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Bernie Wick

@partnano.bsky.social

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I make tiny games, lover of all things retro.
(also made a game a while ago: partnano.itch.io/villager)


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I don't think it can be stated enough, but you should probably read more.
reactormag.com/the-joy-of-r...

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Well, guess they are doing it then

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Want to know how to immediately spot something that really doesn't need to be read? ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡:

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Sounds like Rust leadership is slowly becoming the C++ committee. Live long enough to become the villain and all that

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It isn't much, but every commit that reduces the code size while actually adding features just feels so good

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You can now add new layers and duplicate existing ones in Space Generator :)

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People spending so much time on a game, only to have absolutely nothing positive to say about it is bonkers to me and forever will be. Nothing against not liking something, even saying so, but damn, that's so much wasted time then

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The "command pattern" helped me a lot in the past, but nowadays I just let the systems stop propagating the keys further down (so basically input always goes to a single thing). Makes bugs really obvious and stops any side effects, usually.

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It is a difficult problem though! Because it depends on so much other things, how you structure your software design, how you manage states and how all of the input reacts to that, etc.

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Auch bekannt als: Alt werden

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Rusty's Retirement is such a cozy banger of a game

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That's a shot that could hang in some photography museum in a few years time, damn!

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Custom gifs will be soooo good! Kinda planning on a lot of gif goodness to post here soon, hopefully the support won't take too long to arrive anymore

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Get into the office, read 3 emails, feel the hot desire to jum- go home again.

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I think the barrier to entry for people to download _anything_ on mobile is so low, that even a small price for non-GAAS game is suddenly a gigantic one. I think it's something that was taught to people, not just through games but the entire mobile / web ecosystem.

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A few days out in nature, out in the mountains is so refreshing mentally, honestly. Suddenly all those pesky office issues are just not issues anymore, nothing matters truly. Just grass.

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I really hope short-form hasn't run its course. But why should it really? I think it's more something that needs to be taught to players more, as not every game needs to be hours and hours of runtime! #gamedev

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LinkedIn asking me what the best Gantt chart software to use is for project manager shows that the platform really doesn't know me as well as it thinks it does. Oh boy.

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She looks like that one person in the office nobody likes took her photo

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I complement you on this funny post

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Andy Kelly ๐Ÿ‘ฝ's avatar Andy Kelly ๐Ÿ‘ฝ @ultrabrilliant.xyz
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Katamari disc art appreciation post.

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Something different for the #gamedev bubble I'm usually in, but this not-so-little simulator I've been working on together with some great people will release soon. It's one of the bigger projects I've been part of and I'm quite proud of it!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAFW...

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Only valid if the people do a Wilhelm scream when falling

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Bernie Wick's avatar Bernie Wick @partnano.bsky.social
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Oohh, these are some shiny rocks! :D

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Man, I need to play Pokemon again

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I also think the void game is the most approachable - there is so little to set up to have something to try and iterate on, which I think is the most important factor early on!

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Why was the first thing I read "Despise everything you create". Maan, I should go out more

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That's what my fridge looks like if I forget I have some in there ... I should go check

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Constraints are good both ways. I feel like the industry goes into the direction of "let the player do whatever they want", but most players actually don't *want* that

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Please do animate it, it such a lovely simple style

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Isn't it a sign of a stupidly broken system, if the only obvious goal of some "unique" and "innovative" company is to get a lot of money to evaluate for a lot of money to then be bought for a lot of money, no matter if it's actually ... you know ... useful?
www.theverge.com/2024/5/21/24...

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First OpenAI straight up stealing anything they can, now Microsoft doing whatever this is ... Can we have, like, simple good software that doesn't want to exploit us and everything around us? What's so bad about it?
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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It's beautiful, I like the minimalism!

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I'm getting to the point where I'll need to do that too. I always start with the intention to just use assets as much as possible but for whatever reason nothing is exactly the way I want it ๐Ÿ‘€

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I often wonder how money rots the brain so much, not even the nearest future matters anymore. I think I need to take a walk in the woods, thinking about that ๐Ÿ˜…

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It's also so disgusting to see how OpenAI started as a non-profit to "better the world" and now simply acts like a normal company because they smelled the money. It's so sad, but I guess a good opportunity to focus on non-internet things again ...

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This is stunning! Currently working on quite a few assets, I think I need to look a bit closer at some things you did here, it's so good ๐Ÿ‘€

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Well, that one engineer that wasn't fired yet probably has quite the to-do list

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Oh great, the domain of that other platform changed. Bet there will be absolutely no visibility penalty for accessing it through the old one ... I really ought to post here more often, I enjoy this place more

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Noticing a lot more recently again, stress just doesn't pay. At all. For most there is no reason that's so life or world changing that stressing yourself pays.

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Don't we all want to withdraw from society? Beautiful art!

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Very cool! Came out really cool and readable

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"Pixelart๐Ÿ‘พ" is a feed created by me that shows pixelart posts from everyone. Because it works via tags, it displays art made by people of all skill levels, and it filters out AI stuff!
Please like, save and share with your friends to enjoy new pixelart content on Bluesky!
bsky.app/profile/did:...

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That's how I look when you catch me going to the fridge for a midnight snack

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Bernie Wick's avatar Bernie Wick @partnano.bsky.social
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That's him just checking if anybody finally likes him on Twitter every 30 seconds

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I think I'll need to update that post soon with new stuff!

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Guess I'll dig out my old Nokia then

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