Just met an adorable African gray (Psittacus) named Barry (but it's a girl). It's 17, lives in a tiny pet shop, talks, dances, all the stuff. The owner allows it to hang outside of the cage, it looks happy.

Another one lives in a cafe nearby, and a whole bunch of them lives in a local zoo as well. Sadly, one of the zoo grays is seemingly a home bird, so 20 crazy neighbours are screaming around it and it says "hello" to humans and suspiciously look around.

They are extremely social, sensitive, require tons of care, and most likely outlive their owners (they live up to 80 years). And way too many of them are being taken from nature to only end up as neglected or abandoned.

#OffTopic@GameDEV

A few years ago players used the legendary Dark Souls warning system (which only supports predefined words) to tell that amazing chest is ahead... ones who opened the door were greeted by this 👀

The second version will be in the chat...

#meme@GameDEV
#Soulslike@GameDEV

Perfect!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qcu1VHqb1wA

Over the last couple of years I intentionally added all reasonable free to play multiplayer games to my Steam account. Dozens of games to simply look after the industry.

Many of them were just released
Most of them are already closed

Like literally: end of line, support termination, we took a tough decision to take the game offline. Party games, competitive games, and so on. I haven't even played most of them and never will. Often they don't even announce it — the server just goes offline and the game ends up unable to connect.

Were they that bad? Nope, but the whole market is oversaturated and there's barely any place left to conquer. Make solo games, folks, they are timeless.

#Multiplayer@GameDEV

Subnautica 2, Forza Horizon 6, and Lego Batman all leaked before the release.

Playground Games announced that everyone who played the leaked FH6, will be permanently banned by the account and by their hardware in all Forza Horizon games. And some players were already banned even if they pre-ordered the premium edition and own every single game of the series. But were tempted to start a week earlier — still permanently banned and proposed to refund.

IMO: damn overreaction

#Piracy@GameDEV

Also, it seems like you can be banned by EA for saying "you autistic?"

They're obviously doing so since it must be written as "Are you autistic?" or "You're autistic?" Grammar matters!

#EA@GameDEV

Somehow Anita has returned

https://youtu.be/r95DnVoKWgo

Batora, the game I picked some time ago on sale, is the most "Californian writing" example ever (maybe the second place after Forspoken or the third one after the last Saints Row).

Why do they even do it? No one talks like that...

It's also a fairly competent isometric combat game with two different states to fight physical and mental enemies.

But only approximately 52% of people made it 10 minutes into the story to obtain both powers. That number must be at least 80% for a healthy game. And people apparently dropped it right away.

#IndieGames@GameDEV

Wishlist this one instead

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3227500/Blades_of_Mirage/
#IndieGames@GameDEV
#Isometric@GameDEV

It's Wednesday, my dudes

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/Big_Hops/ (45% off)
#IndieGames@GameDEV

People found out that Steam Controller can occasionally do a Wilhelm scream when dropped.

I'm not even sure if it's true and meme by Valve or a meme by the community and Mandela effect.

#Valve@GameDEV
#SoundDesign@GameDEV
#Hardware@GameDEV

Yes, I'm playing on PC, how do you know?

#meme@GameDEV
#Modding@GameDEV
#Capcom@GameDEV

OK, the real sound of Steam Controller

#Valve@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV
#Hardware@GameDEV

Self-hosted opportunities are crucial for smart people, kids!

#meme@GameDEV