I'm annoyed with myself for caring about this but whatever: I was at 4.9k followers on Twitter before it went to shit and we all left. I never reached 5000. I'm now at 4.9k here. Will I hit 5000 before Bluesky dies??? Only time will tell

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

Watching UE dev streams on the water stuff and they are always opening materials that look like this and saying things like "its incredibly straight forward and easy to understand"

EXCLUSIVE: How Trump's oil grab in Venezuela was shaped by Silicon Valley tech billionaire fantasies about installing corporate-dominated "Network States" and "Freedom Cities". The catch? The oil might as well be worthless bylinetimes.com/2026/01/07/i...

Wrote about a bunch of the Canadian games we can expect in 2026. 🇨🇦 🎮 From the glorious return of our Toronto icon Scott Pilgrim to such promising new indies All Systems Dance, At Fate's End and Button Man, there's a lot to look forward to this year!

At this point we might as well start experimenting more with non-interrupting 7-10hour narratives like a WWII film taking place on sea/land/air, completely immersing you for an entire day, - audiences are ready!

Netflix effectively created the 10-hour feature film format, and it’s nice to see everyone finally admit that!

Comic Book Club: Alex Paknadel On this week's live show we're welcoming guest Alex Paknadel (Marvel's Cyclops)

What tech fills you with genuine optimism? Vertical farming & agrotech is the most interesting development in my book, - successful mostly at lettuce atm, but with further advances it may eventually feed the world.

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“Microshifting is an extreme form of hybrid working – breaking down work into short, non-continuous blocks according to your personal productivity patterns or domestic requirements.” No-one’s going back to the grind.

Reminder as the new year begins that I head up GameSpot’s opinions section and would love to read your pitches! I’m always on the hunt for timely and thoughtful criticism and analysis on games and gaming/internet culture, so feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] if interested ☺️✨

There’s a non-zero likelihood of Internet being crippled in the next 3 years, - domain name registry & ip resolution are quite fragile, - what would an alternative Internet even look like?

I’d really like to see blogs but with all the proper social features, - a discovery, following & mutuals feeds showing clickable excerpts & hashtags that can be liked & commented on via a home feed.

🕹️ Hii #gamedevs! I hope everyone is having a good Saturday 💜 Here's a #screenshotsaturday post! Reply to this post updates for your #games (any game links, photos, videos etc) 🎮 💜 like 🗨️ comment 🔄 repost! #indiegame #saturdayscreenshot #gaming #indiedev #gamedevelopment

Life imitates art.

Yeah, that’s not happening.

Can’t we just fork Windows?

Deregulation is just a fancy word for lawlessness

Post your 2026 mantra: game edition

Raising the price of my indie game to $500 to keep up with the times.

Posting the earliest music video I can remember & wishing this energy to all, - every end is a beginning.

ruin two bands by combining them: Red Hot Chili Cranberries

Looking for angel investors for my exciting new startup. We poison rivers. No, just for fun. Why, yes, it IS named after a Tolkien character. How did you know?

As we take the pedal off graphics-maxxing, I think this is the most interesting direction for #gamedev to take in the coming years. By @danctheduck.bsky.social

I couldn't find a list of game directors so I created one. My general rubric is simple: these are the people who are directly responsible for the creative direction of the games they work on. go.bsky.app/6TAQbHE

Go Kart Island is out in TWO WEEKS on the Switch and you can pre-order it now with a 20% discount! $7.99 / €7.39 / £6.39 #games #indiegaming #indiegames #videogames #switch #nintendo

My networking tip is be yourself & let your people find you

“And if you can beeelive it…it’s Friday once again.”

Make a Bond movie casual Madlad With The Golden Gun

Use Unreal Engine’s dataflow graph to save 2 hours on Maya roundtrip, they say. Spend 2 days doing this task with dataflow graph instead, they don’t say.

Psssst... You like indie devs? Why not check up on devs doing their thing in korea? They're all awesome go.bsky.app/LDqe2DD

People don’t understand than in an era where audiences are demanding more intentionality in their work — genAI actively diminishes that intentionality.

Happy Christmas to all, love seeing people posting their cakes, gifts and trees.👌

Make Ai Cringe Always

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Batman : Bronze Age

This family has significant health needs and they're suffering a lot in the cold. chuffed.org/project/155233

warning! sentimental alert! i love being part of bsky with all you wonderful people on my timeline, there's great artists, designers, programmers, musicians, thinkers...people that can see the big picture in the world and it's really heartening to be part of this space. thank you all for sharing :)

We're going to have to start a whole new system for publishing and distributing works written by human beings, aren't we?

Didn’t we try? Artists demanded companies get consent for training & they *didn’t* listen, - they went hysterical & bought deregulation laws instead. Cmon.

They don’t realize people want to READ the books we buy, do they?

Experimenting means you test something & put it down, - if you’re integrating it in live production you’re fully on-board.

Arnold, give him your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle.

Two decades after it went out of vogue I’m starting to warm up to vector minimalism again, - it slaps, actually.

I don't care if FireFox "evolve[s] into a modern AI browser" or not but I wish I understood what that even means. I don't understand what AI is supposed to add to the browsing experience. I just want a browser to display websites. It's not clear to me at all what AI is going to do to improve that.

The difference between a concept artist and an illustrator is that they *conceptualize*, - they are thinkers with illustration skills, ideation is exactly the part we don’t want to replace.

Some sketches I was playing around with, mainly for practice

We've heard a lot from the 31 workers who Rockstar fired in the UK, so when I was told there was a protest happening to support those 31, and the three fired here at Rockstar Toronto, I made sure to go meet those protestors to speak with them and see how it all unfolded. wccftech.com/cwa-canada-t...