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Hi Internet! I'm making an isekai themed VR game, for Quest and Vision. Devlogging and chatting as I go. AMA! Follow the link to the Discord for more.

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@ZerinLABS How about this: I'm doing the #js13k gamejam, where we try to pack a game into 13kb of JavaScript. So far, I have a little Space Harrier clone! The theme is rainbows and unicorns, so the enemies are all... corns. Added the spouting whalicorn today. Whaddya think?

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@herebefrogs How do you have room for all that text 😭

Looking pretty awesome there!

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Another #js13k update. I've started adding enemy behaviors to my tiny unicorns and rainbows Space Harrier-alike. Desperately golfing the last 1kb of space to get the whole cast in. The lock-on-then-release to shoot feels really nice in VR! #gamedev Sega revival in #VR maybe?

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@AnalogDreamDev I mean, it’s not a small thing. Painting in context is always better, we would have killed for this back in the day. I’ve Jerry rigged similar things into games before, it’s always a win.

Good job.

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@KilledByAPixel Happy birthday! That's quite an impressive 13k golf, and it's pretty good golf too!

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I may or may not have recycled all my #js13k VR assets into... another 13kb game in a different genre. This one is a bit Panzer Dragoon? You fly the magic carpet with your left hand like a plane, and then right fist locks targets, open hand releases lasers. Thoughts? #gamedev #VR

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Still on the #js13k gamejam where we attempt to squeeze some kind of game out of 13kb of JavaScript. I appear to have accidentally inserted a DAW into my VR entry? I'm very confused right now. #gamedev I might have strayed into #synthwave territory as well. Let fly the unicorns!

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@ali3ser @ollylawson Looks pretty fantastic! I'm Mac only right now though, so can't try it out. But looking forward to it eventually coming over :) Here's hoping it has a long and prosperous run.

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@metatransformr Assuming LLMs can get there, who's going to have time to play 1000 Elder Scrolls? Unless yours is special in some way, people will just play the next actual Elder Scrolls and ignore the rest, won't they?

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@residualform @yolwoocle_ For sure!

May there be a never ending stream of fun things for us all to play, no matter what it is we like.

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@remvst 🤣 they never want to hold still for the demo shots!

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@adredev It’s taking off, I think, because it’s a fun absurdist joke, and viral content creators can mine it for reaction content.

It’s the meta joke that’s giving it legs, I don’t think you’re supposed to be engaged by the actual game.

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@residualform @yolwoocle_ I think it’s fair to think of that kind of game as a genre, but if you don’t actually enjoy playing them, I wouldn’t pivot to making them.

If you don’t enjoy what you’re making, why bother? Plenty of way better paying jobs out there.

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@yolwoocle_ Eh, the existence of Kim Kardashian doesn’t invalidate Meryl Streep. Let folks enjoy the slop and making slop for the slop enjoyers. Find the community for the games you enjoy instead, and go enjoy their company!

Live and let live, and know the viral stuff isn’t all there is!

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Wrote a #blender script that extracts the primitive data, the material colors, and the transforms, and then writes those to a typescript file. I also write the node names as an enum that I can use in the game code, but those disappear when minified into just array indices!

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Fitting into the #js13k 13kb doesn't mean you can't use art tools! I need meshes for VR, so my strat this year is to compose everything out of primitives. Made a geometry node in Blender that has the same props, so I can arrange there and dump numbers to an array. #gamedev

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What do you do when you use a weird color space that is code golf efficient and interpolates nicely (basically OKLAB with some truncated terms)? Well you make up a quick color picker on the spot! Clicking the canvas tells me this lovely shade is (8,9,28) 😄

#js13k #gamedev

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@remvst Excellent, really nice looking stuff! JS13k line rider ftw!

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@CameleonTH Ya know, it's obviously not quite what happens on a real CRT, but it has enough of the characteristics of it to look very good! Like, I get the feeling, and I can almost hear that "boiiiiing" sound the crt makes in the background.

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@RyanCrown777 @Hennejoe Today you can get as close as you choose to be to a PS1 vibe, but you get to do it with blender, and modern affinity or aseprite, instant previews in your game engine, and no worrying about CD-ROM sizes or load speeds. SO much nicer.

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@RyanCrown777 @Hennejoe It's all a matter of perspective. When we were back there, our tools were also back there. Think of it this way: pixel art is casual fun now, but it was excruciating back when you had to do it on paper and then figure out the numbers to type into the computer.