David Jalbert 🦥

David Jalbert 🦥

@davidjalbertgames.ca

Indie game dev & artist from QC, Canada 🇨🇦 - Made the old-school FPS Extraneum 🔫 Get it on Steam! (link below) He/Him - Slop Hater, Art Lover - Proud Wheel Reinventor

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Heads up: I decided to make an alt account for my furry art. I'm not going to hide that I'm a big old furry but if you're not into that stuff, you can keep following this account for game dev stuff, and if you're into furry art, you can follow that one too! >>> @daveysloth.bsky.social <<<

The more I think about the industry and its downfall, the more I understand my own motivations for making games and art. I don't care about money. I want to create. I want to see what I can come up with on my own. And I want to see what others can do too. Jank is beautiful because it's human.

Which is why I hate you-know-what with a fiery passion. There are over 2000 games released each month on Steam, do you really need to churn out more of them that you didn't even care making on your own? If you care about something, you won't cut corners, and put in the necessary efforts.

We've been conditioned to aim for perfection. I've been guilty of that. I hated Extraneum for not being "as good as it could be". But it's already perfect, because it comes from me. It comes from a genuine place. Perfection is what comes from you. And I want more of that.

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This is such a wild statement, to not make stuff for specific audiences, and I do see a lot of that, even in game dev. Don't listen to that advice, please do very specific merch for very specific audiences, if people wanted generic stuff they can get it at walmart already! Those shirts rule btw!

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The silver lining about this is, maybe devs will stop trying to make games with bs gimmicks that are just "this game but with that twist". I wanna see more adventures! More storytelling! More little things that combine together to create an experience! You can't replicate that with a prompt!

BROK UNIVERSE 🐊🐀@cowcatgames.com

I might actually be in a good place regarding this. The value of my games is in the 2D animation frames, the narration, the characters...things that can't be easily reproduced. Are adventure games the future 😅

I would be making games, like I do now, but I would be way better off because I wouldn't have wasted so much time believing other people telling me it's not a real job and I needed to do something that was more well-paid and respectable, whatever that means. Believe in your dreams, folks!

I would have been an astronaut

You know how everyone's nostalgic for the old internet (and with good reason tbh)? I can bring that big 2006 deviantart energy, no problem~ (Was supposed to be a basic anatomy practice and I got carried away lol)

Do any of you have this thing, where you'll have a thought about something, and immediately you'll picture someone arguing in bad faith with your initial statement, and giving you shit about it, and pissing you off in the process? It's like having this internet troll constantly in your head.

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weird anti-vax conspiracy theorist who pisses in jars and thinks women are biologically disinclined from programming will prove that games are art with his new spiritual successor to goof troop for the snes where the characters say things like "can the mirrors repair my soul?"

My last ref sheet for my main OC was 2 years old and my style improved a lot since then, so I made a new one! Meet Davey the sloth! He's pretty much a cartoon version of myself at this point. #art #furryart

I know it's silly, but I'm almost afraid to be accused of using the slop machine bc the end result is too clean. I hate this timeline lmao Good excuse to post the sketches, anyway. I use Krita to do the ink, colors, and shading, but I like sketching with a good old no.2 pencil on printer paper.

If you're a closeted transgender, I truly hope you find the strength to come out soon, because you deserve to be who you are and be happy 🏳️‍⚧️❤️ It took me a lot of effort to come out as gay and it was a very slow process because I was so afraid, so I can't imagine how it must be for y'all.

I was able to automate my fur blending technique in Blender with a script, and I'm totally stoked! It's such a time saver! And that means I can now also automate pretty much anything! I knew learning Python was going to come in handy eventually :P

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Screw rigging for today, I had to redo the hair and fur, and also retopo the head because the mouth texture was warping too much because of the sharp center edge, and therefore I had to re-unwrap the uv map too. 🫠 Good thing I only texture the face because modeling eyes and mouths would kill me.

Drew proper facial features, redid the hair, thickened the neck a bit, and some other minor things. I can't believe it took me a whole afternoon for tiny lil details like that 😭 Ah well, I'm still learning, gotta take the time.

I'm super late to the party but if you like picross games like I do, and also cute rodents that you can dress up and arrange a home for, BUY THIS GAME!! It's so good, I legit never played a nonogram game with so much care and passion poured into it. And there's a free demo! PLAY IT!!

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Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old? ... in this case, "came out" means the US release, anyway.

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I'm giving you a night call to tell you how I feel

I was able to automate my fur blending technique in Blender with a script, and I'm totally stoked! It's such a time saver! And that means I can now also automate pretty much anything! I knew learning Python was going to come in handy eventually :P

And also yes, Davey is getting a new, improved 3d model! I learned a lot last month about modeling for animation and proper character topology, and this one's going to be *chef's kiss* 👌 Tomorrow will be about texturing and rigging.

So! Unity is also going all in with the ai slop. I haven't been using it for a while but I'm still selling a couple things on the asset store, so this affects me, unfortunately. As a dev, DO NOT fall for it. And here's why... 1/3

If you make your code more easily useable by an ai agent, you're sending the message that it's okay to have your work replaced by it. After all, why stop there? Also, this makes your code more easily stolen for the training algorithm. It's not slowing down the problem, it's enabling it further. 2/3

So why would Unity be shooting themselves in the foot like this? Same reason as every other ai business; short-term pump-and-dump scheme while investors are rock hard on the ai trend. Everyone who's not a C-suite has everything to lose. Always support human content, whether it's art or code. 3/3