Cristian Soulos

Just a programmer @spryfox. Father of two princesses. Guitar, soccer, bbqs with friends. Latest: Bushido Bear, Triple Town, Alphabear, Road Not Taken

[Cristian Soulos @cristian3d]

Game development technique applied to architecture

[Cozy Grove @CozyGrove]

Cozy Grove is a spooky love letter to all people - both kids and adults - who enjoy games like Animal Crossing. Launching in the first half of 2021!

Join our Discord: https://t.co/M1nbPWBEKq
Wishlist on Steam: https://t.co/ZdQ3Iz5hfb
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[Cozy Grove @CozyGrove]

Make sure to keep your eyes peeled when strolling along the shoreline or you might miss some things! 👀

[Cozy Grove @CozyGrove]

Pesky imps!

[Cozy Grove @CozyGrove]

Cozy Grove is blessed with world-renowned natural resources, like... leaf piles! And wooden sticks!

[Cozy Grove @CozyGrove]

Our intrepid camper trading some goods with one of the local merchants. Time lapse drawing by our Art Lead, @Yuemi22!"

[Cozy Grove @CozyGrove]

The campfire is warm and friendly... and hungry.

[Cozy Grove @CozyGrove]

We've been hard at work here at Spry Fox and are finally ready to start pulling back the curtain for a peek at what we've been working on...

[Renee Gittins | Potions: A Curious Tale @RikuKat]

All day tomorrow will be a collection of amazing panels and talks from leaders in the #gamedev industry about tools for coping with the challenges of this current crisis!

So much hard work put into this! I'm super excited for it.

https://t.co/STPkh8kn2X

[Spry Fox @spryfox]

Spry Fox is exactly ten years old today! That's one decade's worth of weird-but-adorable bears (not to mention birds, lost children, spirits, and a multitude of others.)

Thanks for helping us make it this far. We love you all.

[Spry Fox @spryfox]

The Steambirds Alliance beta has officially ended, and the game has now launched on Steam! It offers:

* Skill-based, bullet-hell MMO goodness
* 100% cooperative play
* Completely free to play
* Completely NOT pay to win

Download for PC & Mac now! https://t.co/Zb8PC1ALZn

[Spry Fox @spryfox]

If you live in the USA, Australia or New Zealand, we have a surprise for you: Alphabear Hustle, a new, realtime multiplayer Alphabear game, is now live and playable with your friends on Snapchat!

[Spry Fox @spryfox]

We've been working on Steambirds Alliance, our massively-cooperative bullet-hell shooter, for over 5(!!!) years, and it's finally coming out this summer, and here's the trailer!

https://t.co/UtBGR17nJF

[Just another user @djedery]

Oh, hey, look at that: a real-time multiplayer version of Alphabear will be appearing on Snapchat soon. :-) https://t.co/J56dWqqyzn

[Cristian Soulos @cristian3d]

Any sufficiently advanced game development stage is indistinguishable from hell

[Cristian Soulos @cristian3d]

Today is the best day

[Daniel Cook (also on mastodon) @danctheduck]

Proud that my incredibly talented wife @besttoro was the main Japanese translator on 4(!) of the 2019 GDC nominations. It is a quiet job, rarely credited, but I appreciate all her hard work.

[Spry Fox @spryfox]

Alphabear 2 T-shirts are now available via Amazon in a variety of colors and bears! Check it out. :-)
https://t.co/iLrcLBBo8t

[Spry Fox @spryfox]

Happy Father's Day from our family to yours!

[Cristian Soulos @cristian3d]

@billchristian I might also mention refactoring should be a essential part of the process.

[Cristian Soulos @cristian3d]

Top 15 things to minimize when programming:
-duplication
-special cases
-boilerplate
-complexity
-dependencies
-conditionals
-hardcoded solutions
-large functions/classes
-globals
-poor naming
-comments
-parameters
-primitives
-magic numbers/strings
-reinventing the wheel

[Cristian Soulos @cristian3d]

@billchristian :) Yep, distractions tend to make it harder to follow that list. Same for fatigue. In fact is difficult to follow all guides at all times. But it helps to know what to aim for.