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And so the hypocrisy continues.
Playing nice for the public with so-called sanctions, but continuing to provide ammunition and weapons to genocidal Israel.
UK politicians should be ashamed of themselves.
'Never again', we once said. In the case of the UK, they add to that: 'unless you can make a buck.'
https://www.csseo.org/1312800/ Tensione nel Mar Nero, mercantile affonda dopo essere stato colpito — Il Globo #guerra #MarNero #mercantile #nave #ProgressIV #Romania #russia #Ucraina #VolodymyrZelensky
Swiss Christmas merchants
Long-shuttered mercantile trade
Chalets just biding time
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August 24, 2026
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The Digital Orientalist: The Hong Kong Chinese Merchants Collection: An Introduction and its Potential Applications. “From the late 19th century onwards, the Hong Kong Chinese merchants were instrumental in shaping the social, political, and business landscapes of Hong Kong, South China, and the overseas Chinese communities around the world. Their commercial practices and business networks have […]
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#geopolitics #economics #growth #Trump #USA #USPol #eu #UKPol #starmer How does it feel? #lino The upside maybe certain #players will 'cut their cloth etc and #gaia maybe spared to breathe again, I hope. The #capitalist #mercantile model was always going to fall flat on it's face.
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@mikemccaffrey I've commented previously on #AI . I think it's a #Ponzi scheme that will only line the pockets of the #mercantile #capitalist #elites .
My response to anything remotely connected to #AI is (in broad #Glaswegian), 'get tae feck out of here'. It's crap science based on even worse motivation, yep that #mercantile #capitalist #hex. https://front-end.social/@a11ycollective/113475810788081403
Worked on #Mercantile for a couple hours last night. For a long time I was putting off making a proper queue system to manage the status of the expeditions, but it's finally underway #GameDev #IndieDev #GodotEngine
Bodie Mercantile
Bodie California is located in the Eastern Sierras and is listed as the official ghost town of California. It is a State Historical Park, earning that designation in 1962 when the state took over.
At it's peak there were over 7K residents. After a couple of fires and a depleted gold supply the town shut down. See the full image here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/bodie-mercantile-bill-gallagher.html BodieMercantile #BillGallagherPhotography #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Bodie #Mercantile #GhostTown #Old #Antique
#Mercantile update: Refactored my inventory system. Boring but necessary
Iterating iterating iterating... Got things connected to the game data now too.
Got a basic layout created for my contractor details modal tonight. Lots of placeholder assets as you can see, shoutout to "wulax" on OpenGameArt.org for the placeholder character sprite.
I did this directly in Godot, but nothing really works yet, just lots and lots of UI controls :P
I really need to come up with a different font for #Mercantile ... I've seen SO many indie games using Alagard now. I can't blame them, it really is a phenomenal font. But I think I would still like to be a bit more unique. #gamedev
Got my overly complicated tooltips into the game now :)
Could use a bit more refinement, but I'm gonna move on for now and add that to the "polish" list for later.
Stiiill noodling. I just can’t seem to get quite the right “feel” that I’m looking for for these. Might have to end up picking the “least bad” option and going with that.
Decided to go a little wild with my tooltips for #Mercantile. Not done yet, but have some flat colours in. Man, hand animating things is hard work! Done in #Procreate.
For #ScreenshotSaturday this week, I'm gonna post a video so I can showcase some of the new key art I've finished this week, as well as some of the AWESOME new music from @musicvsartstuff!!! 🤩
Well. I was aiming for knocking one (1) of my tasks off of my #Mercantile “Next Demo Milestone” list. Instead, I managed to do 2 (and a half)! Feels good.
I also have tested and compared the sRGB -> 256 colour conversion process between #Aseprite, #Photoshop, and #GIMP. Sadly, Photoshop was the clear winner here. The dithering was a notch above, giving much cleaner results. Guess I’ll have to use that from now on.
Yooo I got the first demo back from @musicvsartstuff of the #Mercantile music and it is super great! I am so stoked right now. 😁
Just commissioned some music for #Mercantile (well, I DMed the musician hehe) -- very excited!
I won't say more until things are more finalized, but it will be very good I'm quite sure :)
Got started on the dialogue system for #Mercantile tonight, opted to go for a package from the Godot Asset Library rather than rolling my own.
