Hello, if you're on the look out for a Unity Developer or know somebody who is (either remotely or London/South-East England), I've been doing it for a decade working on a range of weird and wonderful games both commercially and for personal projects and I'm currently available for hire!

Hello, if you're on the look out for a Unity Developer or know somebody who is (either remotely or London/South-East England), I've been doing it for a decade working on a range of weird and wonderful games both commercially and for personal projects and I'm currently available for hire!

Damn this race is fire

The dream of game development versus the reality of game development

Would you believe these are two different controllers announced by two different companies a couple days apart?

....huh

Beginning to think Blaseball needed to exist just to prevent the same stuff leaking into Baseball.

I don’t talk about it much because the situation doesn’t really change but it’s still insane to me what an enormous amount of really talented game developers are out of work. just whole studios worth of incredible people, often people who worked on beloved games, unemployed.

A lot of the same ‘you don’t get it’ nonsense from when NFTs and metaverses were a sure thing, but I do genuinely believe folks are building these broken tools into their processes, and that’s gonna have so many consequences short and long term.

My main takeaway from replies to my LLM post yesterday is that a lot of people are now tying a lot of their self worth and/or creative processes to a black box tool that’s either gonna crash out or go up in cost exponentially at a later point in the ‘disruptor’ playbook.

I’ve definitely mentioned in interviews how frustrating I find a lot of the work, but the alternative, to just have it delivered, really doesn’t appeal. I’ve seen it compared to working with colleagues, but that reveals a fundamental lack of understanding of what other people bring to creation.

One lingering aspect of this LLM stuff, even after it collapses, will be the knowledge that many of my peers don’t make things to enjoy the making, but to enjoy the having made. I just assumed everyone really dug climbing that mountain too. Nothing noble about it, no judgement, just a lesson learned

Well guess I'll be going nowhere near NASCAR 25 then.

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A reminder for all you indie devs; it's a hellscape out there, but there is 100% room to abolish Genocide, transphobia and AI use, AND talk about the lovely little indie game you've been working so hard on. We NEED to talk about the horrors the news won't, but we also still need fun lil escapes ❤️

The only metrics I want to hear about on this website are which of their albums you'd listen to first.

"Leader t-boning a wrecking car, flipping and almost going over the pit wall because they had little time to react and the caution came out way late" is frankly not a reason I ever want iRacing to be an accurate simulation of IndyCar.

Despite being *quite* annoyed at how I probably threw away the win by not leaving the draft soon enough, fairly proud to say that's a P2 in the 6th split (slot 1) of the iRacing Indy 500! Here's a video of the two lap shootout that ended the lap:

Starting Chants of Sennaar (sorry Resistance series, turns out I *could* resist playing a 19 year old FPS) and have been enjoying it so far (plus it reminded me I should probably play Heaven's Vault at some point!), but sadly it's also going high on the list of "this didn't need a stealth section".

*plucks a ripe post straight off the vine* "That's right, at this social media account we're proud to say all of our awful puns are 100% organic, grown free of any artificial-asides."

At last, I get to do the thing where I watch somebody play a game I worked on and just repeatedly laugh in disbelief as they swiftly pull off things that were very much never planned for.

Completely Stretchy - Any% in 17:37 by wojo42

The new Fox IndyCar graphics displays completed laps rather than what lap they're on, which means when it says 4/90 there actually on lap 5 and that'll never not kinda bug me.

It's a bit alarming when the Sky commentary booth is wondering why the F1 formation laps/lap count rules "aren't more generally available to fans", when I'm pretty sure they're meant to be the ones giving that info to fans and were getting it wrong for about 15 minutes...

Despite the plethora of options, sometimes curiosity gets you playing a game that may not be worth it, a product of its era that likely doesn't hold up to modern standards, just because it's new to you. At least that's the excuse I'm going with as I start the Resistance series before it leaves PS+.

It's Election Day in the UK (in some places, anyway), so as per tradition it's time to find out if you can speedily count ballots with the most accurate* (and only) ballot counting simulator ellisspice.itch.io/duckton-decl...

I fell into a pretty deep hole trying to solve as many of the puzzles in Blue Prince as I could and it's *deeply* concerning that I don't think I've even been in the room this was in, let alone seen the note.

Looking forward to finding out tomorrow that the C Button is for "Chime" and it just makes a nice jingle every time you press it.

Sometimes I think of the meme just a couple minutes too late

It's almost impressive that F1 is down 3 cars from 3 different incidents before the end of the second lap, and only one of those was when they were actually racing.

Fanatical's next Platinum bundle is here and has some great games for your #SteamDeck like the SteamWorld Classics Bundle, Completely Stretchy, and more: steamdeckhq.com/fanaticals-m...

Computers are incredible machines because you can go from using one perfectly fine to another which is theoretically more powerful, and instead of stuff working better than before they'll instead randomly and horrifically break, with the logs spat out being "yeah that wasn't meant to happen sorry".

Looking through the source code of the Command & Conquer games that EA just released github.com/electronicarts. Some fun stuff in the comments.

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I’m seeing a lot of soft takes from industry mutuals at the moment that we shouldn’t be so hard on those who use generative AI because it’s becoming harder and harder to resist. Wrong. Betraying your ethics (and your peers) because ‘everyone else is doing it’ does not suddenly make it acceptable.

You best believe that the "power of generative AI" is not as powerful as my ability to basically ignore anyone who claims it's a great boon to use it as part of their game design or development process. If you can't be bothered to work on it yourself, why should I be bothered to want to play it?

Gotten into playing Fortnite Festival over the past month-or-so and seeing Godzilla on Lead rock the hell out of Green Day and Sum 41 broke me out of the slight funk I was having today. Sometimes it's All The Small Things, you know?

Free game idea for Capcom (instead of doing the AI generation nonsense they're apparently planning) - free to play mobile crossword themed fighting game. That's right, it's time for Street Fighter X Words.

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While the amount of somewhat cursed looking handhelds being announced at CES pleases me to see, where are all the slightly cursed controllers that'll one day be purchasable at a price cheap enough for me to make the immediately regrettable decision to buy hiding?

It's been a Christmas tradition of mine for a few years now to play through some shorter games throughout the day, and I'm glad to say that this year a bank was successfully robbed by Turnip Boy and a Princess was slain (kinda).

We're really excited to bring you the first update to Completely Stretchy! But what's in the update you say? Lots of quality of life updates! From a clearer map marker for where you are, additions to accessibility for disabling body lean and hand bobbing and more! 🖐️ tinyurl.com/2nsajz7a

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