Drow mann

Young adult, they/them i (will) make video games, and post here occasionally

[bobacupcake]

anyways i compiled some “getting into gamedev” resources together and figured i should share them here too in case anyone wanted them…?? most of these are specific to unity so if you were thinking about picking it up or wanted more resources on it well here you go (also heads up most of the youtube links have an autoplay video when you click on them!!):

game makers toolkit is just now starting a series about them learning how to make games as a complete beginner (at least on the technical side), if youve never made a game before but wanted to, following along with this might be a nice place to start since you’ll both be starting from the same place (theres also a ton of videos on his channel about the actual game design side of things)

brackeys is no longer active but they have a ton of great unity videos. has a few “build a game from scratch” videos that are great to follow along to just learn the workflow and get started 

mix and jam takes things from other games and recreates them in unity and documents the whole process, a Really good way to learn things for me 

ilheartgamedev pretty recently popped up, and their videos have been really good ! 

sebastian lague goes over some more advanced stuff but also documents and walks through everything really well, really great videos and fun to follow along even if you have no idea what hes talking about. he also has a few that are like “build a game from scratch”

gamedevguide is another good unity tutorial channel

catlikecoding is text based and has a lot of good unity tutorials

and these are more for the visual/shader side of things

harry avakis has a ton of good shader tutorials plus does a big collection of technical art and vfx every week

ronja does some reallyy great and comprehensive shader tutorials

minionsart has a bunch of little bite sized shader tutorials that are great to follow along with

simon schreibt has a huge collection of vfx resources and techniques across different engines

alan zucconi also makes great tutorials, some of them a bit more on the advanced side

making stuff look good in unity - channel about making stuff look good in unity

[f-g-p]

Sly Cooper Model Sheet Project - 8/8 (Extras)

[drenched-in-sunlight]

Theory: Messmer's timeline and story will only make sense if you consider him Marika's beloved firstborn

Aka, welcome to my doomed Mother & Son presentation slide 🔥🫡

This is written with the assumption that readers are aware of the big reveal regarding Marika's past.

(spoilers for SoTE and long discussion from Messmer’s birth to his final moment)

edit to add this dialogue from Gideon:

EDIT 2: Messmer's helm description literally stated he accepted his fate. he was just brooding sitting in the dark minding his own business, & he'd have been fine for a long time more if the Tarnished hadn't sauntered in & triggered all of his insecurities at once.

hell, he's still maintaining the jar clinic, the Keep still shows signs of activities, his "suffering" is him not being able to see his mom. but it is what it is, he already accepted that. yet people still love to blame Marika while we are the one fucking his brain chemical up???

his bros are throwing a divine disco light party next to his house and he's like "i do not care 🫤 i do not see 😑". he doesn't even give a shit there would be a new God (as long as it's not his mom marrying someone he deems unfit). i think he'd even take up gardening while waiting for Marika to pick him up, no problem. why can't we just tell him his mom is imprisoned istg

EDIT 3: clarification on the mistranslation of Messmer's armor description

[snapscube]

Hey do you have that clip of you arranging the numbers wrong in half life alyx n getting "yelled" at for it it was very funny and I wish to see it again

here you go!

[girlballs-archive]

there should be a game that's like minecraft/vintage story/factorio/etc. but every single resource is handled via smelting, casting, and forging

like if you want to butcher a cow you have to smelt it into pure molten cow and separate the molten cow fluids into molten leather, molten meat, etc

[girlballs-archive]

hammering away at a red-hot cheese ingot at my anvil so i can make a sandwich

[nematodeneedles]

Buneary Comic

[eikotheblue]

Watsonian Pokémon Name Implications

So in the world of pokémon (as depicted in the anime), pokémon have existed alongside humans since ancient times, predating the invention of language. And also, pokémon say their names out loud, and presumably have been doing so since before the invention of language (they certainly aren't picking this up from humans - newborn and totally wild pokémon do it).

This means that in-universe, the etymology of the pun names is reversed. Staryu and Starmie aren't named after stars, because they were calling themselves that before humans had language! Instead, when language was being developed, stars were named after Staryu and Starmie. The word 'slow' comes from the laconic behavior of Slowbro (much like "slothful" in English). Tangles are named after Tangula. The word 'nine' presumably from "the number of tails a Ninetales has". Coughing is called that because it's what you do when you spend too long around a Koffing. Spheres are called that because of Spheal. Mimes are people who do the thing Mr. Mime does. The list goes on and on.

Unfortunately, this means that if slurs are real in the pokémon world, then concerningly, they're named after Slurpuff.

[liquidfem]

[boostergold78]

I didn’t know Mr. T pityed fool’s that weren’t woke, but that’s awesome. #respect

[lordxeras]

“I think about my father being called ‘boy’, my uncle being called ‘boy’, my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called ‘boy’. So I questioned myself: “What does a black man have to do before he’s given the respect as a man?” So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T so the first word out of everybody’s mouth is “Mr.” That’s a sign of respect that my father didn’t get, that my brother didn’t get, that my mother didn’t get.“

-Mr. T on the subject of his name

[voidbat]

is it any wonder the media derided him for these things? a black man having the unmitigated gall to control his own narrative? defang that shit with mockery.