Dialogue Manager: https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/1207
So far it seems quite nice and easy to use (and customize), I've got a fair chunk of stuff in there already and it's working like a charm.
I was curious, so I did a bit of checking on #Mercantile in Godot’s profiler. I wasn’t expecting anything crazy since it’s been running nice and smooth from the start.
Turns out I’ve got TONS of room to grow- average frame times were hovering around 1ms. 😊
Trying a different direction for my contractor portraits, but decided to treat it as an art exercise. Haven’t tried scaling this down yet, we’ll see how it goes. If it works, this will be one of the mages. If it doesn’t work, oh well- I enjoyed the process, and it’s good to get in some portrait practice. Done from reference, in Procreate.
Gasp -- I actually have something for #ScreenshotSaturday this week!
Things with #Mercantile are coming along quite nicely, still lots to do and lots subject to iteration, but progress is being made! There's a new village map, and graphics exist*!
*in varying stages of completion
Been playing around today with how I'm going to approach the contractors' portraits. Not totally settled on this yet, but I think it looks decent (Edit: did a bit more manual tweaking to the 256 colour version)
Image 1: sRGB
Image 2: Converted to Windows 8-bit (256) Color with some manual edits.
The originals are 64px square, and I actually painted them at that size — which was surprisingly fun! Blown up to 512px for posting.
Spending a bit of time in #Miro, organizing some of my reference imagery for #Mercantile. I don’t absolutely love Miro so far, but it seems better than the alternatives I’ve tried for this purpose. Certainly beats digging through my camera roll, hehe.
Oh shit!
Yesterday, something shitty happened to my Procreate file for my village map. I still have it in full res, but I lost all my layers. Was pretty choked about that last night.
I decided to take it as a sign to try something different, and I've just tested out something new and... it works really well. Like REALLY well. Hopefully I don't jinx it, but this could be a serious upgrade when all is said and done.
Made some progress on my village map, as you can see I've still got a bit to do but it's coming along. The conversion to 256 colours is actually doing me a lot of favours here, so I'm happy about that.
So I rolled back my project to before my ridiculous UI bug from last night, and then painstakingly did everything again, carefully testing and committing after each step. And it works this time! No problems whatsoever! I'm happy but also... wtf. 🙃
Haven’t had a chance to actually test it yet, but the “using consumables” logic I put off last night because I was “too tired to figure it out” clocks in at: 9 lines of code. Lol
Famous last words: “That was easier than I thought” 😆
Watching this quick little video on game VFX and this part made me nearly spit my coffee out lol!
(also yes I am using the robot icon for many placeholder textures in #mercantile currently hehe)
Current status of the main menu screen!
The UI is still basically wireframes at this point (just threw a bg image on there for recording purposes) but lookit those swanky screen transitions! George Lucas would be proud.
And, I packaged everything up into a "ScreenTransitions" scene that I can just drop into any other scene and add transitions with minimal fuss :)
Did my first test builds of #Mercantile on Windows and Mac OS (Linux will probably happen later tonight). I sense a lot of learning and fiddling in the future to get the builds "just so" on all platforms, but it was pretty quick and easy to get "something that runs" happening at least. Score another point for #godotengine!
Damn I knew there was a big disparity, but I didn't realize just how fucking GIGANTIC the difference is.
#Mercantile project files in Unity - 1.3 GB
#Mercantile project files in Godot (roughly to the same point as I was in Unity when I switched) - 35.2 MB
Holy balls.
@raccoonformality It's a time-tracking app, the main differentiator being that it can do auto-tracking based on what apps you use. I WAS using it to track my development time on #Mercantile. Thankfully it does seem like there are some other options out there.
What do you think... Would you risk it for the biscuit? 😂
Here's tonight's progress, somewhat less exciting (unless you're a big nerd for typography like me) but nonetheless important and necessary! #gamedev #indiedev #mercantile
Okay here we go- shiny button, good capture. Huzzah! Bedtime.
Alright, here it is- My game is called #Mercantile! You play as a merchant who hires contractors to crawl dungeons for you and bring back loot.
The logo could use a bit more manual cleanup, but I really need to go to bed... #tw #gamedev #indiedev #wip