Michael_Game_Developer

Michael_Game_Developer

@poeticprogrammer.bsky.social

⚔️ Indie Game Developer ☘️ Irish 🧑‍🦽 Disabled ❤️He/Him 🎮 Games 🎹 Piano 🎸Guitar 🎨Art ❌ No Gen AI

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Update 2: Added more consistent lighting, new painting and some new tiles. Fi is now in the scene ready to save Ve. The arcades now have a screen which hopefully brings them to life. There are some animations but as this is a picture and I cant change reality, you will have to trust me 😁 #gamedev

Michael_Game_Developer@poeticprogrammer.bsky.social

Update 1: New arcade machines, added some tiles, added lighting...I'm terrible at UI stuff but I think I'm happy with this. Maybe me and UI can be friends after all 😀 #gamedev

Dev Story 😀 Show UI Popup please 🤖 There is no UI element 🙂 There is, I sent an event to the UI Scene 🤖 No UI element 😠 It's right there! 🤖 No UI element 🤬 Useless, stupid game en.... 😳 I didn't add the UI scene to the build 🤖 Fucking Hell #gamedev

And so concludes my pointless rhymes. Of the Resident Evil timelines. We all learned something valuable, To mute my account...but before you go, Play a Resident Evil game to make you big and strong, They have zombies, wolves, and monkeys too, you really can't go wrong.

Michael_Game_Developer@poeticprogrammer.bsky.social

I was going through my poetry session from the past few days and found this beautiful couplet, which you'll agree, rivals histories greatest: A glass of pepsi, nice and cold. Resident Evil 7 Mould. #poem

Stop! Don't open that door! Shambling monsters without adore Will slash and bite and deeply perturb! To return to health you'll need a herb Of red and green should do the trick Watch out for Wesker, he's a bit of a dick. #ResidentEvil #poem

I wrote this in a pain and fever induced state last night. Upon reflection it may be a tad over dramatic. Death death, where is death? He ignores my pain, my every breath, Screaming silence within my soul, He ignores me still, the bloody troll. #poetry #poem

They say pain and suffering builds character. Well I'd very much like to move on from the character creation screen and start playing the actual game. What are the controls? I can't even get the walking mechanics right.

A Poem On Regret I must confess with the strongest stress That I've made a mess in judgement, I make no excuse for my shameful sin. That sin shall now be uttered: To make it scan I must include a sad and lonely turtle. I do not know, not in the least, what in the fuck is Wordle #poetry (probably)

I will scream into the void until nothing returns but my own regrets. (I thought I'd start practicing composing silly phrases that mean absolutely nothing in case I become an old rich powerful man who says deep and meaningful things that are shallow and pointless)

I may have a temperature. I rhyme when I have a high temperature. I rhyme when I have a low temperature. A temperature high or low, Tis a time to rise and sow The seeds of beat and flow, Give me my medication, yo.

The people who actively protest sick people getting benefits should come here so I can vomit at them 😃 Whilst you are here, be a dear, pass me my walking stick, and help me debed this treaded dreaded slab I lay, careful not to slip or you may, daresay, be crippled too one day.

Update 1: New arcade machines, added some tiles, added lighting...I'm terrible at UI stuff but I think I'm happy with this. Maybe me and UI can be friends after all 😀 #gamedev

Michael_Game_Developer@poeticprogrammer.bsky.social

Not a bad start to the level select screen 😁 I think everything is in place to code this, once everything works I'll keep improving the visuals. Slowly but surely this demo is coming along. #gamedev #solodev

With AI coming to the internets rescue I have seen some statements like: - People aren't good at code - Anti-AI people are just "braindead" haters. I want to push back a little on this. (From a random professional software dev from a random place on a random planet)

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I do hate what AI currently stands for. How much it's infected everything. How the word consent has a variable meaning. But it's not from a "braindead" blind hatred. When knowledge isn't earned it's seldom respected.

I believe the technology of AI could be used ethically and respectfully. But it simply isn't right now I fully admit my views are biased. Completely. But to call me, and people like me, braindead, is simply not accurate.

With AI coming to the internets rescue I have seen some statements like: - People aren't good at code - Anti-AI people are just "braindead" haters. I want to push back a little on this. (From a random professional software dev from a random place on a random planet)

People are great at coding. I've seen people throughout my career who made me believe code is an art as much as a technical exercise. What most coders aren't so good at is stress coding, which is what a lot of professional environments call for.

We write code on the spot, to solve a problem, when the code "works" we are told to move on. If given a reasonable amount of time we would then refine the code to make it more readable and efficient - hence more reliable.

Have I successfully built the first Demo build of my game? Yes I have, thank you for asking. Is the demo build working as it should be? That's absolutely none of your business and I'm insulted by the implication! You should feel ashamed of yerself!

Tomorrow I return to the lovely world of game dev, after a brief sickness. Before then, just some random thoughts: Elephants are amazing. Bob Mortimer should be in everything. Discworld is better than Round World. Pain sucks. Learning things is beautiful. You all are amazing. See ya tomorrow 😁

A social situation I never know how to deal with is when parents complain about their kids: Parent: Tim just keeps forgetting to pack his bag Me: Yeah, it's hard to keep track (good Michael) Parent: No, it's every bloody day! Me: Yeah, what a prick (Bad Michael) UNSUCCESSFUL INTERACTION

Whimsical fear is fast to fall when age wears through the night, Floating ghosts no longer haunt, vampires lose their bite, But I miss the fear, the scares that jump from anticipated shock, This Halloween I dare to dream that scares will loudly knock. #poetry #poem

Hey, so here's a clip from a video of me talking about gen AI people claiming fair use because they are so very transformative. I think it cuts right to the heart of the matter with a conclusion you'll surely agree is concluding.

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I want the game to be fully voiced and there's gonna be quite a lot of characters so I need to take some short cuts somewhere. The five main girls will have a full set of mouth shapes but I think just this one mouth shape + expressions is enough for every minor character. #gamedev #blender

History is full of characters like Cyrus the Great, and William the Conqueror, etc. I want future history to record characters like: Cian the Lad Micheal the Mad Wan Ciara the Deadly Gerard the Bollocks Tom the Slightly Aggravated Dara the Weirdly Flatulent

I'm recovering from an illness and couldn't do much work so I wrote a cover of Go Tell Aunt Rhody from Resident Evil 7, but I didn't have a video to go with it so I had to draw the cover image from the game...for no reason at all. I hope the sound works 😁

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Hey friends! You can request access to the Good Folk Café playtest as part of Steam #CookingFest! I'm the lead writer on this game, and for this playtest, you may hear my voice too 👀 If you love Ireland, foraging and delighting in the unknown, then: store.steampowered.com/app/4369850/...

store.steampowered.comGood Folk Cafe on SteamForage for wild plants, craft bespoke dishes, and delight your otherworldly clientele in this cosy, atmospheric management game. Hone your craft as you collect special equipment and useful folklore by...