I wanna make videogames. I don't know how to make them though, so now I'm trying to develop wrinkles in this smoove brain. Stick around if you want. And, if you want to make a game of your own- Fucking do it! It's okay to be a beginner.
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What is a skogsrå?
A skogsrå is a female spirit from Scandanavia who rules a forest, rewarding those who are good to it and punishing those who do it wrong. They often take on the forms of enchanting women, but have tree-like backs and/or tails.
Credits:
Lovely green divider was made by @dollywons here on Tumblr.
Avatar is a Columbian white-tailed deer, photographed by Jake Bonello/USFWS and free to use in the public domain .
Header image is a free-to-use stock photo taken by Bart Ros.
UNGRATEFUL tech companies are saying things like "turn off your ad blocker" and "we need your photo id" instead of "thank you so much for not just pirating our shit, youre so handsome"
Realized that following YouTube tutorials wasn't the greatest method for me. They make my brain settle into "watch, and then repeat." But I think that if I really want to build my own games, I need to know how to solve my own problems and how to start on my own! So now I'm taking freecodecamp.org's python course, so that I can establish my building blocks.
Sometimes I think about being an indie game dev and making my own video game studio but then I remember I’m gonna need music for the games I wanna make and my ass is not musical ‼️
I'm here to tell you to not let that stop you!! You've got so many resources at your disposal, and if this is really what you want to do, just send it!
Just off the top of my head, you can open up Garage Band and make your own music, even if you're worried it's going to be bad- Or there are SO many free music assets out there for you to use. Things like Itch.io, OpenGameArt.org, Incompetech.com, and Pixabay.com all provide royalty free music!! You'll just have to make sure it actually is free to use and to credit the composers.
Scientists have just discovered some rocks at the bottom of the ocean can make oxygen... and they do it in complete darkness!
These aren’t magic stones, they’re polymetallic nodules, potato-sized metal lumps packed with manganese, cobalt, and nickel.
But here’s the twist; when seawater flows over their surfaces, they generate tiny electric currents that can split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. No sunlight, no photosynthesis, just deep-sea chemistry creating breathable gas in the pitch black.
This “dark oxygen” could explain how deep-sea creatures survive in low-oxygen zones far from the surface. What's even wilder is that if this can happen on Earth, it could be happening right now in the hidden oceans of Europa or Enceladus, two icy moons that scientists think might host alien life.
In the midst of us being feral about Mark's well-deserved success with Iron Lung, I wanna make sure we also credit David Szymanski with making a damn good game with such a solid concept to build on.
The idea to put a player in a capsule and force them to navigate blind is genius, the world he created and suggested through such minimal lore and simple graphics was so interesting that it possessed Mark to spend 3 years of his life developing a film about it.
Thank you David for making games, and thank you to Indie Horror developers in general for keeping horror novel and engaging and always pushing the envelope of what horror is and creating new, amazing experiences.
We wouldn't have met Simon were it not for David making Iron Lung in the first place.
All images from David's original Iron Lung game (2022)
