liking game genres that spawned from the arcades condemns you to forever suffer cuz no one outside of the bubble gets it and every developer wants to the appeal to the guy who doesn't get it

A lot of the business failures of the games industry are really rooted in this desire to create a product that dominates the market. The recent Amazon thing really highlights that: they wanted to create a product that outperformed Steam, but they didn't understand Steam or what the audience wanted.

Announcing that Rhythm Doggo has a steam page now! It'd be super helpful if you wishlist it! store.steampowered.com/app/4090240/... Key art by @1neila1.bsky.social

So anyway I restored Daicon IV from scratch. This was a joint project with Chris Person (papapishu), who sourced the incredibly Rare Laserdisc release. The raw files can be found on the internet archive for those interested in processing it yourself. Enjoy! archive.org/details/DAIC...

Was super excited that the trailer for our game Drift Scavenger just got posted to IGN! WOOOOO! Definitely a big milestone for me. feels good!🙂 www.ign.com/videos/drift...

#birdbot

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

We wrapped up our PICO8 game jam this weekend; check out our stuff! pvgd.org/picojam2025 Thanks to @noelcody.bsky.social , @lankung.bsky.social , @trickytriangles.bsky.social, and everyone else for contributing! #indiegames, #gamedev, #pvgd, #pioneervalley, #indiedev, #pico8, #lexaloffle

Immigrants are a social good, anti-immigrant propaganda is basically all lies, and any approach to the "problem" that doesn't start form those two points is worthless

what a fucking stupid time to be a person who cares about other people

Videogames are a waste of time. But so is your job.

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

hey, nerd. i got a "regular expression" for you: up yours

This is an example where the problem is not so much the capabilities of LLMs as it is the fact that we have independently normalized a widespread culture of acceptable lying

A new event series has started...."CD-ROM studies!" We will invite guests involved in CD-ROM software in the 1990s and interview them about the behind-the-scenes stories.

In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:

There is a non-disparagement clause in Mastercard's rules, probably Visa too, and I'm guessing that's why Itch is being so diplomatic about their description of the situation. Fucking sucks. I feel bad for all parties involved except for the payment processors and the stupid ass puritans.

Tried participating in #kenneyjam this weekend, but I wasn't quite able to get a finished product ready in time. So there's no submission, sadly, but instead I can show you a video of what I *was* able to get done.

It's my birthday today, so to celebrate I went down to an arcade to play the only Galaxian3 machine in the United States. Super cool game. I'm really glad I got an opportunity to try it out.

When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)

I'm off to a compassionate start! #art #rumthedonkey #comic

Nine years ago America experienced the last weekend where hope seemed possible

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

more and more elements of the games industry are going to align themselves with gambling in the coming years, in a normalization of market failure. it is crucial to build a new paradigm for games and it must be ideologically opposed to this one. restructuring around gambling is anti-culture.

“We wanted to give gamers the most accurate recreation possible of what it’s like to be a game developer,” said Lead Designer Travis Strickland moments before he was laid off. “...Players will be able to spend hours browsing Indeed, filling out applications and never hearing back.”

This is exactly the deprofessionalization that @bryantfrancis.me was talking about

Oh awesome

free advice for game developers: try to make the next smash hit video game, such as grand theft auto. if you do, you'll be making more than just a video game – you'll be making millions of dollars

After nearly a decade of development, I am very excited to finally announce Desolus! Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxfV...

"Workers ... allocated more than 80% of their saved time to other work tasks (less than 10% said they took more breaks or leisure time), including new tasks created by the use of AI, such as editing AI-generated copy, or ... adjusting exams to make sure that students aren’t using AI to cheat."

"10 Classic 80s Retro Games That Have Aged Poorly" you are aging poorly how about that

i am far too stupid to be weighing in on this but one thing i would stress is that gaming media’s collapse wasn’t an inevitable fact of life. it’s the result of very stupid people making decisions they could have just as easily not made

btw you can rent this film here: breakthegame.vhx.tv you can also watch it on Trihex's twitch channel on Monday at 8pm ET with Q&A after www.twitch.tv/trihex/ and you can contact PBS here and let them know how you feel about them censoring stories about trans people: www.pbs.org/about/about-...

Every person with a spectrum disorder has a more valuable life than RFK Jr, and every trans/nb person has a more valuable life than JK Rowling. You are a human with dignity and they are sunken demons

Via @vgdensetsu.bsky.social, an image that is kind of profound to me as a gamedev: A Japanese advertisement for Klik & Play featuring the art of Benimaru "Ashura" Itoh, who illustrated the Star Fox and Super Metroid comics for Nintendo Power. Source: videogamesdensetsu.tumblr.com/post/7017950...

Hard to believe that a decade ago, in preparation for the release of my game, I spent a month researching 2D cameras by playing through all my favorite 80s classics. If you haven't yet, check out this fun, GIF-heavy paper! docs.google.com/document/d/e...

my most player-hating video game opinion is that cut content isn't full of secret mysteries and people are killing the conversation by insisting that data-mining is a good way to approach a narrative. when you're baking a cake, licking the batter off the spoon is a real pleasure, but it ain't cake.

Whoa, huge news for video game preservationists, diehard Namco fans, and people who live in New Hampshire!! www.reddit.com/r/cade/comme...

Holy shit, they're making a new TGM? Finally some good news!

Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮 We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.

GO BIRDS

everyone on BlueSky recently

Ah shit it turns out the problem with conservatism is that conservatives are all evil

According to Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw and Arkane co-founder Raphael Colantonio, the immensely talented Bulgarian art director Viktor Antonov died recently. 😭 He was only 52. He worked with Valve and Arkane on HL 2 and Dishonored, but also on the animated movies Renaissance & The Prodigies.

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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...