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Chip and Gimpy go over their goals / resolutions for 2025, The last year definitely inspired Gimpy to keep going, Chip is in his chill out stage. youtube available: https://youtu.be/H5MPxFXupxY

Chip and Gimpy go over their personal favorite games of 2024, their favorite tool for gamedev and discuss the fiasco that was itch.io vs funko. youtube available: https://youtu.be/Mt5dtqcQuUo

Chip and Gimpy freeform discuss a little about what they are doing while winding down the end of the year. Translation : Chips spends 12 minutes going on about his various conspiracy theories in the industry. youtube available: https://youtu.be/KYlW-30LFU0

Gimpy ventures out and tests implementing multiplayer in Gamemaker using Warp by Evoleo and testing Godots current method. Warp By Evoleo: https://github.com/evolutionleo/Warp/releases/tag/v7.0.0 youtube available:  https://youtu.be/wkin2kKmCgM

Chip and Gimpy discuss the need for optimization in the current modern gaming landscape, Chip goes back to the Quake era and discovers the fun, Gimpy gives his initial thoughts on the Halo VR mod. youtube available: https://youtu.be/jVuB9TIflE8

Jam is over, we had time to reflect, now Gimpy and Chip discuss the next things they will be working on and games they are looking forward to for this years Black Friday. youtube available:  https://youtu.be/wLrQ3Ynsx3k

Gimpy and Chip talk about their experience with Gdevelop Big Jam # 6 Multiplayer jam game here: https://itch.io/jam/gdevelop-big-game-jam-6/rate/3098794 Servers seem to be slammed at time of posting if desyncs happen try less players or singleplayer youtube available: https://youtu.be/KNQzsmhA9-c

Gimpy and Chip Reveal they are participating in Gdevelop Big Jam # 6 Multiplayer jam the guys talk about potential issues, and the excitement for it. youtube available: https://youtu.be/gQ7aHGRylrU

Gimpy and Chips participation in a gamejam has solidified, Chip immediately calls Gimpy out on trying out his open source trello alternatives, The guys talk a little about the game jam preparation and the tools we need for our workflow. youtube available: https://youtu.be/xzpC9Y8aEPk

Gimpy is fighting off sickness, Chip goes in on the prototype process he’s been in and not being able to “find the fun”. Gimpy discusses his current prototyping experiences and discusses the common mistakes he makes in coding. youtube available:  https://youtu.be/3BZ1a2zDxuM

Gimpy and Chip dicuss a little wrasslin’ then the projects they are interested in, Chip goes in on cluster computing around AI tasks. Chip wants to bring back classic board game Crossfire, so he made it in unity. The boys are threatening to do a game jam after years of not doing one. Gimpy updates on personal projects. youtube availabe: https://youtu.be/9XYNyDYK1jg

Gimpy and Chip update each other on what they have been up to since September started, When Game Dev is your hobby, schedule changes can slow things down, we discuss how each other are handling the enemy known as time youtube available: https://youtu.be/5mNtvH1KzLs

Gimpy and Chip discuss the recent Sony failure of concord, they blame the horrible aesthetic for the failure and the chasing trends as another reason. The guys discuss how they think Sony should build a community successfully  youtube available:  https://youtu.be/EckN-fh0mKA

Gimpy and Chip discuss the stages of development, and share their opinion on when you should share your game, what each stage means and why the current trend of AAA studios letting the public play “alpha” builds is a bad thing. youtube available: https://youtu.be/RHJf1UlBdl0

Chip and Gimpy are rounding out summer going over Valves history and their goal of becoming Nintendo. Gimpy goes over rumors from Valve and the guys share their thoughts on them. Chip updates on his writing sidequest and Gimpy States a few games he is looking forward to in the coming Months.  youtube available:  https://youtu.be/2v8NS6uQVVM

Gimpy discusses going through his massive backlog starting with Elden Ring, Chip finally is pursuing creative writing, Chip goes deep into his mantra of sticking to your guns and enjoying your Hobby, not everything needs to be pursued to earn money. youtube available: https://youtu.be/GJPqTF5ping

Gimpy discusses finding a replacement for his Elite V2 that has seen better days, Chip tells Gimpy about his dream story he is writing, that unfortunately sounds very familiar to Gimpy. youtube available: https://youtu.be/E6yqHFX5o2E

The boys open up about the “luck” factor in creative pursuits. youtube available:   https://youtu.be/QoWi6b7yVI8

Chip updates us on his health, speaks on how his mom is super fashion forward, Gimpy updates on his own personal remake project of his first game. youtube available:  https://youtu.be/bURvBo0rwdg

Chip is sick, Gimpy speaks on the often criticized sport games and speaks on their place in summer AAA releases. We discuss the potential of NCAA 25 and Gimpy goes on with his attempt to try out the newest version of Godot. youtube available: https://youtu.be/ATygmbrO8OA

Chip is going through a phase of all of his hardware failing at the cord level, Gimpy thinks its Chips carelessness, Chip thinks its by design. The guys update on multiple projects, Chips discusses his new experiences with Claude AI and the guys wrap up with steam sale recommendations Herald Of Havoc and Harold Halibut youtube available: https://youtu.be/48dxuSusOjs

Chip is finally taking the plunge, he has started working on zombie extraction concept, and is finally learning the ins and outs of unreal engine. He discusses some of the hurdles he has had to go through and what he likes more about unity. Meanwhile Gimpy has been lazy and just gaming because Elden Ring has once again taken over his life. youtube available: https://youtu.be/Cgi7Zy9g2sk

Gimpy and Chip update on their game dev projects, Chip jumps into his brainstorming session about creating a zombie game, and ponders how to make it fun, with generally simple AI. youtube available: https://youtu.be/24p3l9Disp4

Gimpy and Chip update on their game dev projects, they dive into their past with optimization troubles and talk about the big street fighter 6 announcement. youtube available: https://youtu.be/9W1REndHcZA

Gimpy and Chip update on their game dev projects, Chip finally tries out LDTK for an unconventional level design project, Gimpy gears up for implementing multiplayer into his kids tablet game. youtube available: https://youtu.be/iyjtvu913zA