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Linky439 (Knight George dev)

@linky439.bsky.social

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French game maker with a soft spot for retro aesthetics! Knight George demo out: https://linky439.itch.io/knight-george Released F-Zero Pocket, HooperVania. He/him. My games' page: https://linky439.itch.io

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Linky439 (Knight George dev) @linky439.bsky.social · Nov 1

Hey #PitchYaGame!

I am currently working on Knight George, a retro-styled A-RPG with multiple items, lots of dungeons and many quests!

⚔️ Fight bosses!
🧠 Solve puzzles!
🗺️ Explore the kingdom of Earlyne!
🎵 Enjoy the glorious chiptunes by @isabellechiming.bsky.social!

Wanna know more? Check below!

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Whit☀️Wei @mochiwei.com · 6h

Linktober 2025 Day 14: Statue ✨

#linktober #artposting

A statue of Skyward Sword Zelda holding the harp of the goddess on her lap.

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 1d

Anna's Hummingbird, for @aro-frog.bsky.social - thanks for your #Waymakers donation! I love these dramatic little guys haha, always so full of fight. 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Illustration of a male Anna's Hummingbird, wings spread and beating fast as he flies straight toward the viewer. He has a shiny magenta head and a dull gray-green body, and tiny tiny little black feet. The background is dark with implied vegetation.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 8h

Nope. Nope. Nope.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.

We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.

The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 8h

The 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair heard that developments in AI audiobooks mean publishers will no longer have to decide whether to translate a book, but instead just choose which market to translate into 👇 #FBM25

AI audio means publishers ‘don’t have to choose whether to translate, only which market’, FBF hears

ebx.sh

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RY❤️‍🔥 @ryrycosmos.bsky.social · 9h

Ready or Haunt… The SA-X draws near!!

#Metroid

SA-X in a haunting backdrop for Fusion Halloween

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Lucie Ronfaut @lucieronfaut.com · 17h

Ce mois-ci dans 🌐 INTERNET EXPLOREUSES 🌐, j'ai pris beaucoup de précautions ridicules pour parler de SEXE sans dire le mot SEXE. Mais depuis quand a-t-on peur du cul en ligne ? Et qui a intérêt à le faire disparaître ? On en a discuté avec @xoxoprune.bsky.social >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSYw...

Lucie (une femme aux cheveux courts, habillée d'une robe multicolore, installée sur le plateau d'une émission) mime un bisou ou un autre acte intime de votre choix en frottant ses doigts les uns contre les autres.

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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Linky439 (Knight George dev) @linky439.bsky.social · 15h

Not if you make the list yourself this way:
ds_list_add(tls01);
ds_list_add(tls02); etc.

But you'd need to fill the blank if you ever edelete a tile asset for sure. If you don't want to do that, a good old map pairing the string with a GM index will do the trick

Linky439 (Knight George dev) @linky439.bsky.social · 1d

And if you're feeling a bit freaky, you could even just have a list of your resources, and then store the index of your resource in said list. If the GM index of "til_GrassEDGE" is the 9th value of your list, you just store 9 and upon loading, ds_list_get(9) and you got your tileset back!

Linky439 (Knight George dev) @linky439.bsky.social · 1d

If you create a ds_map in your game, that for instance associate "GRASSEG" to your "til_GrassEDGE" tileset, you'll just have to do a ds_map_find_value("GRASSEG") to retrieve the index of your asset.

Linky439 (Knight George dev) @linky439.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe, I never really had issue with it but it probably depends on how many objects/tiles you are using it on.

What you could do is a create a map to fix a key to each of your tilesets, and then store that key. This way, you won't use the asset_get* functions and won't have issue if you rename it.

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 1d

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

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Linky439 (Knight George dev) @linky439.bsky.social · 1d

If you have a coherent naming convention, you can even use it to make sure you're looking for a background, a sprite, or whatever by checking the first few letters you are loading

Linky439 (Knight George dev) @linky439.bsky.social · 1d

My point is that you need to save the name of the resource instead, because asset_get_index works with a name ;)

So if you save "bck_water" in your save file, then you'll be able to do:

rAsset = asset_get_index("bck_water")
if (background_exists(rAsset))
{
// work your magic
}

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Josh Bycer @gwbycer.bsky.social · 1d

I know there are #indiegamedev looking for someone to check out their next fest demo, let me know about it here as I have at least 6 more nights of coverage to go.

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Linky439 (Knight George dev) @linky439.bsky.social · 1d

Which version of GM are you using? I'm not sure the good old "asset_get_index" works in Studio 2.

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twarda.bsky.social @twarda.bsky.social · 1d

Plesiosaurs 👌
There are 3 variants of this popup window in the game. Two of them will likely be dependent on the player's choice, hehe
#zidjourney #gamedev

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twarda.bsky.social @twarda.bsky.social · 1d

What's in the scroll?
Wrong answers only
#zidjourney

An ilustration of a confused dinosaur character holding an opened twisted and knoted scroll, that loops around him.

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Xan Humphrey @cloutstrife1st.bsky.social · Aug 24

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-Boulet- @bouletcorp.bsky.social · 1d

Rogatons Rediffusions - 18/03/2025 - "Aquapella"
Source: www.bouletcorp.com/rogatons/202...

LES LIVRES
Tome 1: www.exemplaire-editions.fr/exemplaire/l...
Tome 2: www.exemplaire-editions.fr/exemplaire/l...

Aquapella

2025: On voit Boulet qui tient son bébé. Celui-ci remue et semble en colère.
Boulet: "Et bah, Jean-Chad ? Tu n'arrives pas à dormir ?" (Il pose le bébé dans son berceau et attrape son ukulélé) "Je pourrais te chanter une petite berceuse pour te calmer !"
(il commence à jouer) "Qui sait, peut-être que ça éveillera un intérêt pour la musique chez toi ?"
Il chante "Beautiful Boy" de John Lennon.
"Close your eyes, Have no fear, The monster's gone, He's on the run and your daddy's here..."

2052: On voit un présentateur qui interview Jean-Chad devenu adulte (il est grand et costaud, avec une coupe de hipster et une grosse barbe)
Le présentateur: "Son album cumule déjà plus de 450 millions d'écoutes, il est avec nous pour nous parler du succès de "Aqua-pella". C'est Jean-Chad !"
Jean-Chad: "Merci de me recevoir."

Présentateur: "Alors on va discuter du phénomène, mais je voudrais qu'on écoute d'abord un extrait."
Ils écoutent patiemment des sons humides mis en musique. On entend de gros "bloopbloop" et des "glup" et "glouglouglou"

Présentateur: "Alors on reconnait votre patte "retro", mais ce qui rend le morceau unique, ce sont ces sons très "aquatiques", tout en vagues et cascades... Pourquoi ce choix ?"
Jean-Chad: "Je ne sais pas trop, à vrai dire. Ce sont des ambiances que je trouve apaisantes, quelque chose qui ramène à l'enfance... C'est très mystérieux."

2025: On voit Boulet qui essaie de chanter mais dont la voix n'est que sanglots d'émotion humides, et Jean-Chad est bercé par ces sons.

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · 2d

Me trying to make sense of my often loosely written notes and comments, while finalizing things in Zid Journey:

Zid looking at a piece of paper. Animation frame from Zid Journey

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Zid & Zniw Chronicles @zidandzniw.bsky.social · 8d

Zniw Adventure, but it's 1997, and you just got home from school and decided to check that tape with cartoon dinosaurs.

(a small VCR test, just in time for #TrailerTuesday!)