Remember: the smaller the game, the more important your positive Steam review will be to the devs!
Anyway, buy Kitsune Zero on Steam, leave a review, it'd be a great help https://store.steampowered.com/app/1947550/Kitsune_Zero__Super_Bernie_World/
Some compression for #picotron userdata serialization: a byte-oriented RLE encoding that favors recently encountered values and works well with a second lz4 pass. It gives similar results to px9 / pngcrush -brute for typical data.
Here I'm dumping a test 320x100 image into clipboard and pasting back into source code as a ~5k base64 string.
May this action-packed POGOPPL GIF inspire you to wishlist the game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1640220/POGOPPL/ #indiedev #gamedev
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A short #pico8 game for #ldjam vol.53
Play: (web / π±) https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=52576
or from inside PICO-8:
> LOAD #TFL
I think if Bluesky had launched in November, I would have been curious. But I've been here for 5 months now and there's been a noticeable change in my physical well-being, including a drop in blood pressure.
The idea of a recreated twitter experience (with all the drama and mess) holds much less appeal for me now that my body's self-regulation is more stable.
May a thousand platforms bloom or whatever, I just hope there isn't a mass migration away from here. I'd be sad to lose this place.
Is your primary e-mail account #gmail? As in the e-mail account we would use to communicate, so not necessarily your job related e-mail. Feel free to share widely.
i wrote up a too long reddit post on advice i wish someone had given me when i started learning game art. might be helpful for someone here https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/131oo3c/a_programmers_guide_to_learning_game_art/
Iβd like to say once more that Australian English is one of the most magical languages in the world. Thank you for your service, Macquarie Dictionary.
βAn online shortening of gender-neutral to become 'gendy nooch' is gaining traction. Find more new words here.β https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/blog/article/905/
Hellsite
The dev account has actually gone unused for a while but since I'm spending less time browsing Twitter, maybe I could post whatever stuff I make there for extra visibility?
Just an idea.