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Solo Gamemaker. Made

@Headmastergame

. Former Game Director

@VVisionsStudio

. Proud Dad. mastodon.gamedev.place/web/@benthroop

Burlington, VTemergentbehavior.com/aboutJoined April 2007

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Ben Throop

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Feb 12, 2022

I wanted to make something beautiful so I've been working on a simulation of herding sheep 🐑. Lots of sheep. First tweet about this! Give a follow if you'd like to see progress (and bugs) #screenshotsaturday #unity3d #gamedev #madewithunity

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Jan 23

This is probably a bigger deal than it looks

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Dennis Gustafsson

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Jan 23

Experimenting with an in-game build mode. A lot of people have been requesting that. I can see why :)

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this should be illegal, right? if you can't keep your customers without resorting to this kind of shenanigan you don't deserve your customers. (…ADOBE)

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Jan 18

I will probably have to be careful to not overuse it but this is what the camera switching looks like in game! #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #madewithunity

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webgl ray marched cellular automata with

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press g for controls, refresh for more notochord.xyz/2023-chrysalis

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for(float i,g,e,R,S;i++<1e2;o.rgb+=hsv(.4-.02/R,(e=max(e*R*1e4,.7)),.03/exp(e))){S=1.;vec3 p=vec3((FC.xy/r-.5)*g,g-.3)-i/2e5;p.yz*=rotate2D(.3);for(p=vec3(log(R=length(p))-t,e=asin(-p.z/R)-.1/R,atan(p.x,p.y)*3.);S<1e2;S+=S)e+=pow(abs(dot(sin(p.yxz*S),cos(p*S))),.2)/S;g+=e*R*.1;}

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Hi I'd love your suggestions for games for kids that help with reading, writing, spelling, and typing. USA 3rd grade level. Doesn't have to be EDUTAINMENT. Can be ENTERTAINMENT. PC is preferred since it has a keyboard.

Ben Throop

@ben_throop

Jan 9

It's outrageously beautiful so far

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Maria Popova

@brainpicker

Jan 9

Searching for Meaning in the Age of Science – now streaming on @NovaPBS and online, an absolutely wonderful — rapturous, really — three-part series by the poetic physicist Alan Lightman, crowned with transcendent original music by @zoecello pbs.org/show/searching

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Ben Throop

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Jan 3

One of the things I love about our art form is how there's still so much unexplored territory... along with explored territory that has friendly inhabitants. :)

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Luke Muscat

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Jan 3

Hey everyone I came up with a completely new and unique game idea that no one has ever thought of before youtube.com/watch?v=0A5vR7

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Jan 2

I was on a walk in Burlington yesterday and came upon the mythical LOAF-HENGE

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The Professional - a hilariously hard QWOP-like burglary sim where you attempt to steal a giant diamond! freegameplanet.com/the-profession by #gamedev

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#indiedev #indiegames #gaming

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Headmaster on SteamVR is really cheap right now. It hasn't been this cheap in years. If you buy it please review!!! Happy holidays! store.steampowered.com/app/621010/Hea

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Dec 22, 2022

Murmurations #unity3d

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🐦 is one of the best ways to reach a lot of people, especially those outside the developer community. It's the place to voice, share, and call out social injustices, especially for those outside the US. 🐘 is a place for creatives to share, have conversations, and make friends.

Where I am I would say normally $5 but I am at a place where they are $8 and I gasped

Where you are, how much is one Al Pastor taco?

I appreciate this increasingly rare Internet behavior twitter.com/BenHolmesCO/st

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Life Universe oimo.io/works/life Explore the infinitely recursive universe of Game of Life! Works in real-time and is perfectly consistent, never fails to remember where you are and where you came from. 無限に再帰するライフゲームの宇宙を探索できる作品を作りました #indiedev

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Whaaaaat? I did not know. More node based tools should have this so people aren’t screenshotting their graphs to share them.

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Dec 13, 2022

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Did you know #AmplifyShaderEditor has a built-in tool to share sub-graphs over the internet! Say what??

You can share node networks with any user in the world by using our share button. This generates a unique link that others can paste directly into their editor.

