"if you pay me maybe I'll use LESS AI" is a new desperate plea I haven't seen before

the gulf between the normal evil ceos who see ai as an efficiency tool to push wages down and extract more from less and the ones who have let it turn their brains into mush can't be overstated in the games industry. lets hope everyone didnt switch to using the engine made by one of these guys

oh god this is also why reading LLM generated code is *exhausting*; you can infer a subtext channel in human code which comprseses a LOT, but you have to actually *read every fucking letter* of LLM code because all submetatext is corrupt.

An incredibly boring #screenshotsaturday but an important one. The grid in the UI actually works the way it's supposed to and can handle expansion. #gamedev

Going to try and do #artfight every day this month. artfight.net/~s1dragon Follow me there

cloth physics are a prank engineered by game engine developers to waste my time specifically

With the nightmares for QTBIPOC in the United States right now, it is so so telling that @officialpax.bsky.social has decided that 2026 is the year to cut support and funding for The PAX Intersection & its PTI programs that made a PAX safer & life changing event for devs & attendees of color alike.

Well i dont know how long this login session is gonna last but @bsky.app just asked me to do an age verification with personal information. If this happens again i will not attempt to log back in. If i dont post here again let bsky know that i prefer my privacy over this platform.

Hey look Mr. Sweeny, some flower pots with no gameplay purpose. Made with as much care as everything else, because we are on the side of art. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Todays experiments. Still trying to dial in how much paint and water exactly to use

Hey look Mr. Sweeny, some flower pots with no gameplay purpose. Made with as much care as everything else, because we are on the side of art. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

"The Baby Titania 288. According to the signs, it was a two person excavator. Designed to be lived on for 30 day tours." #gamedev #godot

#mtgalters trying to make a scorbunny. Got nice golden titanium white though and it works well. Just a skill issue

Hey! You know what! CALLING ALL INDIE GAME DEVS! Do you HATE genAI? Do you swear your game does not use genAI INCLUDING using genAI like Claude? SHARE IT HERE! I will share them! I will check them all out! I will definitely play some of them! Many if I can afford! SHARE! YOUR! ART!

@apthomson.bsky.social I got my platinum on my second save file. My day is a lot worse right now and I have thoughts, thanks for the masterpiece.

leafeon's day

"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"

Alright I'm not the most satisfied with the colors or head shape but I'm still wrapping my head around digital drawing.

Day 15. Not quite done with it, it's a big one. "A testament to human ingenuity and an affront to nature. Both can be true at once." #gamedev #godot

Day 14. "An emptied missile. Corporate sponsors litter the shell. Occasionally we hang out inside. We call it the Minute to Midnight club." Too unsubtle? #gamedev

Oh, so Titanium Court is one of THOSE games. I'm on board.

Day 13. Boring stuff of fixing UI and making the controller inputs make sense. I think it's correct, that won't come back to bite me later. Bonus, made the run down house actually run down. #Screenshotsaturday #gamedev

gaaaaa I don't want to write UI code, it's so fiddly

Day 12. Daisy, a mokumokuren except with 60s wallpaper. Lives in the run down (hush I will get to it tomorrow) house at the edge of town. #gamedev #godot

If I wrote this as a background detail in a teen dystopia I would be called a hack.

showing my indie game to non-gamer friends and family:

Aesthetically pleasing animation networks are my passion.

Day 10, been busy with other stuff so just touched this up and added the text. #gamedev

Wow huh? I wake up and now have 1k followers. Neat, hi. Wishlist my game I guess? I hate the qualifier that it's guaranteed 100% human made, but it is. store.steampowered.com/app/3545170/...

Added opacity setting, vertical text support, and texture support! #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Okay, here's what I landed on. Translucent sphere with a shimmer effect (the same used for pick up-able items) Going to reuse the material but put it on a cube for signs and a storefront window I have. But unsure about NPCs. Suggestions welcome. #gamedev

This is what every game developer sounds like right now.

Wow huh? I wake up and now have 1k followers. Neat, hi. Wishlist my game I guess? I hate the qualifier that it's guaranteed 100% human made, but it is. store.steampowered.com/app/3545170/...

Okay #gamedev #a11y people, need some opinions. What ways are there to indicate "this static object is interactable" that isn't the sparkle? Trying to find something more obvious but relatively unobtrusive, especially for things like signs.

"A frankly hilarious amount of mint. Hana tried to keep it contained, and failed." Quickie asset today, was busy. #gamedev

Must second this. I recently had someone tell me I was wrong for preferring 'Rey Nobody' in Star Wars because "It didn't add anything to the story." It added plenty to the story. It added nothing to the Lore, and an increasing number of people can't tell the difference. Media illiteracy is a disease

OK. NPC model reorganized, now all reference one blend file, and all hats/hair are in one place. Something that I had to look up and verify, original Miis didn't have ears. #godot #blender3d #gamedev

Day 3. I might have made an error, my player is 1.3 meters tall, all my buildings assumed they were 2. Whoops. Could roll with it and say they are a teenager ig. Well. Fixing that and NPC models tomorrow I guess. #gamedev #godot

🎵 More than an app. More than a game. 🎶 LASSEN'S LOOP is a cozy throwback music maker where you create songs from 8-second cards made by real musicians — no music theory or DAW knowledge required, every track is yours to keep forever! 📃Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2000630/...

Day 2. Small island with Hana's tea house on it. Need to add a table, overgrown mint that reaches the floor, and those diamond support wall things I can't remember the name of #gamedev #godot

Going to try and make one asset per day this month. Today is this slightly overbuilt (thanks blender geometry nodes) voronoi tree orchard. #gamedev #blender3d #godot

Hello new followers from the starter pack! I'm making Alice's Current Draft, a chill flying exploration game. No AI, and when I say Ghibli inspired, I mean it. Wishlist here store.steampowered.com/app/3545170/...

Disabling achievements when turning on provided accessibility features might seem like a sensible compromise, but it's actually a weird pointless humiliation ritual for everyone involved

Trying out a similar low-tech sprite light effect in Godot! It uses the alpha layer, offset pixel-by-pixel, to set whether the pixel should be bright or dark. I'd like to try a version that selects between a Light and Dark pixel color for every hue, to preserve the limited-color look I like.

Let me be clear. I will not waste 20+ years, 34 years total on gods green earth, trying to "git gud" at creating original characters just to throw it all away for ai. Every flaw. Every pixel. Every stroke of a cheap Bic pen. Every scan by hand. Every inkscape vector object. Made by my hands.

I added an anti-AI badge to the Game UI Database! Every one of the 72,684 (and counting!) screenshots on the site has been painstakingly tagged BY HAND with no AI assistance. If you're a creative, consider adding a similar disclaimer to your work to get the credit you deserve. www.gameuidatabase.com

Mismagius

The Paper Graveyard. They consumed every print work they could find and then destroyed all of it. The only thing left is this pile of mulch and ink. #indiedev #godot

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

IT'S FINALLY COMIC TIME! We all know Caine's body generation isn't particularly *great*, but what if it was somehow even worse? What if you were particularly unlucky, and didn't even get to face for your existential crisis with your own face? #Ctrl+C #TheAmazingDigitalCircus #TADC #Ragatha