Cookie Clicker Dev Tracker

it only went out of commission like 2 years ago... come on man... come on

never felt as old as this christmas gathering where i was answering questions about web game development to my younger cousins and they went "what's Flash"

hey it's Steam Christmas sale time so you can get Cookie Clicker 60% off for literally the price of a cookie. for yourself or your pals. just so u kno.

the healthiest social media advice i can give is. you gotta keep posting. you never know when a banger's gonna hit. just keep posting all the time

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anyway i'm still learning a lot but my constant here is i'm not gonna let my excitement for fun new tech eclipse the imperative to Do The Right Thing and i hope other designers and developers feel similarly about it. thank u

i think AIs are really neat! and if the caveat for putting little generated throwaway assets in games is that no copyright can apply to them i feel like that's totally fair. but it's gonna take a lot more legal work before the use of AI in actual projects feels justifiable

i also wouldn't conflate the AI debate with NFTs - i can think of a dozen very real applications for AI in my regular game dev. these are not, however, meaningfully workable as long as this remains such a minefield for existing artists and a threat to the future of art

i know i've expressed support for AI art in the past and while i do think the topic is frequently misunderstood and misrepresented i still believe we need to prioritize healthier data gathering (ie. no "anything online is fair game") and the preservation of art as a livable job

i'm hoping to see more developments like this regarding AI; i've been into generative art for a long long time but i'm going to hold off playing with all the new toys until we have a baseline of solid legislation and models with ethically-sourced training data

no it wasn't

some of the pixel art in Cookie Clicker may look odd but this is because it was designed with the color blending of late-1980's CRT screens in mind

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impostor syndrome is over i'm doing a great job actually

anyway my working theory is they actually landed on Mars in 1969 but color-graded it to look like the moon because they were so embarrassed

every update i subject the translators to more and more obscure achievement names

Home Alone 2 turned 30 this year so here's Joe Pesci bashing the absolute sh*t out of some birds

mind you there's also a whole bunch of french and dutch cookies in the game but that's mostly author bias. i'll see something at the store and go oh yeah i need to pixel that

of course a lot of this is due to many cultures having different kinds of treats taking up the spot that cookies have in western countries so sometimes for fun we stretch the definition just a little bit. maybe a small cake or other confectionery can be a cookie. it's cool