This would be considerably more exciting if they hadn't cast Jared Leto as Skeletor. I don't need to see that.

Learning to use digital watercolours using Rebelle 8... Have some juicy blocks Using #MindfulPalettes by @alexcristache ( #illustration | #watercolour | #rebelle )

God damn that's good.

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Enjoyable subtitles on Digging for Britain @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

We are witness to a great becoming.

At Brixton Academy for Soulwax, spotted this accidental icon by the sound desk.

More abstract checkerboards

Enjoying this SMB2 design showcase from AGDQ26 (A series of custom levels that exploit / celebrate the mechanics of each character in SMB2) www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrkP...

奥沢 / Okusawa

Great idea for a feed, give it a try: It finds users who have liked similar things to you, and shows you more things that they like. Use the (…) on each post to tune the algorithm. bsky.app/profile/did:...

I tried Claude last year. Initially exciting, but I noticed that it was too keen to add Gestalt-muddying details, so my code feels less and less familiar. I found that unless I write key functions manually, I won’t have a good mental map of the architecture. The feeling of authorship fades FAST.

Afternoon sketches: Abstract checkerboards.

Look how nice this is. Look at it.

ORBITALS looks incredible: 2 player, split-screen game with unbelievably nice Franco-Japanese anime styling. Think Split Fiction -meets- Ulysees 31. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoaT...

I grew up next to one of the oldest cinemas in Europe: The Curzon in Clevedon. They still had an intermission in the 80s. Good times.

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

ORBITALS looks incredible: 2 player, split-screen game with unbelievably nice Franco-Japanese anime styling. Think Split Fiction -meets- Ulysees 31. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoaT...

Enshittification in 3...2.. Time to look for Discord alternatives

accidentally introduced a bug to the game where all the text got replaced with "you"

I also played a lot of community Quake maps in 2025. (and I got into map building with TrenchBroom) I'll be playing ⬇️ this ⬇️ collection of maps ASAP

Games I enjoyed in 2025: * Espgaluda Superb introductory Shmup * Kill Knight Responsive arcade twin-stick shooter * PowerWash Simulator 2 Fast-paced brutal shooter * Battlefield 6 A return to form, and great fun with friends

A genuinely brilliant dive into graphics coding from expert shit-poster Tsoding? I don't trust him 😆 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjWk...

Back to work on my solo #SHMUP #STG #gamedev project. (Using LOVE2D) Today: > Continue working on the timeline system, using IMGUI (with limited LUA bindings, which makes things tricky) > Define simple enemy types and spawn then via audio-synced events > Add placeholder explosions when enemies die

“You want to have the work that I and everyone else has created, but WE want to have YOUR work also” Solid argument against the AI gambit to socialise labour and privatise the profits.

“View From The Left Eye” Ernst Mach, 1886

The Batman discourse has led me to discover the work of architectural illustrator Hugh Ferris: Cathedrals of steel, the lighting and proportions are astonishing.

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

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Happy New Year, Bluesky. Here’s hoping for a decent 2026 xx

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Hehehe extremely pleased that today’s Christmas Lecture (on iPlayer now) has a wonderful cameo prop by me and the extraordinary @dcturner.bsky.social - see if you can spot what we made www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Game Devs with a smattering of funds: wanna market your game at cons and stuff? Sell the game right then and there! #gamedev #indiegames www.bandcds.co.uk/usb/floppy-d...

In bed, about to catch up with #duvetKnowItsChristmas

Picked up KILL KNIGHT in the xbox sale - highly recommended if you like arcade twin-stick shooters with tight controls. It has a nicely balanced “dance of death” resource loop like the modern DOOM games. Decent 🤌

Well that’s awful and on-brand for this stinker of a year. RIP Vince Zampella. Titanfall 2 was a masterpiece.

A short soothing loop written this morning in #Bitwig. Stacked several C64-style PWM synths to make a giant pad. I'm liking Bitwig6 so far. The piano roll is a delight to work with ❤️

Two little quail chicks carved on a limestone plaque over 2,000 years ago. Look closely to see a third chick sketched in ink! From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC. 📷 Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Every time

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”

PICOTRON is what a personal computer should be.

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Something that frustrates me about modern western #videogame design: The promise that gameplay will eventually become fun once you have sufficiently levelled up. I am 43 years old, just give me the fun stuff. I don't want to grind for more stats. Just let me succeed or fail on my own merits.

I'm all good for deckbuilding roguelites.

LOL at this spectacular chatGPT nothing-burger post on LinkedIn, defending Disney's AI deal. "It's not X, it's Y" A device so nice they used it thrice. The unfathomable self-defeating irony of using chatGPT to preach the integrity of AI-generated content. Not even drinking their own snake oil.

Some interesting pending EU rules on videogame monetisation: * Purchasable items and time-limited (fomo) events cannot be marketed to children. * In-game currency must be available in exact amounts. * Refund policies for in-game items and digital currency. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCkU...

RIP Awful news. Modern life is an exercise in absorbing tragedy after tragedy. :(