Did you know that @thoughty just recently published a big update to their premier #TTRPG safety toolkit Script Change?

With clarified and expanded text, plus a ton of new tools, this is THE comprehensive version. An all-new layout complements the updated rules and keeps everything easy to understand and grouped in recognizable sections. Check it out (for free if you like)!

https://thoughty.itch.io/script-change

Mastodon is basically the Linux of social media platforms. People think you need to know how to code to use it and it’s way easier to set up than they realise but they get scared off by certain jargon like “distros” and “instances”

@DrPsyBuffy

Mastodon is the preachy vegan of social media networks.

Current state: Modeled an old Austrian farm house & wrote a PS1 lens-flare shader. Goodnight, nerds!
#gamedev #godot #PS1

Slightly less early preview, and now you can actually use it to make playable gamebooks!

https://sophiehoulden.com/twine/adventuretome_guide.html

Godot 4.0 was so good, we made a sequel!

Thanks to 300+ contributors and four months of improvements and polish, #GodotEngine 4.1 is ready for your projects.

Read more in our announcement: https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-1-is-here/

@eniko Well, narrat is a game engine that helps people make narrative games and I want more people to know about it and the games people made. Most of the games made with it so far have been made by queer people, too 🏳️‍⚧️

Relevant links
Website: https://narrat.dev/
Gallery of games people made with it: https://narrat.games/ (you can play most of them on itch io in your browser!)

Protect humanity from cataclysmic threats at the end of the world in Apocalypse Keys, a game about supernatural investigators and the darkness they face by @temporalhiccup, now available through Deernicorn Distro 🪽

Looking at Dreams saying "I'm glad none of my games are tied to a walled garden that will inevitably die in the not so distant future " and looking back at Unity as I begin to sweat profusely.

TTRPG design combines all the best parts of technical writing and imagining hanging out with friends.

@mcc It's odd to think that the Popeye-Bluto-Olive trifecta has somehow defined Miyamoto's notion of protagonist/antagonist/object-of-desire relationships for four decades of gaming now, but you can sort of see how it carries over into the Mario series, and later in some ways to the tensions of the Legend Of Zelda games.

Has anyone played Titanic VR? $20 is probably a little steep but I'm interested in seeing the Titanic

https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP1591-CUSA10653_00-TITANICVRA151912

Today I discovered https://www.whocanuse.com and I wanted to yell it to the world, but 56 people will have to do.

Couple photos of the galahs who visited my feeder today. Excuse the blinds/poor framing - I was doing my best to be discreet and not spook them
#photography #birds

2022: what if you had to find an alternative to twitter
2023: what if you had to find an alternative to reddit, discord, youtube, every single search engine, and microsoft windows

Lessons, living with parents with dementia: when an app on their phone spontaneously changes it's icon, it's a fucking disaster.

Some Google engineer launched a feature that got them a promotion and now my mom can't use her phone anymore. Silicon Valley is incapable of imagining a user who isn't a 27 year old white man.

月の掛け軸。 #写真 #moon #photography

whoa just found out the original wilhelm scream recording is now digitized and in public domain? the blog post about the digitization process is interesting https://blog.freesound.org/?p=1515 https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/675810/