End qualified immunity.

⚔️THE BODEGA IS OPEN⚔️ I am so excited to announce my first mostly-solo project since being laid off, Dungeon Bodega Simulator, is now out on Steam! Go grow some crops, brew potions, forge weapons, and solve puzzles! Thank ya'll all so much for the support <3 store.steampowered.com/app/3458180/...

the game's principal engineer since 2017, evan kinney, who has been the backbone and spirit of this game for nearly a decade has been laid off. this is fucking bullshit, dude. i'm fucking done.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgnp... SINOSPHERE JAY IS BACK

Time to dust this one off.

There is no amount of failure or success that will warrant reasonable job security in this industry. The human cost of making games or frankly being a creative of any industry in this hellscape is obscene. More blood on the altar for shareholders. Love it.

Hey game Devs! Do you have a Localization Doc that you're willing to share?

wait they came up with ANOTHER name for the game instead of what they already had for the donghua? Also, just go watch the donghua The Outcast/Hitori No Shita or live action I am Nobody for some wonderful comedic adventures with deep themes.

NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:

the way these tech/gaming ceos have been talking about genAI is the same way they did web3/nfts "it's the future" etc. etc. hopefully they will disappear the same way

Spring Bitties 🌸 [ #cuteart #traditionalart #illustration ]

AH-HOYYY HOYYY 🏴‍☠️I have set me sails for SUNKEN STONES ON DROID SHIP MOBILE!! ☠️📱🤳 LET’S SHOW @spritewrench.com some BIG LOVE! And download it! #gamedev #videogames

Burlap Sack's story embodies so much of what wuxia means. Wuxia 武俠 is two separate words, you *must* have both to be wuxia, just martial arts is not enough, the Xia element must be present. there are many great wuxia stories/games out there, lmk if you want recs!

Just putting this out there: it is not wrong to ask an actor to work for free. It is wrong to not accept no for an answer. I worked on a GameJam project for free last summer because it was union protected. Check out the SAG-AFTRA GameJam waiver for more info!

Your options for placeholders: - Make them yourself (difficult, takes time) - Slop (monthly sub, kills the planet, enriches oligarchs, bad assets, everyone hates you and they're right) - Incredibly made game assets by @kenney.nl ($19.95, one-time, supports give-aways to those who can't afford it)

I don’t know what to say anymore. Tearful this morning after reading what the U.S. has done to the sick and ill in Cuba: “Late last night, a report came in that patients on ventilators at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital have died.” Trump is running an imperialist necropolitical regime.

"AI, in one form or another, will be in every single video game." Not if I (or tons of other indie game developers) have anything to say about it. Fuck Gen AI now and forever. 🖕

Portrait $25 B&W Sketch $45 Full Art starting at bust $65 Mecha $85 Yoji Shinkawa/Metal Gear Solid like art Prices are still the same till end of April, open till filming and nursing work picks up. Edit: adding newer work to show ko-fi.com/alzandah/com...

It’s as easy as shutting your effin mouth! And did I mention… it’s free?!

We started a Never Yield Prequel Manga as a part of our Patreon. Making a Page every week. www.patreon.com/cw/AerialKni...

so I met moon around the covid-era 5 years ago. I've seen her progress in her studies and it's incredible progress. highly recommend checking out her blog if you've any interest in learning/improving.

great recs from this thread, @thegig.bsky.social also has lots of recs (PS guide is from last year, but the food recs still stand!) docs.google.com/document/d/1... self plug, i helped with some of it. #paxeast

Ahem, Black Sky… A lot of y’all said you want to learn BASL and history of your Black Deaf peers. Franklin R. Jones Jr made into a book with BASL including the history of our Deaf Black trailblazer Dr. Carolyn McCaskill of Black ASL Project.

Using AI for early production does not make it ethical. Using AI for temp assets invalidates the entire point of temp assets. If no one had noticed they would have never made this statement or replaced the AI content. What they're actually saying is, "Oops! We tried to cut corners but got caught."

berds #jjba #jojo #stardustcrusaders #birds

I’m so tired of ‘we used it as a placeholder’ No you didn’t, placeholders are normally just blank/minimal images so they are easy to spot and replace later. You used it because you thought you’d get away with it. FUCK. OFF!

can't be caught using slop if you never use slop to start with

believe it or not, this specific phrasing comes from Wuxia writer Jin Yong 黯然消魂掌 was a skill set specifically developed by Yang Guo in Return of Condor Heroes during his separation from his love. Its repeated in God of Cookery and again here with Shin-chan.

#CDrama #HowDareYou went to read the webnovel that the show/donghua is based on. It's very good, very happy with the novel. now I'm even more afraid to watch it because I don't know if the script is the same or how much they've changed

SO IT'S A FUCKING FILTER

hi! we're the makers of 1000xRESIST, and we have... something special coming up soon 👀 ✨ triple-i showcase on April 9 ✨ 9am PDT / 12pm EDT ✨ no hosts, no ads, just GAMES see you there, sisters 💖

Meet the king of the Weird Little Guys, the Butternut Woollyworm (Eriocampa juglandis), native to North America. They're the larval form for a wasp-like sawfly & they secrete tufts of wooly substance from epidermal glands to aid in camouflage. All hail the king! (📷: Robert Gromotka)

Hi! I'm Ugochi and this is #whatagamedevlookslike! I'm working on my first ever game at my very own studio. One of my biggest accomplishments has been winning 3rd place at the Indie Playground Audience Choice Award at DreamHack Atlanta last year. Here's to celebrating both the small and big wins!

Are we doing it right

Are you a game developer who wants to share some words, good or bad, with Kotaku about DLSS5? Well, DM me! Or shoot me an email via [email protected] Indie dev/AAA dev/former dev/hobby dev/etc I don't care. If you make games and have opinions on DLSS 5 let me know.

Starter Kit Match-3 for @godotengine.org is out now! It's a basic open-source implementation of the popular puzzle game type, perfect as a base. #gamedev github.com/KenneyNL/Sta...

The Ratline is out now! Hunt Nazis across the globe to the soundtrack of moody jazz and a snoring dog! store.steampowered.com/app/3756940/...

#CDrama #TheBestThing finally at the nice cute fun part ep 20 with the photos LMAOOOO

The algorithm is not in artists favor.. If you see this, can you help an indie developer & artist with their first game by sharing this post with others? 🫂 #artistsupport #indiedev #cozygame #pixelart

Revisiting the ancient texts.

"Translators/localizers, also, DO NOT ENJOY cleaning up machine translation. " I'm pretty sure I've been the last sole translator working on Path of Wuxia for the past...2 years now? the game early released sometime in 2021, our github has 73 releases. There's 118 lines of text not counting UI etc.

lol said like a souless ghoul

ARTISTS! I'm sharing my contract template with simplified language and easy to fill in sections This will be most helpful for smaller clients bc corps have their own contracts But providing the contract will help protect you from giving away rights to your art! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The 1st iteration of HireHumanArtists.com is here. It's currently just a spreadsheet directory of visual artists who've pledged to never use AI in their works. Use the pre-made filters to find what you want or make your own. Please share with authors & anyone else looking for art!

Nvidia has rolled out DLSS 5 and holy jumping fucking shitballs does it make everything look terrible. It runs every NPC through the same shitty uncanny valley filter that AI imagery cannot escape. It is the "I fixed [insert female character]" meme made real and, inexplicably, not a joke.

bring back buttons you absolute motherfuckers