[nchntd]

In the club

[vacuously-true]

I think I’m literally never gonna be sick of this masterpiece. I think watching it on a loop for eight hours could fix me. Dancing’s what clears my soul. Dancing’s what makes me whole.

[notatzimisce]

You know, one of the most shameful consequences of scifi/game authors not knowing shit is cyberpsychosis, or Essence, or whatever in-universe asspull for a mechanical limiter on how much cyberware you can cram into a character sheet.

There is an easy excuse in real life! You may not be able to get both a pacemaker and a DBS device because they're both pieces of sensitive equipment that could theoretically interfere with each other, and nobody engineered them not to. Trivially you can extrapolate this to all cybernetics. If your various augs weren't Specifically designed not to mess with each other (and of course the various megacorps might take things a step further, making their shit actively hostile to mix-and-matching), you might have problems; and obviously, the more pieces of hardware you've patchworked yourself with, the worse things get. You'd have to be one real crazy motherfucker to tell a back-alley doctor to load you up with whatever they've got.

It's more grounded and more realistic and less shitty and it actively enhances the atmosphere of cyberpunk in a way that "losing your humanity" does not. we are missing out on much because none of these writers know anything about how medtech works

[notatzimisce]

@teal-deer Putting this in a reblog due to links and images. The best place to do research is probably the technical documentation for the real cybernetics we have today. My source for the original post was the user's manual for my own brain implant, which has a warning about cardiac devices:

The manual for one of Medtronic's DBS devices has a similar warning:

It's a bit of a pain in the ass, but to learn more I would recommend going to various medical device manufacturers' websites and seeing if you can find the manuals for their devices, which have a wealth of interesting information beyond warnings about other devices. You'll have to do some digging, but they'll probably be in there (check the "for providers/physicians" section of the website and go through links that look like they might lead to technical documentation; if it asks you to search, look up devices from that brand and grab a model number). Here are a few to start:

Medtronic implanted neurostimulators manual (found here via searching B35300)

NeuroPace RNS 320 physician manual (there's a surgical walkthrough in here!)

Boston Scientific pacemaker technical manual

[zenosanalytic]

Yeah, and with Cyberpunk, specifically, it's even more galling cuz they actl have an in-game technical cause for such limitations -that each augment has an AI in it which actl runs it and it does this by constantly talking to the brain through your nerves- and you could simply say that THIS extra processing causes limitations/potential for injury as you add more cyberware, without even getting to the practical electrical conflicts you're talking about. And Cyberpunk actl has a SECOND in-universe cause(which they also dont use), which is that cyberware AI is designed to want to do what the cyberware CAN do, so not only are they constantly talking to your brain, they're constantly trying to convince it to RUN FAST or PICK UP SOMETHING HEAVY or STAB SOMEBODY or VAPORIZE THEIR HEAD WITH YOUR WRISTMOUNTED PLASMA GUN. Like: I can understand the desire to have a balancing mechanic for such powerful character upgrades, but making it metaphysical/spiritual injury you do to yourself when you add cybernetics is so asinine.

[girlballs-archive]

poll for elden ring enjoyers

should spells be faster but lock you in place, or retain their current speed + ability to walk during the cast?

faster + stationary

original speed + walking

original speed + jogging?

Voting ended onJan 9

[girlballs-archive]

thinking about zelda-style dungeons again

[girlballs-archive]

there's probably a lot of interesting navigation/puzzle challenges you could design just by replacing the "small key" system with something a little less generic

like... "keys" that can be pulled back out of the "lock" you put them in, with fewer keys than locks, so you have to juggle which parts of the dungeon are in what state as you progress. this would also go well with non-door locks so you basically have a bunch of pieces of a larger puzzlebox dungeon that you can put in multiple configurations

[girlballs-archive]

could maybe also combine this with keys that work like the big ball from link's awakening where you have a "key" that's too big to just put in your pocket and have to physically move it through the dungeon, so you've got to juggle "ok what state have i currently put the dungeon in" and "where is the Heavy Key right now and which paths can i actually bring it through"

[msigma39]

Daughters of Medusa A militant Adepta Sororitas order born in Medusa; Homeworld of the "Iron Hands" Space Marine Chapter, whose dogma was influenced by the Chapter's culture and beliefs, adopting the vision of the Emperor as the Omnissiah and embracing the cybernetic augments as a way to seek atonement and, in the process, clean their sins, inherently attached to the weakness of the flesh

[barpsy-abaub]

Big Annie, the Ogryn Sister of Battle

- Annie, do you wish to help us fight? - Yes! Annie smash! Annie help! Canoness looked at the frowning ogryn with a softened, almost gentle expression. - Then you shall join us in the battle to come. You shall redeem the sin of your perversion of the human nature by purging the enemies of Mankind; and once we are finished, the Emperor will smile at you as He smiles at each of His loyal daughters. You are my sister from now on, Annie. Come.

A non-existing quote from a non-existing fanfic/book

[depsidase]

[dunmeshistash]

Ryoko Kui - Scylla

[endivinity]

Closing this year with Fusion Core!

Robotics and such augmentations are not unheard of in niche groups; however, it's difficult for a subject to remain viable without a significant power source. This deathclaw remains the most dangerous seen, with fusion cores directly embedded in its flesh.