Boring Nondescript Little Worm

@meagantrott@mastodon.art ...like this puzzle game I released last week, which was created without AI, on a budget of 0$ (unless you count the engine itself, which was a one-time 20$ purchase). Not even selling it either! https://hugues-ross.itch.io/qwest-of-the-orbs

@ifixcoinops @Ongion My solution is to plant it next to the wild strawberries and ground ivy, creating a set of powerful rivals who will definitely not team up to defeat me in the dramatic final act of the story

@meagantrott@mastodon.art Honestly that argument always boggles my mind, people have been shipping things solo since the dawn of the personal computer.

@emilylorange@mastodon.art As a pixel artist I think I'm obligated to shout ONE OF US! ONE OF US! whenever someone spends an inordinate amount of time meticulously rendering lots of little objects

@aks@scalie.zone It really sucks. I've been itching to leave for years at this point, but never managed anything beyond having a presence in a few chatrooms outside of there. I've spent god knows how long searching on and off but there's just...not really much of an arts scene over open chat protocols. That fact, plus the typical Platform Inertia so many people have, has also made getting people to switch fucking impossible. :bunhdsad:

@davidrevoy Finally, the perfect tool for making AI (Avian Intelligence) Art! :squee: It's even a nice red for making one of them No AI 🚫 signs if people still make 'em

@alice I haven't, but I have sat on a seat before. Does that count?

@johntimaeus@infosec.exchange @heliographe_studio@mastodon.social "An icon cannot be great; just as a hammer, a zipper, a doorknob, or a roll of toilet paper cannot be great." I dunno about hammers and zippers, but I've run into some fantastic doorknobs and toilet paper rolls in my day.

@johntimaeus@infosec.exchange @heliographe_studio@mastodon.social I have bad news about elevator buttons

@misnina@mastodon.gamedev.place Excellent work, and also M O O D Big is fun, but it takes so much time and effort...

@Nickiquote@mstdn.social They'll have to fight me for that leaf pile

@nev :bugcat_pet: :blobfoxsignbigfan:

@aks@scalie.zone I wonder if there's also this dynamic of like, as an artist in the FOSS space I'd be happy to help a free software project without the resources look nice but art stuff's personal enough that I'm not gonna march in saying "This looks bad, lemme redo it" It's the kind of thing where unlike with code you probably gotta reach out and talk to folks, and I wonder if some projects think that It Is Impossible To Get Art Contributions because no-one showed up to offer them like they do with code.