IllTemperedTuna

We are the Vengeance of gamedev

[IllTemperedTuna @SeaCritDev]

So I’ve decided to finally take the jump and post some gamedev on THE TWATTERS. I feel a little silly doing so after wasting so many years arguing about Star Wars, but it is what it it is.

Better late than never!

Got a bit of work to waveswim done, and I implemented some new systems where when you smack fish about they spin around a bit, it's a twist on stun that I think will be a great means of allowing the player to really dominate weak fish, but enemies that are immune to this sort of control will be much harder to fight.

There is so much about this that is rough around the edges and needs improving part of me wants to never make a public update, but I also realize that it’s important we at least try to post this crap, start figuring out what sticks, or at the very least, forum slide all the stupid crap we shit posted over all these deranged years XD

SeaCrit is not perfect, dunno how much further we have to go until it’s actually worth showing off, but i figure eh, let’s try to start getting our head into this marketing game and try to feel this space out, we have nothing to lose.

I'm going to guess we get maybe 12 views on this post and we’ll be lucky to get a single reply, but we gotta start somewhere. That said I do think our project is becoming pretty neat and hopefully not a total waste of others' time.

#indiegaming

[IllTemperedTuna @SeaCritDev]

@TheBuzzSaw @ALegendaryDrops Rofl, MY BAD!

I need to curtail my shit posting for the greater good

[IllTemperedTuna @SeaCritDev]

@TheBuzzSaw @ALegendaryDrops rofl, I don't know why I argue this stuff, Steam is actually pretty great.
I guess I just like arguing with people XD

[IllTemperedTuna @SeaCritDev]

Microsoft built the Xbox platform and the core games that drew players.

As did Sony, as did Nintendo. We just got a game set in the God of War universe the other day. There's a Zelda movie in the works, they're putting out more Halo.

Do you see how these corporations and storefronts are producing things that lend value to the storefront and make it relevant?

Developers are giving up a % to have access to the audience that these massive publishers and storefront owners fostered with tremendous ammounts of investment and quality games and community ecosystems fostered with their own games that you reach through their store fronts and consoles.

Valve did this once upon a time with the Orange Box. That was decades ago.

Apple does the same thing, they suck up a massive 30% and they don't do shit. It's terrible. And they rightfully get a ton of shit for it.

But for whatever reason you guys simp for this automated server farm that extracts all the money out of this industry and ejects it into the ether.

Yeah the servers are fast, yes the architecture is smooth and well crafted.

You're not gong to be able to convince me that that entitles Valve to 30% of every single PC game made under the sun. Or somehow convince me the rampant and unfettered praise they receive incessantly is well earned.

[IllTemperedTuna @SeaCritDev]

These posts are so assinine and juevenile.

They're not made in good faith, they're not trying to coax people with good will, or extensions of olive branches.

People just need to point the finger any more and denegrate.

"I'm better than all of you chuds, everyone who disagrees with me is an incel, a woman hater, anyone who doesn't want to play this game is toxic and evil."

And then people wonder... "Why on Earth is this space so unbelievably toxic?!"

GOSH WHO COULD EVER GUESS!?

It's you dick bags. Judgmental white knight douchers are that element that changed and started pointing fingers and judging and making demands in recent years.

No one had a problem with strong women, or with this game or that game until the purity tests came, until games became a vehicle to shove people's noses in shit, and as some kind of morality dick measuring contest.

All the attention seeking, virtue signaling Karens White Knighting for an audience that doesn't exist.

We used to have arguments about talent trees, frame rates, graphical bells and whistles.

Now all anyone whines about is chuds this, incels that...

It's so fucking tired.

Grow up. People aren't going to bow to your self affirming demands so you can feel like some savior white knight. This behavior isn't going to get your laid, or even beta access (no wait, that might actually be true).

It's cringe as fuck.

[Jono T @JonoTendler]

Also, the actress playing her (Deborah Ann Woll) is gorgeous, she's a legit nerd in real life who plays D&D, and she's one of the kindest & most genuine people. Why WOULDN'T hardcore God of War fans get excited for a little side game with Faye?? Little boys afraid of cooties?

[IllTemperedTuna @SeaCritDev]

@RealBSP3 Ok, I gotta be fair here.

The Orange Box was fire.

That earned them a decade of dominance.

But the endless ball washing is getting a little ridonculous at this point.

[IllTemperedTuna @SeaCritDev]

It's a file hosting service dude.

They employ like 50 people, most of them just make sure the servers are on.

You people romanticize this company as if they maintained all of PC gaming through tremendous hard work, hand held these developers to glory.

They just shaved 30% off the top for 20 years running a server farm.

