I don't think Larian's CEO understands how art is made: aftermath.site/larian-ceo-ai-...

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mark cuban is incapable of understanding the difference because like many people with a ton of money he's come to think of paying someone else to do something as the same as himself doing it, in which the only way it ever turns out well is because they care about details and process he is unaware of

So in my book Violent Triangles I take game artists back to fundamentals of game art so you understand what is going on under the hood of your game engine and the tricks to exploit it, all presented in clear visual diagrams. Stuff like rasterisation, anti-aliasing, overdraw, texture memory etc.

I can't help, looking at this picture, but think of the "hire gamers" meme...

Any anime heads out there know if the SOL BIANCA: THE LEGACY OVAs ever got a transfer at better than DVD quality? I’m watching the Internet Archive DVD rip and it has the same problem as watching the original DVD: stuff is too fine and beautiful to see properly at this resolution. I need Feb in 4k

I have spent so much of my very precious free time over the past few days trying to setup this neat data-api thing for my static web app on azure and getting nothing but odd errors... Finally, after searching through several layers of help, I come across this...

This has quickly become one of my regular podcasts to listen to. Really fun conversations and stories with a wide variety of folks.

"scientists there added an ingredient that would protect the pill for 30 minutes while it is being absorbed. It's a mouthful: sodium N-(8-[2-hydroxybenzoyl]amino)caprylate, or SNAC for short." I'm amused that the key innovation here is called "SNAC"

Two months after firing over Charlie Kirk comments, Ghost of Yotei dev blames harassment campaign, not 'bad joke' aftermath.site/sucker-punch-c...

It's been awhile since I last checked, but somebody has finally claimed my old twitter handle after I deleted my account. At least it doesn't appear that they're trying to impersonate me, yet.

It is unfortunately fitting that this administration's response to "why does air travel suck so much" is "You deserved it because of what you were wearing."

Wow does this thread go places... Very entertaining and informative.

I forgot to bring my rain pants today and after the bike part of my commute my jeans are like a Sabrina Carpenter song...

I was initially talking about Anno, but CoD:Blops 7 coming in with a perfect example. There's not a single game dev at Treyarch or Raven Software who had this as their creative vision. This is all exec pushed slop.

When I read this garbage on a Steam page, I assume the "creative vision" is exec bonuses hatred towards the folks that actually build the game. "AI tools were used to help create some in game assets. In all such cases, the final product reflects our team’s craft and creative vision."

Your periodic reminder that I’m available for hire for camera operator, audio engineer, and gaffer work anywhere in the PNW

"the core purpose is to support members in proactively designing their growth direction" Shoot the HR people writing this garbage into the fucking sun.

As you may have seen, we've launched a brand new website today! And while we're excited about some of the big stuff involved--like a sale and new payment methods--here are some other neat features we hope readers and newcomers will appreciate. aftermath.site/aftermath-rela...

Even in the darkest of times, everybody deserves a little self-care.

Pretty neat.

Feeling slightly optimistic after all of yesterday's news. I wonder if the next presidential Dems will be able to find a National Mamdani, or if they'll stick with California Cuomo.

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground. "That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks. "It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. Introducing: Warhammer Survivors, coming 2026. The endless night closes around you in the universes of Warhammer. Pick a champion and eviscerate endless swarms of enemies ⚔️ Watch the trailer 👇

Today my eldest child uttered those 4 special words that every parent longs to hear... "I want a trumpet"

What I love about Any Austin's videos are the exploration of how deep a lot of these topics are. To think that folks making a video game, already an impossible task, are able to dig deep into so many different topics and incorporate them into their pretend worlds. Always amazing.

How many times am I going to have to uninstall co-pilot from @vscode.dev? Too many times, already, and more coming, I assume. It seems the plan is to keep making it a dependency of other, non co-pilot, plugins to force install, even if it's completely unrelated.

✨Game Devs Of BlueSky!!!✨ A Question Of The Day For Your Perusement: If you could instantly have any budget & any team to make ANY game… what are you making, what’s the scale, what’s the DREAM???

"Sexy what level does Quilava evolve"

This has all the key game design principles of any game: 1. Moving vaguely forwardish through... city? 2. Shooting some things for no reason in particular

I am not a game designer, but I think my 3 key design principles would be: 1. Secrets 2. behind 3. waterfalls. The thread has a lot more interesting answers, though.

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

Something different this week. Open the floodgates! Here is a great repost of a bunch of new content from one of our concept artists, Damian Audino. Lots of great new stuff here! Enjoy! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #indiedev #videogames #multiplayer #stealthaction #projectoctavia #twinsunscorp

There is apparently nothing Microsoft won't burn to the ground for that short term stock bump. All of this sucks.

Owlcat Games has launched a free game development learning resource, featuring over 350 learning resources including software recommendations, tutorials, and online courses www.gamesindustry.biz/owlcat-games...

In the @sidmeier.bsky.social biography. There's a great line that I feel highlights why gen AI stuff will never be good at making anything of value. "coding is the easy part; it's like drawing a picture of something after you've excavated it. The sweat is in the digging, not the documentation."

HIYA #portfolioday! I'm Deven and I'm a cartoonist in the SFBay Area. I'm looking for work in: ✒️Early reader GNs ✒️Spot illos and cover for MG novels ✒️Middle Grade GNs 🌟And an agent🌟 I love humorous stories with expressive characters. 🌐 dhoover.art for more 📨 [email protected] to get in touch

When people ask me to rank the top 10 teams right now

So, I understand my role in humanity. Everybody looks to me as the arbiter of all that is good in music, and certainly not solely because scotch is delicious tonight. I will declare what is good in music in this thread. All that @skatunenetwork.bsky.social creates is amazing. Check their originals.

Pop quiz hotshot: how long can you keep shuffling around the same chunk of money? Eventually somebody is going to want to, or have to, cash out.

Watch it live on October 7th: starseekergame.com youtube.com/@SystemEra

A blue sky for Bluesky.

I feel like "Meta is generating on-demand CSAM for users" should have consequences or something...

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

It's a cool morning in NYC and it seems the finance guys got a new batch of grey Patagonia vests. I wonder how they feel about it, compared to the previous batch of blue.

I feel seen