Jake
Dad!
Game designer for 5 years, QA for 3 before that, open to full-time or contract work, send me a message!
I like skeletons and mechs
also wizards
https://jking-dev.itch.io
https://jking-dev.games
- Missed the jam deadline with the salvage game, ran into some bugs with the bots that really threw a wrench into things and I didn't end up getting the core loop finished. Not sure if I should finish it up now or shelve it, probably should get it out at least? Gotta get better at scoping small stuff.
- Lost it 🙃
- Every time I start to think "Maybe I should have used unity instead of godot just because it looks better on a resume" Unity helpfully comes along and demonstrates another reason why I wouldn't want to use it lol. If any studio is looking to switch I have been using it for ~5 years, message me!
- I've gone back and forth on submitting to this jam and I think I'm just gonna do it, what's the worst outcome people not liking it and forgetting about it? I'm not super happy with the state of it right now but fuck it
- I was having a rough day but then I saw this
- Wait, 3?
- Good on the @morecivilized.bsky.social crew for the decision and the courage to talk about it honestly on the podcast. I've been listening since the start and to most of them on other podcasts before, anyone getting angry about this really needs to examine themselves.
- Heyo fixed an annoying critical bug with my salvage bot state machine I might be able to get something submitted after all, gonna need to cut initial scope and work hard next few days to get an economy and loop going but making progress. Arts gonna be bad but hey nothing new for me lol
- This is dope, I have implemented my own drop shadow and the sprite stacking pseudo 3d effect before, and some real janky IK stuff for the chomper game, excited to compare solutions so I can compare the differences, I don't get a chance for real code review so having a direct comparison is great.
- I'm making a bunch of code I use in my games publicly available. Lots of good stuff like 2d drop shadows, pseudo 3d effects, vfx, npc vision, IK, save system, level system etc. #godotengine github.com/Miziziziz/Mi...
- Like come on this article is well written and pretty much correct I think, but the comments are just ignoring the word "industry" in the title and acting like everything is all good because thousands of games come out on steam every month? Do people think all those games sustain the devs?
- GTA 6's delay doesn't mean the games industry's in trouble - it's already dead www.eurogamer.net/gta-6s-delay...
- The discourse today is like 3 levels too deep for me already yall have fun with this one
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- The Rehearsal really is something lol it feels like it's just trying to get HBO to spend money on the weirdest shit possible
- Lmao the headline and description are downplaying this, he didn't do it to make an antivenom, he did it because he was obsessed with snakes and then a scientist found him later. Dude has to be so smug now to all his friends and family that told him to stop getting bit by snakes, amazing.
- Not gonna be a game industry left by the time this comes out lol and they are definitely gonna charge $100 at this point. I really don't think this is going to bump sales across the board like some industry analysts seem to believe, would like to be proven wrong, but a delay is rough either way.
- I would like to sleep, but my brain would like to have a panic attack instead 🙃
- I think I need to play a game where I can just really fuck some stuff up
- Lol I applied to a job that was asking for at least 3 years experience, I have 5-8 depending on how you count it but was feeling good about it, then saw someone commenting on their LinkedIn post saying they are interested with more than 15 years experience 🙃🙃🙃 fuckin rip
- The average American only has 3 friends
- Yeah just an overall shitty day in like every way possible. I could really use a few easy days or lucky breaks here soon, really struggling to hold it together.
- 🤔🤔🤔🤔
- The giant bomb wiki was amazing, like an overall wiki of video games. I hope someone has been able to preserve it before Fandom does the obvious stupid thing I am sure they are gonna do, and I think you could build a community around it so hopefully it lives on in an independent form.
- Wow polygon too today? That is rough. Really not sure where the industry is gonna go from here, especially the US based stuff.
- Giantbomb was the first game website I really paid attention to, fell off watching over the years as the people I started with moved on, but always respected the site and current team for keeping the torch burning. Seeing them get screwed over by corporate overlords like this is heartbreaking.
- oh hey happy may day
- Sent in some very promising applications today, if I don't get any call backs or interviews from these I think I will need to just get a delivery job or something until I can get back into games. Going to be a ton of time and energy for bullshit money but not gonna have much of a choice.
- Very good video talking about what is actually going on in the industry. Got this in one window and job applications up in the other lol its uh a weird vibe over here.
- The US game industry is pretty screwed huh www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
- Little bit of house work putting up some shelves, few promising job applications, some decent work on the salvage game, had a productive day I needed a good one for my mental health. Life goes on.
- Salvage Game coming along, got little salvage drones to turn junk into usable chunks and collectors finding and grabbing them, tomorrow going to get the basic stockpile and ability to build new drones out of it and get the loop going, will take more tweaking but going good! Devlog later this week
- What a country
- Good day with the kids at the exploratorium, will have to pack more next time and make a day out of it the little one could have played in the light/color area for hours. Gonna lock in on the salvage game tomorrow and this week, should have something to show by the weekend, I'll post another devlog
- Spotted outside the exploratorium lol had to hide my laugh from the kids