But because all your games were on their servers your brains affiliate those experiences with Steam. And Steam exploits THE HELL out of that good will, and position your people like attack dogs to sniff out any and all topics of dissenting opinion.

Valve gets all the good will of all the great games they exploit 30% out of.

[IllTemperedTuna @SeaCritDev]

"Thank you lord Gaben, on this holy day for protecting us from the evils of lower prices"

You guys are a throng of tribalist ball washers at this point.

Want to simp for Valve's superior platform, superior features and egonomics? Go for it, totally legitimate, I won't call anyone out for speaking that truth, but so much of the idolization of this company is inane and juvenile.

It really is cult like, and you guys support one another like a cult, and anyone that speaks out of turn must be burned at the cross like a heretic.

It's cringe.

[IllTemperedTuna @SeaCritDev]

@chamath We'll never get an improved world because you guys are too accustomed to being liked by the goofballs you uplifted to positions of power.

You're all part of the inane morality machine that takes satisfaction in destroying all that is good and hard earned for notions of virtue.

[IllTemperedTuna @SeaCritDev]

@SilverHaze17 @ALegendaryDrops Cool, well i'm happy with the arguments i've presented and I'm more than happy with you rolling around in that puddle of goofy memes.

Was fun chatting.

[IllTemperedTuna @SeaCritDev]

You're projecting.
All your brain is hard wired to do is gargle Gabe's nutsack.
I have presented simple cases that show your double standards.
You just going to present me idiot memes that justify your inane stance.
Or do you acutally hav a thought you want to float across that has merit?
I wish i could say this conversatoin was rare, but all you Valve glazers are the same, it's like talking to a 5 year old trying to explain to them santa clause isn't real.
This isn't a rational argument, you're just a child that loves valve and you're clinging to that infantile world view.
But please, enlighten me as to why I'm an imbicile and not undrestanding your well thought arguments on why Valve is just so amazign and every other company is evil.

[IllTemperedTuna @SeaCritDev]

@TheFlexington @ALegendaryDrops Valve put out VR headests that now collect dust. They put out digital card games no one plays.
That's blatently anti consumer.
Now their new overpriced hardware is anti consumer.
Just come out and say you guys are biased as hell and own it.

[IllTemperedTuna @SeaCritDev]

@SilverHaze17 @ALegendaryDrops So if the game had been named "Space Game" instead of "Metroid", that makes it anti consumer?

[IllTemperedTuna @SeaCritDev]

@ryanels @grok what's a vibe coder?

[Sos "Wishlist Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @Sosowski]

Making video games

[Destin @DestinLegarie]

Some of the wild stuff y'all are saying because some people might miss Kratos a bit is a tad much.

Laufey is probably going to be great. It's Santa Monica. They don't miss.

It's also ok to also miss The God of War in a God of War game.

Sheesh.

[IllTemperedTuna @SeaCritDev]

@nekaishi Here's hoping we don't have to talk about this ideological blight much longer, because I think most everyone is tired of this crap!

Can we just get back to fighting orcs, teleporting through pipes, and building cities!?

Good grief.

[Epic Mike @The_Epic_Mike]

We ignoring Expedition 33, Elden Ring, Tears of the Kingdom and Hogwarts Legacy?

Massively popular universally loved games with female characters that were explicit or sexualized?

That narrative really dont hold up under scrutinty

[IllTemperedTuna @SeaCritDev]

Women are agreable. It was a throng of dudes who created the positive feedback loop.

If you look around, it's far more dudes hoping on their soap boxes and White Knighting to a throng of dudes.

There are almost no women in the conversation at all, unless it's agitators on the sidelines engagement farming.

Because the truth that everyone understands is God of War is a game for dudes.

It's a high paced action game where you spin in cirlces with swords and axes and shit.

This conversation isn't about women in gaming, it's about the Karens that have subverted this space (yes, women and dudes can both be Karens) exerting their will, and doing the usual bullying in order to solidify their space at the top of the totem pole.

It happened on social media, it happened in the communities of gaming, and most importantly, it happened in the heart of gamedev in the teams that actually make these games.

Most don't give a shit if a women is in the game or not, so long as the developers love the IP, so long as they earnestly work their asses off and try to make great games and suffer and bleed for their craft.

Plenty of hugely succeful games with strong empowered characters in them.

But you'll notice something if you analyze those games, they didn't shove the audiences noses in shit for idiological reasons.

It's not fucking complicated.

Everyone can see through the moral posturing at this point, this post modern fever dream is on it's way out, no one stopped it, it simply ceased to exist because amidst all the affirmations and smarm, no one took it upon themselves to wrok hard and make quality video games.

It was a big self serving fucking con job.