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penvisions · 1 month

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dev organizes before moving!

hello hello, i've been a little absent on the writing front as well as the interaction front but i am here when i can be! i have a few posts explaining the what's and why's of that here and here

but long story short: dev got fired and is moving states!

i have been jotting down scene ideas and some snippets while i pack and get my life situated to the new environment in which i will be living as well as navigating the unemployment process as well as job application for the new area i will be residing in

commissions are open and any help to make the move easier are not necessary but greatly appreciated!

in the meantime i have been able to:

finish this commission for a fluffy frankie {coffee and candor}

ideas and plot outline for {buckles and barley}

scene placement for the last chapter and alternative chapters for {by the grit of sandpaper}

working on the last two chapters + epilogue for {the melting point}

and working on my original arc for {of beskar and kyber}

internet is scheduled for installation in my new residence on the 1st, so i am at my apartment finishing up the semester until then. but i will be able to navigate things easier from that point on! living with someone will def take the strain of limited mobility and medical stuff off my shoulders and allow me to feel more like myself

love y'all and hope the days are good to you ♡♡

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devsgames · 3 months

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I'm sorry but for people who cheer on mass game industry layoffs because they think it's some kind of upheaval that is going to "topple the AAA industry" or "teach them a lesson": I hate to break it to you but AAA studios have a metric shitload of money and despite what their press releases say, they really aren't hurting as much as they'd have you think right now. Thousands of jobs lost is a temporary setback to them; if it was actually a last resort move they wouldn't have all simultaneously put themselves in a position where they had to do it in the first place. These studios have been around for decades and will continue to be around, and they will continue to operate just as they have for the last thirty years because they have huge vaults and no morals. They aren't learning a lesson from this because most of them saw it coming but would never admit that.

Know who is being permanently impacted by games layoffs?

It's the indie studio making sick ass games you'll never get to play because they laid everyone off when a publisher tried to save money by pulling all their funding. The hundreds of workers who woke up one morning and found out they suddenly have no job to put food on the table for their children. The international workers who were let go from the job that supplies their visa that helps them stay in the country. The thousands of students who now have to compete over a pool of a dozen job openings, who will work in studios where all the senior staff and leadership who would normally be there to help mentor them into their roles were fired. The disabled workers who now no longer have health or insurance coverage for their survival. The workers who didn't get laid off but survived to see all their friends and coworkers lose their livelihoods for completely arbitrary reasons and whose morale has all but been completely obliterated. The workers in the Global South working for outsourcing companies who were relying on cancelled projects from AAA studios to put food on their tables.

So whenever you're inclined to assume that the suffering of workers is somehow teaching rich people a lesson, remember that no, it doesn't actually and almost never will. All it does is teach thousands of talented workers in the video game industry that games were never - and will never - be worth it.

#anyway organize your workplace #some of y'all simply do not understand how these things work and it shows #gamedev #game development #game dev #gamedevelopment #game industry #games industry #layoffs #video games #blog #thoughts

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unpretty · 3 months

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i emailed ghost support to be like 'hey have you considered creating an official theme with any useful features whatsoever for creators of multiple serialized fiction narratives'

p sure they're gonna say no and that i should try making a theme but it was worth a shot. i genuinely think there's a gap in the market right now because patreon and ko-fi both suck for publishing and organizing multi-chapter fiction. i cannot possibly be the only one who'd rather have my own damn website. ghost doesn't even have any good webcomic themes. that's nuts.

#original #ghost is like 'here is our product for your marketing newsletter or journalistic organization'#and i'm pounding on the doors like PLEASE MAKE IT EASIER TO POST SMUT I'M BEGGING #I'M TOO STUPID TO SET UP LOCAL DEV INSTALLS I DON'T WANNA #wordpress has easy tools for dumb babies which is why i use it #if this doesn't work maybe i will email the people who've made themes the closest to what i want to be like 'hello... help please'#the real tricky bit would be category covers. even wordpress doesn't let me do that i have to manually add the same image to every post

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harmonysanreads · 18 days

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Finally... inner peace...

