game dev technical designer/systems designer/tools designer/unreal generalist on other people's video games and also my own video games
also on tumblr and mastodon and bluesky and whatever, same name
I have a friendly game dev chat discord server you're welcome in if you don't be a fuckwit
I made a website for people fleeing Unity called Ugh I Guess I Want To Move From Unity To Unreal (Dot Com)
I made a website for documenting obscure Unreal engine information called Unrealscoops.com
I have an internet forum at IMPROMPTU DOT ZONE
You know how when Deus Ex 3 first came out, it had boss fights that you couldn't get around, you were just forced to fight and kill a guy? And everyone was mad? And later the devs patched in other options, basically one for every style of play you might be into?
Well I've decided they were right the first time
this thread about tasty-lookin' win2k/macOS9/beOS-era GUIs mentions that today's high DPI displays mean we can't simply return to that era, where every icon was a delicious little simcity building and every pixel was a big load-bearing statement. it reminded me how much the current feeling of being "stuck" in the current bland iOS-google-electron is due to, well, capitalist realism but also the ineffectiveness of computing's corporate masters at driving new visual and design languages. and folks, i think we're gonna have to figure it out on our own, by making a huge range of weird experimental probably-ugly stuff and seeing what shakes out.
me incorporating the idea that rick & morty's creator is abusive into my previous assessment of rick & morty
