a 30k funding goal on kickstarter is not even close to enough for what most games need. developers unfortunately have to keep placing their goals this low because gamers do not know what games actually cost.

what do the rich think is going to happen when 99% of the rest of the world is wearing rags, going hungry, and is unable to work? what do they think is going to happen when they have stolen everything from everyone and stockpiled it???? what????????

because its a disability, is this a trick question

Every time there's a union or a layoff, there's a bunch of bootlickers acting like the people affected aren't the reason the games exist at all You can make a game without a boss but boss cannot make a game without a team and I desperately want that truth to be hammered into the head of every gamer

Truth I really need all the gamers to know is that games are made by people, not companies Corpos are working day and night to make them believe that their corporate entity is what makes the game, and they are succeeding! No other industry has such rabid defenders of The Capital like gamedev

dyke spiegel......

we need to employ the entire cast of jackass to follow him around, knoxville doing his absolutely cracked giggle and pantsing him at every opportunity

every "solo dev" relies on the work of others, most often including their partner working full time to support them

I feel like getting kids to play knock down ginger at his house would be a great start. He seems to get triggered by people knocking on his door.

I don’t think reform supporters care about facts. But I do think they care about Farage being publicly dunked on. so in this case I think we should increase the dunks and pranks on him and just clown him until the people who support him are embarrassed by his existence. get binface to pie him etc

Simon Carless did a pretty big AI survey of Steam users. Interesting results: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/what-do-st... In summary: People DO care and you will lose sales if you declare it. People are less bothered about AI for code. To be clear: We do not use it for anything.

"Last year, Microsoft made $101 billion in profits, got a $12.5 billion tax break from Trump and paid its CEO $96 million," Sanders said. "This year, it's raising the price of an Xbox by $150 and eliminating 3,200 jobs. Please don't tell me corporate tax breaks create jobs. It never trickles down."

Sorry pal: neither Nintendo nor Sony "made" your favorite game. A group of people working there at that time did. Game companies aren't one single dude making every decision and doing all the work. Stop treating companies as people or a single monolithic entity, it's fucking weird.

obviously we are all rooting strongly for the bin

for my non uk friends, what's happened is the fascist leader has resigned his seat as an mp just to run for it again in order to dodge investigations + seek attention other parties arent falling for the stunt so arent running against him, so his only opponent will be a man with a bin on his head

That making a game is all about having a series of great ideas, and that any game design problem can be solved with more ideas. This is bad enough when gamers do it, but some of those games later become game development studio owners and then it gets much worse.

The myth that it is possible to make a game. In truth no one has ever successfully made a game

Which goes into why the side quests and little lore bits tend to have much better writing than the main story.

How easy it is to write something for a game, and that you can instantly change narrative without any technical issues. Some outsiders have no idea of the cost (money & tech) incurred untangle to just change one line of VO'd dialogue. So much "measure twice, cut once" work is done to prevent this.

Narrative rarely gets to be the high level decision driver outside of very specific kinds of projects and a lot of what narrative ends up doing, especially on larger projects, is unpacking the implications of decisions on emotional engagement

how much money a game actually costs to make... game kickstarter campaigns for very small amounts of $ make me ill

Writers often have almost no say in the larger story.

game devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?

YES GIVE ME IMMEDIATELY

the two all-timers!!!!

its just such a vile thing. it is so, so difficult to run a game studio that turns a profit in the first place !! anyone that manages to even break even, esp consistently, deserves some kind of State Parade. it is so foolish and despicable to announce these more than adequate places are somehow not

the arrogance and stupidity behind so many of the industry layoffs is fucking gross... if a group is making a profit already, that's such a fucking miracle to begin with... and the false belief that those profits are somehow insufficient or a failure is so so toxic...

I still consider this maybe one of the funniest things anyone has ever written in the English language

Oooh? Good? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Sometimes I struggle to explain to mentees that the challenge is the ‘long game’, ie, not what is immediately in front of you. eg changing the small things about a character arc you don’t like, or arguing w the team about details. it is if you change that, what else in ur team will be sacrificed

truly, the orange one possess the hand of midas, only, tis hand of “shit”

I can't believe we still have to remind people of these things but: most rape victims don't file police reports. (You're reading one right now.) Shock, denial, need to appease the rapist, nominally friendly behavior toward the rapist, etc. are all common reactions

a victim's statement is evidence.

sometimes I wonder if the big dogs believe that indie shit that people say like ‘if we fire them all they’ll just scrimp and save to make innovative things and take risks we don’t have to pay for, and then we will just parasite them later’ and it makes me physically sick

'The Darlington Nurses' who Wes Streeting loves to meet with, are backed by Christian Concern, Sex M4tters, the ADF, this entire network, which is entirely international. He also loves The Bayswater Group, a bunch of truly twisted malicious narcissistic abusive crank parents from the same milieu.

The TERF ‘movement’ is fully funded and motivated by money directly from US conservatives and one author whose brain is fried, with the intention of bringing about surveillance fascism. so if the answer is that the left suddenly becomes very rich, idk what to tell you

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

I’m gonna see the band Garbage play Edinburgh Castle soon and 19 year old me cannot believe it aaaaaaa

Trump is watching the Fox News feed of himself watching Fox News

using this IP to dissect unchecked power & Seattle technofascists, examine abuse and mental health problems, sexuality and many other things was exhilarating and the fact it will never be seen is sad but also I own the brain that made it so I can always do it again

backing the real winners this world cup: every mexican restaurant operating in scotland

#OtD 5 Jul 1948 the UK National Health Service (NHS) was founded to provide free universal healthcare. The Labour Party started permitting charges in 1949 and it has been under attack ever since. It's up to us, the working class to defend it stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1053...

you can of course still buy my book, which features both of these pieces, here: www.mostancient.com/shop/great-art

Maybe this hasn’t sunk in for anyone who should care but the NHS was birthed when the UK *literally had negative money*. The USA had razed us of every penny to pay for weapons to defend ourselves against Germany, Germany had bombed all our industrial sites. We still did it in 6 months. 6.

The NHS was founded 78 years ago today. It was built after the devastation of the Second World War when the country was bankrupt - but when the people demanded a society built on fairness and dignity for all. Today, we must defend the right to healthcare and rebuild our social security system.

to be fair to this decision, they were kind of an insult to tortas. if you’re in Greggs just get a sausage roll or coronation chicken baguette like a sensible person

Less fun playing a good game, knowing your choices and failures and progress are tracked, but the team’s been laid off, and will never learn from the data, will not use it to make the next game. There is no next game. Neither you nor the devs are a part of any legacy. Both of you are just numbers.