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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah it’s super annoying. Though I’ve had other Google settings that don’t even last a single browser session. They’ve gotten extremely bad at the bare basics.

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Vuntra City @vuntracity.bsky.social · 1d

Found this cozy street bar.

#gamedev #indiegame #vr

A street bar with trees and vines in the background in a procedural city.

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 1d

Ah just saw the alt text, vines indeed! That’s a cool direction. I’m curious to see the building with vines in more detail (and less obscured). :)

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn’t pay for itself. The communication around this initiative has unfortunately been very misleading. Doesn’t mean it’s not worth it, but it *is* a large expense that’s “competing” with other expenses in the state budget. bsky.app/profile/rune...

Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 1d

It's not profitable in a fiscal sense at all; it's a large expense. When the reports say society got €1.39 back for every €1, it includes the well-being of the recipients expressed in terms of monetary value. See this post and replies to it:
bsky.app/profile/rune...

Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 15d

Look, I’m all for UBI, but how does this pay for itself just because a monetary value is attributed to the increase in wellbeing of the recipients? That’s like saying that if Alice gives Bob $10 it pays for itself because while Alice loses $10, Bob gains $10, so it evens out.

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, I did not recognize this as being Vuntra City at first. Does the building in the background have vines growing on it or something? A bit hard to see, but it looks nice either way!

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 1d

Still sounds half way streamer friendly (just not snappy to make). The anti-streamer game must be some slow paced puzzle game with no sandbox / simulation / self expression mechanics at all. Hmm, like what I’m making.

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 1d

I think the only way for people to be able to judge the degree of success of this program is to compare with the societal value gained per euro spent for *other* state services (health care, education, libraries, you name it); otherwise there's no actual context to be able to judge the number on.

Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 1d

It's not profitable in a fiscal sense at all; it's a large expense. When the reports say society got €1.39 back for every €1, it includes the well-being of the recipients expressed in terms of monetary value. See this post and replies to it:
bsky.app/profile/rune...

Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 15d

Look, I’m all for UBI, but how does this pay for itself just because a monetary value is attributed to the increase in wellbeing of the recipients? That’s like saying that if Alice gives Bob $10 it pays for itself because while Alice loses $10, Bob gains $10, so it evens out.

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 5d

New smooth clouds timelapse from the ground 🥰

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 6d

Random thing to do: Make the gif/videos in the Steam page description match the new wider Steam page width.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 7d

couple days late but, happy 1 month birthday block game! what a difference a month of development makes

#EniBlockGame #GameDev #ProcGen #PixelArt 🎮

a voxel scene at night, set in a terrain of hilly dirt topped with grass and dotted with ferns and purple wildflowers. the remains of a ruined stone structure is visible in the middle of a cluster of trees. light shines from the ruin, casting streaks of light out from where the walls have crumbled down to the ground, and lighting up the nearby trees and leaves. the title bar reads "BlockGame"

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 7d

When I say quality of life features, I don’t mean functions (those can always be added). I mean site functionality like exposing shader variables to be manipulated with sliders or animated in UI with keyframes. That would make Shadertoy a vastly more powerful tool for presentation.

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 7d

I thought they didn’t embed on Discord? People use third party services to make it work, eg. Replacing the y in bsky with x.

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 7d

I had to get used to it too recently. Don’t feel the differences are huge though. In your first and last example, it’s just one character away from being valid (period after the numbers to indicate they’re floats). I’ve been pretty frustrated with other lack of quality of life features though.

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 9d

Watched it on Nebula, it’s great! I’m a former usability focused developer at Unity (now indie game dev) and an Audacity user too. I found it very interesting as both a user and fellow UX
minded developer, and don’t really know of better videos out there to convey these topics to a broad audience.

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 11d

Ah ok, I misread your first post. I guess it’s hard to blame it in your case then. But I have tons of games on Steam and the recommendations are still dominated by what’s popular with others.

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 11d

If your taste is specific and not mainstream it’s very bad indeed, as a lot of the suggestions are just based on what’s popular, or what’s popular among your Steam friends.

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Raicuparta @raicuparta.com · 11d

Made this repo to show it's possible to host a Bluesky custom feed fully on GitHub for free. It should be easy to just fork this repo and modify for your own feed.

GitHub - Raicuparta/static-bsky-feed: Host a custom Bluesky feed on GitHub pages or any other static file host

Host a custom Bluesky feed on GitHub pages or any other static file host - Raicuparta/static-bsky-feed

github.com

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 14d

Hahaha WTF this 1840 piano piece is wild
youtu.be/rQ81jzlR1y4

Explaining the Most Bizarre Piano Etude of the 19th Century

YouTube video by PianoCurio

youtu.be

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hippowombat @hippowombat.bsky.social · 15d

The talk I co-delivered at #EverythingProcecduralConference earlier this year is up on YouTube, lots of neato details on the stuff we did for #procgen in #HyperLightBreaker at @heartmachine.bsky.social

youtu.be/AWzepoestQ4?...

EPC2025 | Building theWorld of Hyper Light Breaker in Houdini andUnreal|Len White & Christian Sparks

YouTube video by BUas Games

youtu.be

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 15d

But regardless of all that, the program doesn't pay for itself, when the fiscal cost is not covered. If it did, it would be a no-brainer to implement it, given it would be self-financed. But it's not - the money to run it would have to come from reducing other state expenses, or increasing taxes.

Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 15d

That's interesting; would love to see numbers. Indeed comparing with the benefits of other things the money could be spent instead on is the only way to determine if the program is a success. What's the total value of extra dollar spent on schools? hospitals? libraries? Etc.

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 15d

Ah. Could it not be hosted on GitHub.io to avoid depending on a custom domain name?

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 15d

When the value received by the recipient is included in the balance, something “paying for itself” should be the *baseline* because if the recipient experienced less value gained than what was actually given to them, something went horribly wrong.

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 15d

Look, I’m all for UBI, but how does this pay for itself just because a monetary value is attributed to the increase in wellbeing of the recipients? That’s like saying that if Alice gives Bob $10 it pays for itself because while Alice loses $10, Bob gains $10, so it evens out.

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