George Laskowsky

@glaskows@mastodon.gamedev.place
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I've been programming games most of my life, games you either never heard off or cared about.

In my spare time I like playing with retro computers and games.

My current professional role is Head of Platform: planing and prioritising the improvements affecting all games at the company.

Living in Germany, born in Chile.

#ScreenshotSaturday I wanted to share some of my favorite recent screenshots from Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. It is on schedule for full release this coming Thursday, so pray for me! :)

#Cats #GameDev

https://steamcommunity.com/games/2958790/announcements/detail/510711823303966729?snr=2___

I need to pitch my game idea next Tuesday, but I haven't made a live pitch since my startup phase more than 10 years ago.

The funding I am applying to doesn't bring big bucks, but it doesn't ask for equity or co-investment.

With it, I pretend to hire a couple of artist to work with us for 3 months and prepare the project for a bigger funding round.

While not winning doesn't kill the project, it will surely slow it down. Lets hope for the best!

This was in the latest bookshop.org newsletter:

"Where You Shop Matters
Amazon doesn’t care about books. They don’t care about maintaining a healthy literary ecosystem where new voices are discovered and important ideas are shared. They don’t care about sponsoring your local little league team or hosting a summer reading challenge designed to keep children learning. They want you to purchase things (so. many. things.) and they don’t care when you return it and it becomes trash.

Independent bookstores aren’t just bookstores. They are pillars of their communities and supporting them means supporting all of the incredible work they do beyond selling books.

They’re invaluable. Amazon is not."

Amen to all of this. If you have an Amazon account, end it, and support your local independent book shop instead.

#supportlocal #fuckamazon
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States and there always has been.” — Isaac Asimov.
Been writing my #Sega #Dreamcast #programming book for years. Trimmed it down to 143 pages without the #source #code snippets, but it's slowly expanding back out as I add the images I've created over the years. I want to make this available for free to everybody eventually.

I want to try learning analog electronics for the nth time in my life. I know the basics, but I want to get into more complex topics.

Can anyone recommend good sources in the internet?

#electronics

Yesterday I had a fight with my game design partner about the use of AI in video game production.

I don't want that shit anywhere near my games, he is worried about surviving as a small inde studio.

Leaving all its issues behind, he was trying to make a case for mechamical repetitive tasks... but I don't see it, there are already good tools to cover many repetitive tasks already. I do believe there is creativity and learnings involved in repetitive work.

Am I being too extreme?

Throwing a massive sale on Steam and itch! Get picoCAD as well as all my games for really cheap!

Steam https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/38093/Apskeppet_Mega_Bundle/
Itch https://itch.io/s/155911/summer-sale-2025

#pixelart #gamedev #screenshotSaturday

The world is preoccupied while Gaza is being annihilated off-screen.The massacres continue100 martyrs &hundreds wounded today. A day that reminds us of the early days of aggression.
Every hour since dawn, there has been a massacre An urgent call to donate blood.
An urgent call to provide hospital beds for the wounded.An urgent call to bring in medical supplies and infant formula.An urgent call to deliver fuel to hospital
An urgent call do not forget Gaza.
Help please 🙏
https://gofund.me/d01c555b
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