The Untapped Market for Indie Game Developers
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Blender Dumbass
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I'm the stupidest man alive. Back in 2021 or so I wrote
an article on Odysee where I basically outlined my plan to do
Dani's Race, my
libre open world game. Yet while the idea is descent and the game turned out to be quite fun, I completely disregarded any considerations when it comes to the market. I didn't think about who might want to play it.
#gaming #games #gamedev #indiegames #libresoftware #gnu #linux #freesoftware #opensource
June and John is Luc being Besson with a smartphone
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Blender Dumbass
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It was nice to take a short break from the grind of trying to make CGI stuff all day long and watch a movie. And who could be a better film-maker to casually enjoy, but
Luc Besson, who after all these reviews I did of his films, I start to feel like I understand, similarly to how a therapist might understand his client? His 2025 low budget film
June and John is undeniably Luc Besson, even if the fact that the film was largely shot on a smartphone makes it look kind of weird and slightly amateurish.
#JuneAndJohn #LucBesson #film #review #movies #cinemastodon
What Lawrence of Arabia 1962 by David Lean is about?
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Blender Dumbass
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Steven Spielberg, who took a lot of influence from the 1962 film
Lawrence of Arabia by
David Lean, said this is a kind of movie that would not be done these days. And he is not talking about the epic production, about the elaborate sets, and very complex sequences, that today in the age of CGI would totally be faked to one degree or another. What he is talking about is more political. Thomas Edward Lawrence was not necessarily a good guy. He murdered a lot of people, some in cold blood. As he himself states in the movie: he quite enjoyed it. And yet the film is an epic tale romanticizing this man as a sort of broken mythical hero. Which begs the question: why?
#LawrenceofArabia #DavidLean #film #review #movies #cinemastodon
Why Age Verification cannot work even for its intended use?
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Blender Dumbass
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Short answer
People are stupid. But seriously, even though we have a lot of talk about why Age Verification laws are bad ( for human rights ) and how we can fight against them (
EFF just made a comprehensive guide on the issue ) nobody seems to realize the underlying logical fallacy, or multitudes of them, that even brought us to this point to begin with.
#ageverification #pivacy #age #kids #development #philosophy #law #stupidity #stupid
Part 3: Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money
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Blender Dumbass
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Since the
last post in this series the project I've been working on became way more ambitious. The original problem I was trying to solve, was figuring out how to use computer graphics ( mainly
Blender ) to cut costs for an action scene in a movie I'm developing. It has cars, so the idea was to try to render some CG cars into real life footage. You can go read
Part 2 to see my attempts at this sort of thing.
#vfx #cgi #cars #blender3d #blender #b3d #movies #filmmaking