Rodrigo Alem FernánDeath 🎃

Hi Bluesky gang! I'm Rod from Uruguay 🇺🇾 Been making games for ~15 years now. Lots of web games! Here some of the latest stuff I've worked on. Follow me for game dev and other shenanigans. Se habla español!

Something we all have to get better at... Unless they're journalists, Imma start muting some folks here

Psychonauts: Origins

👋 Hey so questions for the small indie game devs out there that participated in the Steam Next Fest: - How did you do? - How did the AI avalanche affected you? - Were you nervous about your game being vibe-cloned? - Are you considering changes to your marketing approach?

finally, the Ouya's time is here

man, I hate capitalism lol. the more you learn about capitalism, finance, stocks, trading, values whatever, you realize it's just the biggest fucking gambling scam pachinko game ever

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Kill them with indifference. Ostracize them. We've wasted enough time telling them they're wrong. Invest that time in your community.

Great thread. Great approach and explanation to our current creative landscape.

this is literally like, just a guy getting into his late twenties and realizing his shit is apart and needs to be put together. many such cases. wish it did not have the impacts it does on electoral politics

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 Neighbors did gooooood!

Its forever been the wildest thing being at games conferences -especially the largest ones- and the talk schedule is like - creating sincere art from playful naivete - balancing passion and health - how to dodge parental controls when monetizing toddlers - regrets from my 1st commercial codebase

On a small personal victory, managed to convince my right-leaning mom that, even though for her a billionaire is not a bad person, there should be a wealth *cap* and after that you should just give that stuff away. She basically reached to her own version of a wealth tax/tax the 1%.

I still can't believe there's a timeline where Discord didn't chicken out entirely out of running a store the second Epic showed up.

Days since I was seeing trash content in my timeline before realizing I was on the Discovery tab: [0]

cuando hay elecciones en algun pais de latinoamerica:

r/askycsupo

making games so you can hopefully afford to make more games is literally a different industry from grinding up people so number goes up and it is harmful to pretend otherwise regardless of whether or not we share a platform or a binary format

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

Oh no. Cult of the Lamb is too much "my thing". Guess Imma dive into it for the next months or so... I'm jealous of how their progression curve is so perfectly calibrated to always having a new thing to do. Amazing stuff.

being a dirtbag indie game dev means my finances are in shambles but on the bright side I haven't had to touch JIRA in years

I think it's odd to live in a time where we're just past the peak of everything. In less then two decades, billionaires have stripped all progress, turned to warmongering, and ensured we will all suffer for their pissing contest. That said, luggage wheels are great.

📢 Some exciting news! 🎉 Our upcoming next-generation runtime, GMRT, will be free for commercial use and source avaliable for all non-console platforms! READ MORE gamemaker.io/en/blog/gmrt...

“You can just start your own studio!” Brother I do not WANT to own a business. I don’t want to be anybody’s boss. I want to write, which is the thing i’m good at!!!

A sneak peek at new visuals and the updated Exhaustion State. New build coming soon mrmkl.itch.io/solar-flair-...

RT if you don't use AI for coding

Every time I see something Tim Sweeney posts it is entirely against my will.

I feel it's important to share this again. The internet is so hostile toward creators nowadays. I've seen people have their work stolen, and no longer feel comfortable sharing their creations. We can do better. Let's be supportive to the people that make this a better place! 💞

I know it’s sorta cheesy but someone posted this from Paris on Reddit and I felt this immediate rush of hope

Giving a gamedev talk at a local university tomorrow. This is my favourite slide:

this does inadvertently reveal that this is where 80% of employee time was going, too

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

Needless to say I have no possibilty at all to start a new studio endeavor now. I ran out of chips to play roullette. Glad I managed to make it work for some time with great collaborators, clients, business partners and friends. Now, at best, I'm freelancing while I try to land a job.

Great thread. "games are toys" has been very much my driving force career wise. In another timeline I would be a toymaker. Here, I make digital toys. And I have witnessed them become slot machines and/or skinner boxes. I hope there's a future where digital toymakers can make a living again.

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

wrote about it stanwixbuster.co.uk/blog/posts/2...