Azaran | Valpurgis | Intrascend
Joined January 2024
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Jun 13
I've always just assumed that 90% of people getting arts qualifications won't end up doing that as a career. the way it used to work is that the degree helps you get a corporate office job and you'll end up in marketing or something
Jun 11
For 3D students: Most I’ve met simply aren’t doing the hours needed to get into the industry. Studying only 10:00-16:00 every day won’t cut it - particularly since only a portion of the day is spent on actual work.
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Jun 13
reminiscing about the time I upset the entire twitter pixel art community
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Jun 12
this is an awesome lil game design manifesto
i still think making small games is best for learning your craft, and the article is a tad self-contradictory on that point. but otherwise great stuff
Jun 11
I really enjoyed reading this: illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-g…
I am a long time deep on a project and I aim to one day sell it, but the reason I got to where I am in it is because for the longest time I completely ignored the idea of making something commercial, so I could just explore.
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Jun 10
witch hunting the game about witch hunts is amazing
Why am I even bothered by suspiciously looking AI-altered paintings in game, when its ON THE MAIN COVER ART, huh.
Ew, 1666:Amsterdam, eeew.
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Jun 9
oh no...
Mar 27
55 forest shrines, 55 fire shrines, 55 water shrines, 55 shadow shrines, 55 spirit shrines
10,055 gold skulltulas
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Jun 9
what's the polymarket for Mario Titans, I'm all in
Join us on June 9 at 7am PT for a #NintendoDirect followed by Nintendo Treehouse: Live!
The Nintendo Direct will be roughly 50 minutes and Nintendo Treehouse: Live will be 95 minutes.
Watch here: ninten.do/6010v5TG2
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Our first Indie game, Demi and the Fractured Dream. Demo is on steam now 🥳
#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #demiandthefractureddream
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Jun 8
Here's a Chinese-room style thought experiment on AI as theft:
Take two sealed rooms, one containing a human artist, one containing an AI model. You don't know which is which. You feed both rooms with the life works of Salvador Dali and ask them to learn the style. You then return a month later and ask both rooms to produce an image in the style of Dali.
When these works are produced, is there an argument to be made that a crime of theft has been committed in one room, but not the other?
Jun 8
If Ai is theft, everything is theft.
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📢 KICKSTARTER TIME
This is it, the Temple Maker 64 KS is now live! ⚔️
Be the first to show your support by making a pledge! 🔥
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Not sure what @Newgrounds is or when #LowPolyDay2026 is or was,
But here is my low poly, ps1 inspired hover bike racing game: "JETBOOST" (wip) !
Inspired by Akira and Jet Moto
My entry for @Newgrounds #LowPolyDay2026 is out now! Check out HELLTYRES, completely free and playable in your browser! Link is in my bio.
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Jun 6
all of my games are highguardlikes
every video game now is either highguard or sekiro
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My entry for @Newgrounds #LowPolyDay2026 is out now! Check out HELLTYRES, completely free and playable in your browser! Link is in my bio.
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Jun 5
looks like 100k wishlists is the new minimum for steam discoverability, better get marketing
Jun 4
Steam just made a change that's really gonna hurt future indie games.
The Popular Upcoming page used to list games chronologically by release time. As long as you had enough wishlists to make the cut (~6k to 7k), you'd get some time at the top of the list for people to discover your game.
Now it's listed algorithmically, with far more large games from major companies and publishers on the list, even those releasing two weeks away. The lowest wishlist count on there right now is 80k, when before it would've been 10 indie games as low as 6k wishlists.
Feeling very lucky our game's early access release barely made it out before this changed. It was worth probably 1k wishlists for us, and we had some really unfortunate timing/positioning too. It can be worth thousands of wishlists and sales for smaller games.
Steam is more heavily prioritizing larger games, with the budget and time to grow to enormous wishlist totals, or the rare indie viral hit.
The small to mid-sized games just lost a way to find players. Steam players lost a tool to discover cool smaller games.
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Jun 4
for some reason it's become acceptable for Kickstarter campaigns to miss their delivery dates by months/years. "Silksong and Mina were late, so it's okay for us too"
I feel like a lot of backers wouldn't pledge if they knew the actual timelines
I've been burned by so many Kickstarters that take years to deliver their projects past their estimated delivery dates, and won't let me update my shipping address after moving 🫠
I love supporting artists and their passion projects but I think I'm just finally done w that site
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Jun 3
i've reached 1000 pit deaths in mina and I've only been playing for 20 minutes
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Jun 3
the throwaway-idea mindset comes naturally after years of making things - when you learn that great ideas don't always lead to great things, and often half-baked ideas can turn into something wonderful. basically just "don't count your chickens"
Jun 2
Like the other person, i needed to hear this too. Might be asking for too much here but do you have any advice or tips of how to enter that "throwaway garbage" mindeset?
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Jun 2
this problem goes away when you treat your ideas as throwaway garbage that exist only as a starting point for the creative process. when you fall in love with what's in your head, there's no incentive to make it real
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Jun 2
and how can you ever hope to realise such a perfect vision? what if you don't have the skills, what if you mess it up? you've doomed yourself from the start
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