Jonathan Evraire

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Programmer at Snowed In Studios where I worked on Fallout Shelter and Forza Motorsport.

@evraire.bsky.social on BlueSky

here's the page I was linked to (from a tumblr post I've lost track of) on how to turn this off on various TVs:

https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smart-tv-snooping-features-a4840102036/

How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features

TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every other big brand.

Consumer Reports

Oh hey, I helped with this!

If you can support our small team's love letter to pulp sci fi and park sims, try it today and leave us a nice review! And please share with friends.

These first 24 hours mean a lot to the success and visibility of indie games!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2760580/Mars_Attracts/

P.S. If you try it and leave a Steam review, link it and lemme know, so I can pass it on to the team!

#GameDev #MarsAttracts #Gaming

Save 20% on Mars Attracts on Steam

Mars Attracts is a park management sim set in the iconic universe of Mars Attacks™. Play as the devious Martians as you construct detailed enclosures, manage staff, and most importantly - abduct and experiment on humans for the entertainment of your Martian guests!

Rec Room was a great place to work, but they had to lay off over half their staff, so I am looking for the next opportunity.

If you are looking for a senior graphics coder to solve all your rendering problems on any platform, either remote or in the Seattle area, I'd love to hear from you.

Picture is purely for attention, but I can drive pretty well.

Software should not require permission to be written.

Software should not require permission to be distributed.

Software should not have a central entity controlling it.

The future is decentralized, fuck your centralized signature verification checks.

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉

The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans.

Deadline: September 28th
More info 👇
https://grants.draknek.org/

Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship https://www.polygon.com/news/616835/visa-mastercard-steam-itchio-campaign-adult-games
Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship

Gamers are sending mass emails and phone calls to payment processors in protest over Steam and itch.io pulling adult games from their storefronts

Polygon
For "native" homebrew developers, a similar feature exists in the cartridge to load .ws/.wsc files to cartridge RAM. That one goes up to 85 KiB/s with the most recent optimizations.

The #KenneyJam (+ @KayLousberg) theme of 2025 is...

POWER!

Good luck to everyone participating, don't forget to drink plenty of water and take rest when needed 😴

If you are a Steam developer and recently got an email about a class action suit, it's legit and you should check out two sites and your options:
1) Good summary article: https://fixgamingchannel.com/valve-antitrust-lawsuit-steam/
2) https://valvepublisherclassaction.com (full info/docs)
#gamedev #IndieGameDev #steam #sgteamgame
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Further to my recent post, promoting KDE, I have observed that they have the following ongoing campaign:

https://endof10.org/

This capitalises on the opportunity presented by Microsoft discontinuing Windows 10, coupled with Windows 11's unreasonable new hardware requirements, forcing new PC purchases;

The "end of 10" campaign by KDE, encourages people to install *Linux* instead; it has a handy map of where you can go in your country to get help installing it.

Their mastodon is @Endof10