It’s more of a space for indie games without having the barrier of dealing with Steam and all that set up.

Like if I wanted to make a game about pooping in my neighbor’s yard, I can just upload the game to itch and have it ready for people to play. (Or sell it too).

With Steam, you have a significantly bigger set up. There so many more things to configure, things that a indie dev may not be ready to answer yet. Not to mention, it opens up the door to reviews and criticism from the “general gaming public”.

It’s common for most indie devs to use itch.io to test run their game ideas with a small crowd before launching it on Steam.

Peak humanity

I found my Green game boy Pocket and saw the 1989-1996 copyright.

It looks so pristine. 😭😭😭

Someone post this to the Best of Lemmy community. This is gold.

The maintenance part crushed me. Most of my other self hosted home setup, I fiddle with at most 2-3 times a year. Next cloud, I logging in at least once a month because something wasn’t working.

Thanks for sharing that. My job set up NextCloud for cloud sharing and I thought it was pretty cool. Tried to set it up at home for sharing on a home network with my family and felt really confused. Every week there was a new problem that I had to solve and ended up going back just network drives and sharing.

The difference between experienced devs and non experienced devs is that we have hundreds of stories like that under our belt. Hundreds of “Ah I wasted all this time because of a typo”, and now we know to check for it.

It never stops. And after a while, a dev will share this exact scenario and you’ll look back and share the same bit to them.

Lol brb gonna share this with the CFO and watch them go into a panic. Going to bet they’ll freak out and by the end of 2024, no more Java for us.

This is the golden ticket I’ve been waiting for.

How likely are you to recommend Lemmy to a friend or colleague? Give a score from 1 to 10.

That’s a way better community! Thanks for the recommendation!

This is it.

The games community in lemmy.world is a bunch of folks advertising their indie game or YouTube stream. Usually a few comments here and there.

The games community on lemmy.ml is a bunch of folks sharing gaming journalism. Pretty active.

I used to cut my teeth on modding, and I was even part of a team. You think elementary school groups were bad, where one person carried the whole team? Yeah… That’s modding.

The challenge is that its volunteering.

It’s volunteers trying to Project Manager AND contribute AND be encouraging. Because the moment someone gets “too” serious, you leave.

That’s what I mean. The exported code isn’t readable or something that can be modifiable by web developers.

In the perfect world, you’re not using a game engine to export web games. You’re building directly using web languages.

This is incredible.

Athena Crisis is an example of how to build a high-quality video game using only JavaScript, React, and CSS. By open-sourcing Athena Crisis, we are following through on our commitment to open source our core technology and help push the Web forward as a game development platform.

I absolutely love browser-based gaming. But there’s not a lot of resources to learn how to build anything advanced beyond the casual games. After a while, every browser game migrates to a “real” game engine. Which makes sense. But doesn’t help push web games.

We frequently are shown photos in black and white to give a distance. Makes people feel like it was eons ago.

It wasn’t that long ago that women had rights. There are people still alive who were part of the first wave of women in the office.

Laundry is irrelevant if it’s on the first floor.

Can you explain this?

This is a new rule that I want to add in my household. Like proximity based cleaning, rather than running to teach kids room to grab their dirty clothes.

I was reading a book where people anonymously share confessions. And one was about a person who worked at a Hospice providing care. They shared a lot of old women, on their last days, would confess to murdering their husbands.

Only if you’re a video game with of horny choices

Life Is Strange is so good. But every follow-up felt weaker, lamer.

I haven’t played this game but I’m expecting it to be bad. Here’s hoping I’m wrong.

However, this does not come from a place of logic; she wants to see Cloud and Sephiroth fuuuuuuck.

My wife bought Mass Effect because she wanted to fuck everybody.

She’s been hearing about BG3 and thinking about it.