there's an old CIA guide to the sabotage of organizations that includes the advice to constantly haggle over the precise wording of simple communication and ever since i read it i've become convinced about 80% of this app is engaged in a psyop oh good another tweet spinning out of my orbit so randos on this website can QRT me reading all sorts of bad intent behind this. i need to delete this app

well I woke up to 40k likes on what was essentially a shitpost so I figured maybe I should write something a little more coherent in case people are actually interested I like Dunkey, his videos are hilarious. But, while I do think he could make a successful go of this publishing thing if he's smart and learns quickly, his announcement video threw up some red flags for me as a developer.

aaaaaand muting that thread have fun everyone kinda shocked at the animosity towards that guy, i honestly find his videos entertaining but this business venture is .... fraught

lol dunkey starting a publishing company with the ethos "i have played so many games i know what makes them good and bad so i will only publish good ones" about to learn some stuff the hard way "here is my publishing company, please associate me with the best indie games of all time that i had nothing to do with but i DID play them" like what

if you're wondering why devs are so hostile towards idea guys, i encourage you to look at what went down with Forager there are certain red flags that separate a young person saying "i have a cool idea and i'm looking for people to collab with!" and a full-grown adult luring people in with the promise of securing funding later

i honestly think nintendo is the only game company doing AAA music

https://twitter.com/davemakes/status/1027301840029798400

once again thinking about the dolphin shoals sax solo

watching labyrinth for the first time and this may be a nuclear take but dark souls is 100% based on this i need to be so much higher for this

going through the IGF trailers the best I can and might highlight some games I hadn't heard of but look rad Airborne Kingdom - build a flying city??

watching old cartoons in HD is so wild, you can see the roughness of the line art, the slight shadow a character's animation cell casts on the background, the imperfect color mixing in the paint it's weird what you lose trying to continue this style in digital without quite understanding the subtle bits that make it work. Everything has the same super thin line weight (except the weird corn??) so depth has to be achieved by painting (really bad looking) BG shadows

I've made some mockups of some common menu issues I see in indie games (even high-profile indies and AAA sometimes) that could be pretty easily fixed with a better understanding of the problem I get a bit heated about this stuff because there are some really amazing games that run into these issues, and although my eyes aren't that bad, they're not getting any better with age. Plus, good accessibility is better for everyone all around

alright fine i registered @mixolumia god the marketing never ends what am i gonna do with it? I DON'T KNOW

well where did you get that name from friendo because it ain't mine i swear to god, the emails i get now... the bar is so low and yet

I talked a bit in the comments here about how I distinguish between thumbnails, wireframes, and mockups but I figured it might be worth it to make a little thread for anyone interested

https://twitter.com/celechii/status/1327102799587446784

I basically always start out with thumbnail doodles. These are usually inscrutable to anyone but me. They are entirely about problem solving, a quick and dirty way to help get ideas out of my head and into a space where I can see what really works and where the problems are

Mixolumia version 0.3.0 is out for Patreon folks! This is a HUGE update to the music system and includes player profiles and a bunch of other stuff
patreon.com/posts/mixolumi… Do all those flashy effects in Mixolumia cause an accessibility issue for you? I just pushed a small update that lets you turn all that stuff off if you want!