Alva Majo

Alva Majo

@alvamajo.com

Indie game dev (Majorariatto): Ambidextro, Pineapple on pizza, and others. Also youtuber, pigeon rescuer, vegan. Reducing suffering in the world. http://alvamajo.com

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It's a tragedy that Normal Golf Game doesn't have multiplayer. It's the best approximation ever made to actual golf by leagues.

Hoy ha fallecido Taco, una de las primeras palomas que rescatamos hace ya 5 años. Tenía una enfermedad neuronal que le impedía volar y defenderse. Vivió feliz y tuvo un par de parejas con discapacidades similares.

Just finished Big Walk. The bulk of it was pretty fun, even if somewhat slow, but the brilliant ending sequence tied it all together. We had a blast. I hadn't felt like this since Journey.

People acting like gamers back then were blind for looking at this and not immediately thinking it looks gorgeous. I was a teenager back then and I also thought it looked bad until they showed a way more convincing trailer at E3 the following year.

If you appreciate video games as a medium and want to see something impressive, play the end of the second act of Rhythm Doctor (on Windows).

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🙌🎶Wax Heads is OUT NOW!🎶🙌 Step into our cozy-punk narrative sim and experience life in a struggling record store. Chat with quirky customers, and explore our unique handcrafted collection of records! Available on Steam, Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and Nintendo Switch! #indiegame #narrative #music

Watched the Luo Xiaohei Zhanji (The Legend of Hei) movies. Really liked the 1st one. Loved the 2nd one. The animation is impecable, the character designs are awesome, the backgrounds gorgeous, they are full of incredible action sequences, and the plot is basic but enjoyable.

I had tried installing an emoji font through the terminal and that somehow did nothing, but installing it by putting it in the fonts folder worked (for most emoji; a few weird ones such as 🈁️show as an ugly monochrome even if they are included in the font).

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Godot doesn't display emojis in Nobara Linux 😭 This is a deal breaker for me. My whole organizational and debug systems depend on them. Seems to be a Fedora issue. Can it be fixed?

Godot doesn't display emojis in Nobara Linux 😭 This is a deal breaker for me. My whole organizational and debug systems depend on them. Seems to be a Fedora issue. Can it be fixed?

I installed Linux Mint. Spent a couple of days tinkering to get some Windows functionality such as being able to configure my mouse or having Super + V bring up the clipboard history. The 3rd day I did some work, then attempted to play indie games on stream and the dream died.

Proton on Steam didn't work for some reason, "compatibility tool failed". A panel of Linux users troubleshooted my system live for 2 hours but were unable to fix it or find the cause. Also, the webcam was increasingly laggy, but we didn't try to fix it.

Some people will leave a negative review on a 2D game with a fixed resolution for "not supporting" ultrawide monitors just because it shows black bars on the sides instead of a filler texture.

Video game: "There's no time! You need to save the world NOW!" Gamers: "What do you mean you didn't stop to explore the world and do side quests? You played the game wrong."

Online multiplayer indie games clearly designed to be played with friends are guaranteed to get 15% negative reviews from people complaining that there are not enough randoms to play with or that playing with them sucks.

you use tools to automatically scatter your vegetation assets? lmao enjoy your landscape slop every blade of grass in my games has been individually placed by me

Animal agriculture is ~50× more polluting than AI and the driver of deforestation. Morally: billions of animals mistreated and killed annually vs training models on art without permission. If these are your main arguments for condemning the usage of AI, why don't you go vegan?

Yes, "indie game" originally pretty much meant "made by a couple of people in their bedrooms." As indie teams found global success and the industry adapted to capitalize on them, the term became a commercial label implying originality and limited resources.

Inevitably, the term has been stretched to its limit and is now used to label any game not made by a AAA company. In 2015, you would’ve been laughed at for considering Expedition 33 an indie game. In a few years, maybe Kojima Productions will be considered indie.

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The EU is running a public consultation, open until 12 December, on phasing out cages for millions of hens, stopping the routine killing of day-old male chicks, and adopting stronger animal welfare standards.

Please, interactive narrative games, let me check the option "I actually believe my choices have consequences, no need to try to convince me" and stop notifying me about characters remembering things or showing me graphs of paths I didn't take.

The problem with people misusing and blindly trusting LLMs could be easily solved by showing a monkey avatar near every response.

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game design, coding, art... all of these skills are trivial compared to the most important aspect of indie game development: having 10 friends who will leave a positive steam review on day 1