Ash McAllan shared 11 months 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 🍃🍃
https://gamesweek.melbourne/events/2024-events/greening-the-screen
Ash McAllan shared 11 months ago
The Caves of Qud team are making their final preparations for 1.0 launch later this year!
✏ Tutorial beta early next month
🔥 Feature Fridays pausing after this week (to focus fully on dev)
⏰Price is going up Oct 29th
Read the full update on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/333640/view/6973349936528070885
Ash McAllan shared 11 months 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 😞
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 11 months ago
Ibly 🏳️⚧️ 
...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 11 months ago
Ash McAllan shared 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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
Ash McAllan shared 11 months ago
It’s now safe to turn off all computers
Ok I'm actually down with "All Space Marines are men" if it's in the context of "All Space Marines are men, regardless of assigned gender at birth, we don't care what you thought you were, if your genetics match the gene-seed for the chapter, we're pumping you full of splices and hormones and you get to be a huge jacked war-dude now."
Like, if they are picked out as kids and made into space marines before their natural adolescence, then basically ALL Space Marines are a kind of transmasc post-humans.
Forced transition into a tool of war is horrific and honestly matches the ridiculous grimdark the setting claims to portray/parody. That plus women in the Astra Militarum makes me potentially actually interested in the setting again. #40k #SpaceMarine
Ash McAllan shared 1 year, 25 days ago
Embrace the power of your true self and defy an oppressive society in Girl by Moonlight! This standalone #ttrpg takes the rules engine behind Blades in the Dark and transforms it into a standalone exploration of the whole Magical Girl genre.
Available now: https://evilhat.com/product/girl-by-moonlight/
Ash McAllan shared 1 year, 25 days ago
Ash McAllan shared 1 year, 25 days ago
It wasn’t journalists, tech bros, and influencers who made the Internet a thing. It was librarians, scientists, educators, and programmers.
Ash McAllan shared 1 year, 1 month agoRounding out our Blades in the Dark panel for Dice Pool is Sharang Biswas, winner of two IGDN awards, three Ennie Awards, an IndieCade award and a Golden Cobra award for roleplaying games.
For a one-time pledge of $10 you get access to this panel of #ttrpg GMing advice plus three others!
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/evil-hat/dice-pool?ref=mastodon
Ash McAllan shared 1 year, 1 month agoOne of the talented GMs sharing their insights for Dice Pool is @ash! Ash is an Australian #ttrpg & digital game designer living in Sweden, exploring emergent play and resisting patriarchal norms in design.
Blades is just one of four panels featured in our lineup:
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/evil-hat/dice-pool?ref=mastodon
Ash McAllan shared 1 year, 1 month agoWe've assembled 12 talented GMs to share their smartest tips, tricks and advice for running our most popular games.
For a one-time spend of just ten bucks, you can tap into all that #ttrpg knowledge.
Dice Pool. Crowdfunding now.
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/evil-hat/dice-pool?ref=bsky
