Joshua McVey @Joshuamcvey@social.cleverlibre.org

I haven't properly announced this before, but given the light of today's events, here we go: my game engine is ✨open source✨

if you're ever feeling experimental or just want to dive in a lot of nerdy code, here it is: https://github.com/isadorasophia/murder

it's fun and it's free and it's dotnet 7!!! (soon to be 8)

Tech company @AppLovin has released a free proof-of-concept tool for converting Unity code to Godot/Unreal engine code:

https://github.com/ProjectUnifree/unifree

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WTF?

Oh, I just said “Hello” to you in italics.

(That’s similar to what someone who uses a screen reader hears when you use fancy non-alphabetical Unicode characters to simulate italics or boldface on your fediverse posts. So please don’t do that.)

#fediverse #acessibility #a11y #unicode

Old fashioned Christmas ornaments, watercolor.

ART - https://deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/old-fashioned-christmas-tree-ornaments-deborah-league.html

#mastodonart #mastoart #fediart #watercolor #painting #buyintoart #AYearForArt #fedigiftshop #artbooster #artmatters #holidays #wallart #colorful #fediverse #christmas #colorful #holidays

We are surrounded by forests where I live -- in #BritishColumbia -- so we do a lot of shinrin yoku (forest bathing). I hope you enjoy this addition to my collection of artwork featuring the sun and trees.

You can purchase it here - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/forest-sunset-landscape-peggy-collins.html

#sunset #forest #trees #abstract #abstractart #canada #art #arte #artist #colorful #ArtForSale #MastodonArt #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt

Managed to get Hellgineers up on Steam! It will go live next week so I guess it is time to ask you to wishlist it?

Thanks! <3

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but the people taking your mandatory security awareness training don’t need to know all the made-up names for tricking people.
When getting scammed, no one needs to know “this is vishing” or smishing or squishing or whatever 🙄

Steam has approved Gordy and the Monster Moon for release. First try! For Frog Fractions there was a lot of, like, "the description says there's a flying dragon in this game, where is it?" This time was more like "There's a Mac build? Sure, we trust you."

https://store.steampowered.com/app/642020/Gordy_and_the_Monster_Moon/

“perpetual motion” device is clever [video]

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_LG8FDt51U
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37513030

"Marvel Studios VFX Artists have unanimously voted to unionize in response to tight deadlines and heavy workloads"

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/13/marvel-vfx-artists-unanimously-vote-to-unionize.html

"As of now, 15 September 2023, the comic book property called Fables, including all related Fables spin-offs and characters, is now in the public domain. What was once wholly owned by Bill Willingham is now owned by everyone, for all time. It’s done, and as most experts will tell you, once done it cannot be undone. Take-backs are neither contemplated nor possible."

https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/willingham-sends-fables-into-the

Stremmy teim, come twitch.tv/caseyexplosion

IGN just posted:

The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb

Some developers are seriously considering de-listing their games from online shops when the Unity Runtime Fee kicks off at the start of next year, meaning some titles built on Unity could end up being temporarily — or permanently — unavailable. Here's what developers are saying about the Unity Runtime Fee on social media, and what ...

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-unity-games-silksong-cult-of-the-lamb-among-us

#gamingNews

@jendrik @glennf Bonkers that “YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss” (i.e. the only everyday human-readable one) isn’t in either the ISO or the RFC spec.

I also just discovered the "always hide media" option

if unity had some way to perfectly track user application desktop activity without violating user privacy laws they would simply sell that technology on its own and 10x their stock price.

so this sucks.
#indiedev #gamedev #programming #it side of Masto.
Any of you guys have any Godot tutorials that are just killer for getting started? I have a whole project to migrate over now...

Thanks in advance.

I want to post an update on this https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110996779058819065 "Marble Madness + Klax" cart which I bought because it was the cheapest thing the local game store had I could use to test my Analogue Pocket with GBA games.

The version of Marble Madness in it is an *embarrassment*. Many features missing and the game stops at level 3. Half the game is just gone! The *good* half, even!

But the Klax… the version of Klax is inexplicably incredible. I think this might be the *definitive version* of Klax.

With Postmarks, social bookmarking is back — but this time it’s built on the fediverse https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/08/with-postmarks-social-bookmarking-is-back-but-this-time-its-built-on-the-fediverse/