I would also like to use this advice for software engineers working on tools without a UX designer

Sending love to all of our Trans friends and family all over the world. You are beautiful and you are loved. Keep being you. #TransDayOfVisibility #allontheboard

I don't think people understand how hard it is to work in the video-game industry right now. If you've been laid off, it can take months if not years to find new work. If you haven't been laid off, you're anxious that you will be laid off. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

The layoffs are making LinkedIn a bit soul crushing right now. (*more soul crushing than it usually is)

Seeing a lot of people posting about Sora being dead :/ wish people were more cautious about sharing Kingdom Hearts 4 leaks

This fucking industry I swear to god

The Australien Government has made an ad about Alcoa, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

I've been working on my next thing for #playdate and maybe even for Steam. Still pretty early. But having fun with this.

Forgot it was St Patrick's Day until I saw a guy in an Irish kit, dick out, pissing in the street at 8:30pm on a Tuesday.

I pushed every single computer I had access to as a kid far beyond the limits of what they were reasonably able to do. All the AI hand holding and software imposed limits are blocking what a PC could be: a tool that can be used for limitless creation.

It's international women's day if only there was a starter back of amazing Black & Femne Developers to support ✨✨✨ go.bsky.app/88aYGTF

👋 I'm Darcy, a Lead Audio Engineer on the Call of Duty franchise (in other words I'm a software engineer that specialises in audio tech, please don't ask me to mix anything) I'm not at GDC because I live very, very far away and it's very, very expensive #WhatAGameDevLooksLike

I am tired

I do not condone a foreign government using something I worked on as propaganda for their unsanctioned war. It's a disgrace.

Jesus. F*cking. Christ.

GDC is coming up, which means it’s almost time for #WhatAGameDevLooksLike! Every year this lights up my socials and it’s such a lovely and celebratory time full of belonging and joy. And every year I keep getting reminded of how much we need it as things in the industry get worse lol

The 10 miles is the easy part The 24 tacos should be doable The 24 beers would destroy me

Albo was asked to apply one word to various prominent people (Trump, Barnaby, Pauline etc). Grace Tame he labelled "difficult". Unconscious misogyny, which says quite a lot more than he apparently intended.

After years of bullying and peer pressure I've finally started playing Baulders Gate 3.

Good story from @jacksonwryan.com with comments from me, @brkeogh.bsky.social, Katharine Neil and others.

EXCLUSIVE: Xbox head Phil Spencer is retiring on Monday, and Xbox President Sarah Bond, long thought to be Spencer's heir apparent, has resigned. The new CEO of Microsoft Gaming will be Asha Sharma, currently the President of Microsoft’s CoreAI product. https://bit.ly/4rZUZI7

BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the studio responsible for modern remakes of classic games such as Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, Bloomberg News has learned. A shocking end for a well-respected studio.

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

All your girl wants for Valentine's Day is everyone in the Epstein Files prosecuted.

Hey gang! Are there any Melbourne/Victoria-based 3D modellers looking for short contract work right now? Summerfall is currently on the lookout for contractors to do hard-surface environment work for a new prototype, like furniture and all that. 🔨🪑 Send through portfolios! 🙂 Cheers!

Our new producer asked how we differentiate what project a task belongs to and I didn't have a better answer than "vibes".

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

An absolute sea of people has gathered at Flinders Street Station in Naarm/Melbourne this evening. Tens of thousands saying loud and clear: HERZOG IS NOT WELCOME HERE! ✊

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

I just saw this instagram post from the incredibly talented and breathtakingly hilarious Kate Welch, who was laid off around a year ago, and I wanted to share it here. It’s an important message, and you deserve to read it: (thread)

Abolish ICE. Stop their funding. Call your reps until their ears bleed. Protest. Call for a general strike. Vote at the ballot box. Record everything, take them to court, and off to prison. And most of all, remember the dead. Thirty plus people perished in ICE’s hands over the last year.

Why yes I am a dumbass who left their only pair of working headphones at the office and now has to scramble to figure an audio solution for their early morning meetings.

An update: Unfortunately Freeplay didn’t secure multi-year funding and is potentially looking at its last year of operation. We’re exploring what comes next & want your input. Read our full statement here: www.freeplay.net.au/survey2026 Help us decide our next step here: forms.gle/W4ZSns1bGCX1...

🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”

crunch in games is reckless, it’s running a car without oil or care, watching sparks fly and smoke billow and going “that’s what maximum efficiency sounds like, when parts fail I’ll replace them knowing I squeezed 110% from them” except the parts are people so the driver is evil as well as stupid

Well I guess I lied when I said "I'll do SXSW Sydney next year".

The more I look at it the funnier it gets

Painted over my mum's birthday card to try and make it look like the family dog and the result was... special

New jobs are posted on the website! Attention Coders! We've got 2 new open positions for coders. Engine/Core Engineer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/... UI Engineer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/gravitywell/... Come work with us at Gravity Well: gravitywell.games

Can't say I miss going outside to smell the bushfire.

Another great GDC 2026 scholarship opportunity from our friends at @gamedevperkup.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Seattle tonight.

Either this is one hell of a coincidence or Rockstar has set a scary precedent.

There are no words for how grateful I am not to be in my teens or early to mid 20s while this whole easily accessible deepfake-revenge-porn-shitshow is going down.

I’ve had porn deepfakes made of me since long before genAI existed, and am (sadly) very unphased by it at this point, but I do strongly agree with this sentiment. These men don’t do it to jerk off to - they do it as a means of ‘digital rape’. If anything, they jerk off to knowing you don’t consent.

NEW: At least 40 people killed in U.S. airstrikes on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians, local official says - NYT

Nothing is wilder than watching US pundits on many sides of the aisle argue about whether Trump got the right permissions to invade another nation, instead of, you know, whether any part of the US government should be allowed to once again invade a nation based on US preferences.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.