Joe Wintergreen
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video game dev. weird west, adios, #influxredux , other shit. friendly dev chat: he/him. add me elsewhere. cohost, bluesky, masto, wtvr
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The Steam page for
#influxredux
now has recent screenshots on it. Consider wishlisting this, the long-awaited and quite intensely remastered version of the puzzle game I shipped 11 years ago when I was like 2 years old
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what does this guy know about dust anyway
*checks bio*
aw man
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"your cat will eat you when you die" yeah but he shows infinite grace by making no attempt in the meantime. leave him alone
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i wish steam didn't need me to operate a fuckin forum for everything i put on there
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rumours of palworld automating art theft via AI are overblown! they have utilised traditional approaches to art theft
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Yeah this is why Half-Life flopped
Another tip: Starting with a cold open does not work when your character knows the context behind the situation but You - the player don't. It's confusing and annoying because NPCs interact with you like you - the player - were supposed to know them and what's going on.
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Absolutely loving the comment "boom legal problems solved forever" being used as evidence in legal proceedings
Midjourney developers caught discussing laundering, and creating a database of Artists (who have been dehumanized to styles) to train Midjourney off of. This has been submitted into evidence for the lawsuit. Prompt engineers, your “skills” are not yours
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at a chip shop in scotland, i ordered a "sausage in batter" and the woman i ordered it from gave me a look like i was the stupidest prick in the world and said "we only do them in batter". i said "i'm just reading off the menu". she rolled her eyes. i think about it a lot
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Peak Rockstar Games is getting this on a mission with the objective "kill Bronte"
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the era of "shit that was free suddenly wants you to pay for it" is truly upon us
couple decades ago a lot of new companies got funded on the business plan that said we have literally no strategy at all for how to make money but we'll get a gazillion users then charge them later. they're (and unfortunately we're) collectively now in the Find Out phase of that.
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today's service game devs in 20 years: oh yeah i worked on a game you would have loved, turned out really well. one of my proudest achievements. nah you can't play it or really tell if i'm making this up
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"how gullible does unity think we are"? Good question, here's one from the archives
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everyone is replacing their logo with shit i was doing by accident and not bothering to save when i was 10
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if i ever patch that game again it will be to alt+f4 it if your steamid matches that guy's
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After all, why not
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Decided to do something useful: whipped up a quick Internet Site for all the Unity folks who now want to learn Unreal and don't know where (or whether) to start because it's daunting as hell.
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when an athlete says some shit about competing against trans folks being unfair the interviewer should be like "interesting. so you're saying you suck at this?". and just stay on that for the rest of the thing. "interesting. but why not simply run faster than the other person"
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Discord touching crypto shit is a piss-off by itself but more fundamentally, I haaaate the way companies like that try to Expand for no fuckin' reason.
You made a good bit of software. People like it. They don't even mind you charging for banners and shit. Just leave it! Stop!
