We're back to Penguin DT blog updates. Since the Next Game isn't ready for the prime time just yet, I'll start covering some technical improvements to the engine. Both visible and behind the scenes kind. This first one covers new level data type added to streamline level creation and hopefully speed things up significantly.
And as it is a tradition at this point, I also go over the games I've played recently. Can't make games unless you play 'em.
Fashionably late, but hey, never too late to celebrate amazing games! This is the 13th annual Penguin DT 'Games of the Year' showcase, where we share some of the games we played and loved last year! Many are older titles this time, some new – but all crazy good.
Much love to all the games featured – and their devs – from us Finnish penguins!
One week 'till Christmas, so it is time for the annual greetings card! Feel free to distribute this Christmas card to cheer up your penguin-loving friends and loved ones!
This year was rough to get through, filled with personal setbacks and thus schedule delays on everything TAGAP. Getting some perspective to see the big picture is always important, much like how Pablo here is explaining the Milkyway to Pedro.
In terms of the Next Game, you can sort of picture this doodle in one of two ways; either the next game is too big for me to tackle as-is and I need to step back for some perspective – or it's just something epic and I need to wait for it to come together without stressing about it.
Either way, I hope it doesn't take as long to take shape as Milkdromeda does.
Feel free to distribute this Christmas card to cheer up your loved ones – or enemies – with:
https://www.tagap.net/pow/p904.htm
This sounds like something from a story parodying dystopian sci-fi, but no, this is true.
Funko, the company behind Funko Pops, has started crawling the Internet with a 'brand protection tool' that uses AI to recognize 'harmful use of the brand'. And it is getting websites nuked via bombarding their domain hosts with bogus takedown claims.
And this being powered by AI, 'the tech of the future', it is absolutely rubbish and has gotten several totally unrelated sites nuked, including Itch.io.
Yes, really.
In order to protect TAGAP.net I've decided to remove all four Funkos I have from the Weekly Penguin feature – three different takes on Cobblepot and Chilly Willy. This includes their wallpapers – which sucks, because the Chilly Willy one was one of my favourite photo experiments.