#i have so many thoughts adbsisjks #but i need to organize them because i'm currently dealing with the waves of nostalgia #i don't lie when i say sumeru is my home in genshin NOTHING will beat what it makes me feel #sethos sethos sethos sethos..... :3 #now THIS is what i call a story quest befitting cyno #i love how the devs included so many characters #well it's a shame they didn't squeeze in good wandy in there but that's understandable #hexagon barrage incoming <3 #harmonysan.txt #cyno #sumeru love hexagon #sumeru

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gummi-ships · 11 months

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Kingdom Hearts 2 - Space Paranoids

#kingdom hearts 2 #kh2 #space paranoids #scenery #my gif #this world looks so good i love wandering around and looking at all the lights #actually i think i might do a part two of this set to show off smaller details because i found quite a few that i liked... hmmm #anyways i think this disney world is easily one of the best in terms of how well it's implemented into the overall story #using the contents of the computer to learn important info about radiant garden and characters like ansem the wise and data worlds #it felt so organic and it's interesting to use a world from such an old movie that many people including myself have never even watched #makes me wonder how many locations in the movie really look like this or if the dev team had to be creative and come up with their own

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teex · 9 months

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some personal pix from the 21-22 and 22-23 seasons

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likopinina · 4 months

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Mouthwashing Demo (2024)

#mouthwashing game #mouthwashing 2024 #wrong organ #wrong organ dev #captain curly #indie game #horror #gif #my gifs #scopophobia

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kinokoshoujoart · 1 month

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cora’s bad time hell simulation steps or how to play “sprite station for girl” “harvest moon ds cute” the wrong way

(all ways are wrong this game is Accursed)

ok so here’s what my disorganized “guide” to myself for harvest moon ds for girl (aka indecipherable notes i wrote to myself as i played and revised as i tested various things and restarted due to mistakes) looks like. at some point when i become a real gamer i will write a legible guide meant for eyes to look at but uhhh this is how i play this accursed game personally

i’m not sure if anything i wrote will make any sense since i wrote it as notes to myself so probably definitely use fogu and fc2 jonason wiki (may not work but some pages should be archived) instead

ALSO if you’ve never played or barely played the game it won’t make sense at all! hmds was my first harvest moon so i am used to various horrors!

my play style is probably not fun in general HOWEVER if you are a grinding hell goblin like me then it’s GREAT!!!! if not you may still find it amusing that the game gives you permission to play like this

(it’s a great background task game while doing like productive stuff but otherwise playing this way would probably be unbearable)

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anyway after that the days go a lot faster, you’ll get the island on summer 1, so on spring 30 i put all my money into million G tickets and sell 200 of em, do the 5x money thing, and save the rest. so when thomas comes the next day to sell you the 900 million G island you can just sell 180 tickets and do the 5x money thing again with like ~600 million G tickets left over. it takes up inventory but you’ll get the shelf in a few days. basically you just need to remember to order from the TV shopping every saturday and place orders with gotz and gray whenever they finish stuff.

random tips

after unlocking the fuckass hot spring sprites (the ones that require you to spend a total of 700 1 hour sessions in the hot springs) i usually grind grazing points— if you put your animals outside for 5 hours you get a “Love Point”, but if you interact with them after they earn that LP then the timer switches over and you can get another LP after 5 more hours. if you wear the time ring the whole time it’s 2.5 hours. i’m not very good at explaining this but basically if you’re super efficient you can get way more animal LP than you realistically should, which is great because the touch glove petting minigame is Bad!!!!

i usually wait on getting the rest of the purple sprites (the ones that require you to hire the purple team and ask for healing) until i’m totally done with the indigo team, cuz i wanna get HG’s purple heart event asap, but you can switch the order if you want

by summer y1 you’ll basically have a feel for everything. aside from Skye, Leia, HG and WP everyone can be married early-mid autumn if you want

if you want to Gay (in the japanese version only) keira is the quickest to marry. leia is the quickest to max affection but it’s impossible to get leia year 1 because the bottle you need to fish up can only be caught in spring. you have to wait until at least year 5 for WP and iirc year 6 for HG.

