Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

In the Press right now:

"All Those NFTs Are Officially Worthless" → https://kotaku.com/nft-meaning-scam-crypto-marketplace-price-bored-ape-1850860661

"Your NFTs Are Actually — Finally — Totally Worthless" → https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/nfts-worthless-researchers-find-1234828767/

Me:

Terraria dev Re-Logic donates $100K to Godot Engine and FNA, plus ongoing funding https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/terraria-developer-re-logic-donates-100k-to-godot-engine-and-fna/

#Unity #GodotEngine #FNA #Terraria #GameDev

some people have been going around saying the unity news isn't so bad because "it doesn't affect very many people" and

1. there are plenty of reasons to be nervous about a move like this even if it doesn't (currently) affect you

2. the indie studios that aren't getting millions in budget from venture capital but are still doing gamedev full-time professionally are already squeezed enough without unity skimming even more off the top

some of you are acting like grossing 200k in a year for an entire studio is like winning the jackpot, when in reality between platform holders, publishers, and governments taking their cut 200k what's left could well be far below subsistence wages for team members

so yeah, a large percentage of unity users won't be affected, but a large percentage of the indie "middle class", who make a large number of the indie games most people enjoy, *will* be highly affected. and i don't think that's okay. i think that's worthy of some panic

holy shit

a hundred grand 🤯

wishing all taxi drivers who make it unable to fasten seatbelts in the backseat to have their tires get caught on nails

Happy #bisexual awareness week!

Be careful out there fellow bi critters.

During #bisexual awareness week, bisexuals have disadvantage on all stealth checks.

I'm sure there's a tendency to always view the past as better, but the social-media-ification of the Internet has really sucked a lot of the joy out of entertaining people. When it was peripheral to the broader Internet, you spent most of your time making stuff. Now you gotta learn 8 to 12 platforms that mostly want you to act like an employee of their algorithm.

two space-based adventures written predominantly in C# include squad's kerbal space program (2015) and debussy's clair de lune (1905)

If you're dumb enough to buy a new engine this weekend, you're a big enough schmuck to come to Unity!

Thanks to the following people for doing most of the work!
https://mastodon.xyz/@Xibanya
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@supsuper
https://domdinh.com/
And 917, whose socials will be pasted in here as soon as they get back to me

For everyone who wanted to play Outbreak on handhelds or other #pico8 systems - now it is possible!
The cart has been added to the downloads on itch - time to slay some zombies on the go!
https://johanpeitz.itch.io/outbreak
#gamedev

The Godot Splash Screen repository has been updated based on your feedback! Now neatly organized in folders, 7 new screens (including horror themed) and 18 vector logos.

https://github.com/KenneyNL/Godot-SplashScreens

Unity reportedly told a developer that their charity partners Planned Parenthood and a children's hospital were "not valid charities" and were "political groups":

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/unity-reportedly-told-dev-planned-parenthood-and-childrens-hospital-are-not-not-valid-charities

I got a full boot of the 500kloc game core on Godot, it's feeding frames and waiting on input.

The rest is "just work"; though there is a substantial amount of work in the VFX/sound/UI rigging, the derisk is complete.

14 hours.

"#Unity isn't a game engine. It's a advertising and malware network that merged with a popular game engine as a delivery channel and now wears its corpse as its skin"

-#RobBeschizza

https://boingboing.net/2023/09/17/game-developers-flee-unity-after-exorbitan-price-plan-announced-but-not-everyone-can-get-out.html

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