing the restructuring and layoffs
gamefromscratch.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Apparently @unity.com only the lay offs are stable. They are coming like no tomorrow. Oh and the stupid doubling down to AI, GaaS and mobile. It is not a game engine, it's a Skinner-Box generator. Now with (de)generative AI.
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live in about 10 hours from now - subscribe/mark your calendars/tell your friends/share etc. c:
Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opB...
Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opB...
Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer
YouTube video by Freya Holmér
www.youtube.com
January 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
live in about 10 hours from now - subscribe/mark your calendars/tell your friends/share etc. c:
Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opB...
Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opB...
I wish a happy and productive New Year to you and your family!
January 1, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I wish a happy and productive New Year to you and your family!
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Everything going on in videogames is part of a well observed trend across the ENTIRE economy, as companies try to battle a downturn's effect on a graph sheet by sacrificing millions of peoples lives on the altar of shareholder profits
December 28, 2024 at 1:20 PM
Everything going on in videogames is part of a well observed trend across the ENTIRE economy, as companies try to battle a downturn's effect on a graph sheet by sacrificing millions of peoples lives on the altar of shareholder profits
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Just a quick one to mention that both BlackBox and my URP Toon shader are on a pretty good discount on the Asset Store – don't ask me for how long!
December 19, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Just a quick one to mention that both BlackBox and my URP Toon shader are on a pretty good discount on the Asset Store – don't ask me for how long!
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If you want to see my blog posts without the other stuff I post on bluesky, see bsky.app/profile/redb...
bsky.app
December 23, 2024 at 6:08 PM
If you want to see my blog posts without the other stuff I post on bluesky, see bsky.app/profile/redb...
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-shows up wearing ceasefire pin
-talks about how the art and magic of games comes from the creatives and devs
-denounces the games made for quotas and in boardrooms
-takes a shot at TGA about giving proper airtime to creatives
-doesnt name drop any celebs
forget the awards, this guy wins hearts man
-talks about how the art and magic of games comes from the creatives and devs
-denounces the games made for quotas and in boardrooms
-takes a shot at TGA about giving proper airtime to creatives
-doesnt name drop any celebs
forget the awards, this guy wins hearts man
December 13, 2024 at 4:16 AM
-shows up wearing ceasefire pin
-talks about how the art and magic of games comes from the creatives and devs
-denounces the games made for quotas and in boardrooms
-takes a shot at TGA about giving proper airtime to creatives
-doesnt name drop any celebs
forget the awards, this guy wins hearts man
-talks about how the art and magic of games comes from the creatives and devs
-denounces the games made for quotas and in boardrooms
-takes a shot at TGA about giving proper airtime to creatives
-doesnt name drop any celebs
forget the awards, this guy wins hearts man
@unity.com 's asset store is increasingly full of AI crap. It makes me sad. On the top of that they are refusing refunding purchases where the publisher failed to disclose that their assets made with AI. Fab.com it is, in the future, I guess.
Fab
Fab is a digital marketplace that offers creators a single destination to discover, share, buy and sell high quality, real-time-ready game assets, environments, VFX, audio, animations, characters, plu...
Fab.com
December 12, 2024 at 7:36 AM
@unity.com 's asset store is increasingly full of AI crap. It makes me sad. On the top of that they are refusing refunding purchases where the publisher failed to disclose that their assets made with AI. Fab.com it is, in the future, I guess.
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Hey #GameDev friends, we've been releasing fonts for nearly 10 years now and we wanted to give you something special. So we've zipped up all 1200 of our font files in one HUGE pack with one TINY price for full commercial use in your games and projects. Check it out! ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack
December 3, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Hey #GameDev friends, we've been releasing fonts for nearly 10 years now and we wanted to give you something special. So we've zipped up all 1200 of our font files in one HUGE pack with one TINY price for full commercial use in your games and projects. Check it out! ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack
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This is it! The final episode of Developing. Here's what it's like to release a game on Steam youtu.be/5ycSvC0ZM0k
What it's like to release a game on Steam
YouTube video by Game Maker's Toolkit
youtu.be
December 6, 2024 at 4:01 PM
This is it! The final episode of Developing. Here's what it's like to release a game on Steam youtu.be/5ycSvC0ZM0k
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Hello everyone! I've been experimenting with some different ways of rendering a fluid simulation, and made a video about the journey over here: youtu.be/kOkfC5fLfgE
Coding Adventure: Rendering Fluids
YouTube video by Sebastian Lague
youtu.be
December 6, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Hello everyone! I've been experimenting with some different ways of rendering a fluid simulation, and made a video about the journey over here: youtu.be/kOkfC5fLfgE
Horizon Zero Shame.
We are in a new era, shameless plagiarism without even the attempt to conceal it.
