Recently hit 1k on here, felt bitter sweet. I'm not motivated to continue building a following on this platform. Not deactivating but I'm going to be exclusively posting on the🦋from now on.
My handle there is @
Let's go on a new adventure together!
My first day of onboarding
@Hypixel
is complete!
Today filled me with even more excitement for my role and I got to meet even more awesome people! 🥰
Looking forward to contributing to the development of
#Hytale
I've been working with the
#Hytale
team for about 8 months now and it still feels as surreal as the day I joined.
Such a wonderful team of people working hard on delivering something truly special and I'm so greatful for the opportunity to do my part in bringing Hytale to life
I had the chance to meet many more of our
#Hytale
team in-person this week during our team meetup.
I always think I've reached the height of my motivation working with the team on Hytale but then something else comes along and fuels it even further! Feeling very blessed 🫶🏼
As I'm approaching the end of my second week
@Hypixel
I've been slowly absorbing as much information about the development of
#Hytale
as possible and the wonderful team that is bringing it to life.
It's been an incredibly rewarding experience 😊
Hi
@discord
the mobile update has some poor UX decisions for your long-term user base such as myself.
Muscle Memory no longer works when I want to check who is online on a specific server because sliding now replies to messages (did anyone even ask for that?)
Hiding online
A little bit of
#Blockbench
practice. I tried remaking
@KenneyNL
's Starter Kit: 3D Platformer character.
Looking forward to animating them when I have time :)
Going to be using Blockbench for my Pirate Software 15 Jam submission so needed to practice 👀
@MichaelG_3D
I'm 26, finished college in May, got accepted into a trainee program in January and will be starting as an Intern Tech Designer with Hypixel Studios later this month.
Definitely never too old to start as long as your heart and determination is in the right place!
Lets move on from Palworld, Asmongold & Pokémon discourse, there's nothing of positive value to gain.
The games industry is also being hammered with lay-offs back to back, I think we should try to find some positivity to share rather than being sucked into a black hole of
@samyam_youtube
I'll give an alternative suggestion to this rather silly comment, keep being yourself and keep showing other female game devs that there is space for them in this community and industry 😊 remember that you're an inspiration to a lot of young aspiring game devs! 🩵
The Silly Brothers Duo comes to an end today as we have had to let go of Charlie, I will miss him deeply, we were able to say goodbye and he was sent off peacefully 💔
I've decided to give back a little to the
#Hytale
Thankmas Community, so at random times over the next couple of days I will be in the Lobby of giving away steam keys to the first person(s) that approach me (subject to availability)
Starting rn!
jobs I've had, in order:
- Trainee Games Programmer / Generalist
@Whitepot
- Intern Tech Designer
@Hypixel
I didn't start working at all until after I turned 26 last year.
Didn't go to university, went back to college when I was 24.
The reality is it doesn't matter what
-Paper Boy & Landscaping (classic)
-Floor Guard at a Roller Skating Rink
-Bag boy at a grocery store
-Circus Rigger and Daredevil in training (Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey) - I lived on a train
-Runner at the SF Stock Exchange
-Emergency Room Security (I have stories)
I have no idea how or why I've ended up where I am but, thank you god? The universe? All the people who contributed to the complex web of circumstances in life that brought me to this specific point in time?
Idk, life is wild, it was only 9 years ago that I was laying in
In today's development update, Game Director John Hendricks discusses new engine progress and the ongoing creative development of adventure, social play, and more!
New blog post here ->
Thanks to everyone who dropped by today! I'm working on a little celebration video to say thank you for making my first
#Hytale
Thankmas experience so great!
Keep being awesome 🫶!
Moving forward without you is challenging, so much of your personality filled our home, the way you greeted us when we came through the door by biting and pulling on our sleeves, how you constantly sat on people's laps even though you were too big.
Even small things like how you
I remember when I first saw
#Minecraft
out in the wild - my friend was playing an alpha build on their laptop, chilling in a 1x2 tunnel of stone with sticks and an egg?
I thought that was really strange.
Little did I know how huge Minecraft would become.........................
I became a game programmer because I wanted to get better at programming for games and not because I wanted to be a professional programmer for games 😅
I think it's healthy to have specific goals and dreams but don't let it obscure the potential that other paths might hold.
I love videogames so much I've made them my career, I love celebrating the success of game development but I don't watch
#TheGameAwards
It's never really felt genuine to me.
I didn't get my first "gaming" pc until 2015 my mother got it for me as a present and paid it off with finance so that I could use it for college work.
Prior to that I was just using other peoples low-spec laptops ("Craptops") or family pcs over the years.
pre-2015 me would be
Twitter caps how many people I can follow, the only reason I want more followers is so I can follow more awesome game Devs and Hytale community members.
I even paid for twitter and still can't follow more awesome people :( wth.
Been slowly working on the post
#GMTKJam
update for BORZOINK! but needed to take a break to share a small thank you for 300+ ratings!
#gmtk2023
#gmtkjam2023
Feelin sentimental at 1am so let me just:
I know I keep reiterating the same stuff but I'm just so-
You can't really put into words how it feels after such a long time of misery and brokenness to start to see stability form, to see the version of you that almost didn't exist,
Having a blast this week working on some really fun stuff, great way to end my first couple of months working on
#Hytale
looking forward to getting some rest and enjoying festive vibes with my family.
