Animator/Gamedev. Actually a 'CannonTortoise' if you wanna get technical. (he/him)
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My Celeste mod Cafe is out, it has multiple new mechanics and an original soundtrack.
#pico8
Check it out: gunturtle.itch.io/cafe
There's been a decent supply of precision 3D platformers in the past couple years. Lorn's Lure and Blessed Burden are Quake/Source-esque first person platformers; The Big Catch: Tacklebox is similar to these Sunshine levels; Mina the Hollower just came out (yes, it counts)
I'm sympathetic to the argument that visual languages are good for lowering the barrier between designers/engineers on larger teams (it's probably a major help on live service games), but text-based scripting languages should also do that (like the one that will replace BP)
I'm under the impression that the real benefit of visual languages is for the developer; nodes cut out a lot of the steps involved in compilation/interpretation, and they don't come with same expectations as IDEs (less need for a debugger or language server)
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hey
🏓10S FOREVER is half off for the steam Bullet Hell Fest
arcade style gameplay (no picking from 3 things), steam leaderboards, hard as Hell (im not kidding), 75-1 review ratio, and stuffed full of sick tunes and cute 2-bit pixelart. plus if you play it youll be forever cursed
Very funny they're demoing this with a game that would look near-identical if it was made in 2006. What render engine improvements can be made here? It's a grassy field with some cars in it.
"no game ever" is crazy but I kinda agree with the sentiment- closest thing to Minecraft's brand of "tile-based simulation with weird edge cases" I can think of is Zachtronics stuff. Hytale's interesting but I'm more curious about the future of Minecraft-derived factory games.
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hey all hit a huge unexpected financial wall this month and grinding for the rent. every owch game is bundled for 4.20 all week on itch (including 10S FOREVER, usually 8 bucks!) while i look for additional side work. i suffer, you game, this is the way of all things. link below
Rewatched this cutscene after reading this- I'm struck by how the scene pivots from big flashy 2D animated fx sequence -> SNES mode 7-esque demoscene -> another animated sequence. Very cool expansion on 90s RPG visual language.
I'm a little lukewarm on some aspects of the game's pixel art (I don't like thick outlines on small sprites), but the way the sprites are animated is really impressive. The piano cutscene is crazy to me, very detailed hand poses on such a small character.
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Slowly working on #ConjureSDF v0.3, a from the ground up rewrite for Blender 4.5+
Per primitive colors have been on my to do list for a long time, but other features sadly always took priority. But not anymore👀
#blender3d #b3d #blender #3dart #3dmodeling
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In North American theatres this October. 🔥
First trailer of "Hyakuemu" movie by Kenji Iwaisawa (On-Gaku), with Keisuke Kojima (One Punch Man S01) as character designer & animation director.
Based on the manga by Uoto (Orb).
Coming in japanese theaters on September 19.
hyakuemu-anime.com
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Starlink works great until the cats find out that the dish gives off a little heat on cold days.
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NEW: A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover in right-wing militias.
He didn't tell the cops or the FBI. He didn't tell friends or family.
The one person he told: @js_kaplan.
This is his story. It's a doozy:
propublica.org/article/ap3-o…
