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David Liu

@thedak

He/Him. Musings: https://nitter.cf/t.co/5cXTAw6RDz Work Stuff: https://nitter.cf/t.co/ZjhhY0sLfz Everything Else: thedak on https://nitter.cf/t.co/GELxbz2yBE & bsky

 Brooklyn, NY
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Joined April 2007
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Where to find me when I’m not here. Bsky: thedak.bsky.social Mastodon: mastodon.gamedev.place/@thed… Cohost: cohost.org/Thedak Website: davidshiyang.com
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sure! ( courtesy @thedak )
Image from Alex Coulombe 🥽 Android Dev Summit (@iBrews)
Image from Alex Coulombe 🥽 Android Dev Summit (@iBrews)
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The average U.S. price for Grade A Large eggs was $4.15/dozen in Dec 2024, +13.6% vs. Nov 2024 🥚⬆️
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Most people do not know what typical indie game life looks like. So here's some concrete, real numbers. Preface: yes, of course some studios beat these odds and these numbers. But it is not the norm.
Stephen Pimentel (@StephenPiment) profile pictureStephen Pimentel
@StephenPiment2 Nov 2024
Replying to @raphkoster
I don’t doubt your point about marketing, especially at the high end of the market. As for indie games, is it not possible to reduce costs below the expected return?
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Breaking my social media break to exclaim that there probably is an intersection between the folks who use Dot by @newcomputer and readers of @robinsloan’s new novel Moonbound. No spoilers but, huh. You folks feel it too? The sourdough is real.
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kasey
@kaseyklimes16 Jun 2024
inadvertently diverting foot traffic from low-income streets to high-income streets takes revenue and potentially tax dollars from already struggling communities and funnels it instead to richer communities. always remember: we live (and build tools) in complex systems.
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Perfectly timed for Pride Month, thrilled that today marks the public release of Body of Mine, the first LGBTQ+ experience on the Meta Quest App Store. It’s been an honor for @AgileLens to work w/ @c_kostopoulos & co the past 6 months to bring this to a wider audience. Thread 👇
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@xhfloz14 May 2024
Replying to @kepano
"It is now possible for tiny teams to make principled software that millions of people use, unburdened by investors. (...) These principles can be irrevocably built into the architecture of the app." @kepano 🤙🤙🤙 (Truncated for character limit)
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Tbh you are god tier in any enterprise software shop if you are able to ship a single game
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Enjoying the Jewish Chinese tradition of Lao Gan Matzah 🌶️🫓 I can’t find any recipes online, so here you go:
Image from Danielle Baskin (@djbaskin)
Image from Danielle Baskin (@djbaskin)
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Does this sound like you? Agile Lens is a good crew who could use your help!
Alex Coulombe 🥽 Android Dev Summit (@iBrews) profile pictureAlex Coulombe 🥽 Android Dev Summit@iBrews19 Apr 2024
Thrilled w/ Agile Lens’ line-up of summer interns but there’s one problem—they’re all brilliant Unreal Engine devs & artists. You know what I don’t have? Someone who loves marketing / web design / etc. 99% of Agile Lens’ bizdev is clients DM’ing me. Let’s update the website lol
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No joke my job at a AAA company a long time along that is about managing a dollhouse and rhymes with Her Flims More.
Katie Chironis (@kchironis) profile pictureKatie Chironis@kchironis23 Sep 2020
Replying to @kchironis
TWO: The player can unlock 20 different motorcycles. Name each motorcycle and write a lore blurb for it that is no longer than 80 words. The only thing you can visually change about the motorcycle is its color, the model is already locked and is identical for each motorcycle.
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At least I got away with a shitload of bad puns. (To be clear there were many writers and all of us were very punny because we were trying to make each other laugh)
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One thing about music AI that I can’t decide if I hate or love right now is how it defaults to earnest cringeyness. While trying to break it with multiple languages it instead does a somersault and came up with this: suno.com/song/67674138-ab20-…
Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation

Listen and make your own on Suno.

suno.com
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a few notes: - the overly processed voice seems to be an artifact of the model trying to sing in different languages? - it stumbles with more than three languages beyond english right now.
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I think one of the most unpleasant ways to know you don’t have COVID is when you walk into a stuffy elevator and the prior person had on too nuch perfume and most definitely farted.
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Getting to the point of marginal German fluency that I can ask for directions and order food without folks lapsing into English for me … and then I’m headed home. :p
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Helpfully instructive, anatomically correct stick figures.
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Still thinking about Fallout, the TV series. And how I’m gonna rewatch all eight episodes.
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It was just brought to my attention that NarraScope is happening again this year! Loved the first one in 2019, so am going to start wrangling things to make time for Rochester, NY in June!
NarraScope (@narrascope) profile pictureNarraScope@narrascope18 Dec 2023
Announcing NarraScope 2024! narrascope.org June 21-23 The Strong National Museum of Play Rochester, NY Now accepting talk proposals: narrascope.org/pages/call.ht… #InteractiveFiction #NarraScope

NarraScope 2026 | A Hybrid Conference on Interactive Narrative

NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.

narrascope.org
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