#i’m really sorry i can’t make this more organized #if i literally ever have time i’ll just make a video guide instead of pasting this because it’s easier to explain with visuals….#i can’t Write in an organized way i can only Visual Medium #i have a very complicated relationship with corobuckle station for girl #it scratches my brain #(derogatory)#(positive)#i have no idea how many hours of HMDS i’ve played in my life but it’s definitely the game i’ve played the most of all time #i’ll just paraphrase something i read on a japanese wiki for hmds/koroste a long time ago:#’i once again feel that the effort required for the completion of the task is unreasonable’#god i really hope ds gets a remake so all of the titles you can get in the mailbox become steam achievements #bokumono #if people find out there are achievements that take at minimum real life decades to complete with basically no reward #gamers will lose their minds and society will collapse #‘trying to accomplish it is like trying to collect a sparrow’s tears #so at some point it may be inevitable that you have to give up trying’#i really think the devs saw the ds could handle higher values than gba and went insane without considering balance at all #currently i’m trying to record as many cutscenes as i can in the jp version since y’know. english translation is very awkward #i am also trying to see if the pastor carter/cardi marriage option exists in the english version of cute #i will update so stay tuned for that if you want sex on the phone with pastor cardi b. i guess

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lancerfay · 11 months

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Can't sleep, drew up some basic Revelry (my tabletop game/fiction setting) magic android anatomy

I've been so influenced by signalis replika and pso2 casts it's unreal but I'm rolling with it because ball joints and hoof feet are great

#fantasy #sci fantasy #android #ttrpg dev #revelryttrpg #they only have organic parts to fit in more with organic peoples

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clamsjams · 6 months

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what if i applied to be a qsmp rper and then trojan horsed my way into fixing the game design

#just kidding i do not have the time for that rn #it would be funny #but like going off of info i heard from someone else who applied and actually got an interview #the organization and management is a fucking mess #idk if i’ve posted abt it here b4 but the applications are a mess #so i don’t doubt it #qsmp #game design #game dev #posts from the ocean

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artsy-azure · 10 months

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ORGANS. (of both varieties.)

"A short visual novel where you help your terminally ill childhood friend restore his church's organ."

I created a game for a weekend-long game jam! It has 2 endings, and each playthrough should take around 5-10 minutes to complete. It's in-browser and free!

I'm SUPER proud of it, so please check it out, and don't hesitate to ask any questions you may have!

#visual novel #game jam #game release #indie games #indie dev #free game #organs game #asher iona #kylian ramos #itch.io #beepboops

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penvisions · 2 months

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dev's march recap

i know this is a few days early but i'm about to be absent all weekend getting some essays done for school and trying to get ahead on my readings. it's been a weird month, not gonna lie. was really into getting a new series started and ending another but i lost focus and interest in the one winding down. which i hate, because i love my frankie fic but just feel so disconnected from it. anons and hurtful messages have messed with my vibes lately. it's been affecting my time here and i haven't been engaging much beyond likes. hoping april is much kinder ♡

i hope everyone finds the perfect fic for their reading pleasure and the days have been good to y'all! ♡

new chapters:

return the favor chapter 22

the melting point chapter 17

of beskar and kyber chapter 16 || chapter 17 || chapter 18

by the grit of sandpaper chapter 1 || chapter 2 || chapter 3

garnish better together drabble

new fic ideas:

gone to the dogs - boston qz! joel miller x f! reader

milestones:

hit a follower milestone, 1500, baby! ♡

doing well in my class so far!

word count: 62.1k (holy cow!!)

got my cowboy dean winchester tattoo finished up!

announced and started my new series by the grit of sandpaper

reading by dev:

voicemails by @undercoverpena

hanging on the telephone by @macfrog

do me yourself by @undercoverpena

a baker's dozen - ezra by @avastrasposts

#dev talks #dev organizes #dev writes #fic rec #fic rec list #dev reads #joel miller x reader #joel miller x you #din djarin x reader #din djarin x you #frankie morales x reader #frankie morales x you #joel miller #frankie morales #din djarin #pedro pascal #pedro pascal fandom

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devsgames · 3 months

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Unfortunate Update Regarding the Games For Gaza Bundle on Itch.io

Esther Wallace (the creator and host of the Games For Gaza bundle on Itch.io which ran during late October-November of last year) gave an update about the status of the bundle. Unfortunately it sounds like itch has all but dropped the ball in terms of the payout, which has effectively been blocking the funding from reaching Medical Aid for Palestinians and, in turn, Gaza.

