I feel like efficiency is underrated in modern game development. Modern games are huge and resource intensive, with a lot of overhead.

I have friends from playing League who played it because it's all their computer could run.

Running on anything widens your market a lot.

I think.

#indiegamedev #gamedev

✨ The game I dedicated my life to for the last two and a half years got finally announced!!

It's a non violent exploration adventure game in which you discover a Provence like planet with your van.

Go watch the trailer and wishlist if you like what you see 👀

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1582650/Caravan_Sandwitch

#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #videogames #wholesome #wholesomegames

OK #Linux community, listen up.

MS have done it again and people are looking for a way out.

DON'T TREAT NEWBIES LIKE SHIT.

DON'T ATTACK PEOPLE FOR ASKING QUESTIONS.

DON'T ATTACK PEOPLE FOR HAVING PROBLEMS.

DON'T TELL PEOPLE TO "GOOGLE IT" WHEN THEY COULDN'T POSSIBLY KNOW WHAT TO SEARCH FOR, OR HOW TO INTERPRET THE RESULTS THEY'D FIND.

DON'T BE A DICK.

Holy moly.

Folks, update to the latest #Mastodon version as soon as possible.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/security/advisories/GHSA-3fjr-858r-92rw

about a year ago i spent several months considering whether i would apply to attend art school, to become what is called a "Studio Artist" - a fine artist who sells their work to art galleries, and puts them in shows.

as a former university lecturer, i wanted to know what i was getting into. so i spent a lot of time visiting local universities and art colleges, researching their program requirements intensely. i talked to former students about their experiences.

i chose a university - it was local to me, and i didn't hate some of the art their students had put on display. it seemed decent enough.

so i began the application process, which required a portfolio. i began to assemble two decades worth of my creative work - mostly photography, digital illustration, and some interactives and game design.

and then i came across this stipulation, buried deep in the portfolio submission guidelines. reading between the lines: do not send in anime/manga, because it is beneath consideration.

i am not a manga/anime illustrator nor were my portfolio pieces. but it immediately gave me pause, because it revealed something about the political and cultural world of fine art - which had pre-defined value judgments about what "counts" as art.

when i think about animators like miyazaki or takahata and their work, there is no doubt in my mind that many are pieces of fine art - films that try to get at the core of the human condition through painstaking artistic skill. they are high bars to reach for, and no working fine artist that i know personally has come even close.

after much internal deliberation, i decided not to apply. i began to realize that many of the works of art i cherish would never be acceptable within the narrow academic-industrial definition of art. university lecturers and professors would, without realizing it, try to fuck the artist out of me. and they might even succeed.

if you've attended a university or work in any kind of place with a strong hierarchical culture, i am not saying anything new. this is the way those cultures work in producing working individuals.

i say this only to encourage, not to discourage: paint naked cartoony people, and draw furry elephants and alien planets and spaceships. they are valid forms of expression, and some of us derive just as much pleasure from them as from other more societally "acceptable" forms!

#art #manga #anime