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Old Megaphone Cloud
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Solo indie game dev working to publish my first project, Hairballs!
#indiedev #gamedev #godot
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Old Megaphone Cloud @oldmegaphonecloud.bsky.social · Nov 18
Hello! I'm a solo game dev working on my first big project.

Hairballs! is a 3d, asteroids-like, dogs v. yakking cats shooter.

I'm finally getting to the fun part. I'm churning through a list of 2d/3d work, rigging, animating, and getting 'em into the engine.

More soon!

#godot #indiedev #gamedev
Low poly cat head boss monster rendered in Blender Low poly hero's space ship rendered in Blender Low poly hero's space ship next to two force field projectors rendered in Blender
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savasavasava.myatproto.social
ok a question: if you could have your students read one thing on genAI that you hope will encourage them not to use it, what would it be?
September 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
oldmegaphonecloud.bsky.social
Can’t wait until it bumps a cart, locks in the bananas, and makes a flambé
August 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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zenithmartlet.bsky.social
Hey Firefox users.
Screenshot from a Tumblr post by ralfmaximus: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference. Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false: If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false. Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out
August 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
oldmegaphonecloud.bsky.social
The instant an AI can make a tutorial worth watching, the info is NOT WORTH LEARNING because the AI can just do that thing for us now.

Right?

This business has all the structure of a perpetual motion machine, but it’s just a wildly inefficient Universal Basic Income scheme.
foldablehuman.bsky.social Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · Aug 17
R/aitubers is all the entitlement of NewTubers but exclusively for people openly churning out slop.

“I’ve automated 2-4 videos daily, zero human intervention, I spend a half hour a week working on this, why am I not getting paid yet?”
August 19, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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edzitron.com
Generative AI by definition is conformity. It is an averaging of anything you ask of it - quite literally guessing what the most likely version of a thing might be. It is, by definition, mainstream, as is everything it creates old and deeply ideological, as every model trains on similar data.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Aug 6
AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.
AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.
August 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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heyitsdora.com
Good morning. If you are intimidated about starting that project you want to do because you don't think you're "ready" yet, remember:
A picture of someone standing on top of a mountain with their arms spread while balancing on a small rock, captioned "bigger idiots than you have done it"
July 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
oldmegaphonecloud.bsky.social
True “Political Correctness” is when the state’s monopoly on violence is used to enforce a reality more convenient for those in power.

It’s not, as it has been commonly used in the US, being on the wrong side of society’s moral consensus.
sierkovitz.bsky.social Sierkovitz @sierkovitz.bsky.social · Jul 29
In 1948 Soviet academy of Agricultural Science voted to overturn the scientific reason for "capitalist" Mendelian genetics. This, under Lysenko, started a purge within the Soviet science world, but turns out no amount of purging can change facts. 1/6

www.axios.com/2025/07/29/e...
EPA looks to overturn the scientific reason for climate regulations
The move is guaranteed to spark litigation.
www.axios.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
oldmegaphonecloud.bsky.social
What’s a good day job for an after hours indie game dev?

I used to do IT/dev work, and that’s just too draining to let me think in the evening.

#indiedev #gamedev
July 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
oldmegaphonecloud.bsky.social
Sure didn’t count on a mid-40s ADHD diagnosis giving me some hope. It’s like one of those racing boats that gets 2 inches of air off a duck fart and then gets fucking crumbled on reentry.
oldmegaphonecloud.bsky.social Old Megaphone Cloud @oldmegaphonecloud.bsky.social · Jul 24
I always believed that I was immune to a mid-life crisis because of, like, my whole life crisis.

Older and wiser I guess.
July 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
oldmegaphonecloud.bsky.social
I always believed that I was immune to a mid-life crisis because of, like, my whole life crisis.

Older and wiser I guess.
July 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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mikebithell.bsky.social
Leaving a godot q overnight: what are my best bets for a dialogue manager? I’ve used custom (credit @oneofmoo.bsky.social) and ink in Unity, but interested whats working over here. Musts:

- loc friendly (csv flow)
- utterly custom ui a possibility
- plays nice with complex external logic
June 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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developerdamien.bsky.social
So there's a full version. it's 11 minutes long but both hilarious and well executed

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl8Z...
June 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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officialmelbrooks.bsky.social
I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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enikofox.com
hey fellow self employed gamedevs. do you ever have unproductive weeks? if so, how do you deal with them?
June 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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majormcdoom.bsky.social
Tired of always manually setting gizmo visibilities from a huge dropdown in Godot? I hacked together a little addon which lets you make "gizmo presets" so you can quickly show/hide/x-ray all the gizmo types you need. Get it here: github.com/CozyCubeGame...

#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev
May 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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readgraves.com
RWAC- Punk Games Industry Zine
open.substack.com/pub/readgrav...
RWAC- Punk Games Industry Zine
A zine about the punk games industry. First article, Deprofessionalization: The New Dirty Word
open.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
oldmegaphonecloud.bsky.social
I’ve never recovered from having RPGs described as: inventory management tarted up with dialogue and plot.

#gamedev
jacobgeller.com Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · Mar 27
In this trailer the narrator says "these powers allow Samus to operate mechanisms and open doors" and it's funny to hear the entirety of a genre boiled down that succinctly
gameinformer.com Game Informer @gameinformer.com · Mar 27
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond gameplay trailer reveals Samus' new psychic powers.
March 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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catsuka.bsky.social
"All You Need Is Kill", the new japanese animated feature by Studio 4°C.
Directed by Kenichiro Akimoto (Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko).
Based on the light novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, which already inspired "Edge of Tomorrow" movie.
aynk-anime.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
oldmegaphonecloud.bsky.social
Here's an even better explanation which also covers matching #Godot emission materials to EEVEE. Would have saved me a ton of time if I'd remembered that I watched and saved this video a year ago 😐

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4blC...
December 5, 2024 at 7:49 PM
oldmegaphonecloud.bsky.social
I've seen a lot of people struggle with converting Blender materials to #Godot materials. Here's a stupid thing I did that might help someone.

I hooked up my Roughness image so that it was pushing sRGB instead of Linear values. Converting sRGB to Linear raises the value to the power of 2.2!
Screenshot in Blender comparing materials with a linear roughness of 0.25 vs. an sRGB value of 0.25 converted to a linear roughness of 0.047
December 3, 2024 at 8:15 PM
oldmegaphonecloud.bsky.social
A couple weeks ago, after artisanally crafting 19 asteroid variations, I treated myself to the google image search: "cat hairball vomit"

What would a hairball look like hurtling through space? I dunno either, but check my reference material if you dare.

#gamedev #dreamjob
Rendering of an artisanally hand crafted low-poly asteroid. No. 17 out of 19. Rendering of a low-poly horked up cat hairball as the creator imagines one might hurtle through space.
November 21, 2024 at 11:30 PM
oldmegaphonecloud.bsky.social
I'm looking to animate eyes with an indexed texture in #godot

Does anyone have experience using a scaled UV vs. using a set of AtlasTextures? Better methods?

Scaling method:
forum.godotengine.org/t/3d-model-w...

AtlasTexture:
docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/cl...
November 20, 2024 at 10:29 PM
oldmegaphonecloud.bsky.social
Looking at animating eyes with textures in #godotengine

Anyone with experience using material UV scaling vs. a set of AtlasTextures?

forum.godotengine.org/t/3d-model-w...

docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/cl...

I don't know what trouble I'll find either way.
November 20, 2024 at 8:22 PM
oldmegaphonecloud.bsky.social
@gameengines.bsky.social
I would like Godot please!
November 19, 2024 at 6:52 PM