One way to stop refugees is not burning down their countries.

Every time you use AI slop in your game, even as a placeholder, even if it's supposed to be temporary, you're helping to destroy the video game industry little by little. aftermath.site/the-alters-a...

Everyone knows Blade Running Man would never drive to his destination.

I think it was Ed Pressman, film producer who said the biggest factor in creative success is staying in the ring the longest.

We don’t need to overcomplicate James Bond, - it’s a 2-hour sports-car & cigarette commercial that values style over substance, - and that’s fine, - cinema is a spectrum.

new update is now live! If you're working on a game that requires solid, feature rich spawning for enemies, biomes, crowds or more, check it out on the asset store! assetstore.unity.com/packages/too... #indiedev #unity3d #gamedev

Conservative Right 🤝 Liberal Right

We need a different mechanism for crediting & licensing creative work, - current legal & distribution systems are simply unable ( and/or unwilling ) to protect professionals.

Sunrise over Brighton Palace Pier #photography #aerialphotography #brighton

Unironically true, - evolution in UGC will allow for some wildly interesting experiments developed by massive teams working asynchronously.

Sonic Rumble is live! And that means I can finally share our cinematic launch trailer 🎉 Many different teams across the globe really put their all into this trailer. It's such an honour to be able to work on cinematics for such an iconic (& nostaglic!) franchise like Sonic youtu.be/JFJ-zNihuEs?...

The endgame for the greatest upward failure in corporate history & final gate to cyberpunk hell.

My personal non-scientific classification is simply equating A’s to digits of team size: A team: 1-9 AA team: 10-99 AAA team: 100-999 AAAA team: 1000+

The reports of Gen-Z going MAGA have been greatly exaggerated.

You mean @wsj.com, @nytimes.com, @nypost.com, and @washingtonpost.com et al failed to stop Mamdani - now abandon your infantile obsession with calling anyone and anything supporting better conditions for the MASS of people "left, radical, communist, leftist" and do some real journalism.

Today’s vibe ✌️

Hey #gamedev #audio folks: any recommendations on finding non AI, royalty free music for game trailers, made by actual humans? We are digging and there are clearly a lot of people lying about where their music comes from. Late stage capitalism sucks.

Bsky’s sweet spot is being unhinged without being hateful.

Just an extra bit from my #noimnotahuman post, because I don’t think the photos really capture how much rendering and extra bits I added to myself to get the look I was going for #gameart #rendering #game #horrorgame #horrorart #photobash

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Intensity beats extensity, - Steam picked a lane, executed & relentlessly polished a service that satisfied both players & developers instead of trying to take over everything everywhere all at once. Terrible for all the mismanaged talent.

OK... Does anyone have *practical* advice on where to buy a larger kimono in the Kansai region or online that isn't just garbage? Autoblocks:

This would be a good time for people of all faiths to speak out about corporate thieves actively grooming them into a heretical technocult.

Artists are magicians. “They found that art positively influences the immune, hormone and nervous systems all at once – something never previously recorded.”

Dylan is a superb Unreal TA and every day he goes unhired I lose a little faith in humanity.

I’d rather see more AA studios with $30-40 titles than AAAi at $100.

What's it like inside your head?

Labour. Conservatives. Reform. Peter Thiel’s fingerprints are on them all — an ideological pincer movement pulling Britain toward MAGA-style autocracy. My first @BylineTimes video investigation exposes how. 🎥 Watch here → youtu.be/7OaSuAVKCGE?...

Some new music in the update, some of my fave stuff I've written for this game.

They had this figured out in 1978

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.

The success of 90’s cinema was in large part to execs not micromanaging creatives, - give the medium back to writers & directors and watch the audiences return. “But the truth is, it now requires an onslaught of inescapable hype to get people out to theaters in any kind of decent numbers”

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Streets of Old Dubai ( vertical ) #urbangaze #photography #streetphotography

Hey game investors, if I even *suspect* you didn't hire a concept artist and went to AI, I won't buy your game. And this is how most people feel.

If you see this, QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhood

I feel like the pivot to mobile Internet, app gardens & cloud storage really distracted us from the more interesting direction of self-hosting, whether through p2p, apache, ftp or other protocols, - physical control of storage is the only real way to own anything.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

There’s a saying in film industry, - casting is 50% of filmmaking.

Sometimes i think about the cancelled online multiplayer Spider-Verse game and I weep this game could’ve fed generations

Someone took issue with me citing an unconfirmed article on Halo ai use, - here’s an earlier one from a bigger publication noting integration of genAi into Halo studio’s pipeline, - I think it’s fairly certain genAi use is becoming the new normal at big studios.

Love this indie’s Half-Life 1 vibe

I think it's misleading to conflate procgen and tools like Houdini with genAI systems and LLMs built using stolen data like OpenAI.

The AAAi dream is 0% employees and 100% marketshare. "Generative AI is apparently woven into every aspect of development, such as enemy AI and terrain generation."

In the film industry a producer brings an idea to life, while a distributor essentially resells the finished work, - game publishers today are morphing from former to latter, so game developers deserve a greater share of revenue.

Corporate media are basically pretending none of this is happening, yeah?

It’s the worst time to do art. It’s the best time to do art.

Don’t let the bastards grind you down