We are in a new era, shameless plagiarism without even the attempt to conceal it.
‘Mechanimal’ open-world survival crafting game Light of Motiram announced for PC
Polaris Quest, a subsidiary of Tencent Games, has announced Light of Motiram, an open-world survival crafting game with mechanized animal beasts that resembles Sony Interactive Entertainment’…
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November 28, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Horizon Zero Shame.
We are in a new era, shameless plagiarism without even the attempt to conceal it.
We are in a new era, shameless plagiarism without even the attempt to conceal it.
Share a pic and the title of a narrative game you love.
I'm not sure if Syberia counts. On the puzzle-story axis it's on the puzzle side a little bit. But still.
I'm not sure if Syberia counts. On the puzzle-story axis it's on the puzzle side a little bit. But still.
November 28, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Share a pic and the title of a narrative game you love.
I'm not sure if Syberia counts. On the puzzle-story axis it's on the puzzle side a little bit. But still.
I'm not sure if Syberia counts. On the puzzle-story axis it's on the puzzle side a little bit. But still.
@unity.com is at it again. "Good job". I sincerely wait until I can ditch this train wreck.
November 27, 2024 at 5:00 PM
@unity.com is at it again. "Good job". I sincerely wait until I can ditch this train wreck.
We finally should decide if we say that games, and in them, we, have the influence on the gamers to make them more complacent or more violent, more peaceful or more aggressive. If we say, what and how put in games matter this way, all these years fighting against censorship was a waste.
November 25, 2024 at 10:38 PM
We finally should decide if we say that games, and in them, we, have the influence on the gamers to make them more complacent or more violent, more peaceful or more aggressive. If we say, what and how put in games matter this way, all these years fighting against censorship was a waste.
What UMA should have become if Unity decides all those years ago to actually help developers with great plugins instead of concentrating on useless projects they eventually shut down. Epic is doing a great job lately, for Indies too.
NEW Mutable Sample Project DEMO - Unreal Engine 5.5
YouTube video by Smart Poly
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November 25, 2024 at 3:40 PM
What UMA should have become if Unity decides all those years ago to actually help developers with great plugins instead of concentrating on useless projects they eventually shut down. Epic is doing a great job lately, for Indies too.
What punishment the asset store creator deserves when they sell assets on the store and they disclose that it was made with generative AI more than a year after release? Probably no refund, no remedy. Obviously all of their assets got hidden in my library to avoid using any of them.
November 23, 2024 at 8:48 PM
What punishment the asset store creator deserves when they sell assets on the store and they disclose that it was made with generative AI more than a year after release? Probably no refund, no remedy. Obviously all of their assets got hidden in my library to avoid using any of them.
I'm not sure if @unitygames.bsky.social can afford this glaring problems with their "Your Plus license will expire" email. No word about $200k/y, "you lose splash screen customization", etc. How long can this company keep up not reading the fricking room?
November 22, 2024 at 12:43 AM
I'm not sure if @unitygames.bsky.social can afford this glaring problems with their "Your Plus license will expire" email. No word about $200k/y, "you lose splash screen customization", etc. How long can this company keep up not reading the fricking room?
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We updated our Facepunch.Steamworks fork!
✔ Built against Steamworks 1.61
✔ Exposes all the new Steam Timeline stuff needed to have full Game Recording support in a game
✔ Added support for Dynamic Cloud Sync
✔ Added support for Steam beta branch querying and switching
✔ Available as a UPM Package
✔ Built against Steamworks 1.61
✔ Exposes all the new Steam Timeline stuff needed to have full Game Recording support in a game
✔ Added support for Dynamic Cloud Sync
✔ Added support for Steam beta branch querying and switching
✔ Available as a UPM Package
Seeing as Facepunch.Steamworks hasn't seen any updates in 4 years and we need to get an up-to-date version built out for Demonschool i figured I MIGHT AS WELL SHARE MY FORK! Getting it up to date is a pain in the butt, maybe this will save you a few hours?
GitHub - LotteMakesStuff/Facepunch.Steamworks: Another fucking c# Steamworks implementation
Another fucking c# Steamworks implementation. Contribute to LotteMakesStuff/Facepunch.Steamworks development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 21, 2024 at 9:46 PM
We updated our Facepunch.Steamworks fork!
✔ Built against Steamworks 1.61
✔ Exposes all the new Steam Timeline stuff needed to have full Game Recording support in a game
✔ Added support for Dynamic Cloud Sync
✔ Added support for Steam beta branch querying and switching
✔ Available as a UPM Package
✔ Built against Steamworks 1.61
✔ Exposes all the new Steam Timeline stuff needed to have full Game Recording support in a game
✔ Added support for Dynamic Cloud Sync
✔ Added support for Steam beta branch querying and switching
✔ Available as a UPM Package