Ezra Szanton
@ezra-szanton
Game dev, currently making Mr Magpie's Harmless Card Game
Headed to Develop Brighton! If you see me, please say hi :) I'll likely be wearing my big goofy sunhat whenever I'm outside.
When students ask "what's the point of these obscure mathematical facts, who would ever use these?" the answer is GAME DEVS! Just today it was useful for me to have an intuitive sense of what formula would create a curve that slowly-ish approached 1 across a logarithmic scale.
One of the many homer simpson fat back types of game programming things.
Hey #TeaseYaGame, Mr. Magpie's Harmless Card Game is a surreal blend of Minesweeper, Blackjack and Balatro, hosted by your friendly neighborhood murder-puppet. Playtest on steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3616280/...
We're the #1 most popular roguelike on itch right now! Thanks everybody!
Markiplier's video on our game just hit 2 Million views! Classic example of luck + preparation. Preparation to make a great game in a popular genre, luck that Mark saw it on the front page of itch and decided to make a video on it.
"The Exception that Proves the Rule" seems like it justifies incorrect rules. It should be called "The Exception that *explains* the rule". If a card says "Attacking doesn't cause it to tap" it explains (via exception) that normally attacking *does* cause creatures to tap.
These knockoff web game portals are something else. (They scrape games off of itch and post them with AI generated slop descriptions)
I'm especially curious what @isaacshalev.bsky.social thinks of it! His article about clockwise / counterclockwise randomness was one of my inspirations for the essay
Looking through the feedback for the Be Honest demo today. I don't understand what you don't understand about your result?? your result is "see you in 42 years" makes perfect sense to me??
I'm a big fan of @deadlyyucca.bsky.social and I followed their tutorial to make this stack of shaders in Unity. I'm excited to play around with it more. I'm using Unity's RenderGraph to blit a bunch of materials in a row.
Mr Magpie is the most popular web game on itch right now! Fun to see, especially since I pushed a big update today (win streaks with Cinco Paus-y upgrades between runs) Ignore the porn games we're sharing the front page, that's just itch for you.
Love it when someone makes an account for the sole purpose of telling you a bad beats story :D (unironically)
Itch just featured our game on the front page! Look at our little puppet man go. Surely there's nothing wrong with him.
Working on a horror game that messes with your computer, sometimes you get interesting things stuck in your version control
To The Flame is like INSIDE x Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. Guide a moth on a journey to meet God, while avoiding a spider that wants to eat you. 100% positive reviews. It's on sale for only $3.99 right now! Go get it! store.steampowered.com/app/2820000/...
Who will leave the 1000th review of Be Honest? ezra-szanton.itch.io/be-honest