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Dec 6, 2022

I won't talk much about the World Cup, don't worry... but this article captures the pain and suffering we in the US are feeling from being force-fed FOX coverage. It's just so terrible.

theguardian.com

Fox Sports’ US World Cup coverage is an unmissable abomination | Aaron Timms

The broadcaster has offered up a feast of gaffes, stupidity, and unconquerable on-air awkwardness for American viewers to enjoy

Still blows my mind there’s zero mainstream coverage of the only thing everyone in tech is talking about It’s like we just split the atom and everyone is talking about football

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I updated this to always start with my daughter singing because when all the goofy grown-ups kicked things off it wasn't as good. Also, there are 7 new pictures, some of which are animal holes.

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Ben Throop

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Oct 24, 2022

A few weeks ago I made a silly game w/ my kids for #LDJAM called ANIMAL HOLE. It's based on a little song my daughter sings when we hike. We found out it got 1st place for humor and 6th place for audio. Who's laughing now? NOBODY frameinteractive.itch.io/animalhole

I’ve got my spray bottle ready for any mf not at their most polite behaviour when chatting with gpt

Ben Throop

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Dec 5, 2022

One of my favorite things about ChatGPT so far is when it starts writing code and then peters out. You just gotta cheer it on!

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Dec 2, 2022

"The Age of Collaboration"

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Nov 29, 2022

A cool peek into the animation development of an Overwatch 2 character from my friend Markus. So many details to consider!

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Markus Hammarstedt

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Nov 29, 2022

Wanted to share some tidbits of the anim/dev-process for Ramattra, now that he has been announced and shown to the world! Lots of talented people were involved in his development, I had the pleasure of working on his First Person Set #Overwatch #animation #gamedev

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OK so tonight might just be the best I’ve ever seen. Mesmerising doesn’t come close.

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Headmaster and The Lost Lessons DLC are 60% off till Nov 29 in the Steam Autumn Sale. Store Link: store.steampowered.com/app/621010/Hea

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Given the recent popularity of #Dalle2 and #StableDiffusion, I thought it would be fun to write a thread about a different kind of generative art. Each of the videos below is a randomly generated simulation and today I will explain about the project that created them. A 🧵! 1/

“Emergent Microcosms” is a fuzzy category and I’m still thinking about it, but with its roots in artificial life, this space spans ALife, complexity science, simulation, and creative coding. And it’s amazing. (LLMs + AI art are all the rage, but we’ve forgotten this space!) 2/

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Really enjoying this on Playdate. It fulfills the need to both precision and speed crank. I'd describe it as a "Non-endless runner you crank, with Braid like mechanics and a Karateka ending".

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Crankin's Time Travel Adventure for Playdate

Crankin loves taking naps, but that is always the cause of more trouble. Being late to work or missing flights, and today he woke from a nap at the exact time he was supposed to meet a date. Advance...

Somebody at Apple really woke up and said “yeah, that’s money we need for sure. we don’t have quite enough”

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Oct 26, 2022

What’s this? Ads for gambling at the bottom of a listing for a gambling addiction recovery app. How could this possibly go wrong? #Apple #appstore

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frameinteractive.itch.io

Animal Hole by Frame Interactive

Is it an Animal Hole or NOT? Play in your browser

Ben Throop

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Oct 22, 2022

You cannot be serious

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Oct 3, 2022

Ok just posted my #LDJAM entry ANIMAL HOLE thx @gribbly, @griffin_carlson, @dont_darling_me, @dancarlson74, @cfloydtweets, @pshelleyaudio, @miriamrobern, COACH from Rec Room, my son for help coding and my daughter for writing the song! Play in browser: ldjam.com/events/ludum-d

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What a nice surprise

Get scared Switchers

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Robot Invader

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Oct 20, 2022

DEAD SECRET CIRCLE launches TODAY for Nintendo Switch! nintendo.com/store/products

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Nate Purkeypile - The Axis Unseen

@NPurkeypile

Oct 18, 2022

Here it is! The open world of The Axis Unseen.🌐 There are 6 different regions. Each with their own creatures, weather and locations to explore.🧌💀👹 Some regions will require special powers that you must obtain in order to survive and navigate them.⚡️ 🤘🏹🔥 🧵(More info)