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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · 1d

I've heard 3rd graders who speak more eloquently than Trump. The "literati" have nothing in common with him, except the bigots.

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 5d

Censorship Alert: I published a book about Ghislaine Maxwell trial, and another on Kevin Spacey's trial- this evening I got an email from Amazon's KDP saying they are inappropriate and there all of my books are being taken down, including on Sudan, SBF, Eric Adams

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · 4d

caw

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · 4d

Most puzzles break down into three categories: math, letter substitution, and Tower of Hanoi.

The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · 4d

In Farthest Frontier, I had to choose a village starting site and then there's a popup: NOT ENOUGH HOUSING!!! Oh my gosh, okay let me build houses. Nope, you need the city center. Okay where's that? Oh, they're already building that I guess? Very confusing. Terrible on-boarding.

The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · 4d

Now let's improve that shelter, maybe build a cabin. Next maybe make some hunting tools. Expand the options & add variables slowly so the player can learn & master each one. Huge menu trees are overwhelming & unnecessary; fill them in later instead of showing actions they won't do for game-years.

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · 4d

You need to ease people into it. Start with 1-3 villagers with just a few basic resources, then give them a very small handful of options to proceed. Make a lean-to. Build a fire. Harvest some fruit. Okay, good work, you have met your basic survival needs.

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · 4d

I tried #FarthestFrontier and was immediately turned off. I've tried a number of games like it & one thing I really dislike is when they throw a lot of new concepts at you with a very busy user interface. It's overwhelming. I immediately have to consider every variable? No thanks, this is not fun.

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · 5d

Choose Your Own Slop

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Ellzebee @ellzebee.bsky.social · 5d

Hai o/ I'm trying to get out of my comfort zone a bit more and actually promote and post the art I make. So here it is :D Free for the month of October, a 42x62 pixel art playing card asset pack!
#pixelart #gamedev #itchio

💜 ellzebee.itch.io/pixel-art-pl... 💜

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · 5d

These are gorgeous, thank you! I love the luna moth (?) card back.

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · 5d

Technical debt is... the tabs in my PDF reader. #gamedev

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · 6d

Nothing goes in the butt slot, it's output only!

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · 12d

C# is perfectly fine for Godot, it's what I use and a lot of people use. I don't like meaningful whitespace, for control flow. I think it's ugly and gross. I really like C#, I enjoy programming in it. It's powerful and readable, and Visual Studio does a lot of the heavy lifting with Intellisense.

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · 13d

Yeah one of my biggest complaints about Godot. If they integrated Margin/Center/Padding into the containers, it would drastically cut down the number of containers I need.

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · 14d

Yikes, $45 shipped to the US for the #GodotEngine plushie. That's a bit pricey.

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · 23d

Citing the entire cost of the VA program is needless and disingenuous at best. Conspiracy theorists will falsely infer that there is $193 billion worth of false claims. This is yellow journalism.

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · 25d

Some restaurants are corporate-owned, some are franchises owned by independents. Corporate prices are standardized, but franchises can set their own prices.

The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · 26d

I feel like such a pancake sometimes. I've had problems with my PC since I reinstalled, so I asked an AI, with a very detailed question. And it helped me fix it.

I've been using computers since the 80s and I would consider myself very skilled with them. And yet. #confession

The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · Sep 26

I love #TheGreatNorth. It's such a wholesome, sweet show.

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · Sep 25

Agreed, I was half joking, but the temptation to build a physics simulator is always there! I actually made some notes about that for my game that was going to simulate liquids with freezing, melting, mixing, electrocution, etc. Didn't get far past the design stage on that one.

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · Sep 25

Gotta make the volume of the puddle decrease every tick as it burns, so it will eventually burn out. I wonder if a puddle that's 95% brandy and 5% water will still burn? Will that 5% water be there after the brandy has burned off?

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · Sep 25

"How can we make Unity worse than ever?"

Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · Sep 25

Unity forms AI Council to 'accelerate AI product Innovation'

The first two members of the council are LiveX co-founder Jia Li and modl.ai co-founder Julian Togelius.

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · Sep 23

The light is shining through the grass like it's a very thin material, like cloth or glass.

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The Murmuring @themurmuring.bsky.social · Sep 20

I really wanted to like Cronos; the story seemed interesting, but I don't find that gameplay fun. Squinting to see even when gamma is high gives me a headache. Combine that with shuffling slowly through clunky paths even while sprinting and beating on bullet-sponge enemies. Tedious. Uninstalled.