Would the game have to feature Castor Troy AND Sean Archer Wearing Castor Troy's Face? I think it would.

Every now and then I stop and think "why hasn't anyone made a Smash Bros clone where all the characters are Nicolas Cage from his various movie roles, and called it CAGE FIGHT"? I'd probably choose Peter Loew from Vampire's Kiss, or maybe Sailor Ripley from Wild at Heart or Red from Mandy.

RPGs and adventure movies have rotted my brain, because I saw this sign and immediately thought "oh, I'll bet I can pick up a side quest there"

Bought Escape Simulator last night. Not bad - fiddly awkward controls and very short rooms, but it ships with an editing suite. Using it to practice puzzle design, I'm fighting my instinct to open Unreal and build a new editor myself. I'm definitely more of a "systems" guy than a "level" guy!

I recently made a struct that included a written text line, audio cue, actor reference AND an optional camera sequence, and I was really proud of myself and thought it was really clever. But this ... this is art ...

Like it's insane that we aren't all doing shit like this

This is why I’m a staunch believer that all voiced scenes should be a single, long voice track. Take the time to populate skip positions, but edit your voices like a radio play. (Much more work if localising audio)

Kier Starmer has played a blinder here

This really bugs me, because it's not just good budgeting to cut lavish expensese for higher-ups, it's Optics 101. Like, literally every historical tale of the rich living in opulence tells the same story: short-term projection of power leading to long-term civil unrest, ending in heads on pikes.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

Remember: When you playtest a game, never take players’ feedback/suggestions at face value. Figure out what emotion is underneath what they’re telling you, and then figure out what in the game is causing that emotion

Happy 12-year anniversary to my favourite broadcast subtitle mistake And a happy year of the whores to you all

I know this is NHS England and not NHS Scotland but it's fucking terrifying to imagine the impact this would have on me, and on anyone else that has been on medication for years.

Me whenever I have to communicate with other human beings #anxiety

Gucci headquaters r/brutalism

Couldn't resist the chance to get a little pretentious in my latest set of #gamdev lecture slides. Any thoughts on what modernist era of games we're in right now?

Godot's GitHub has increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it's a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers – especially if people don't disclose it. Changes often make no sense, descriptions are extremely verbose, users don't understand their own changes… It's a total shitshow. #godotengine

Trying to safely screenshot upcoming Steam releases from SteamDB for a lecture on marketability, and jesus christ #gamedev, there isn't a horny jail big enough to contain you lot

another favourite scientific headline, following confirmation of Einstein's general theory of relativity by observations of the 1919 solar eclipse. "Stars not where they seemed or were calculated to be, but nobody need worry" is a beautiful sentiment. i would have that on a t-shirt

I have a very simple and straightforward two-step plan to Save The Video Game Industry: Step 1: Globally eliminate the concept of a classed society and redistribute all surplus resources among the populace, permanently enshrining social ownership of the means of production. Step 2: Ridge Racer 8.

San Fran gives me major scifi vibes now.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

With all the awful things happening Stateside, I think we're in danger of forgetting the smaller, lesser things America has done to damage the world - like convincing people that melting a ton of cheese onto some crisps counts as a meal.

Admittedly, the Crank 2 kaiju fight scene first made me exclaim "THIS IS CINEMA??!?!?" but then it did make me exclaim "FUCK YEAH THIS IS CINEMA"

The difficult thing nobody is saying in games discourse is that two things are equally true: 1.) Markets and finance systems don't do enough to support creative indies with new ideas 2.) A lot of indies are making unmarketable derivative products that have no appeal to anyone ... and I'm tired.

Anyone else miss the good ol' days when "Conspiracy Theory" meant stuff like lizardmen infiltrating positions of power? At this point I think I'd actually feel better if we were ruled by lizardmen. At least I can make sense out of lizardmen treating humans like insects.

I read through hundreds of emails and scoured through years of correspondence and background information to write this 4600 word report. It confirms what we all have been saying about the anti-trans movement from the start. Read it from the top down, I can't even begin to summarize it all properly.

even if you don't care about sports you gotta admit it's awesome that this guy had to hear to his face how the world feels about him

Little touches can make big differences, and say so many things. That Amazon make subscribers still watch ads during movies is bad enough, but that with all their technology they can't even cross-fade gently into the ads really hammers home how little of a shit they give about their audience.

With all this talk of TV shows adapted from games: A Borderlands TV show written by Anthony Burch would go SO HARD A Borderlands TV show written by just about anyone else would be a GODDAMN TRAVESTY (Looking at you, Eli Roth)

I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?

There's a lot of cool stuff that @unrealengine.bsky.social does with vanilla BPs, but one thing it doesn't do "out of the box" that still amazes me is write to simple ASCII files. I kinda get not wanting to leave potentially destructive options open for us dumbass systems folks, but come on ...

It would be killer to see this used as the basis for an animation study, if anyone's looking for ideas for projects ...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

If you're training Jrs or teaching, remember: Sensible Object-Oriented Data Structures, like having interactions exist as objects rather than part of a state machine, are the kinds of things that seem blindingly obvious to those who "get it" ... but are actually a revelation to a lot of starters!

Disney+ launching The Muppet Show on the same night Amazon Prime releases the Fallout Season 2 Finale feels like either an accident from people who really didn't see the overlap in fanbases, or a competitive move from people that did.

Watched Bone Temple at the weekend and, as much as Inlove the song, I feel like now is the time to call an end to using Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place" in a montage of sped-up time for general vibes.

Nobody told me I'd some day reach an age where a doctor telling you your blood pressure is good and healthy feels like a big win, but here I am.

...horrifying message without context, thank you

Absolutely shocked that scottish newspapers decide to post anti trans front page on the day they decided it probably wasn't worth reporting that JK Rowling was in the Esptein files inviting him to dinner in 2018. "Defending women"

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.

There aren’t more famous game devs in the Epstein files not because our industry is better, but because game makers have been so thoroughly alienated from the fruits of our labor most of our monsters aren’t rich enough to make it to Monster Island

Making games is such a weird world of creative problem solving. Today I managed to figure out how to do tank-style controls in @unrealengine.bsky.social and it was super simple, you just have to imagine that the opposing sides of the tank are actually two vehicles stapled together in the middle ...

Y'all, it matters that journalists are being arrested on US soil for existing as journalists. Remember when we told y'all fascist regimes look a particular way. This is that.

I've had this promotional Star Wars bag for years, but only this morning noticed this looks more like Will Ferrel doing an SNL Star Wars skit than Harrison Ford

This was a hell of a BSky post to walk into right after reading a hype post about the new Fable's marriage and child-raising game mechanics (which will undoubtedly have Xbox achievements attached to them)