Enemy Mine is 40! In addition to being a sweet tale about peace and the importance of mutual understanding, Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot,The NeverEnding Story)'s film, space re-reading of None but the Brave (1965) or Hell in the Pacific (1968), contains beautiful ship models.

Oh, another one of those "crunch before xmas for an internal presentation". From my experience, that means the game is on the chopping block in Jan. And you know what? Outcome of crunch might indeed decide its fate. Or unexpected sales (one way or another) of other titles. Or luck. Good luck folks.

Not sure how to classify this game. What genre is it even - a herd-em-up? It's gorgeous is what it is. Very intrigued. Well done @benthroop.com ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtf2...

If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke, so everyone has all the context. (Full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...)

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

I can 100% confirm that when I draft visual ideas on paper, there's A LOT of concept and absolutely ZERO art in there. I think he's being very clear on what they do and why, and it makes complete fucking sense. How about everyone sends AI insults in the right direction instead of everywhere.

Rogue One was released 9 years ago today. Yes, the battle of Scarif, so well paced, is almost a decade old. But this is the first year that Rogue One is also the ninth and final act in the story of Cassian Andor. It all starts when police officers take advantage of the authoritarian atmosphere.

We're all waiting for the sun to come back in the spring here in Finland, and our studios are definitely feeling it (Saros/Control 2). 🌞

I thought prompting for "Yes" vs "Maybe Later" or "Not Now" was really bad, but there are ways to make it worse

To anyone who eagerly devoured every page of the original The Escapist back in 2005, this is beyond dystopian.

This is such happy news. I'm pretty sure it will be an amazing game that I will have no desire to play myself, but I will root for it and will find it fascinating and impressive. That's just what Tim and Obsidian do, and I love them for it.

Today on Digital Foundry, interviewing Kimmo Lahtinen on the brilliant Sektori, his storied history at Housemarque and the move to indie development: www.digitalfoundry.net/features/int...

I know about scale, distance, perspective, etc and my brain is still incapable of processing this as anything other than some slow motion footage. Some incredible clips in that thread.

Really cool interview with Ricard Pillosu. Very pragmatic, approachable and versed in all aspects of game dev. I didn't know he had built such a large dev team all around Godot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxea...

I don't know the exact day, but it's around 30 years since my game Speed Haste came out www.mobygames.com/game/14257/c... Written almost entirely from scratch in 11 months, the whole year was a blur of gamedev, democoding, job, university, weekend clubbing, cigarettes and late nights/early mornings

Great read: "Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)" blog.frost.kiwi/dual-kawase/

Instant The Expanse season1 vibes.

The correct Doom 3 experience is the original one, where you must choose between having your flashlight or your weapon equipped.

2020 was nuts for many reasons but I remember being shut away at home, banging out 60,000 lines of code in 10 months, then having my mind blown editing this trailer and hearing that iconic Switch click at the start. I still consider it a huge privilege getting to write a game on Mario's home.

Ok what kind of prompt is this Microsoft. Why do I have to choose between those markedly different options. Where's my "STFU forever" 3rd option. I'm not amused. This is what I get for misclicking on the Edge browser.

Special thanks to GOG for being so supportive of the project! HORSES preorders are now available on the store: www.gog.com/en/game/horses 🙏

It's a fortunate position to be in to make levels for a game series you really love. Even more fortunate for the studio @ustwogames.co.uk letting you make a video showing how these levels can be designed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL-F...

Esto es hoy a las 18:30. ¿Por qué no hacemos estrategia que merezca tal nombre? ¿Cómo lo arreglamos?

THE FUNNIEST FUCKING PART

I took a bit of time and put together a compact summary of the 4.5 years of Sektori (from the devlog gifs you've seen if you've followed me). 3 weeks until release! #indiedev #gamedev imgur.com/gallery/sekt...

I thought I was done with Steam purchases for a bit, but I'm gonna have to

Amateurs, all of them www.pcgamer.com/gdc-2013-jas...

House was my most anticipated and my least favorite of the lot, whereas Battle was the opposite. But anyway my Autumn of movies has been very good.

Sure, the taskbar can't stick to the sides of the display, but it is going to be intelligent instead www.theverge.com/news/821948/...

1st day of the Graphics Programming Conference ‘25 #gamedev www.graphicsprogrammingconference.com

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.

I'm a bit late to the party, but wow Devil Blade Reboot is fantastic, and surprisingly accessible for my ageing fingers and reflexes store.steampowered.com/app/2882440/...

Ahhh finally, the secret is out! www.linkedin.com/posts/lingok... I rarely post about my job, but I'll break the wall because we've been working for months towards this day, and it's finally here! What an incredible team making it happen. #Lingokid #Playlearning

After a few weeks bouncing around the metaphorical walls at work firefighting, gluing and greasing where needed, today I got to do some actual development on one of our new games and that felt good. I think the LoC tally was like +600 -1500, yay. Nothing particularly awesome, just clean progress.

Humans adapt to change at human rates. Not technological rates. Not economic rates.

If you're using Windows 11, Microsoft is now surveilling you in a new way. This may already be turned on on your computer, and you would not be notified; it activates whenever they detect you are in a "game", which in my experience Microsoft often false-positives on doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...

Ok despues de casi 10 años sin dar una charla (que se me han hecho largos como 100), mañana nos veremos en la #TRGx! Estoy mas oxidao que el Titanic pero con un poco de suerte lo disfrutaremos desde ambos lados del powerpoint.

A retrospective of my tech career - a work-focused autobiography, basically - feels a bit vain, but I'm hopeful that it is interesting or useful enough to justify that. If nothing else writing it up forced me to try to remember what actually happened. randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/r...

“We will work the whole night+24/7 to build an outage mode so the problem will be fixed extremely quickly.” No thank you, you already do enough damage while rested, don't ever want to see what you can do while tired + rushing.

I'm very happy in bsky but I'm not a zealot, I kept my twitter account alive and every few weeks I drop by to check out how the site is doing. I rarely last 5 minutes and always leave angrier than I arrived. And I only look at my feed, not the algorithmic one. That site just makes people be worse.

Define “perfect ending”

Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%

Here's a small treat if you're looking for some colorful backgrounds: 8k screenshots of our 2024 64k intro Empires with particle counts cranked to the tens of millions. As a bonus there are also a bunch of ultrawides in there for multi-monitor setups. conspiracy.hu/files/screen...

Lots of great things and also some shitty things are happening all around us, but tonight The Diplomat is back and that's going to be how my own day ends well. That show is a perfect blend of tones and themes, backed by a cast that's fully into it.

Jupiter Ascending (2015): Titus Abrasax clipper, art by George Hull

Why don't you just

My latest coding adventure — attempting to write a grid-based fluid solver and simulate some simple smoke! youtu.be/Q78wvrQ9xsU?...

If you think AI hallucinating stuff when generating code or graphics is bad, let me tell you about this nightmare I had last night where AI was doing producer work.

I know I know, with all the shit that's going on everywhere, being stressed about a CVE is a bit dumb, but hey emotions are like that.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.