Ash McAllan shared 4 days ago
hey there my #gamedev peers, can I interest y'all in a free & CC0 pixel font?
MONOGRAM
it has support for...
...English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Ukrainian, Russian, Greek...
...and β
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?
please check it out!
Been working on menus for Meat Derby, trying to make it feel like a horrific and mundane machine, like a vending machine that dispenses dessicated corpses. I'm liking using the blood smear focus marker, and the little conveyor window for network options. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #meatderby
Ash McAllan shared 10 days ago
Tiny Glade is out NOW on Steam (Win & Linux) ππ
Thank you so much for following the development and being so supportive of our little diorama builder.
We hope you have fun, and I canβt wait to see what you make π€© If you post your glades, add #TinyGlade so I can find 'em :D
Ash McAllan shared 14 days ago
Transphobia as we know it couldn't exist without white supremacy and colonialism.
The imposition of the gender binary reduced a global kaleidoscope of genders to two and made them immutable.
White trans people should be anti-racist and, if that being the right thing to do isn't reason enough, our own self-interest should be.
I'm telling my fellow white trans people to care about bigotries that don't apply to them but really is that even true?
There's no transmisogyny without transmisogynoir.
Ash McAllan shared 15 days ago
Mastodon instance with a "scramble suit" functionality where every time you make a post it comes from a random account handle with a random display name and a random avatar
Ash McAllan shared 15 days ago
"Spread Transgenderism"
Pasteups spotted in so-called Ypsilanti, Michigan
Ash McAllan shared 16 days ago
I posted this on Tumblr. I didn't think it would go far. But ... people have clipped it from Tumblr, shared in on Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, it's had at least ONE AI read on Tiktok, and a few on Youtube ... so ... just so you know who posted it ... Hi. My pharmacist stole my deadname.
Ash McAllan shared 16 days ago
"For legal reasons the Torment Nexus will not be made available to our valued customers in the European Union. We apologise for the inconvenience." ;)
Ash McAllan shared 17 days ago
Hello everyone. I started a new studio called Weird Flex.
We are having an engagement party with Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria on October 10. During #migw Come touch grass, and play with nature ππ
https://gamesweek.melbourne/events/2024-events/greening-the-screen
Ash McAllan shared 17 days ago
The Caves of Qud team are making their final preparations for 1.0 launch later this year!
β Tutorial beta early next month
π₯ Feature Fridays pausing after this week (to focus fully on dev)
β°Price is going up Oct 29th
Read the full update on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/333640/view/6973349936528070885
Ash McAllan shared 18 days ago
seeing pushback against procedural generation as a result of alleged "AI" and that's really fucking sad
good procedural generation is hard. good procedural generation is bespoke and intentional. good procedural generation is artistic and creative. please don't lump it in with the slop generated through machine learning π
EDIT: procgen is not AI, it's a 40+ year old game design technique, see: https://peoplemaking.games/@eniko/113158903401769257
This was the second #AshPlushie I made, vaguely inspired by a white bunny plushie I had as a kid that my mum sent to me in Sweden to comfort me in a period where I was feeling really lonely. Also a good opportunity to try out making ears and legs. #punkplushies #punkcrafts
Ash McAllan shared 20 days ago
Ibly π³οΈββ§οΈ 
...but the campaign got taken down the year after, and it was extremely hard tracking down the fonts for the longest time.
so, someone on reddit randomly popped up with a sketchy download link to it, so i snagged it and plopped it on internet archive so that this shit doesn't get lost lmfao
https://archive.org/details/universal-typeface-experiment
It's been a little while since I showed off #MeatDerby for #ScreenshotSaturday. I've got ok network multiplayer working, car customization, and weapons and accessories working, and today I added a new accessory/weapon, giant fuckin buzzsaws out the side of the car. I wasn't sure if I could make the animation feel good with just two frames but I think it's actually working pretty well, even in the tricker more broken down stages of the parts.
Ash McAllan shared 22 days ago
Ash McAllan shared 22 days ago
A killer feature cohost had compared to every other social media site I've been using is rich webpage embeds. Any webpage you linked to, it had a high chance of embedding a usable, readable, etc. copy of whatever is at the site. It wasn't just OpenGraph previews, but a richer embed of the site's actual content much of the time. Means there was less of a culture of sharing inaccessible screenshots, and more just pasting links.
Cohost announcing its closure has got me playing around with my own fediverse compatible website again. Looks like the hosting for the main site for microblog(dot)pub, the software I run, is down so I've shifted to my version of the repo to GitHub because that'sand Imma push my updates there. https://github.com/acegiak/microblog.pub
This was actually my first #AshPlushie I made, sewing together parts from several different victims including an ikea 8-ball plushie that became the basis for this penguin orb friend that went to Emily #punkcrafts #punkplushies
.jpg "Picture of a spherical plush penguin. Very round, very soft.")
.jpg "Same penguin from slightly different angle.")
Ash McAllan shared 23 days ago
This photo of the Bridge Fire in the hills behind Los Angeles speaks to the fact that we are in the midst of a cataclysm and the vast majority of people have no idea
Ash McAllan shared 24 days ago
@ash
Rando: what's your gender?
Space Marine: my gender is WAR
rando: no like, what's in your pants?
Space Marine: so many guns