crussel

Another lefty mastodon gamedev! 🥳
British, middle-aged and gay (of the generation that still winces slightly at 'queer') 🌈
Adopted by Dora the cat in 2022 🐈‍⬛

Slowly making a cosy iOS game about archaeology in a terrarium.

I 'like' a lot of #CatsOfMastodon posts. I don't usually repost though, to prevent my feed being All Cats.

Profile photo is Dora, my daft cat. Header is concept art for my game - a cute little house in a terrarium full of plants.

@afreytes I did both. Thus spending too much money AND too much time 😂

Making a magic carpet clone has made me realise I have tremendous difficulty typing 'equilibrium'

But on the other hand I do love *saying* it. Almost with a rolled 'r' like the intro VO 😍

That feeling when you're watching an episode of classic Who and think "I must copy that visual effect in a game at some point"

@dkozlov actually yeah that does make more sense 😂

@dkozlov I automatically assume it would be this m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo6aKnRn

@jamesoff cute! But also: ow!

@Nikkileah very good form. They’ve clearly done a lot of training!

@psychicparrot42 everyone likes a bit of wibble

It really has been a revelation to get back to a fast code+test workflow. A real “I’m not jaded, Unreal’s workflow really is painful” moment.

Rebuilding and restarting Unreal doesn’t take “that long”, but it’s easily enough to break my concentration. It’s not uncommon for me to load up the editor and *forget what I just changed* 🤷‍♂️

@sinbad there are loads of issues that only present warnings until you make a packaged build too. Unreal is so verbose it’s very easy to just ignore the log entirely

Source comments don't count

Comment at the top of a source file:
"Totally Not A Trello Board
castles:
collision
spawning damage
enemy damage
losing build stages
enemies:
move shared data into base class / resource?
enemy player"

@dusk_treader he’s a very dapper napper!

@mrgrumpymonkey all cats are perfect. Just ask any cat!

@harbonaut well that sucks!

@JeremiahFieldhaven @psychicparrot42 “given that God is infinite, and that the Universe is also infinite... would you like a toasted teacake?”

Every time I cycle under this bridge I think “I’m having that”

For the terrarium game I mean, I don’t want the real one. I’ve nowhere to put it for a start

A path through a sunny park, thick with bushes and trees either side. In the middle distance a long-disused railway bridge stretches across the path. The bridge is overgrown with plants, which are trailing down almost to the path below. The sky behind is bright blue with some fluffy white clouds visible.

@psychicparrot42 I do that with the kettle more often than I care to admit. (Fill it full of bread I mean)

@damianogerli bring back (bubble) pipes!

Resisting the urge to make a trello for the definitely-not-magic-carpet game. Feels like that will make it too.. serious, somehow.

But I am totally losing track of what I still need to do 😀

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