Did you see this? It's an artist's conception of how gravity from the tiny moon Daphnis creates ripples in Saturn's rings - created by Kevin Gill of NASA.

This image was pretty popular here, and elsewhere on the web - but people often don't come out and say from the start that it's not a photo. The actual photos are less beautiful but... hey, they're real! And the ripples look different in the photos. Let's take a look.

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@djlink as much as I agree, the answer is money, as always. Making a battle royale multiplayer game is a gamble. It's unlikely, but if you score big, it will make more money than 20 Raymans or Prince of Persias could.

A game I worked on released a couple of hours ago:

Commandos: Origins
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1479730/Commandos_Origins/

I was part of a group of developers from #stillaliveStudios that joined the project for about 6 months last year.

My contributions were not player-facing though. I spent most of my time on the project updating it from #UnrealEngine 5.0 to 5.4 and working on console certification.

#GameDev

Am I the only one who gets confused by the fact that the first thing you see on #Godot's "Script" screen is a bunch of tabs for Scenes? Which may or may not have a script associated with them...

You can be on the Player scene tab, but looking at the enemy.gd script, and vice versa.

#GodotEngine #FOSS

Last weekend I had the pleasure of working on Fossil Fanatic -a cozy archeology game created in 48 hours for the PULS game jam https://sirlich.itch.io/fossil-fanatic

#godot #gamedev #puls #gamejam

I participated in the #pulsgamejam this weekend and created the small game "Feldschmiede" in 48 hours. You play a smith and have to repair the broken equipment of warriors.

https://skosnowich.itch.io/feldschmiede

Was my first time seriously working with GDScript instead of C# in Godot, because web builds were required. I still prefer to use C#, but learned that GDScript definitely is a good alternative for game jams.

#godotengine #indiedev #gamedev

I am in the situation that I need to talk to a #WebAPI that I am not familiar with (PlayFab). The documentation could be better, so there is a lot of stuff that I need to find out by trial-and-error.

Some weeks ago I bought an issue of the c't magazine - the only one I bought in years - that by chance had an article about a tool for such a situation: #Bruno (https://www.usebruno.com/).

After playing around a bit with it: Full recommendation.

#GameDev

@Wortex17 so, from what I read, the results are currently a mix of Qwants own crawled index and Google results. Sometimes that shows as the first page is full of almost useless SEO optimized content. I personally still found it more useful than DDG. I just hope they can move away from Google results soon.

@Wortex17 I switched to Qwant. Not sure if this fits all your requirements, but it's EU based and while not there yet, it works together with Ecosia to build an EU based search index. So far I'm happy with it.

@soulsource ha, yes that's my fault, should have checked that hashtag before 😅
But it doesn't change the fact that I appreciate the good taste in videogames!

@soulsource what?! I did not know I follow such an illustrious person! I played all of them except the first and the last. I probably have a combined 1000 hours in The Settlers 2, TDD and KSP combined 😄

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

#memes #software #webdev #enshittification

new #blog post set to go out on Sunday - you can read early on my website https://open.substack.com/pub/nuzcraft/p/balatro-path-building & https://nuzcraft.com/blog/20250107-trr-jam/
#GameDev #IndieDev #GodotEngine :godot:

Everything's on sale in our Year End Blowout event - including bestsellers. So drop over to our website, pick out that #ttrpg title you've been eyeing, and save 20%. No coupon code necessary. https://evilhat.com/product-category/rpgs/forged-in-the-dark/

@protowlf from my understanding, materials will be computed into shaders during the build. Using material instances will reduce the number of shaders and therefore memory usage is reduced and performance improved.
It's also just more convenient to adjust in the editor.

@djlink here's the fantastic Noclip documentary released together with the remastered versions: https://youtu.be/ZN16KVrEP8Q

@krajzeg oh, I meant Slipways and Reus with that, sorry for the confusion.

However, I just tried to run Solitomb for a quick test. There's a tool simply called NonSteamLaunchers, which allows easy usage of, obviously, third party launchers, including the itch.io app. Used that to install the HTML version of the game and it would be perfectly playable, except for one issue: with every click the on-screen keyboard opens and blocks input. Not sure why that happens.

@krajzeg both fantastic games and very fun on Steam Deck!

Since I have your attention with Solitomb...

I also made Slipways, and it's currently on a 50% sale on Steam and Itch! 🚀

https://s.team/a/1264280/
https://krajzeg.itch.io/slipways-game

If you're into strategy, space, 4X or indeed *good games*, now is the best time to see how a #pico8 conversion can go!

It's now also available in a Steam bundle with Reus 2 - another chill, thinky game about building stuff on planets! 🪐

Itch.io purchases come with a Steam key 🤝

@djlink never miss a chance for shameless promotion, here we go: https://www.tonyschmich.de/

Thank you!