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piinecone

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About piinecone

I make games and tools:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3802120/Put_One_In_for_Johnny_Minn/

https://www.heartroutine.com/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48890185

    I just started running sword combat playtests this weekend for my next game, Today I Will Destroy You, which is about a girl who goes looking for her sister. Combat is mostly inspi…

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    Comment #48537731

    This week I'll start playtests for the combat system of my next game, Today I Will Destroy You, an action adventure with combat inspired by Sekiro. In this first round I want to se…

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    Comment #48092981

    I recently released my first Steam game, a little physics soccer game about scoring great goals: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3802120/Put_One_In_for_Jo... . It's not successf…

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    Comment #47749863

    Last month I released my first Steam game, an occasionally frustrating game about scoring great goals: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3802120/Put_One_In_for_Jo... . I built Hea…

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    Comment #47305705

    When I have time between freelance work I make games and tools for myself. Put One In for Johnny Minn ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/3802120/Put_One_In_for_Jo... ) - A small …

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    Comment #33347314

    > Someone needs to figure out a way where we can turn this around and empower ( I hate this word, but I dont have anything better in my vocab ) employees My friend and I are trying…

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    Comment #33005322

    Google notoriously hire Megatron supporters. You should have known!

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    Comment #32961811

    Thanks, we’ll do that! Yeah, that flow is ... not great right now.

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    Comment #32961467

    I’ve been living in Europe for 7 years and working remotely for US companies. Here is what I do (please tell me about better ideas!): 1. Apply to US remote jobs on the east coast a…

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    Comment #32936276

    I'm using a fork of Unreal Engine 4.20, and I'm using the substepped physics that UE ships with. I have a fixed timestep PR simmering for if and when it's time to implement a prope…

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    Comment #32876158

    I love reading these kinds of posts. Whenever I’m reminded that I’m not alone, I get a little bit more self-compassion and that makes me more excited to release my game and helps m…

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    Comment #32704799

    Dang, that's annoying, sorry about that! And thanks for checking it out so thoroughly. I queued this up and my friend or I will get to it soon. Really appreciate the QA :D If you w…

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    Comment #32704756

    I think you should probably do that -- niche job boards seem to do well, (or, at least, I've convinced myself that that is the case). I should also mention you can do this with the…

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    Comment #32704739

    Hopefully the fact that we're not doing this for our developer job matching site is not its death knell. We're building up developer preferences first, and then we can ask employer…

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    Comment #32700057

    Thanks for giving it a go! I’ll check sentry, etc. to see if there’s anything obvious. On the off chance you see this reply: what browser/device were you using? I also see that ste…

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    Comment #32699645

    > architect designed classes, lead designed methods, and programmers filled them out Incredible. So they all have to take vacation at the same time (and stick together too — the ar…

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    Comment #32689431

    I used to do the same thing but I got tired of doing that (and they didn’t always respond with the details, but often with another request). Now I just send them to https://polyfil…

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    Comment #32664376

    I don't see part-time dev work advertised as often as it is available. I've been working part-time for a few years, and the way I've found jobs is one of: - convert a full-time job…

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    Comment #32653779

    Depends on the clam!

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    Comment #32652642

    I have this problem too. I made https://polyfill.work to try to solve it (I enter my preferences and get notified when there’s a matching job.) It’s still a work in progress though…

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    Comment #32408232

    I am the author of this blog post and also a C++ developer with more than 15 years of experience, who hires people like myself, and writes go when it makes sense. > For example, if…

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    Comment #32194984

    I have this problem. As a result, a friend and I made a developer job search and recruiting tool that requires employers to state how much they pay. It will actively filter out dev…