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you finish work at 5. you get up from your chair. it is 6. you make a cup of tea. now it is 7. it is time to decide what to do with your evening, now that it is 9
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oh god. oh fuck. my $0.693USD. i didn't think he'd do it. i didn't think he'd do it
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pissed off about dust. i'll vacuum my house and wipe everything down and air it out and do it all again and 20 minutes later there is still dust. how do i kill dust
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Also, other posts by him reveal he runs it just fine, he's pissed one of the achievements isn't working for him
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I've just played the demo of the Fluid Flux marketplace asset for Unreal by
@ImaginaryBlend
and it's by far the best all-round water sim I've seen in anything ever, what the hell
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true dev anecdote from Weird West: i was on a call trying to demo something unrelated, and ran past a chicken, scaring it, it ran through a campfire, caught fire, flapped into a cornfield, set the entire cornfield alight. the corn fire generated enough popcorn to crash the editor
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High refresh rates are a scourge. You're at 60fps, having a great time. You see a 120hz screen, now you're ruined on 60. You glimpse 165, now 120 is trash. Some guy tries to show you 240, you shut your eyes, you don't open them til he's dead. You've killed a man now and for what
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teaser for my upcoming film "the matrix reloaded but not slow motion". who wants their time wasted right
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the menu was next to us both, large backlit text, and it offered both "sausage" and "sausage in batter" and another type of sausage. between us in the food heater thing, in both our eyeline, were sausages both in and out of batter
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One of the things I love to do is AI and by that I mean "making the characters in a video game act some kind of way" and we've been calling that AI forever and I'm real fuckin pissed off that every time I talk about it now I'm going to have to clarify that I don't mean mass theft
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I always feel a bit insane with the annual "yellow paint guidance" discourse and counter-discourse. A gamer thinks the paint is dumb, and then all the devs are like "YES but you don't understand it's UNAVOIDABLE" and man, no it's not! You can be clear without being patronising
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Pretty sure he put that comment on my steam profile right after he read this. I dunno why I'm having this conversation across a forum thread, a review's comments section, and my own Steam profile
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@DavidKayConrad
it's a central gag that your character is a theoretical physicist and the player is just bumbling around with presumed knowledge and causes a disaster
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i bet Oscar would only eat me if i died *and* there was no food in his bowl. what more can you ask of anyone
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real gamers don't want "service games" and "content updates" they want a game that's going to be the same in 20 years when they try to get their kids into it but their kids don't like it no matter how hard they push and they just get upset.
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this is the most under-discussed element in the recent "where do i go, where the fuck do i go" unity conversations imo
it's why a lot of people from non-unity-non-proprietary-engine backgrounds have always been confused as to why anyone would want unity, and also vice versa
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Reading Sweeney's layoff email it's pretty galling that a company so stable would compromise its profitability on a concept as blatantly stupid as "the metaverse" enough to necessitate layoffs and then continue to use the word "metaverse" with a straight face
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The idea that indie devs should just delist their old games in case they might not work, pushed in the replies here by many pathetic little weirdos, is really pretty fucked up? You *want* old games to stop existing??
Plus AAAs sell outright nonfunctional games all the time?!
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Casper will go far if he can stop 100%ing every freaky porn game on Steam
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that's the dream after all. who knew one day we'd all be saying "searched on google"
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reminder that Robo Recall has the classic "office chair with a fucked wheel" and they did it by making all the wheels' physics bodies spheres except the fucked one is a cube
My favourite thing in Robo Recall is this office chair and it's not even anythin fancy. Low-friction wheels and a bunch o hinges
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they all told me i'd never work in games because it was unfeasible and unwise, but now here i am 20 years later, making a third what i could in other industries, burnt out, haggard, pale, nauseous, living my dream, in your face dad
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Can't stress enough that the physics being amazing in TOTK is because of Nintendo paying for Havok. It's the same reason No Man's Sky has the best Barrel Rolling Down A Hill and HL2 had the best Blow Up A Bunch Of Crates With A Grenade. Most games use something cheaper and worse
One thing No Man's Sky does EXTREMELY well, and I mean this in all seriousness, is barrels rolling down hills.
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This idiot DM'd me 3 hours ago, I immediately blocked him, and then he immediately tweeted this. amazing
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he laughed, he cried. more than his money's worth imo
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i think the ai art thing is really about, people aren't comfortable with their own disinterest in things. they don't want to make art but they want to want to. they can't make themselves want to. but that's not ok with them. but they imagine it would feel good to have made art
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can i watch a video of it? probably not anymore. if you can it might not have any of my work in it even though i was on it for years. can i find you in the credits? probably not even when i was working on it
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Gonna look at Half-Life: Alyx's SDK and tweet about it a little. If you don't know already, I've historically had a big old axe to grind with modern level design tools! Still do. Neither Unity nor UE4 has level design tools worth mentioning built-in. This looks more promising.
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On the day Rockstar stops undermining their big cool highly systemic open worlds with locked-on-rails "shoot the hinges" missions, I will eat every hat in Red Dead Redemption 2
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A funny thing that happened was my remake of my 11-year-old game failed Steam build review and one of the issues was "seems identical to the game you put out 11 years ago. explain why this should be its own product" like damn. I was expecting a steam review not a steam review
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@SkeleMaxJ
It does work, the dude was lying. Also, a gazillion AAA games are sold that "don't work". It's never been the expectation that old games continue to Just Work.
