Fabio Picchi @fabiopicchi@mastodon.gamedev.place

This is your periodic reminder that artistic creation has become a legal minefield. It's the biggest worry of authors in all media. What most discussions are about on forums where it should be all about exchanging tips and techniques. Stop the madness. Stop adding to the problem.

New Input System for Unity! https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/10/14/introducing-the-new-input-system/

Don't sacrifice the right ideas to win the right words

https://drewdevault.com/2019/09/17/The-wrong-words-but-the-right-ideas.html

@Wolf480pl gotcha

RT @JefinhoMenes@twitter.com

Pra criança usar cadeirinha, aí confia no bom senso dos pais e o Estado não se mete.

Pra ler gibi, aí o Estado é que tem que dizer o que deve e o que não deve ler.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JefinhoMenes/status/1170497710639734785

This is probably unusable in practice but I love it

Other #gamedevs keep piling features on top of their engines until the poor things start resembling Pizza the Hutt. I spent years refining mine down to a hundred lines of code apiece.

Another morning of work, and the desktop edition of ASCII Mapper has a very nice, if not yet functional, GUI. (You can edit the map.)

A few days ago when I got myself a #Matrix account, people were complaining that you can't edit your own messages (as if you could on IRC). Well guess what: the feature just landed in #Riot.

That's open source. You're welcome.

Every C in “Pacific Ocean” is pronounced differently

So we started shipping WebRender in Firefox a few weeks ago. Completely new rendering engine written in rust, big departure from how we approached rendering before. We are gradually enabling it for different hardware/OS configurations and a couple of million users have it now.

What's kind of blowing my mind, having worked on 3 large-ish rewrites, is that since WebRender shipped, telemetry has reported less crashes per user with WebRender than without.

This is *not* how big rewrites usually go.

First toot! 🙌

Hi, I'm a gamedev making adventure games about magical ladies, cooking, gardening, and death. ⚰️

I created IGMC winner Corinne Cross's Dead & Breakfast and am currently working on Hermina Lumen is Only Human.

Check out CCD&B on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/473920/

Here it is, 1 hour of theory-heavy FUN!

Class Reductionism divides the working class:

https://youtu.be/xbQrz_xR3Pg

To celebrate #GodotEngine's 30,000th issue on #GitHub, I updated my graph of issues vs PRs opened each month, and listed some more dates: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/30000

About to have an interview with BadMouse and Meia in just under 30 minutes about the oppression of Christians in the Middle East/Northern Africa. If you haven't seen the collab video they did, you have just enough time to watch it before our stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afuFaLoAhGs

New video premiering now! Capitalist inadvertently debunks capitalism -- premiering now!

https://youtu.be/yvirpCAbGSY

The AMA we did for A Dark Room: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/bch87k/hi_im_amir_rajan_i_made_a_dark_room_for_nintendo/

The Patreon post about how this happened:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/26061289

So Amir Rajan and I shipped A Dark Room, a game we rebuilt from scratch for the Nintendo Switch. After a hectic launch day, a few hours later in a quieter moment, I found myself realizing: holy shit, I shipped a console game I wrote from scratch.

I've been doing this for 20 years, and I _know_ this is a shitty metric, but goddamn, I felt totally legit yesterday.

Seven bucks, y'all: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/a-dark-room-switch/

Using the red and green channels of an image to store non-visual information (in this case, offsets) is a really great technique because it lets you paint data in Photoshop, but the downside is that it is the ugliest fucking thing in the world while you’re doing it