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EDIT: hey since this is getting some visibility on it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2986980/Enigma_Heart/
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• Creative lead, @HadroSoft@mastodon.gamedev.place
• Writer/director Enigma Heart
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• Joined the fediverse in November 2022, but have migrated a few times
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@hannah Hello this is an automated call from Google. Is your refrigerator running?
Hey fellow gamedevs: does that feeling of "I'm not a good programmer, I have no clue what I'm doing, this game is going to crash in embarrassing, unforeseen ways on everybody else's machine" ever go away?
This is a serious question. Because I hate that feeling
I don't need AI in order to integrate code I don't understand; I can do that on my own by researching something for two days straight, implementing a solution, and then never needing it again so that by the next time I look at the code, I have no clue what I'm looking at.
I get caught up a lot in whining into the void about what's going on in my life and what I'm thinking and feeling, and forget to actually have conversations. But just know I think you're all awesome and I love ya
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if I sound obsessed with the aesthetics of old television programs, that's because I am
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@eniko lol. Literally Enigma Heart
I do a lot of thinking about branding lately.
I had a dream that we had ordered pizza
Then I woke up and there was no pizza
I was sad
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although somebody should stop me before I put in some pretentious slogan underneath the logo like "Quality Video Entertainment" or smth
Hadrosaurus Software ident is done. Next!
okay, i've got the Hadrosaurus Software logo split up into its various visual components for animation, along with a couple of visual effects that I basically just baked into PNGs in Photoshop because I don't know jack about shaders and can't be bothered to learn, lol.
At any rate, it should be a cool little ident that I'm gonna be putting together tomorrow. If it works the way I'm picturing it in my head, it'll be like one of those synthy, neon-glowy TV production logos from the '70s and '80s.
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If you're interested in the full history of Nickelodeon, this is actually the 22nd episode, you maybe want to start from the beginning. However, each installment is excellent on its own, as well.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL63ushetAZ-xoXYf46MkIywbmLq_3qXRw
I'm honestly surprised I never got into Goosebumps. I was on the upper end of the target age range when it came out, but I was in there. And I liked reading everything, regardless of age. You'd think I've have been all over it, given how popular it was.
I wish I could get the kind of freelance design work that my employer laid me off in favor of in the first place
I'm trying to get over my tendency for hyperbole and get back to sincerity and plain speaking. I never quite shook the hyperbolic streak that was baked into a lot of terminally-online folks during the heyday of the nostalgia YouTuber era.
I gotta figure out how to work the Duck Soup mirror routine into one of my games
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@silvermoon82 oh today at least, I'm very much feeling the Quality part.
I'm hungry, but I'm also feeling lazy, so I don't really feel like making food
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But also, there's a magic scroll in the Dragon Cave that's inaccessible because it's behind blocks that can only be broken by the aforementioned Ring of Might. Instead of a magic scroll, I can make that the pickup for the new feature I want to add.
The player will see it's there and realize it's something they can get later.
And hopefully a YouTuber or two will too >_>
Federation is interesting to me, even if I don't completely understand how certain aspects of it work. I just posted a thread with two posts in it, each of which has one YouTube link. The second post has a preview card, and the first one doesn't.
On my account, anyway. On my other private account, and on my studio account (both on other instances), both posts have their title card and player widget.
I should have stolen the silver ball for HadroSoft's logo
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@icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place oh awesome, thank you! :D
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@jenny753 nice :D I always forget GT Interactive was a spin-off of a home video company
Richard Dawkin's Claude Delusion
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@foone lol that's ghastly
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@jwarlander :D thanks! And yeah, all bets are off at this point, lol. I'm not getting any attention from publishers, and now that I'm registered for Next Fest, there's gonna be a public demo soon that people are gonna be very publicly playing, so yeah go for it :D
@ann3nova
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@Bogusmeatfactory aw, thank you! That's really encouraging to hear. ^^
who was the streamer btw? I wouldn't mind giving the channel a follow and checking out the chat if it's archived
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@ann3nova Yeah I know 😅 But my confidence is pretty shaky lately, so there's always that voice going "nope"
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@Bogusmeatfactory omg that rules 🥹
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@silvermoon82 what's funny/sad is, all it involves is heating up leftover lasagna and throwing frozen garlic bread in the oven.
Like, a literal least-effort dinner. Yet, here I am sprawled out on the bed. With a cat.
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@splendorr nice! Yeah I only discovered it the other day when I stumbled upon the installment about Mr. Wizard's World. I really enjoyed it, realized it was part of a series, and suddenly I was all in. XD
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@erisceleste @psilocervine oh yeah def. I'm operating on such a huge sleep deficit right now
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@Tijn yeah, I did email my old boss to ask if there was any work two months ago. I got a "great to hear from you; will keep you in mind" that felt very much like a brush-off or a soft no. But I think I might write a follow up on the assumption that it was genuine, and check in with him.
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@psilocervine no. I left the pizza in the car, because I kept falling asleep and dreaming about pizza
F'real, part of the dream had to do with the very real trouble I was having making myself get out of bed outside of the dream. It was so surreal
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@psilocervine@gamedev.lgbt gosh 😳 thank you!
I love that cutscene; I was hoping it would resonate the way it did for me as it was coming together.
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@Bogusmeatfactory oh cool! I'm subbed to her on YouTube.
Followed on Twitch now :D
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@splendorr You're welcome!
And yeah, it's been a fascinating deep dive for me, too, to see stuff that was before my time. I vaguely remember Pinwheel because it ran for so long, but except for that, it wasn't until YCDTOTV (episode 22) that I finally hit a show that I remembered from my kidhood. And the next one isn't until episode 29, lol.
I'm finding myself with a soft spot for the scrappy, early years of Nick that I was actually too young to even remember.
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@midnightspire In casual everyday speech I tend to be sometimes, yeah. If I like a movie, it's suddenly my favorite movie of all time, or if something it's going my way, it's the end of the world, etc etc
"So, was The Patty Duke Show show good? Eehh, not really."
Sorry, Greg, hard disagree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWmvoqJTCQs&list=PL63ushetAZ-xoXYf46MkIywbmLq_3qXRw&index=99
The Nick Knacks binge continues, with another one of my most anticipated episodes, Today's Special
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@roadriverrail@signs.codes awesome! enjoy! 🎉
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(The other one is Nick at Nite, and that's not for a while yet.)
holy shit. Did I nerf Enigma Heart, or do I just suck at Zelda II now because of the physics differences?