Matt Giuca

@mgiuca.bsky.social

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Solo game developer, former Web Apps eng at Google, former editor of Web Apps Manifest spec. https://mgiuca.itch.io/ https://mastodon.social/@mgiuca

Work-in-progress mock-up of an alternative capsule design. The Earth is up the top, filling the top third of the image. The ball trajectory extruding from the moon is travelling all the way around the Earth before it arrives in the foreground at the game logo.
Steam capsule art for "Celestial Golf". In space, a large Earth is at the bottom. The moon has a red golf flag on it. A blue trajectory line shows the ball being hit from the moon out into space, forming the 'O' in the title. A blue alien in a space suit watches from the side, excitedly.
Screenshot: The player is about to hit a golf ball on the surface of the moon. A dialogue box showing a blue alien in a space suit says "Do you think you can hit the ball... half way around the moon?"
A ball being hit on the moon, moving towards a golf flagpole.
Code preloading 8 images by file path. First line reads: const JOY_A = preload('res://images/inputs/xbox_button_color_a.png') followed by 7 other similar lines.
"Files: Drop Preload Resources as UID" checkbox, turned off. An arrow icon indicates "revert to default", implying that the setting is on by default.
If harms are socially rooted, then technical restrictions alone are unlikely to solve them. A ban treats social media as the problem, rather than asking deeper questions about why certain behaviours – harassment, shaming, misogyny, exploitation – occur in the first place.
A ball in orbit around the Earth, planning a trajectory to encounter and impact the Moon, using an orbital trajectory planning tool.
Panel on the Steam website: "Join the Celestial Golf Playtest Request access and you’ll get notified when the developer is ready for more participants." With a green button "Request Access"
Bluesky banner: "The laws in your location require you to verify you're an adult to access certain features. Tap to learn more."
“Netflix expects to maintain Warner Bros’ current operations and build on its strengths, including theatrical releases for films,” a statement from the streamer read this morning. Sarandos added: “I think over time, I think the windows will evolve to be much more consumer friendly, to be able to meet the audience where they are, quicker … I’d say right now, you should count on everything that is planned on going to the theater through Warner Bros will continue to go to the theaters through Warner Bros.”
"I find it outright weird that YouTube is always at pains to remind us all how unsafe their platform is in a logged-out state," she said. "If YouTube is reminding us all that it is not safe and there's content not appropriate for age-restricted users on their website, that's a problem that YouTube needs to fix."
"Cloudflare protects this website... But something went wrong trying to reach it." (Describes an outage.) "Do you have a website?" (Explains why every website should be on Cloudflare)
Comic: Panel 1: Boy: "I used to think correlation implied causation." Panel 2: Boy: "Then I took a statistics class. Now I don't." Panel 3: Girl: "Sounds like the class helped." Boy: "Well, maybe."
A VR game. In first person, the player brandishes two gold keys in front of two locks. One is inserted into each lock, and when both are turned at the same time, a large door opens.
First-person view in a VR game, at a bowling alley. The player holds two red bowling balls in their hands, and throws them down the lane, knocking over two bowling pins. When both pins are knocked down, a door at the back of the scene opens.
An animation of a VR game shown from first-person perspective. The player holds a gold key in each hand, and inserts them into two locks, one at a time. When both keys turn in the lock, a green checkmark appears.