I feel like Unity has just cut off the top of their user funnel with this and guaranteed their slow fall into obsolescence. Large companies using Unity won't move away immediately, neither will many indie devs currently working on projects they are too deep into to pivot. But any new game developer will either go to Unreal or Godot if they want something ready made to ship. Companies will see what all the new talent is using, and will slowly start moving away from wanting to use Unity, since their incoming employees have other skills.

It won't be a fast death. The "leaked" cap at 4% will quiet people down and not make anyone go bankrupt, but I do think they have irreversibly hurt their future with this wild swing.

Also been enjoying Sea of Stars, it's like the modern love child of Super Mario RPG, Lunar and Chrono Trigger

I don't have much sympathy for this. If you really just care about the community, then just move the community to lemmy/kbin/discord/irc/whatever. These people are just afraid to lose their power over the community, not the community itself.

A Hat in Time and Yooka Kaylee scratch that Banjo itch pretty well.

I second this, and it has been bugging me since people started talking about the blackout. I think the big issue is that the people organizing the 48hr blackout are the mods. These are the people that have invested the most into reddit, and they dont want to give up that investment into their subreddits. They don't want to leave reddit, and giving people an agreed upon alternative would be permanently fracturing their little fiefdom. They want to make a statement, and then for things to go back to the way they were, hoping that their tiny act of defiance makes a difference. The migration has to be led by users, but the issue of fractured lemmy communities is going to be hard to navigate unless lemmy introduces a way for communities to link together.

Really anything by Grant Kirkhope, Banjo Kazooie Yooka Laylee, etc, and on the Rare train, Donkey Kong Country 2 had great music.

Also love the Undertale soundtrack.

Grease has always been a favorite of mine. All the DMs I have played with have taken the components to mean that it is a flammable oil, and I like to use it to create fire traps everywhere to maneuver enemies into.

Honestly this seems like the biggest downside of federation. It makes sense for like furry_gamedev to have its own community, but having multiple general purpose gamedev communities seems like unnecessarily splintering. I wonder if Lemmy will either add a way to combine them on the user end, or for the community side to be able to link themselves together.

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of communities acting as entry points. Each one could act as a "node" which helps for redundancy in case one goes down, and if it only works one way then a community could remain separate if they really wanted to, but the larger community could still have posts from B showing up.

I don't know if I could focus on work when I am jamming out to a song about drinking Pina Colada's with my friends :D

Oh I'll have to try out the Social Network soundtrack, thanks for the reccomendation!

Nice, I've used the Deep Focus one before, I'll need to checkout Coding Mode

You know there really should be, but I am awful at socials and never post. I have a mastodon (@hodgepodge_homonculus@mastodon.gamedev.place) where I very occasionally post. I did a refactor recently and that took up a bunch of my time with no visual changes so I stopped posting updates. This is a good reminder that I should get back to regularly doing that!

It's still in prototype stages, I almost have the core loop implemented. I should open up a beta or something when I get it to a good stage.