right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

Boston Gamedev Week is next week! Check out these cool happenings in Boston leading up to and including PAX East. I’ll be leading a BGW MiniCon roundtable, “XR in Transition,” on Tuesday. Hope to see you there! gamedev.boston

Tfw you still have some edge cases to fix in your procedural locomotion system #gamedev

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

Dbrand announces Companion Cube for Steam Machine, coming in 2026 buff.ly/vPuJr5E

Frogmageddon... TODAY!!! BUY NOW: store.steampowered.com/app/3201190/... #frog #indiedev #gaming #Steam

I love this clip, this is exactly how I feel about these tools.

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Something I had rolling around in my head since the KIM chats last December that I just now got around to doing. #warframefanart #tennocreate #warframe

Here, have some birds perched on appropriate/delightful signage. You're welcome. 🧵 ⤵️ 1. Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) by tysmith on iNaturalist

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Hey in case you missed it we're still looking for an Art director! So far we're getting a lot of AAA folks. I'd love to see more indies! www.useparallel.com/skymapgames/...

Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Ah yes, the first video game AIs: Blinky, who chases Pac-Man, Pinky, who tries to get in front of him, Inky, who tries to flank you, and Claude, who generates a trail of bullet points and em-dashes and occasionally veers into white supremacist rhetoric.

I thought I knew Javascript well enough. Turns out, there's even more pain and hilarity to discover. Enjoy! jsdate.wtf

When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)

@tinymassgames.bsky.social has completed another season and with it - another round of releases! tinymassgames.itch.io Here's a little thread of the games that released as part of our latest season - Season 10! 🧵 #GameDev #IndieDev

I am so very excited for this!!

Finally made it out of the house to attend Unreal Fest this week!

Attempting to respond to emails on Outlook web access has been frustrating this week. Despite it knowing my name, and all the history of all the emails I’ve ever written, this week it has attempted to suggest that I should sign off as “Christmas” instead of Chris.

the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017. @bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net

Better safe than sorry, folks.

We’re one week away from Boston Gamedev Week, so we thought we’d make a thread to talk about everything we’ll have going on! Okay here we go 🧵 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

Hey Blue Sky mutuals! I feel lucky and blessed that Old Skies is doing very well despite the Oblivion shadow drop, but hey it can always do better! Games like ours depend on word of mouth above anything else. So maybe RT the launch post below? Or this one? Or whathaveyou. Thanks! \o/

Aloy's story is about fighting back against the apocalyptic effects of hubristic tech CEOs whose greed and short sightedness destroyed civilization

A reinterpretation of the Beaufort scale, as printed on the box for an electric air duster. I’m a fan of 4, though there are two different numbers for both Gale and Fierce Wind.

LG think my fridge is an rpg or some sort of adventure game - I bought the fridge to be used, it’s an appliance! There’s no benefit in hiding features when features are a selling point when it comes to appliances!

Merry Christmas! (If you celebrate it, and if not then just enjoy the lightly snow covered ground and I hope you all have a lovely day!)

The nerd midlife crisis in a nutshell

We created an interactive guide to the Steam Winter Sale: wintersaleexplorer.com

Great presentation on Legal Issues in Game Development from a recent meetup of @bostonindies.bsky.social youtu.be/ViNivuBy6Hs?...

Oh the assassin was a gamer? Time to take a big sip of coffee and see how legacy media is reporting th- JESUS CHRIST

Excited for the latest games from devs participating in Tiny Mass Games - it's an awesome local community collective with a mission to make and ship a game in just three months!

My awesome colleagues put together a Fortnite island in a month! Any Fortnite folks who want some spooky festive fun, please check it out! www.fortnite.com/@swordandwan...

2024 currently has more known games industry layoffs than 2023+2022 combined. 2024 is roughly 600 layoffs away from doubling 2023. There is still plenty of business days left in the month. I can't emphasize enough how extreme these last few years have been. So far.

Do any of my fellow Engineer/Programmer game devs have portfolio sites? If so, what do you put on there? Trying to describe what I've worked on, and it's a lot of words that only come to life when combined with art, design, audio, vfx, etc.

Finally finished Dragon Age the Veilguard: Hair: 10/10 Env Art: 9/10 Music: 5/10 Sfx: 8/10 Combat (Rogue): 8/10 Writing (companions): 7/10 Overall narrative: 6/10 Romance: 4/10 Disappointing unavoidable plot decisions: 1/10 Ending: 7/10 Totally unscientific score: 65/100

I did not have "writing sql for a Postgres database" on my bingo card for this year. Neither did I have "and connect to it from an app written in C". Dusting off old knowledge and trying to get into the correct mindset, seems you can never be free from backend dev.

THIS WOLF WAS DIFFERENT is a perfect holiday gift for a kid OR grown-up who: - Loves dogs - Loves imagining long, long ago - Has emotions A book of hope for those who feel different! Has made many human friends of dogs cry, but in a good way! Check it out! bookshop.org/p/books/this... #KidLit

Atari 65XE! The fun of games taking 20 minutes to load, then trying to leave it turned on for days because no save games back then. And typing in programs from magazines and hoping you got all the DATA typed in correctly.

Have you ever wondered why you can’t get to the 7th floor of tall buildings? The answer, surprisingly, is fluid mechanics! #physics

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Amazing hair in Dragon Age, a true technical trumph!

Cursed cats

Echo Point Nova is one of the *coolest* games I've played this year, so excited we can run a Deep Dive on its physics and traversal systems!!! A must-read for any dev wanting to make dynamic movement and shooting.

Currently having to do some work-for-hire and have had to spend the day learning another game engine. I can’t say which one, but I’d never heard of it until recently. Docs are sparse, and I’m having to dig through source code to get answers.

Quite struck with how much of my brain is currently occupied by Baldur's Gate 3, I absolutely love this game. Haven't felt like this about a game, the characters, the story, the world for a long time. Truly wonderful, I look forward to playing it every night. And still not done with Act 1!