Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es
- Age
- Early 30s
- pronouns
- they/he
🇲🇽🏳🌈 Nonbinary Mexican on the autism spectrum that does hobby gamedev.
🔞 I'm an adult and posts may be NSFW. Do not interact if you're a minor.
Joined Dec 2022
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For me, there's a few topics I say will never be in my games. I may even have a hard time imagining how a game with those topics would be fun, but we explicitly marking those topics as "off limits" so they're not even joked about.
As a game facilitator, you might think "oh, I don't really need to spend so much time on these tools because I'm a good person. I'm not going to include anything awful."
But here's the thing: you can't know what your players might struggle with.
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I've played games with someone who said "you can include spiders, but don't ever describe them being near or on my face."
I couldn't have guessed that.
Or "please don't include death by [cause of death] because I lost someone to that."
Or "no romance for me, please, I'm just coming off a rough relationship."
People will have sensitivities you've never thought of and, as the person running the game, it's your responsibility to give them space to share that vulnerability, & respect that trust.
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"Misgendering"? More like "Miss me with that gendering shit"
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Hello!
I didn't want to post anything here until I started making art again. I'm an artist, but I rarely make art. It's a problem.
I make things but no fine art. Art that is its own purpose, art for art's sake. Even this one—half done to test some software, half to have a timelapse for a vlog. It's been a long time since I just painted … But maybe we'll get there again. Maybe I'll have some thoughts about it to share.
In the mean time, I painted these lily pads for you (and me).
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Guy who invented the clock: there will be 12 numbers on it
Friend: so the day will be divided into 12 segments?
Inventor: no, 24
Friend: so will the day start at 1 Inventor: the day will start at the 12, which is at night
Friend:
Inventor: the 6 means 30
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Did a #gamedev all-nighter and submitted my #ldjam entry 'Portrait of a robot climbing a dystopian megastructure', using #godotengine
The theme was 'limited space', I've interpreted that as limited horizontal screen space, and tried to make gameplay that fits a portrait orientation with an emphasis on the vertical. I've also taken it a little more literally and incorporated lots of narrow ledges and other physically limited spaces to move.
https://voxel.itch.io/portrait-of-a-robot-climbing-a-dystopian-megastructure
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"Ewe shall not pass!"
The gang makes it clear that I'm to go no further. But what names might they each have?
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Just seen a new favourite response to AI text. "Why should I bother to read something nobody could be bothered to write?"
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I saw this a little while ago, and it's something I really needed to hear.
This shit is *hard*. But not changing is even worse.
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How to make a 999-byte vectory racing game in 8 easy steps..
// commented #pico8 src: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=54397
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She's so autistic (compliment)
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"Your gender is immutable. You cannot edit it, citizen!" the cop growls. I tear off a small tab of sellotape and tape it over my gender's write protect notch. The cop screams.
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Let's call it a day! I added animations to our hero, and more effects here and there. I stopped at 8pm to make dinner and watch Lilo&Stich with my family. More tomorrow! Don't forget to rest, it's important too!
