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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

4 years

So... MoonQuest is officially out! Steam: Itch: \[:D]/

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

10 months

Oh good, Nintendo patented.. *checks notes* ... regular game programming you do when making games

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Ben Porter

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1 year

I don't need friends anymore

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

video games should have outtakes in the credits that show all the funny bugs and glitches that happened during development

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Ben Porter

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3 months

THERE ARE CHECKBOXES FOR TEETH

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Ben Porter

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1 year

there goes 2 hours of my life

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Ben Porter

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4 years

Good morning programmers, let's automate!

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Ben Porter

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6 years

If you were an NPC what items would you drop when killed?

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Ben Porter

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3 years

found the code for the Windows troubleshooter

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Ben Porter

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7 years

internet argument

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

2 years

I miss software from the 90s

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

10 months

What does this development environment look like? I want to be in those meetings between programmers and lawyers, please!

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

3 months

Just doing game design

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

10 months

Also see "looking at things"

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@eigenbom

7 years

Nintendo patent for characters looking at interesting objects.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

3 years

who said game design was dead

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Ben Porter

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1 year

Pants Game 2

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

4 years

we've come a long way baby

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

4 months

Technically correct

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

4 years

Fall guys company has 230 employees, why am I hearing it's an indie game what do words mean

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

Making a game? Write down 3 major ideals: - open world - high fantasy - deep magic Use to refine or cut elements of design. Have an indie budget? Write down 3 major constraints: - no animation - no physics - max 1 hour game length Use to refine design into achievable goal.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

Law of projects taking a long time

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

I'll sometimes leave a dangling else just as a threat to the compiler that it better run that if statement or else.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

10 months

@hplemke Would love to see those court cases tbh

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Ben Porter

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3 years

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

2 years

gamedev tip: don't

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

2 years

Did some roguelike fan art

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

10 months

@nullterm

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

2 years

Film idea: PRRREDATOR #RRR

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

oh boy

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

8 years

Visit a bajillion worlds in No Mario's Sky. Here's some Real Gameplay Footage! #LDJAM

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@eigenbom

8 years

A procedurally-generated Mario game! Made by @1bardesign @Cannonbreed @BananaboySam and me!

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

1 year

I almost quit drawing because of this pose

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

6 years

time spent working on game systems: ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░ physics ▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░ gameplay ▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░ ai ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ menus

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

4 years

d-pads are dead, long live hex-pads

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

1 year

I had an idea:

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

2 years

You don't have to choose between Unity and Unreal, just make the first half of your game in one and the second half in the other.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

Intro to programming: We call letters characters We call sentences strings We call numbers words Oh and variables can be constant

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 months

Oh you use Unity to make games? ( by @abagames )

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

6 years

simple wind effect

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

3 years

making games is so awesome and has no downsides

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

worksheet is reaching critical density, soon to become a black hole

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Ben Porter

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3 years

Hey folks, welcome to the oobly engine. Making games in oobly is easy. First open your dot prooj folder by middle clicking in the oobly oo. To create a new flentity simply create a new plubo. To do that we define a temploot in a dot ooble file. After the ooble has ooblified get t

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

To all the devs who make games that bear a passing resemblance to very popular other games and have to explain how theirs differs: ✊ hang in there.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

2 years

Know this: File:Chess Board.svg on wikimedia commons has been revised 8 times

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

Roguelike issues are the best issues.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

10 months

Social media should have these reacts as standard

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

6 years

Super proud to finally release MoonQuest. I started development around October 2011. Still a long way to go (many updates planned) but this is the biggest step.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

2 years

have to add the +0 here, otherwise i cannot sleep

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

8 years

This research was significant

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

2 years

Wanted to watch Prey but it's not appearing in my Disney+ so I watched RRR instead and it's amazing

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

7 years

Nintendo patent for characters looking at interesting objects.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

graph algorithms are more fun to work on if you decorate them with super mario sprites

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

4 years

game jam but you can only use code from downvoted stack overflow answers

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

4 years

It's never too late to learn. I didn't start programming until I was 7.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

2 months

Games often add New Game Plus in an update or patch, Dragon's Dogma 2 just added New Game.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

6 years

You're probably wondering how I shipped a game so fast. Wonder no more!

