Dan Pearce
@gamedesigndan.bsky.social
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I make games in my pajamas. BAFTA Breakthrough, two time BAFTA award nominee and one time winner. Working on SPACE WARLORD BABY TRADING SIMULATOR at Strange Scaffold Prev: I AM YOUR BEAST, CRDM3, Clickolding, 10 Second Ninja X, Castles in the Sky
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gamedesigndan.bsky.social
The good news doesn't stop. Maybe consider playing a game about someone telling you to get back in your box and you saying "hell the fuck no."
strangescaffold.bsky.social
I Am Your Beast is OUT NOW on @xbox.com and @playstation.com 🐺

Complete with DLC "Support Group" and "Cold Sweat" and all free updates.

www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...

store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
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patbren.bsky.social
These people should be making a reboot of The Getaway
gamedesigndan.bsky.social
I cannot as she's been harvesting them to make soap
gamedesigndan.bsky.social
"and- wait, do you know the Stanley Kubrick film The Clockwork Orange?"
gamedesigndan.bsky.social
dating someone who's pretty offline does give you a new perspective on how deranged almost every single thing you see on a screen every single day is
gamedesigndan.bsky.social
I showed this to my conker collecting girlfriend, who's right on the millenial/gen-Z border, and her response was "I don't know what that word means"
innes.bsky.social
"Nature's Labubu"
Picture of two cupped hands holding a partially opened conker, with the Guardian headline below it: "Nature's Labubu: why are gen z 'unboxing' conkers?"
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gamedesigndan.bsky.social
I will say it's much more obviously CGI in motion (people especially). It is for sure true renders, just likely adapted from footage taken for accuracy
gamedesigndan.bsky.social
Like, these are ALL CGI! That's totally what it looks like here!!
gamedesigndan.bsky.social
We need to stop pretending that Nigel Farage is someone who genuinely loves Great Britain. You know who DOES love Great Britain? Whoever renders the videos for driving theory tests. I have never seen the beautiful mundanity of the UK so lovingly represented.
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neo.yokohama
mirna @neo.yokohama · Nov 25
racing jrpg concept art
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samperson.bsky.social
fun stupid trick for stupid programmers- if you don't wanna think about how you'll localize your game, just make a class/struct that just wraps a single string class + term ID

later, you can add a simple helper function that mass installs them into your future loc database
annlemay.bsky.social
To every young or aspiring dev out there, look, some free advice. (Older devs, you know better. 💀)

For any game you are going to work on that has any GLIMMER of possible localization. Or editing. Or anything involving writing really...

DO NOT HARD-CODE THE VO/NON-VO/UI TEXT STRINGS.
annlemay.bsky.social
"Hard coded text strings."

(My villain origin story.)
gamedesigndan.bsky.social
I didn't realize that so much of driving was about not wanting to be dazzled and not wanting to dazzle others, it goes against every fibre of my being.
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ukgreenstats.bsky.social
The Green Party are currently the 2nd most searched for political party in the UK.

This comes as they celebrate the milestone of 100,000 members (England and Wales).

This graph shows how @zackpolanski.bsky.social has impacted the visibility of the party, using Google Trends data.
gamedesigndan.bsky.social
Wow that's an awful question in so many respects
gamedesigndan.bsky.social
I'm on theory pass because they had the most mock questions as far as I could tell and I'm basically just trying to expose myself to as many curveball ones as possible
gamedesigndan.bsky.social
The correct answer was "stopping place for buses"
gamedesigndan.bsky.social
Those three capital Ks do not scan well at a glance
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skeet.best
jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"
comraderobot.bsky.social
girl are you chatgpt because your KPIs are crazy
Mostafa • @mokatia
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Shared row data file with GPT5 to analyze, the result KPIs were crazy, so I naively asked, and innocently it responded.
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Did you make up these numbers?
Good catch - I wasn't able to actually open and parse your CSV file yet,
12:50 AM • 16/09/2025 • 19K Views
gamedesigndan.bsky.social
I can't listen to Cancelled by Taylor Swift it's too scary
gamedesigndan.bsky.social
This Town's Not Big Enough For The Both Of Us - a couch co-op game about two giant cowboys
gamedesigndan.bsky.social
filth (positive)
yoyoyollie.bsky.social
Dogfighting around massive bloody pillars, dont ask why (it was a cool idea ok)

(wishlist the game in pinned)
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #DeliveryMustComplete
gamedesigndan.bsky.social
Yeah, this is totally fair. Felt this pretty much immediately, which is when I followed up about how sex isn't even really the point for them, so much as validation is. I ended up talking cross purposes a bit.
gamedesigndan.bsky.social
However, having sex solely for the validation of other men? Also... kind of gay. So who is any of this helping.