Mattzo Retsyn

I'm back to dev'in on stream. www.twitch.tv/retsyn6502 Working on the new texturing tool for THUNDER AXIS and all indie devs who wanna use it! #godotengine #godot #indiedev #indie

Every new idea is a deadly meteor threatening to smash into and destroy an earlier idea.

I was gonna charge my laser even longer to be smug to NFT nerds, but this guy chose today. The fine vintage needed to be tasted some day. And it's good.

I reckon NFTs are gonna kick in any day now. The future of games.

Headline: Kenney bodies dumb billionaire.

As consumers, we can choose a house full of devices that refuse to connect with this crap. There are people out there living phone-less existences and they wake up each day. Let's learn from them.

I think soon I'll be showing some speed paints... In my suite that _I made_! What could be a better test flight?

@danjohnston.uk hey, I'd love to be added to the No AI indie games list. I'm working on AI-less games, and custom dev tools in the hope that the accessibility AI apologists crave can be demonstrated other ways. Thanks for considering me!

Read this thread right here. This is the damage, this is the price. Wounds inflicted directly on the type of person who TRAINS (unwillingly) your fucking models. Where will your slop machines be when the rest of us refuse to feed them our talents?

I've been devoted to a pact of non-violence in all things in all ways, but I'm thinking about changing that-- FOR SPORT that is! (don't put me on a list.) I'm getting more interested in fitness and the healthier I get the more I wanna get up and... swing weapons like old times. #HEMA #fencing

Flat Earthers think CG artists work tirelessly to fake footage from the ISS and NASA. Man I wish that were true. I could have a cushy government job and consistent work.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Technical Artist: The cup you have in mind might seem really simple, but there's basically no way to fill it without imposing some extremely counterintuitive limitations on the shape of the cup, or melting your GPU.

Popped over to Twitter to half assedly promote something, and the feed is nearly 100% people I do not follow and do not know using grok to undress people. I guess everyone I followed left. But Holy shit what a catastrophic crater it became.

@humblemudgames.bsky.social gives the upcoming Poulet A+ for #Arduboy a shout out! (And documents all the best stuff in the Arduboy library!-- if you're new to #Arduboy this vid is a perfect introduction.) youtu.be/_TZnPKsxbY0?... #1bit #lowspec #platformer

I’M FINALLY OPEN FOR COMMISSIONS AGAIN! After a cat cancer scare, surgery, infection, and heal-up and then a horrible inner ear infection of my own I NEED INCOME (BADLY) and can make some dope art for you in exchange! No NSFW, no AI ever Email or DM me to discuss what you’d like 👍

I think devs I respect use UE to some degree of success, but when you use FAB store stuff, it's got undocumented "features" that are hard to reverse engineer, you can't tell why your edits don't work, etc etc. If I did a true project in Unreal perhaps I'd like it, but this asset flip project? blah.

Three straight days of debugging someone else's UE asset has come to a close. FML. #ue

Shigeru Miyamoto says the games that resonate most with players all around the world aren’t those deliberately designed for global appeal, but those based on a developer’s personal interests. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/miyamot...

"The newly appointed Minister for AI is expected to meet with the Minister for NFTs, Lord Blockchain and the Secretary of State for Pogs this afternoon."

PYROMANCER is out NOW!!! Download it for free on itch!!! elliesprites.itch.io/pyromancer

I thought Poulet on the #Arduboy would reach too small an audience, but #Anbernic owners using #Knulli can get in on it! #1bit #rom #retrogame

Hey #PortfolioDay I’m Jeff, an illustrator and comic artist with a vibrant chameleon style looking for work in comics, publishing, video games, and more! I also create the webcomic HAMMERHEAD 🎨 jeffpennington.art 🔗 jeffpennington.carrd.co 📫 contact@jeffpennington.art 🍖 hammerhead.webcomic.ws

Stupid fucking kid not able to make a proper illustration on their own... what a fucking idiot. This is the real problem today, shitty kid's art that isn't ready for the publishing world.

A realization... vt.tiktok.com/ZSX6f26FM/ #aibros

Stack cats and soar to whole new heights! Wishlist Copy Cats on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4700300/... #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #puzzlegame #cats

Journey of the Garden Rose is 20% off in the Steam Summer Sale! store.steampowered.com/app/3692110/...

Everyone and their aunt has implemented a Voxel Engine. This one is #godotengine with #csharp. I needed a break from #ThunderAxis ! #sideproject #minecraft #voxels #gamedev

I am working on stuff constantly, it just isn't producing visuals or otherwise publishables. I am still here!

This makes me so Happy! I don't know how many people enjoy my game on the regular, but it's not a lot. Big thanks to @mwdashadow.bsky.social ! I also never imagined times like this.

I got Poulet Poulet down to a 32:09, with my first deathless run. I'm leaving it here for now, and I plan to come back to this game in the future. A sub-30 is definitely possible with what I know now, and there may be more to discover. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ79...

Today I saw beautiful cartoon animation in a VFX film. Waste of a great animator on the wrong job. People will call it "bad VFX" in spite of it being beautiful- just because it doesn't read as real. And they would be right, really. I never call out the film or studio as a rule. #animation #vfx

Working in CG I've seen leaps and bounds in deformers and rigs in my 13 years. And lo, the complexity and timelines just keeps up, or indeed overtakes any time we win.

even if LLM actually made gamedev more efficient, which I see no reason to believe it has or will, that won't reduce crunch, because the business people will just push harder until you're crunching again. When a tool increases worker productivity, that doesn't translate into better work hours.

A concept I'm on high alert for now is "Productivity Theatre". I've heard it dropped discussing businesses relationship to tech before, but having worked in offices for decades now, I think it's older than we realize. #middlemanagers

Hooked my student up with a potential client-- looked good, despite the AI slop "reference" image, and thing were trucking along. Then, actual compensation gets brought up, and suddenly silence. #paypeople #exposure

I'm embarking on a big, unusual project the likes of which I don't usually pursue (in between everything else). Unlike most of my projects, this one is inspired by an ethical calling I can't ignore.

AI in the wild makes me spicy angry. AI in the workplace I onced loved makes me cold-oatmeal sad.

I buy new beard clippers any time I misplace the charging cable. That's normal right? Everyone does that?

Wtf did I miss StarFox news?

Me in therapy: "I wanna tell everyone who wants to embrace AI in our workplace to stfu, and I want to be somewhat hostile about it-- please tell me not to." Therapist: "No can do. You need to yell at nerds for your mental health. That'll be $150 please."

Every metal show in Toronto is dreadfully oversold

Let's play "WHAT IS MATT GETTING AT?" So, humankind already possesses technology to travel space way faster than we do, bringing Mars and beyond within reach. But we never built this, because for it to work, the material cost, danger, and surrounding ethical concerns were too great.

Tonight's drone. #shmup #lowpoly #godotengine

People have children, and they rightly wanna raise them instead of doing creative nerdy shit with me. But that's where my queer friends come to the rescue. They will always be there to do nerdy shit with me. #friendOfGayDorks

Smart investors know it's all about Landfills in New Mexico.

@tributegames.com it's not presently possible to play Panzer Paladin on Switch 2! :(