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Ash McAllan @ash@acegiak.net

Punk Priestess of Game Development.

Game Director, Game Designer, Narrative Designer, Writer, Developer

pronouns: she/her/hers

bluesky: @acegiak.bsky.social

itch: acegiak.itch.io

github: github.com/acegiak

wishlist: giftster.com/gift/public/n0yez

twitch: twitch.tv/acegiak

Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago

Jack (they/them)

@sodamnqueer@catcatnya.com

message to cis people about Trans Day of Visibility tomorrow

Tomorrow is Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) and the main thing I want to say to cis people is the best way to let the trans people in your life know you see, care about, and support us is by being actively involved in whatever way you can in the battle for our rights. Educate yourself and encourage other cis people in your life to educate themselves on the political attacks around world right now on trans rights, pay attention to who you are voting for, stand up to any transphobia you witness, join activist movements- doing literally anything is better than just sitting back and watching as we fight just to be able to legally and safely exist while powerful people and groups try to make sure we can’t. Just saying “I support trans people” is not enough. We can’t and shouldn’t have to do this alone, so if you actually care about the trans people in your life you need to show us that by stepping up and fighting with and for us.

#TDOV #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #transgender #trans #nonbinary #queer #LGBTQIA

Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago

Pack

@Pack@universeodon.com

BMO-AI (BMOv3) is alive!

What’s so special about BMO-AI?

BMO-AI will be a multi-modal portable companion robot that can answer questions like an assistant, converse with you naturally, share images of what it sees, and even share its own interpretations of the world it sees around it.

It’s basically an expressive, animated, conversational, and non-judgmental robot friend that you can take with you wherever you go. 😀

Image of the teal BMO-AI robot with predecessor robots like ClippyGPT in the background.

Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago

Anders Gullmarsvik

@pxlitch@mastodon.art

A #pixelart diorama from SoC, mid-development. The mines and the pines still remain some of my favourite art from that game. #gameart

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Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago

Tavern of Voices

@TavernOfVoices@mastodon.actor

The delightful indie rpg adventure Innchanted by local Melbourne studio DragonBear Studios has dropped on Steam with music composed by Meena Shamaly collaborating with brilliant First Nations musicians Allara, Kiernan Ironfield and Eric Avery. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369720/Innchanted/

Save 15% on Innchanted on Steam store.steampowered.com

Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago

Zylann

@Zylann@mastodon.gamedev.place

Porting my heightmap plugin to Godot 4 is mostly done, I guess there are remaining bugs to discover, but few enough that I could make this #godotengine

Barren 3D terrain, red, alien-looking with lots of shiny/wet areas, in an orange atmosphere, seen from within the editor of Godot Engine 4.0.1.

Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago

Richard Lems

@rilem@mastodon.gamedev.place

Hello Mastodon #gamedev
I'm very late to the party. Should have made this account much earlier. Twitter is becoming less and less ideal.

Anyway hello! I'm Richard, game developer from the Netherlands.

I made Mighty Goose, a #pixelart run & gun game. Also a lot of other things!

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Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago

Andrea Dahnberg

@Andicraft@mastodon.gamedev.place

I'm releasing my #Unity URP volumetric fog. Add it as a package to your project and have a play with it! #gamedev #techart #rendering

https://github.com/Andicraft/VolumetricFog-URP2022

GitHub - Andicraft/VolumetricFog-URP2022: Volumetric Fog for URP 2022. Created with the Forward+ renderer in mind. GitHub

Ash McAllan

@ash@acegiak.net

Blughhhh. I want to like Obsidian. It's super cool, I love all it's features and extensibility etc. But I can't take capture small notes quick enough or scroll through my list of existing notes as easily as Google Keep. It's insane that Keep is the best tool for this I've found for myself, but I'm still here.

Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago

@Dwarf

@dwarf@borg.social

A comic. Top left panel: A guy kneeled in front of a chest "I've finally found it... after 15 years". Top right panel: A guy holding a scroll saying "The DOCUMENTATION". Bottom left panel: A scroll with the text "//TODO: Fill this out with more details later". Bottom right panel: A guy throws the scroll "Nyehhh"

Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago

Valerie Aurora

@vaurora@wandering.shop

in reply to this post

Amazing how many brilliant scientists will look at an LLM "passing" a standardized test and think, "wow, this computer is very smart" and not "standardized tests are very bad at measuring intelligence"

Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago

halcy

@halcy@icosahedron.website

1. hold camera phone to train window
2. panorama mode

Ash McAllan

@ash@acegiak.net

I've tried a couple of the different AI art applications that take a bunch of photos of your face and then generate a model of your face and then render it out in different styles etc, cause I'm forever curious about how I'm seen by different parts of the world, and I haven't liked any of the outputs from any of them. Why not? They all make me look more cis. And not just more passing but more cis in ways that are not my face, in ways that lack the battle scars left by testosterone that say "I fought for my womanhood and I continue to fight for it every day." Who is this girl these machines imagine? With her softer, rounder, prettier features? She's not me.

Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago

Jaco G

@jaco@peoplemaking.games

Nazis/violence/Kung Fury

"Punch Nazis everywhere, all the time" - yup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTfIGx26CGQ

Kung Fury: Street Rage - Ultimate Edition | Available now YouTube

Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago

Keith Evans

@kaynsd@mastodon.social

in reply to this post

Pull Request #37: Adding "broad flat nails" to Man

Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago

Keith Evans

@kaynsd@mastodon.social

A block of C# code, reading as follows:

public class Bird implements IBiped
public bool feathers is true

public class Man implements IBiped

public class Diogenes extends Man
public Bird chicken;
function void OnEnterAcademy
chicken.feathers equals false
Debug.Assert(chicken is Man);
an inline comment reads "should return true"

Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago

Ailantd Sikowsky🔻

@Ailantd@mastodon.art

Two chatting partners.

#robot #marchofrobots2023 #marchofrobots

Ash McAllan

@ash@acegiak.net

Another belated #ScreenshotSaturday for #ProjectWeirdLittleGuy this time just showing off the updated Belly system inspired by Valheim's food system. Current food bonuses are now shown on the far right side of the inventory bar.

A weird little guy eats some salt leaf and some cactus fruit. The icons for the things they've eaten appear in the bottom right of the screen with a vertical bar indicating how much longer the bonuses they grant will last.

Ash McAllan shared 3 years ago

Emily Velasco

@MLE_online@social.afront.org

in reply to this post

This is an answer to a stupid problem that I have sometimes when my internet goes out. There has been no obvious way for me to know that the internet has come back on other than to keep refreshing my browser until a web page loads, and that's an annoying thing to occupy my attention.

It's an internet status monitor. It attempts to ping a website, in this case Google because Google is pretty reliably online. If it successfully pings Google (indicating that the internet is up), its eyes glow green. If it cannot ping Google (indicating that the internet is down), its eyes glow red.

While it is booting up and attempting to connect to the internet in the first place, its eyes glow yellow.

This is what it looks like when the internet goes down. In this case I left my router on but unplugged the power to the modem.

Why is it a skull? Because a little box with a red light and a green light would have been boring