Going to be cooking SO MUCH stuff next year for work and on a personal level!
Thinking about forming a team to make a small wholesome game for the
#PirateSoftware
Jam (Jan 12 to Jan 27th)
Would love to find a 3D artist and a composer who is interested, if you like cute stuff hmu!
- Release A Small Game On Steam
- Create Edutainment Gamedev Content On YouTube
- Do Some Really Cool Things For Hytale
- More Game Jams
- Launch Monthly Game Dev Podcast (Focused On Learning)
- Find Full-Time Employment
These are my main goals that seem viable at least.
I hate the way AI is used for profit by stealing from artists, so much so that I'm not going to submit anything to GGJ this year because of one of their sponsors.
I love Pokémon as a franchise and have played it since Gen 1, it's my childhood
And I also have enjoyed playing
The weird internal conflict of not knowing whether my dad would be proud of me for all of the things I have accomplished so far on my journey as a game developer, because he one day decided to just not be a dad, at least I'm proud of myself!
Still, wish I could be like "Look at
I've been trying to find the right words for this but there just isn't any...
Things kinda suck right now for many of us, I'm still optimistic about 2024 but it's been rough, we will get through this together🫂 I am always available for a chat, don't hesitate to reach out.
I think about Charlie pretty much every day. I'm certain that our dogs are the best teachers of what love means and how it should feel to love and be loved.
Thank you for the happy memories you have left us🩵
Kindness is incredibly powerful, so if you ever feel like you're at a loss and have no idea what to do, just be kind.
Everything else will fall into place.
I love the concept of
#Starfield
but Bethesda really failed on execution this time.
The scope is too large and empty.
The red mile was an incredible disappointment, nothing remotely engaging happened...
I could talk for days about the issues starfield faces in its design.
But
Going to dump some 2am Paris lore into the void, It wasn't that long ago that I was still struggling with selective mutism (like 2021), being in a room with the most wonderful people and I struggled deeply to get the words from my head out through my mouth.
It wasn't until I
We spend a lot of our time hyper-focused trying to reach exactly where we want to be but life kind of doesn't care, It's going to take you exactly where you need to be and it often deviates so far away from what you had envisioned for yourself, It's magical.
Here is a little peek into the humble beginnings of my first major game project
@LootlingsGame
powered by amazing 3D assets from
@KayLousberg
I'm very excited to explore all the things this game will become on my
#IndieGameDev
journey.
I've started testing shaders/materials as well as exploring verticality in the level design, building a world that is much larger than the player gives lots of room for creativity in exploration, I've also made some experimental background music in FL Studio.
#IndieGameDev
I will be on the
#Hytale
server tonight from 7pm GMT if you're available to come to the lobby so we can take an awesome group screenshot! afterwards I will be touring around the creative server to put together a little celebration video! Then we can play
Happy Wednesday!
Feeling a little less sad today, going to do some really cool things out of spite against the universe that keeps trying to break my spirits 💪🏼
You should all do some cool things too!
Me: finally deciding to take a break and enjoy some games (sees game has an update on steam), updates the game, launches game, main menu tells me my gpu driver is out of date, time to update the drivers, but first GeForce Experience has to update and now I have to login to it
I had a lot of fun with
@kkulmori
this weekend working on their very first game jam project! They produced some wonderful art assets for our arcade space game :)! Will be working on it over the week to refine and finish it up so keep an eye out!
It wouldn't be winter without a little bit of sadness, lots to think about as this year comes to an end.
So many wonderful and amazing moments mixed with some of the hardest challenges I've ever faced.
I still believe in myself.
I will be in the creative server on this evening giving away some more steam keys, you'll need to have donated to the
#Hytale
Thankmas tiltify to get access.
See you then :)!
I've decided to give back a little to the
#Hytale
Thankmas Community, so at random times over the next couple of days I will be in the Lobby of giving away steam keys to the first person(s) that approach me (subject to availability)
Starting rn!
If you've got any ideas related to this game jam theme I would love to hear them :] aiming for a small scope with a solid gameplay loop that has room for replayability and general cozy vibes.
The 14th
@PirateSoftware
#GameJam
has begun! After a few rounds of voting the community has chosen "It's Spreading" as the theme. More info in the image below!
We also have over 7,000 sign ups!
GOGOGO ->
"clutch or you're gay"
"first person to move is gay"
"pick or you're gay"
These phrases I keep hearing in my random valorant matches... but like... what if I am gay?
I'm pretty sure gay people play valorant too 😭
Good news, got into import plugins and learned that Godot lets you modify scenes on import 🤖
This is big because it allows you to use the power of Blender geonodes as a world generation tool seamlessly. This is basically a Blender-Godot equivalent of Unreal PCG
@ACWorldBlog
people need to stop accepting this kind of idiocy from nintendo titles. this is to prevent save editing and duping on a non competitive title that already has its economy controlled my time travel and modded console users.
The developers or decision makers are morons.
Missing
#GGJBelfast
already?
Join us next Wednesday 7th February at the Marcus Ward for a Global Game Jam special
#PlayMyDemo
! 🕹️
Come down, hang out, and show off what you're working on - GGJ or otherwise!
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