Ghost Town Oli #gamedev @ghosttownoli@mastodon.gamedev.place

A really unappreciated and very useful unity feature is being able to trim animations and subtly increase their speed in the editor without having to tell your animation team you only find their animations 50% as interesting as they do.
#unity #gamedev

Deepmind vs Overcooked:
https://stealthoptional.com/artificial-intelligence/co-op-game-ai-trained-overcooked-game/

Our stupid little cooking game got into a little piece of this extremely pretty and fancy book! This is very cool and also has a lot of games in it I'm gonna check out. Going through it today and writing a list of stuff I've missed.
#indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #videogame

https://www.eurogamer.net/creaks-developer-unveils-hand-crafted-dystopian-adventure-phonopolis

Absolutely love Aminita Design games, and this one looks very ambitious and pretty. I think they are actually making all the landscape as real world cardboard models?

#wishlistwednesday #games #videogames

stema link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1206070/Phonopolis/

Yes I haven't felt i have anything worth posting for a week and have decided a gif of ryu's butt physics meets the threshold. I stand by this decision.

Regarding the CW: Overcooked had the American Ratings board (and only the american ratings board) rate us 15+ for putting butts in the logo (it was 4+ everywhere else), and wouldn't accept even having the logo changed for the american version (we had to remove it for all the world ). I'm still bitter.

Oh. Games ARE art after all.

#gameart #videogames

Somebody really commited to soft body physics techical art here and I want them to know I see them and they are doing some the light-side's work.

When the unity documentation isn't as reassuring as it thinks it is.
What's it going to.. do?

#unity #gamdev

classic newbie mastodon error: hashtags in content warnings don't actually work. Now the fediverse has been denied my spectacular hot take content
How can it possibly go on?

say what you will about stadia but google did allow publishers to control their own pricing, this microsoft system is in danger (potentially) of turning into a walled garden that drives down the price of games to a point that isn't sustainable for developers. See: the entire mobile industry.

Ostensibly this is good because more people who don't play games will be playing games.

Nervous what this means long term if we have a gamer audience using tvs with a gamepass stick and the only way to release games for them is to agree to what microsoft will pay to release the game at subscriber rates.
Would feel more comfortable if there was also an option for premium titles on this service.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-05-09-microsoft-reportedly-planning-to-launch-cloud-streaming-device-by-summer-2023

Been playing Knights of the Old Republic on mobile recently and it's just an absolute classic of a game (mobile controls in general not withstanding) I wish there were like a million more. Someone needs to make the equivalent of RPGMaker but for games in that style because there just aren't enough of them.

#videogames #gamedev