Super fun to make them. And so many more ideas for levels we left on the cutting room floor or as sketched ideas.

It's great having a system set up where the levels are also just essentially gizmos, art builds at runtime. Really quick to execute on an idea.

Hoping we'll do a sequel at SMG one day!

Thank you so much! Absolutely one of my fav games to have worked on, purely for watching the shouts and banter.

Can hardly wrap my head around it being ten years ago at a GGJ that it first emerged. I named it at 4am on the Sunday, literally just needed a submission name. Didn't think it would stick

Use BIRP unless you’re going to make time to retrain any/all rendering (even camera) stuff for SRP. Or you wanted shadergraph.

Old school pipeline is still just fine.

I am of course taking for granted the absolutely incredible ocean of information at my fingertips.

Minor detail.

The old internet has no present day parallel. People would just put up .. stuff .. and you could read it. It was a strange and sometimes great journey.

The internet feels like a wasteland now. Endless paragraphs of empty garbage for SEO. Contrived pagination for ad impressions. Homogenous design.

it’s more than your attention span. your brain is going for fast dopamine. the faster and easier the better. it’s what brains do.

the worst thing is that is that something cooler and more interesting than scrolling would have otherwise been required to get it.

says me on social media.

Are you adjusting logical velocities (and engine mechanics in general) for isometric compression?!

Having worked on similar games / solutions, some advice FWIW:

Do all your movement, velocity, world positions etc unscaled.

compress the Y axis only in the view/render pass.

random question: what do you think the TD market is like now?

we made OTTTD in 2014 and I had some much fun on it I’ve wanted to follow it up ever since, but hasn’t been able to be a priority.

54 is pretty good! I set myself a goal of 52 every year and i’ve failed miserably in 2024.

At my first GDC in 2013 I had accommodation booked for me. No knowledge of the city yet.

Tiny apartment on the corner of Turk and Leavenworth.

It was a lot.

This is just a reminder for me how much I value WFH now. I used to do this. I also really miss the physical social interaction from working in office but the loss of focus on my work every day was MASSIVE. And ultimately, I value being able to do my creative work effectively the most.

Yeah I probably know the answer, but wanted the sense check. There’s no jump needs in my design vision, other than the extra theatre of getting out of danger with more flair. But it’s completely fine to balance that part of the gameplay without it. There’s a notion players “just want it”, as well.

I’ve there’s space, count me in!
Just followed all.

what happened?!

If you feel Hyperburner fits
badpotion.itch.io/hyperburner

let me know! its not abstract but for me it was a very art-lead design exploration while making it.

what was the news?

the rumours were true.

This is looking awesome!

oh damn, that’s awesome! not sure what the secret sauce is to get in lists.

I do need to get way more active posting my work though.