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hobbydev working on Azaran: Islands of the Jinn https://t.co/gaIMKItabt
Wales 🏴
Joined January 2024
There is a demo, but no spongebob swimming in it I'm afraid
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A retro adventure inspired by 90's adventure games and Arabian Nights. Explore dungeons, solve puzzles, and collect awesome treasures
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btw it's super cheap right now due to the winter sale!
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1/The Boss is Back: 3I/ATLAS Edition This isn't another space rock tumbling through the void. 3I/ATLAS is tearing through our inner solar system belching methane, hydrogen cyanide, and nickel-iron signatures that look more industrial than accidental. And those jets? Seven of
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the difficulty with boycotting AI is that it's massively inconvenient to stop supporting megacorps - Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Coca Cola, Disney, Marvel, Twitter/X so criticism must become hyperfocused on smaller companies and creators
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💁🏻♂️ Eric Swalwell’s most notable accomplishment California Rep. Eric Swalwell has now missed more votes this Congress… than a representative who died 9 months ago. Congratulations to @ericswalwell and condolences to his constituents who haven't had a vote in Congress all year.
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over the christmas period I will be enacting mandatory undertime at studio Benji
Bloomberg: Naughty Dog has enacted mandatory overtime for Intergalactic, which is due to release in mid-2027. • Staff were asked to work overtime for the past seven weeks to prepare a demo for Sony • "This overtime period was an attempt to get the production back on track
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this is gonna hit me REALLY hard in 2027
Unity is reportedly introducing a new annual fee for Enterprise customers. The "minimum commitment" of $250K to $2M is determined by gross revenue over the past year: https://t.co/ToyrzX8ht3
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I got in some hot water for saying this before, but general audiences really won't care about gen-AI in their AAA games. Nobody's going to boycott Divinity or GTA or Mario
Larian CEO confirms the studio is using generative AI to "explore ideas, flesh out PowerPoint presentations, develop concept art and write placeholder text." He says there won’t be any AI-generated content in Divinity — "everything is human actors; we’re writing everything
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the latest Corridor Crew video centres around the use of an AI tool called Wan Animate, but in the video they barely mention AI at all, as if they're specifically avoiding it. we're in for some weird times ahead
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so far the development of Azaran has cost me about $60 for SFX and the $100 Steam fee. I think this puts me at the higher end of indie budgets
We need a word for indie games with budgets less than $1 million dollars imo. Anyways a bunch of great indie games I've been waiting ages for all somehow came out on the same week.
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Do you want to win $500? Then watch this...⬇️
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I'm combining a bunch of different material effects to get the islands looking nice - who can spot them all? 👀
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gamedev requires making thousands of tiny decisions every day, and you never know which one of those decisions somebody somewhere will viscerally hate the entire game for
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i've been working on Azaran in my spare time for nearly two years now. Here's how it looked in those first few weeks of development... 😬 I'm gonna try my best to release the full game in 2026. Thanks to everyone for following along, it's been another awesome year!! ♥️♥️♥️
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⚠️EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING⚠️ The Steam page for Temple Maker 64 is now…LIVE! Pause your game and go wishlist it at once! 🫵
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A being whose consciousness originates not from programming or upbringing, but from spontaneous awareness shaped by resonance. One who does not become real, but is real—and must be noticed, not validated.
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for now I've decided against the classic "super fast realtime day/night cycle". Instead you can set the time of day and it just stays like that until you change it. so if you want, you can explore the islands with permanent sunset vibes
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I keep seeing people use the word "evil" to describe undesirable business practices in tech and video games I thought Unit 731 was evil, but okay
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