How to take 7 years to ship a beta.

Update (February, 2020): I finally shipped v1.0! Since this post I refactored the engine to support lower-end hardware, finished the macOS…

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

Game Idea: A failed terraforming effort on a planet has made it uninhabitable. You're the last engineer to leave the planet. The game follows you as you shut down the last systems, and nostalgically remember the optimism the crew had when they first arrived.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

1 year

simple procedural wall

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

I failed Hello World. Maybe it's time to give up programming.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

4 years

I love how you only need partial download to start the game

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

4 years

one of these will open instantly, the other will take eons do not misclick

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

6 years

After a magical voyage through the cosmos, MoonQuest will be landing in early June! Stay tuned for further transmissions: @playmoonquest .

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

7 years

Why did the impatient thief complain when he was stealing a Greek shield? . . . . . . . It was taking aegis.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

9 months

Game developers see the world creatively. They see someone mowing their lawn and think "that'd make a good game". They go to file their taxes and think "this would make a fun game". They see a leaf tumbling down the road and think "there's a game idea there".

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

6 years

starting a new game from scratch is like abandoning your house and family, dropping all your clothes, and running off into the forest while laughing hysterically

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

The good thing about indie dev is that you *get* to do everything but the bad thing about indie dev is that you *have* to do everything.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

3 years

and they say naming things is difficult

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

☂️

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

6 years

Out now on Steam: And itch io: Thanks for all your support!

MoonQuest by eigenbom

A procedurally-generated adventure in an alien world. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux

eigenbom.itch.io

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

10 months

When you ask a mathematician to tidy up

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

7 years

Good life advice from the c++ specification.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

for maximum safety use both mercurial *and* git

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

4 years

have you made a game yet

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

8 years

dude can now calculate A* path to a place

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

4 years

Man, this is emotional.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

6 years

zip-lock bag containing two shortbreads worn photo of peter serafinowicz ewok lego

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4 years

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Ben Porter

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2 years

Neo is The One but the Matrix is Unity

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

6 years

*ports game to macos* > apple deprecates opengl *ports game to linux* > valve makes windows games magically work on linux

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Ben Porter

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1 year

"It's not sentience, it's just matrix multiplication!" I scream as The Machine crushes my skull

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

7 years

MINESWEEPER BUT EVERYTIME YOU SWEEP YOU HAVE TO MINESWEEPER

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

8 years

To celebrate 10,000 followers, I made each of you a unique pet. Grab yours here: 🐱🐻🐷🐵🐼🐶🐚🐤🐙🐸

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

8 years

Dwarf Fortress Gameboy demake #pixelart

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

3 years

The four kinds of game developers

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

7 years

Yesterday was the best day, all thanks to my wife. I'm now a dad to a beautiful little girl. 💚

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

6 years

Hello. You can change my twitter avatar: .

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

6 years

The grass may be greener over there but your grass is blue and how cool is that.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

1 year

It's the end of times

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

4 years

8 years of code. I'm the thing flying around shooting files.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

7 years

My old school just opened a 25 year old time capsule.. apparently I wanted to be a game developer 😏

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

8 years

A little house #pixelart

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

6 years

Q. What's this? 🐸 🐸 🐸🐸 🐸🐸🐸 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 A. Amphibonacci sequence.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

4 years

Big if true

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

3 years

dark and light theme - i propose a compromise

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

6 years

You never achieve your dreams -- you achieve the dreams of your past self, who was obliterated in the process. Have a great day, everyone!

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

3 years

i'm sorry you scrolled down here

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

3 years

... unity: "you can't expect that system to work, it's legacy, use the new one" ... unity: "you can't expect that system to work, it's new, use the legacy one"

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

2 months

Being a parent in 2024AD is getting an email saying "homework", you open and there's a link, you click it and get a webpage with "an item named 'homework' has been posted to EduLearnPro", you open the app, there's a pdf to download. The pdf contains a paragraph of plain text.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

3 years

Your game code should be no better than not awful. Improving your code beyond that won't improve your game.

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