Here's her thread from Twitter:

She also updated after posting the thread stating Itchio has finally gotten back to her after posting her thread in order to complete the process, but we will have to see how long it actually takes on top of this.

I've complained in the past about how I've grown hesitant over time to seriously recommend itchio as a platform because of situations with support around elements exactly like this.

It's already shocking the frequency at which Itch fails regular creators on its platform, with slow payouts and moderation that's barely present but like...the fact that somehow $300k worth of extremely time-sensitive aid destined to help people currently undergoing genocide manages to somehow just fall through cracks in the system is absolutely unconcionable.

#this is why it also annoys me when people say 'itch' was running bundles #like 'itch' is not organizing it they are the middleman it is organized by actual organizers #i need to go to bed but this is making me too upset #game development #game dev #gamedev #indie games #indie game #gamedevelopment #indiegames #indiedev #indie dev #itch.io #itch #itchio

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loveologystudies · 5 months

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Are there any alternative games to WCUE? I struggle a lot with rping without visual aid I can control or prompts so that game back in the day helped a lot, but I've also heard some awful stuff about the people who play nowadays as well as the devs just being dogshit and I'd like to know where I could find a better experience

#i don't think i could join any private wcue rps organized on discord either bc of anxiety #i'm specifically looking for a new game to play that isn't wcue or made by the same devs as well #warrior cats #wcue #wcue roblox #wcue oc #warrior cats ultimate edition

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jenivi · 2 years

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People are now trashing on splatoon 2 after splatoon 3 came out, saying it was never a good game. Although many referred to it as a splatoon 1.5 throughout its course, I believe it still cultivated its own identity and introduced important things to the lore.

-salmon run (a co-op mode!) + salmonids being brought into the lore that links with octarians and their technology

-marina, an octoling idol with a squid partner, pearl (signifying changes in inkling society)

-off the hook in general being an experimentation with splatoon music and character design

-octo expansion (a new type of challenging gameplay; also humanizing octolings + octarians and their experiences (because we’ve only previously seen war from the point of view of inklings), expanding the Splatoon world in general)

-giving identities to the agents/player characters in the squidbeak splatoon (from interactions and dialogue between characters in the game, like marie with agent 4, or agent 3 with agent 8, we realize that these characters have an outline of personalities even though we are controlling them)

-x-rank being introduced as a step towards making splatoon competitve for players with that preference

-new weapons that really showcased the creative capabilities of the devs (bloblobber = long ranged bathtub, brella = shotgun with shield, dualies = dualweilding guns that introduced dodgerolls, making gameplay complex)

there is probably more, but that’s what i can think of at the top of my head. though splatoon 3 now seems superior to splatoon 2 in many ways with the quality of life improvements, splatoon 2 deserves some love for what it did to progress the splatoon franchise.

#splatoon #splatoon2 #splatoon 2 #splatoon3 #splatoon 3 #also people complaining about the graphics of splatoon2 like it was one of the first games on the switch #devs did not know its capabilities and limits yet; so i think they did a great job with how the game looked!#sorry needed to rant because its been toxic lately and i think splat2 was a great game T^T #(ignore my organizing tags lol:)#off the hook #pearl #marina #squid sisters #marie #agent 4 #agent 3 #agent 8 #jenivi rant #my post

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lovewoodvn · 2 months

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The coat of arms of Liebwald have received a glow-up! ☀️

In the backgrounds of Lovewood, I only ever vaguely indicated the coat of arms that featured the robin. For the new game, I wanted a more precise idea of what symbols it featured and how it was arranged!

Lore-wise, I wanted the coat of arms to represent the feeling of hope with which the fairies of Liebwald first settled in their new home - Having experienced great hardship, they started building a gentle future in the secluded forest lands. A place in the sun. 🌻🌳🌲

#misc art #lunchbreaks #dev talks #Here's the thing #I don't usually enjoy graphic design work as much #But with this piece I had a lot of fun! <3 #Maybe because the shapes are still fairly organic #So it didn't have to be as precise?#I'm truly very happy with how it came out #The vibe fits!

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