We’re in a video game crash. You can’t look at 45K jobs lost, games in dev for 5-10 years shuttered in a week or a month, jacked prices on hardware to 30%+ vs launch, and component prices through the roof due to garbage SlopTech and tariffs and draw any different conclusion.

Great armor spawn in this office park.

Here's a step by step guide to stop Chrome trying to use the 4GB local AI model it secretly downloads: 1. Go to chrome://settings/system and disable "On-device AI" 2. Go to chrome://flags and disable all the flags in the 2nd and 3rd images. 3. Delete the model folder from your Chrome user data.

My annual reminder that we are both the best conference in games and the most misnamed conference in games. If you’re making weird or interesting art using procedurality, procgen, deep systemic simulation, we want your talk, regardless of what your relationship to “roguelikiness” is!

May the Fourth be with you! Speaking of forces, here are some of the abilities in our game that allow you to bend movement and combat at your will (and wit) This is an “air bounce” ability we’ve worked on. When activating it, change the direction of your jump mid-air. #indiegame

Welp, time to get angry at Unity as a corporate entity again. Great decision, may it Riccitiello you all. Anyone who wants this shouldn't be trying to make games, go prompt your way to fintech billions like all the other slop visionaries.

Kid's classmates at this spectrum accommodating school are starting to reveal their special interests. Hell yeah little human, I will gladly hear all about the thing that animates you.

Treads is out!

Quite disappointed that Connections doesn't appear to be on anyone's tv shows list. (I can understand Beyond 2000 not making the cut, but that's also core ROM for me)

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

This is gonna be the follow-up talk that defines what replaces GDC for indies.

LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT Forbidden Solitaire is out now! We are immensely proud to release this awesome game made by two veteran indie studios and we hope you really like it. Steam: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj GOG: tinyurl.com/2s3sv45j Itch: tinyurl.com/3k4bjt8m Please share, many thanks! #indiedev #FakeOS

Forbidden Solitaire is OUT NOW!! Enter the 1995 dungeon horror CD-ROM you were never meant to play. 👁️ 🩸 💙 Buy on Steam: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj 💜 Buy on GOG: tinyurl.com/2s3sv45j 🧡 Buy on Itch: tinyurl.com/3k4bjt8m

Was playing the new Diablo 4 expansion last night and it disconnected me right as Lilith said "I told you to stay put!" right as I reached her after walking through half the level. 10/10, no notes.

Thank you to 10,000 early birds who wishlisted our game! We could not be more grateful and excited for achieving such a massive milestone in such a short amount of time!

One of the towns we've been researching for Dreams on a Pillow -the Palestinian-made game about a young woman escaping the Zionist atrocities of the 1948 Nakba- is Naqura, on the Lebanese side of the border with Palestine. As of this week, Israel has destroyed it. www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

Remembering the time I saved a girl's life at Melbourne zoo by yanking her out of the way of a rock flung at her head by a seal. The cracked plexiglass enclosure clued me in and I realised what was happening just in time.

I don't think "claude write me some automated tests" is enough - it makes passing tests, but they're not very maintainable or readable. Come to my workshops below and I'll show you how to write test for gamedev. In our AI codeslop future, at least you can see what the AI is doing wrong!

I love this essay very much!!!!

This is the origin of the three kids in a trenchcoat image. It's been lost to history, but that was one of the first Columbos and they solved a lot of important cases. Before bedtime.

Outersloth is busy busy! Another game reveal, and it’s a banger. Thanks @clockworkacorn.com for working with us! ❤️

10 days until launch! Check out weird twin stick shooter/tower defense game: store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/Ash__Adams_Existential_Treads/ #indiegame #steamgame #screenshotsaturday

Goddamn bluesky phone client is stiol doing image carousels. Ugh.

Our new game, Feather’s Edge, has taken flight! We proudly introduce you to our fast, tough-as-talons adventure about becoming the ultimate bird warrior. Please share & wishlist! Playtest coming soon. (Wishlist link in the thread)

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LAUNCH DATE ANNOUNCEMENT! Forbidden Solitaire is officially launching NEXT WEEK, on April 30th! We unearthed a new trailer from the archives - an advertisement that originally aired in 1995! Wishlist on Steam and GOG: store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... www.gog.com/en/game/forb...

I said this would happen in the talk I gave on Tues... Can you imagine how shit it is to be those juniors? No seniors to help you, the codebase you're working on is worse than a 2000s forum group project, and your task specs are written by autocomplete on cocaine.

I am thrilled to announce that Dreams on a Pillow has wrapped up pre-production and we are about to start full production. We can’t do it without your support. We are starting our second round of crowdfunding, to support us you can find out more here www.launchgood.com/1948

You can find the campaign at launchgood.com/1948 where Rasheed will have to figure out how to promote a Palestinian-made game about Palestinian history, all while his people face genocide and apartheid. Palestinians are not even allowed to ask the world if it wants to hear their story.

it would be *committed to the bit* whether or not you gave it an image file. it would just have more material to accord its genre-performance with and the user would have more shared-basis on which to recieve that performance

hello hi yes so this makes sense when you understand that the sucess condition for an LLM is the production of a text-base, genre-bound performance of a plausible and acceptable answer to a given question. the question defines the expected genre.

We’re taking the spotlight this weekend! This Saturday, 25 April, tune into INDIE Live Expo to watch our new game’s worldwide premiere! Watch the showcase here: www.youtube.com/live/oymRC7d... #indiegame #INDIELiveExpo

Oh hey, my game Flipside Diner is finally available on iOS and Android. It's a puzzly action cooking game! Store links in thread. 🧵

Hell yeah, made it!

The endpoint of all this stuff is replacing UI design with a red queen's race where LLM agents acting on behalf of users are exploited by counter-agents acting on behalf of services and vice-versa, burning more and more compute and more and more trivial tasks in ways that produce no value.

Exactly! IF the future is fully agentic, massive corporates are going to exploit the fuck out of your AI agents with the more expensive AI agents they afford by fleecing you. The only protection would be regulation and standards, but like, hahahahahaha right.

Gave a talk about what we can learn from the Claude Code leak at our local gamedev meetup. Covered security leaks, why prompts aren't code, why LLMs can't search reliably and how AI generated code creates incredibly fragile blind bucket chains of data.

Also spoke about how terribly KAIROS is architected, how great it is that agents have to police other agents finishing their tasks, how agents hallucinating the outputs of their sub-agents is so common there's explicit prompts about it, and how the LLM can hallucinate tool commands that don't exist.

In conclusion: Please don't argue with me about AI. I'd rather make games. Huge thanks (and condolences) to neuromatch.social/@jonny for their fascinating spelunking through the source.

Being an adult* means I can drop my kid at school and then go back to bed (until The Meetings start).

I'm not sure how to make it more obvious that I'm an AI hater :(

is it the one who complained his phone didn't work because it got too hot but he submerged it in a pool *checks and finds I'm now blocked* helllll yeahhhh

Gave a talk about what we can learn from the Claude Code leak at our local gamedev meetup. Covered security leaks, why prompts aren't code, why LLMs can't search reliably and how AI generated code creates incredibly fragile blind bucket chains of data.

I haven't had a long enough breath to talk about how AI is ruining the open web. API after API I used to use is closing - literally because paying the $$$ required to feed these impersonation machines is prohibitive.

i mean, who among us

JRR Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings as a side project while brainstorming a list of cool names for defense contractors