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So the retro 90s FPS that I've been working on since forever finally has a page up on Steam, go give it a wishlist!
store.steampowered.com/app/811760/The…
Nyek - @stupidhoroscope.bsky.social
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Nyek - @stupidhoroscope.bsky.social
@stupidhoroscope
Melbourne-based indie dev, working on The Last Exterminator.
He/him, BLM.
@stupidhoroscope.bsky.social
@stupidhoroscope@mastodon.gamedev.place
Joined February 2009
- I dunno why but using a PSP as a GPS is peak cyberpunk aesthetic
- Sometimes being a graphics programmer involves looking at something in real life with a scowl, saying "Oh so YOU can get away with it"I feel like, if we saw this fence in a game, we’d be like “those reflections aren’t realistic at all”.
- The fuck is with people replying to questions with "I asked ChatGPT and it said..." Nobody gives a shit what your damn hallucination generation machine says, you're adding fuck all to the conversation
- Ads for games in the 90s were the absolute worst. You'd have a two page spread with no screenshots, someone making a stupid face, and a ransom-letter font saying "ArE YOu FuCKINg STUpID?", then a tiny little Yoshi's Island logo in the corner
- Programmer: We can do anything with code these days! Fully destructible environments. Impossible spaces that fold in on themselves. Entire solar systems! Artist: Cool! How do I make this slightly transparent object appear behind another transparent object? Programmer: *sobbing*
- Okay, the putting-on-gloves animation I could kinda deal with, but this is flat-out illegal
- Swear to god, so many attempted tech innovations right now boil down to ‘I’ve made a worse smartphone’Single-purpose Maps device
- Replying to @kurtruslfanclub and @MonotypeDude really just went through his font library and said 'k this our new logo'
- Jesus fucking christ. Over 20 years in the tech industry and I only just figured out that Firmware is halfway between SOFTware and HARDware
- Replying to @stupidhoroscopeJapanese developer: We made this cute character that symbolizes friendship American ad exec: I'm gonna make him call everyone a shithead
- Replying to @stupidhoroscopeChrist, I pulled Yoshi's Island out of my ass because it was the most wholesome 90s game I could think of, and the actual print ad for it is this shit-smeared monstrosity:
- Okay opinion time: Do you prefer the LCD (black on green) or VFD (Blue on black)?
- Replying to @stupidhoroscopeI dunno what the fuck their deal was. Like even on TV ads, you were lucky if you got a whole second of game footage and not the worst sketch comedy you've ever seen Even as a kid I just wanted to see the fucking game and not some ad execs friends kid pretending to play a game
