Abraão Filho @abrahamgamedev@qoto.org

Favorite Mastodon thing:
1. Quickly glances at cool toot right before closing the browser tab.
2. Re-opens Mastodon. The toot is right there, at the exact same spot, since there's no "algorithm" sorting and refreshing posts.

Try to do the same on Twitter. Even if you scroll a bit, the post is already gone, scrambled by the "relevancy algorithm".

#Fediverse #Mastodon

I released the Physics based character controller prototype i made in Godot 4 with Godot Jolt! As always, free and open source.

You can get it and learn more about it here: https://ko-fi.com/Post/Freemans-Physics-based-Character-controller-proto-T6T7OLDEW

I hope it can be useful for you!

Boost appreciated

#Godot #GameDev #indiedev #opensource #GodotJolt

Good news everyone! Mini Skate will release on Sunday, all models are CC0 licensed so free to use in any sort of project.

Stay tuned, meanwhile check out my 170+ previous releases; https://kenney.nl/assets

Holy crap, the man actually banned Linktree?

There's a bunch of artists on #Twitter who are just *furious* right now.

Hello! I’m making a mystery adventure game called The Crimson Diamond. Demo available on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/The_Crimson_Diamond/

For all social media / merch links and to subscribe to my newsletter, please visit https://www.thecrimsondiamond.com

I also stream on Twitch on Tuesdays at 8pm Eastern https://www.twitch.tv/a_maplemystery

I've published the DiChess game document on @itchio

Plz download and boost (it's free!)

A lot of work has gone into it, but I still consider it a work-in-progress, so if you have feedback I'd love to hear it!

https://sophieh.itch.io/dichess

Found this tool https://twitodon.com/ for finding twitter followers here on Mastodon! Pretty handy, although it only works if the people have put their Twitter handle in their bio, here... but still, it's a good start to find some of the people you follow from Twitter that have migrated!

#mastodon #twittermigration #gamedev

So... Hi, I'm Nicolas, artist at Nova-box. Currentlty working on End of Line, a game about climate change. I'm also writer on this one.
(And i'm quite angry with twitter right now)

I once implemented Streets of Rage 3 as a Lucasarts style point & click game. I’m kind of proud of how stupid it is, so I’m reuploading it here.

It’s exactly as frustrating to play as it looks.

#gamedev #godotengine #pointandclick

Some Mastodon thoughts, for bird-site expats (which include myself). I'm aggregating these from posts I've boosted before, so little of this is my own brain.

- There's no algorithm here. That means favoriting/liking doesn't do anything except communicate approval to the OP and others (which is still nice!).

- No algorithm means boosting ("retweeting") is the true method to increase a post's visibility. Do that more than you did on birdsite.

- There's no post-quoting here, and that's by design. Look at quote-tweets on the birdsite; it's a feature primarily used for toxicity.

- There's no direct word-search here either; that means you want to use hashtags to make posts more searchable. This is also intended, since word-searching posts was often used to harass/stalk on the birdsite and elsewhere, so that was left by the wayside here. This also means hashtags are much more a thing here than any of the algorithm-powered sites.

- It's encouraged to put in text descriptions when you post images; a lot of Mastodon users use screen-readers due to various disabilities, and getting an image description read out loud helps them immensely.

- Speaking of screen-readers: using capitalization in your hashtags allows the screen-readers to read them more easily, especially if you're smashing multiple words together. #rockmusic = unreadable. #RockMusic = readable.

- The best way to make threads is to make set your first post as public, but "unlist" all of your replies. This prevents your whole thread from clogging up feeds.

- Content Warnings should be used more liberally here. If you haven't gotten the impression yet, much of Mastodon was built and populated by marginalized groups who were harassed/bullied off of other platforms. This is the culture they built, to respect each other's mental health. It's not a rule, but it's well-appreciated.

- Consider chipping a few bucks towards whomever runs the server you're on; the strain is real, and most server admins were likely paying out of pocket before so don't have an existing donation base. The growth here has been extremely fast, and that means money's needed.

- DMs are just posts with privacy settings. So if you @ someone in a DM, you pull them into the thread. That could be embarrassing.

- Also, no, DMs aren't end-to-end encrypted, but they aren't on Twitter either. Don't use either if you want true privacy.

- Including your Mastodon handle in your birdsite profile will help people find you here; there's a tool (pruvisto.org/debirdify/ is one of them that's used) people can use to pull Mastodon handles from Twitter profile.

- Use the blocking and reporting features liberally, if needed. This should go without saying, but they work, and work well!

- If there's an entire Mastodon server you don't want to hear from, you can block the whole thing too.

- Preferences -> Appearance -> "Slow Mode": this can make larger "Local" feeds and any "Federated" feed much more readable.

I'll reply with some more as I see them, or reply here too. I've only been here 4 days but I'm loving it so far.