Jason Abbott

Game Programmer. He/Him
Mastodon: @[email protected]

[Jason Abbott @JasonAbbott]

@domthepatsfan @ShouldHaveCat Oh, you know, “pawsie”

[Coby West @HowdySkunk]

I designed a shirt!!! Its cute go buy it.

[Native Santa Cruz @NativeSantaCruz]

Have you heard the big news?
The Banana Slug is now the official state slug of California! Go Slugs!!!

[Nolan D. McCaskill @NolanDMcCaskill]

Texas has removed more than a million people from its voter rolls since 2021, Abbott says

[Jason Abbott @JasonAbbott]

@midnight_pals The sudden appearance of Guy N Smith made me laugh loud enough to wake the household.

[Delta 4 7 G @Delta47Gaming]

@Twitch fix your fucking app on iPhone. I haven’t had this much freezing and shutdowns in years. You brought out this shitty update that no one asked for, and it’s been damn near unusable since. Smh

[Coby West @HowdySkunk]

Hello! I'm still looking for work. I’m known for excelling in documentation, communication, filling gaps, and self managing. I’ve worked in design and programming and would be happy to fill either of those roles. find more at https://t.co/Dp8CpagvKp. RTs greatly appreciated <3

[Jason Abbott @JasonAbbott]

@GailSimone “The little fluffy grey cells.”

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Armed security didn’t stop the gunman at a store in Buffalo or a nightclub in Orlando. They couldn’t prevent shootings at schools in Santa Fe, Parkland or Uvalde. And now, even Secret Service couldn’t stop a shooting at a political rally in Pennsylvania.

It’s the fucking guns.

[Jason Abbott @JasonAbbott]

@DevSalvatrix @BrianPShea Certainly an easier time on the designers than my combo; Last Week Tonight and Path of Exile - although all the mascot bosses might be interesting.

[Jason Abbott @JasonAbbott]

@JesseCox Jack cheese, butter on the outside, tomato slices on the inside.

[Jason Abbott @JasonAbbott]

@TheCartelDel Is X-Com one word or two?

[passivestar @passivestar_]

Why Godot Engine? ✨

I made a thread some time ago on how engine choice doesn't matter as long as it does what you need. But I get asked more often recently why I use Godot myself, so here's a quick summary of my personal reasons ☕️

My reasons are these:

1. No account, no license servers. Under 100MB, very easy to download and get to work

2. Free and open source. I know the other big ones are also free (practically speaking), but to me this is not as much about money as it is about the peace of mind. It's yours to do whatever you want with forever. I see it as a safer time investment because there are much fewer ways to get screwed

3. The API and documentation are one of the best I've seen. If I want for example to resize the window, pause the game or run an OS shell command it only takes 20 seconds to figure out how to. I can focus on actually solving problems instead of fighting the engine

4. Flexible architecture. Godot is simple and lets you do whatever you want. If you want to apply every design pattern you know of - nothing is stopping you. But by default Godot isn't forcing anything on you

5. You don't need to install packages for basic functionality. Things you'll likely need in your games are in the engine, including a great UI system with support for theming, rich text, good input system, built-in shaders with a lot of features (like refraction), post-processing effects, dynamic GI, etc, all of that ships with the engine. There's also built-in tweening. Also there's only one render pipeline, so you'll only need to worry about engine versions when it comes to asset compatibility

6. Godot editor is a Godot game. There's practically nothing that you can't do in terms of editor customization. All of the knowledge you gain from learning Godot's UI system and the engine in general can be applied to making editor tools. Custom tools will help you make better games faster

7. Easy to modify and contribute. Editor compiles with a single command. Docs on compiling are very easy to follow. The engine code is also easy to read. Personally my background is mostly in higher level garbage-collected languages but I was still able to make some small contributions

8. A motivated team behind it. It's an open-source project so you can go to GitHub to see how much work is done every week (a lot). Everyone I personally talked to from the Godot team also seems very motivated to make Godot the best engine it can possibly be

Godot 4.x is a work in progress. It has some bugs and lacks some features that other engines have. But it's narrowing that gap (4.3 alone brings a ton of improvements). If the current development pace is any indication it will get solid fast, because it has everything it needs for that

Image credit: @KayLousberg

[Jason Abbott @JasonAbbott]

@LarsHoel_writer @RichardERock1 Oh yeah, but you how could you stop at just one of the cast members? They were all spot on:

[Jason Abbott @JasonAbbott]

@NerdShinobi Age 56, vacuums 2 (one roomba type and one traditional)

[Steven Spohn (Spawn) @stevenspohn]

I am very disheartened by my experience with @helldivers2. In order to play video games I use an infrared hat to relay movements I make with my head into keyboard presses. Helldivers 2 blocks the program from input. I have not met a game yet that blocks my hat, until now.

But even worse, they also block Dragon NaturallySpeaking-My dictation program that allows me to use my voice to speak to my computer, and Comfort on-screen keyboard-a virtual keyboard that allows the mouse to push keyboard keys.

Effectively, an anti-cheat protocol is blocking assistive technology inputs from being read by the game. I don't have a solution for this.

I hope to reach out to them and work with them on getting these things unblocked because anyone who needs any of those kinds of assistive technologies will not be able to liberate any democracy.

[:(){ :|:& };: 🏳️‍🌈 @calificio]

I wonder how much of internet you need to know to understand this picture.

[Jason Abbott @JasonAbbott]

@musicalvagabond Aqualung, by a country mile�� but Who’s Next (1971) would certainly be my second choice.

[Dan Vogt ✨ @dan_vogt]

Regular reminder that Adobe is abusive to its users. So don't be one.

[Andreea Chifu (keefu) @AndreeaChifu]

Devs who couldn’t go to GDC, we want to see your games. Post a link bellow #notatGDC #indiegames #videogames