DREW 🖱 Pogo3D

INDIE GAME DEVELOPER! I Made Pogo3D

Behind our efforts, let there be found our efforts.

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[DREW 🖱 Pogo3D @hedgewizards]

pogo3d is 25% off for the Steam Summer Sale! I hope you will give it a try

[Valve @valvesoftware]

Announcing: New @Steam Hardware, coming in 2026:

Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame

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[DREW 🖱 Pogo3D @hedgewizards]

poor guy... if i had 100,000 12 year olds begging me to work on a game i knew would flop i would crash out too

[DREW 🖱 Pogo3D @hedgewizards]

@TynanSylvester i think developers underestimate the amount of simple verbs out there. there's a lot of great simple concepts lying right at our fingertips, the real challenge is drawing a 5$ 3+ hours experience out of it, since steam has decided that's the minimum

[Tynan Sylvester @TynanSylvester]

Lots of games can be made by just starting to mess around and seeing what works. You get a guy on screen, have him jump on stuff, or shoot stuff. Or you put a city on screen, click on squares to build houses. And so on.

Such games are easy to find because they don't require a theory of what's going to work. You just try random simple things and see what feels good and chase that. It's not easy to do well, but it's a shallow process.

But as time goes on, such low-theory games are more and more oversaturated. The basic "objects bumping into each other" and "map painting" and "number goes up" designs are more and more already done.

To succeed in the future, designers will need to start having actual theories about what will work. They'll need to be able to posit a design that can't be built in a game jam, and why it works, and be correct, and then build that. There's a huge universe of games that can't be made by just trying simple verbs and seeing what feels good first try.

It means that in the future, design insight and analytical ability will become more and more essential in making a successful game. If everyone is doing basic and obvious designs, the differentiators are tech, art, writing, or marketing. In the new era, the differentiator will be whether you are able to find a great set of mechanics that nobody else can find.

[DREW 🖱 Pogo3D @hedgewizards]

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[DREW 🖱 Pogo3D @hedgewizards]

Episode 2 of cool wikipedia pages
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[DREW 🖱 Pogo3D @hedgewizards]

Episode 1 of cool wikipedia pages
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[DREW 🖱 Pogo3D @hedgewizards]

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[DREW 🖱 Pogo3D @hedgewizards]

like if you're reading this it's our little secret

[DREW 🖱 Pogo3D @hedgewizards]

text posting is fun because nobody sees it

[DREW 🖱 Pogo3D @hedgewizards]

go into any chatroom full of programmers and ask a programming question and time how long it takes them to start arguing about OOP

[DREW 🖱 Pogo3D @hedgewizards]

@glockofseagulls counterstrike ass pool

[DREW 🖱 Pogo3D @hedgewizards]

who needs odin when you do it yourself...

[DREW 🖱 Pogo3D @hedgewizards]

yeah that smells good... right guys

[DREW 🖱 Pogo3D @hedgewizards]

i really like video games

[moe @moe9times]

so if sinclair and doorman both ult at the same time, both people get to fight in the baroness - deadlock is so cool

[DREW 🖱 Pogo3D @hedgewizards]

@GramanhFolcwald it's interesting like PEAK has some pretty sick looking shots but you look at the material work on the textures and it's all really barebones and sometimes even abstract

[𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐍 @GramanhFolcwald]

People rediscovering that lower def video game graphics often had better and more memorable aesthetics is just another instance of people realizing what the essence of cartooning is. What boiling a visual down to its pure essence through process (and in the case of limited graphical capability, necessity) of elimination was. Creative and ingenious solutions to visual communications problems are bolstered through limitation, and those solutions are often timeless, brilliant and truthful.

[DREW 🖱 Pogo3D @hedgewizards]

and I'm starting to see context from previous queries polluting future queries with those hallucinations too!
very excited for the future!

[DREW 🖱 Pogo3D @hedgewizards]

wow GPT 5! these numbers are getting really big
now i get FIVE unasked for code "upgrades" and 5/5 of them are hallucations instead of just one. and it hallucinates while summarizing the stuff it has changed...