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another thing you might not know if you are on twitter is, if someone is rude, and the other person is rude back, the jerk is the first person. the one who did the rudeness initially. not that many people know this actually
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crypto folks are like "soylent green is people *now*, but in just a few years we'll have a soylent green that is much fewer people per kilogram"
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imagine writing a book and instead of it eventually not being stocked new in bookshops anymore every copy in existence catches fire
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working in a creative job for decades and then at the end of a long successful career look behind you and there's nothing there.
i'm not getting you down at all am i
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You know what the internet needs back? Fuckin, everybody having a WEB SITE and then having a little section on it called like, FRIENDS which was all their friends web sites. That was better than this bullshit
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you said you designed that thing right? this video has the thing? yeah no not really that thing. that's one of the thing versions before or after me
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@JDgamer2000
People hesitate to support indie devs because when they treat them like shit they don't like it? Yeah sure this tracks
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to me it is funny how half-life 2 shipped with all the main menu backgrounds looking fine, but by a year later the only monitors being sold were 16:9, revealing slightly weird voids at the sides, and now on ultrawide everything's to fuck
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nothing funnier than a haughty twitter gamer declaring that they will take their business elsewhere. quite literally the funniest thing in the world to me. one is reading this right now getting haughtier and haughtier and inflating like a balloon
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Someone recreated my UE5 troll photo in UE5 and did an incredible job
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it's common dev knowledge that in playtesting, watching players is very useful, but listening to them hardly ever is, they don't know what they're talkin' about. if frustrated they rarely correctly know why. so when gamers backlash on something it's overwhelmingly hard to handle
A thing I harp on constantly is that players are generally very bad at pinpointing why they aren't enjoying a game; a few people can articulate that kind of feedback but most of the time there's a lot of 'bleed' between how different aspects of an experience are perceived
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The trajectory of software now is ALWAYS "get better, get better, get better, get better, hey it's good, now make it WORSE, WORSE, WORSE, hey where'd everyone go"
Nothing Stops You From Just Leaving It Alone When It Is Good
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fyi i have no interest in pokemon, palworld, nintendo, or whoever made palworld, please do not assail me with nerd shit
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source users reacting to features everyone else has had for 20 years is a whole tweet genre
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Dev Days 2016, I think it was, Sweeney gave a big weird talk about The Metaverse that left every single person in the building going "lmao what...the fuck?"
7 years later hundreds of folks in what would otherwise have been super stable work pay the price for that same bullshit
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my friend says he played that back in the day and had a real good time, so that's cool! you were a part of that! right?
uh, maybe. hard to say. on balance probably not
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Breaking: Man for whom financial and economic concerns have been purely academic since his early 20s has never had a problem with inequality
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Watching Fifty Shades of Grey with the subtitles from Kong: Skull Island, it's pretty good
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I'll make the new Twitter. It'll be great. I'll make it in Unreal Engine 5
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me: ugh, forget these tired twitter memes. i'm a serious game developer
30-50 hogs:
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i kind of love bob iger for this excerpt. he looks right at a situation where he fucked up horribly, describes it with impressive clarity and candor in a way that it's unambiguous he fucked up, and then he's like. you know... it's possible i fucked up. hard to say
Fuck Bob Iger; it's his and ABC's fault that David Lynch was forced to reveal the killer on Twin Peaks. It's Bob Iger's fault that most of season 2 of Twin Peaks is a clusterfuck, and the only episodes David Lynch worked on were season 2's first and second episodes,
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I've literally never worked on a game that had seasons, these are the dumbest people alive
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If you weren't there you'll never understand how bonkers these gootubes were
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I was able to smash the window of the empty room, get out onto the balcony, go to the other window, smash it, go in, and the guy was just standing there. Game wouldn't let me shoot him so I dropped some dynamite at his feet and got this fail message.
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The results you can get just smashing marketplace content and megascans together in ue5
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