I won this USB numpad in the raffle at #Oggcamp2026. I thought I would have no use for it but it turns out it's a handy cheap alternative to a Stream Deck. I'll jazz it up with some stickers eventually.
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Shane Kitt
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mastodon 4.7.3Creating audio and visual art using open source tools wherever possible but I am interested in far too many other things. This is the meaning of my screen name see?
I have a podcast which you should listen to.
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Tonight I will be working on the space station docking system in my game to add some stuff other than just walking around in your ship and flying it through empty space. I'd like to livestream it to have some accountability. Let's see how the evening pans out and whether or not The Child cooperates. #godot #gamedev
For the record I'm not gonna be all like "ehrmehgehrd stop using blender immediately". On a personal level I just find it a bit tiresome that almost everywhere I look AI is involved in some way. If you wanna use it fine by me but I just genuinely find it more rewarding to grind away and learn something the ol' fashioned way. I use AI here and there as a summarisation tool for a difficult concept or to get some new ideas but the rest of the time I embrace the process of trial and error.
Now that I have my game in a sort of advanced prototype state with the core features working I have a question for other open source #gamedev people.
When it comes to organising the project and tracking progress do you use your repos built-in tools (e.g. issues, milestones etc) or do you use a local tool or does it depend on what you're tracking?
Inspired by a Corridor Digital video I spent several hours and much missed sleep fucking around with gaussian splats in Linux. It's some seriously cool shit though. Be prepared for an extensive brain dump on my journey in a (far) future episode of @linuxlads@mastodon.ie
Just over a year ago our due date was May 1st. As a socialist I was into that but I was secretly hoping she'd come along on May 4th and forever be my Star Wars baby. Alas she came 5 days after that. Just thought I'd share that.
Spent way too long getting NDI working so I could stream from a separate machine. It's almost bedtime but I feel like if I don't do at least 15 minutes of streaming I'll feel like I've cheated myself out of an evening.
Should be live in the next few minutes if nothing explodes.
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@xgranade@wandering.shop Replying via a repost (hope you don't mind) but while the numbers are massively skewed in favour of Big Tech platforms you can still find many cool people doing many cool things on fedi platforms. There's also the massively underrated - but very close to my heart as an old bastard - method of finding IRL groups and events. I've gone to a few game dev events recently and had 100x times the fun I'd ever have had online.
I finally got around to releasing that HPR episode I recorded last August.
I'm tired of "condemnations", pearl-clutching about international law, and harshly worded letters. Can just one political leader somewhere stand up and call these motherfuckers unhinged psychopaths who are stupid, insecure and corrupt to their bones?
That feeling when doing #gamedev where I know that what I want to implement is possible but I just don't quite know how to do it.
It's frustrating and motivating in equal measure.
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@mfeilner Oh fantastic. Check out @dublinlinux as well. We do regular meetups. If you're in Dublin anyone will be happy to say hello and go for a pint with you.
https://dublinlinux.org
@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse I get what you're saying but how do you square the West's (most of Europe and America anyway) full-throated support and endorsement of Israel? Genuinely can't reconcile that in my head.
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@jbauer@merveilles.town Let's hope it doesn't end up like this.
@jbauer@merveilles.town Me too. It's active meditation.
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@thomastc@mastodon.gamedev.place This is sort of what I currently do. I use the Kanban and Tasks plugins. It's good for getting it to a usable state but I would like things to be more public now that it's a codebase I can be somewhat proud of.
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@secana@mastodon.social I'm glad you said that because I was leaning in this direction. I'm trying to champion open source game dev so this approach makes total sense.
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Actually Oasis was a terrible comparison. More like {insert generic indie pop band here}.
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@pierre_pebble@mastodon.ie Although I am trying to get my head around shaders and textures. I know how to do them but not how to do them well.
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@pierre_pebble@mastodon.ie I'm just using nodes for now. I'll get around to the shader language someday.