For our next trick from the course: create a character by quickly learning how to trace a reference image in #Krita . Take some selfies with the facial expressions you want, and go to town.

Bonus tip: Wikimedia Commons has lots of great art that is no longer in copyright you can use for backgrounds, like this forest from Berndt Lindholm!

(Course details up thread) #gamedev #visualnovel #creativecommons

@[email protected] see also the rabbit proof (ish) fence and following descent into biological warfare against them. Humans at work being intellectually superior apex predators.

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@[email protected] did I see something in the release notes about limited relay support to post to #tagspub? I can't find it again, and at the moment federating to #tagspub via the followback account fails due to an authentication issue.

@[email protected] This is literally true, and has been giving many of us nightmares for a long time. See also the package managers for most popular programming languages.

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@[email protected] Yeah, that's been my experience as well but I'm aware I've only looked at Unity briefly. I was mostly wondering if there were specific things that Unity had a clear cut advantage on, but it sounds like (at least for small scale single dev work) Godot is just going to be a nicer learning experience. Sounds stupid, but load speeds alone just make it feel more fun to use.

@[email protected] @[email protected] I can second it being great fun in its own slightly campy way and, erm, quite long.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] My comment was mostly a joke, but if you want to take it more seriously I don't see an unintended interaction between a boot time feature and your own OS's disk encryption as distinct from it seeming rushed. That's exactly the type of interaction you should be spending the time to think about when delivering this type of feature. Of course, sometimes something slips through even if you have put all the time and effort in but... it's not inspiring from the outside.

Sent out a quote today that I needed to price higher than I'd like because otherwise the service isn't sustainable. This meant I was subconsciously expecting a long and drawn out negotiation and explanation process, while what I actually got was an email half an hour later saying (basically) "where do I send the money?"

So that was a nice encouragement for the day!

@[email protected] You have picked your instance well, I can feel the tech bro burn from a different country @[email protected]

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I mean, seriously? It just interpreted "accepting" as "surrendering" which rather changed the tone of the message I sent.

@[email protected] ignoring both the ethics and the tech limitations (which we shouldn't, to be clear) I don't see the pitch here. Either I have a desire to read something super bespoke and I get "magic" to write the novel for me ('like Star Wars, but with more kumquats'), or I want to read the idea somebody else find interesting. In practice I suspect even the first option with working, ethical, tech would end up feeling unsatisfying but I don't see any world where I want to pay money for stuff other people wanted to automatically generate if I have access to the generating tech myself.

@[email protected] it reads very much to me as a list of 'important' books much more than a list of books I would enjoy. Doesn't mean they're bad, or I don't enjoy some of them, but it's not even close to what you'd get asking me for a "good" book list.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] "They tried to bribe me to add a backdoor, but jokes on them - it's already rushed and full of bugs."

@[email protected] @[email protected] fair, fair. In wanting to get through to people trying not to be an arse I can see my wording ignores other common causes of over explanation like "no, I really am an arse" and "insecurity".

@[email protected] I managed to initially read this as error whiskies, which would be one response to AI job threats I suppose!

This feels rather similar to the All True Star Wars Fans™ are white men over forty contingent.

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Okay, #gamedev people: if you were teaching somebody game dev from a non-programming background, who wanted to make a small one person game to learn what game dev is like would you have any reasons to suggest #unity over #godot? (I'm making #godot the default here mostly based on system requirements and getting started speed, so I feel like I'd need an active reason to suggest the overhead of Unity and I'm not thinking of any).

Context: they actively want to use a game engine, they aren't interested in learning the details of how the sausage is made at the rendering/physics simulation level (yet)

I suspect quite a few men see examples of #mansplaining and assume "I would never do that, I'm not an arse", but this afternoon I nearly explained user agent strings to [checks notes] a widely respected expert on distributed system design before I checked who I was about to reply to. I had assumed a completely wrong context.

Some recent comments from @[email protected] about the XY problem reminded me that mansplaining is what happens when you don't check what the context is before you speak. You may not mansplain because you're an arse, but you'll do it anyway if you believe you never would and so fail to build in the helpful habitual self doubt that makes you pause and say "what do I actually know about this person again?". Especially because if you're a man reading my timeline you likely belong to a society where there's a wealth of research suggesting you (and I) have been socialised to assume less competence in women.

@[email protected] I'd reply with the Twitter endless screaming bot, but unfortunately it was unable to make the appointment due to a rich Nazi and three videos advertising reasons to endlessly scream as a service

Always check the critical hits per lux rating before purchasing your new laser pistol.

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