Truly inspiring to see large corporations like Unity and Epic openly learn from each other and create true interoperability, in that both engines now equally and seamlessly support "moving to Godot". www.unrealengine.com/news/the-roa...

I… would like to endorse this strategy

Hay game devs it’s a rough time so let’s try celebrating what you done as of late, share your games, your experiments, dev art or simply little experiments and what you learnt. Let’s celebrate what you achieved without LLM or genAI. And try to share and encourage who ever feels like taking part.

Literally every NSFW artist or indie gamedev must know about this

suno has used *one hundred and thirty eight* of my songs across two of their datasets. this is almost my entire catalogue of music. it's just about everything i've released from 2017 to 2024. if anyone knows any lawyers in the music industry that are working on a case for this please get in touch!

EPIC IS REMOVING BLUEPRINTS IN UE6. This might sound like a dumb petition on the surface but the implications are MASSIVE! This will invalidate 10+ years of community made content on Fab, templates, tutorials, etc. Please don't just share and like my post, go sign it! Thank you! #unreal #gamedev

I dunno. I bet screaming "Pervert glasses" in their faces constantly will have an effect.

Oof! If that suit lands you can kiss AI music goodbye.

XENOGEARS world bestiary! 🤖 an interesting mix of sprites and models used here, usually (but not always) corresponding to on-foot vs. in-gear combat encounters www.deviantart.com/vgcartograph...

$20,000 worth of royalty free commercial use video game music: moonanagames.itch.io/80-songs-pack and moonanagames.itch.io/81-song-pack Get a song pack 50% off for only $10, tell your friends and share the post is it worth it? don't take my word for it, just look at what the ppl have said instead

now for a smidgeon of good news:

remedy opened a senior writing position-- best of luck, fellow weirdos gamejobs.co/Senior-Write...

In like an hour and a half the State Of Unreal thing is going to happen. It will have some cool stuff and some dogshit stuff that totally dwarfs the cool stuff. Someone will say really stupid shit about AI, the "metaverse", UEFN, plans to make the world worse will be announced... avert your eyes tbh

Studios not being allowed to survive making bad video games and learn from them is also a reason bad video games keep happening

Another new blog post! This is a bit more in-depth. 10-15 minute read. I designed Destiny encounters for years but haven't ever talked much about what that actually means. So here you go! #GameDesign #Destiny

It's incredible how often these days the way I find out about a new game is the announcement the entire team has been laid off

It's remarkable just how little any of us actually use a single fucking thing Elon Musk "produces." For a supposed trillionaire, he and his products are some of the most easy to ignore. If he and all his companies were gone tomorrow, almost no one would notice. Says a lot about our economy, huh?

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

This game is truly magnificent and you should play it yesterday.

Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.

It’s just this, all the damn time anymore.

Without this, nothing will ever really change.

I think the current idea at Xbox is that you can't lose money on the games industry if there is no games industry.

I've had multiple friends move for a job and get laid off within the next 3 months.

Yes. AI will make you face tech debt, poison your market by turning fans against you, give your IP questionable copyright and ultimately cost more money as tokens soar. Listen kids, learn your craft. Millions of us did, for decades, quickly, and with amazing results. And we loved doing it.

I'm angry for so many of my industry peers, but before I log off: a reminder that if you ever need a portfolio review, a second set of eyes on a resume or cover letter, or I can put in a good word for you anywhere, please let me know. I know it's not much, but we have to look out for each other.

Hey narrative folks! I'm back at work and we're back to hiring 🦾We have TWO senior writer roles to fill on my team. Apply here: www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs/2216... #writing #narrative #videogames

“Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries.” | Current Affairs www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elo...

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!

*Opens an old Unity project for the first time in several years* *Converts it to a current version of Unity* Oh my god they enshittified Unity3D. Like. Further than it already was. What the fuck happened.

Please more of this. Good things never seem to happen anymore.

The fastest way we pop the AI bubble is to make it POISON. Make games TANK the second they use AI, make properties unprofitable if they touch it. Make it POISON, light it up like Dart frogs, make even the SIGHT of it enough to make people step back and walk away

God it's annoying that they keep opting everyone into features nobody wants

Standing ovation for Rep. Beatty, who sued Trump over the renaming of the Kennedy Center, took him to court, and won!

Commander Alyssa Braden is the Empire of the First Star’s most renowned war hero. Her gauntlets feature shield projectors which enhance her martial arts strikes and defense. With the war long over, she leads the Knights in enforcing the Empire’s police state. Illustrated by @tedbob84.bsky.social

I hope DEMOCRATS are taking note of the absolute thirst for vengeance out here

I think you could build considerable public support behind the idea of not just trying and punishing billionaires, but erasing their names and existence from any public physical space

Most of the Imperial Knights use a sword as a matter of tradition. Lyla Braden prefers something a little more compact and practical, and compliments it with martial arts learned from her sister. Lyla's skill is rivaled only by her ego and her attitude. Illustrated by @tedbob84.bsky.social

Stop giving him medical treatment and just let him expire like a bag of old milk.

So how long before you think SpaceX's share price crashes like one of their rockets?

I’ve crunched for a few one-off demos in my time, and it’s always an irritating waste that sets the whole project back.

My wife and my boy. I miss you, Douglas.

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.

Well if I wasn't already sold on the game before, now I think I gotta

10 hours left on our big Steam RPG sale! Cosmic Star Heroine, Cthulhu Saves the World/Christmas, This Way Madness Lies, and Molly the Werezompire! store.steampowered.com/search?term=...

The reason the game industry keeps laying people off and canceling games despite consumer appetite is because the game industry doesn’t exist any more. It’s been subsumed into the black hole of venture capital, which deliberately believes there is value in treating every industry the same.

1/3 of the game industry has lost their job in the last two years. Ubisoft closed two more studios today. Everyone is out of work. To that end I'm starting a new bundle to benefit a layoffs hardship fund. Game devs: please consider submitting your PAID games to the bundle, which will launch in July.

Kick their fucking asses

Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