If you are affected by the layoffs today, apply for this fund: bsky.app/profile/vide...

I and a good number of very talented game devs were laid off by Obsidian as part of the Microsoft sacrificial rituals this morning. If you or anyone you know is looking for a Senior Writer/ND with more than two decades' experience in titles like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, please let me know!

The game industry has been more committed than ever to abusing its employees. The way the executives talk about it is corporate-speak mockery of the same people whose lives they’re upending. aftermath.site/microsoft-xb...

Pouring one out for my fellow gamedev folks tonight. I would love to be wrong but expect a difficult week ahead.

my #1 grizzly beard protip for (game) dev is: if you have a bug that you dont understand the cause of immediately, dont try to fix it; add & iterate visualization / inspection tools until the cause is plain to see. the accumulation of 'observability' in your system's state will pay off many times

yooo Glenn's cooking!!

Apropos to absolutely nothing. www.youtube.com/shorts/X65G1...

The first public build for my 1000 player space game is out now. www.patreon.com/SpaceGameLLC... It's early days still, but please give it a go, and let us know what you think!

My pro career has died a death lately, i cant find paid work anymore, but if you like my artwork and can support me making more in my slow chaotic way heres my patreon, thanks! patreon.com/c/AlexDuneBr...

MAGBA!

Petition to make all video game cars convertible / open air so you can see the driver in there doing stuff

Spare a thought for William Gibson. Not only predicting the internet and cyberspace, but also with the Dixie Flatline predicting LLMs.

Just a reminder that patriotism isn't holding a bible and wrapping yourself in the flag while you violate the Constitution and plunder the country. Happy 4th of July, stay cool and safe!!

Trump's quixotic deal with Iran will transfer the country into the wealthiest and most powerful in the Gulf. He justifies this as charity to people who are starving... as he closes hospitals across America and cuts millions off healthcare.

Happy 4th for all who celebrate! Remember that this country is bigger, badder and better than the current asshole-in-chief, so remember what it stands for and vote the cunts out in November!

Mandatory carousel if you're over 40 and don't know this. www.npr.org/2026/07/03/n...

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they're cookin' with fire!!

At my first job, the boot flow had 3 functions "Start," "ReallyStartNow," and "StartForReals." I remember thinking "it's horrible, I'll never do that." In SquidGame: Unleashed, I needed asset loading for a task and addressables weren't online yet. Guess who shipped a load-bearing "DummyAssetLoader"

Back this now! If you’re a fan of concept art and science fiction, this deserves space on your shelf.

With the latest Box3D release I was able to enable double positions. My space game used to have a 24km cubed world. Now it's 24,000 kms cubed :) www.patreon.com/SpaceGameLLC...

Free Puppies for Everyone: 49.9% Permanent Diarrhea for Everyone: 50.1%

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

The "Grand Old Dicks" (GOD)

I'm working on a 1000 player space game and you can support its development! mas-bandwidth.com/so-im-making...

Strong 2010 vibes

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

The deadline for GPU Zen 5 proposals is approaching fast! There is no better way to share high-quality insights and help the community grow than through a published book. Submit your proposal today! gpuzen.blogspot.com

Oh, I heartily recommend this!

this video from the bbc about texas bbq is frying me

this feels so long ago

Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

Having used Domino, Havok, Box 2D, my own crap + more this is very exciting from Erin! Even if you have a middling interest in Physics please go read. Also glad to see friends @bobbyanguelov.bsky.social + @mas-bandwidth.bsky.social already on the bandwagon. Great extra seal of approval.

games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games

Me 2 weeks ago. Man, those solar installers are ripping me off. $40k for solar panels on my roof? I'm going to do solar myself! Me today. Jesus. Shit. Fuck. *Goes back inside removing a single solar panel from the box, carrying it over to the lawn and placing it down at an angle leaning on a log*.

And why is the Fourth of July? Because J is the first of July.

Hey all. As well as working on the indie game ive been chipping away at my first art book. It features a collection of art you will have seen me post online and a big batch of new stuff made specifically for this book. Check out my pre launch page for more info. www.kickstarter.com/projects/din...

Sure @erincatto.bsky.social added double position support to Box3D just before, but my request for quad float support (float128_t) was ignored for some reason, and he didn't even get back to me about the arbitrary precision fixed point I suggested...

I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for games. Read more here: box2d.org/posts/2026/0...

Fun fact, I've been no joke meme-ing Erin into adding double support for more than a year now. Even threatened to make these T-shirts for GDC...

Introducing Box3D! @erincatto.bsky.social #gamedev #physics #radness www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr_F...

I'm very happy to see that Box3D, the physics engine I've been lucky enough to use with Space Game for more than a year, is open source today. Congrats @erincatto.bsky.social box2d.org/posts/2026/0...

I'll never understand the natural game executive instinct, when they have the golden goose. "I gotta kill it. That golden goose just costs too much!" Fucking. Idiots. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Really tired of services using Persona for age verification. Those games are like 50 hours long and I can never figure out where to upload my save when I’m done.