It's really hard to overstate how many extremely significant guardrails and protections are being tossed aside for the mecha-hitler IPO. The company is a shit show with a ludicrous valuation, and so many levers are being pulled right now to make that everyone's problem

Very funny from /r/balatro

Imagine looking at the success of First Light and going "I* need to fuck with this formula", rather than just letting IOI cook and collect the licensing fees *As the GM of gaming at a company with zero proven games pedigree

Tech used to be so cool. Often stupid, but cool. Now it's just stupid

i want smaller applications with fewer updates made by people who are paid more to produce less code and i'm not kidding

A less discussed fundamental flaw of LLMs is that they conflate user input with executable code, which we've known for decades is an enormous security issue! Prompt injections are security holes by design, and are actually impossible to fix. Anything an LLM can touch is inherently insecure

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

How is this stuff getting worse???

For people who think that AI is inevitable or worry it is, I made starter packs of game devs refusing to use AI, and in less than 24 hours had more than 200 devs ask to be included. Creatives don't want this and won't use it. You just need to support those who won't use it.

In 2004, Playboy interviewed "the google guys."

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

This kind of shit talking only works when you can walk the walk to back it up and Tim Sweeney just fired 1000 people because his infinite money printer isn't growing as fast as he wants it to.

Ok, this is it, I'm going full indie now 😎 Me and my friends at @ragdollfrog.bsky.social are making a Karate Kid-like Beat 'em Up game! We'll be sharing lots of stuff from now own, starting with our protagonist Laura! Here's a little progress on creating her 3D model #BRart #gamedev #indiedev

As we're doing "everyone is using a AI" chat - I've met with 5 game localization studios this week, all of them said they don't use AI translations because the results are simply not good enough Translations are one of the things we keep on being told LLMs are good and it's just not true

look. is everything more expensive now? yes. but you have to look on the bright side too. now every time you open a computer, it doesn't work

Seems like a cosy spot for perching #CatsOfBluesky

Seems like a cosy spot for perching #CatsOfBluesky

Hello everyone, I just made this starter pack for game devs who refuse to use generative AI. In any capacity at all, including for ideas or placeholders or code or inspiration or whatever excuses people have. No AI use, period. Let me know if you want added. go.bsky.app/6DRdowf

It's a machine that makes you stupid, but it's also a machine that makes you *insufferable* www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I have released my level scripting i/o system, it's called JoeIO and it works great for me and at work but it's early so be gentle and just holler if you come across any weirdness. An explanatory video is below www.joewintergreen.com/joeio-a-leve...

The vibe coding continues to pay off for this app, I see

ONE MORE DAY to get Waves of Steel 50% off as part of Steam Ocean Fest! store.steampowered.com/app/1482750/...

Reminds me of this reddit post

This is so fucking funny "Last quarter we spent 9 billion, to generate a little over half of that in revenues, but what if we were instead making 28 TRILLION dollars? That'd be something, right?" Wild that this will probably even work out for him as well

"alchemy was fake but what if it wasn't" is a hell of an argument

the main way you can tell generative ai video games are a scam is that no companies pretending to make them have reached out to any of the actual experts on generative video games

Strongly agreing with Rob Fahey & @gibiz.bsky.social Not only because of the nice things about @focus-entmt.com, or what I tried to do at Ubi at the time (and believe me, our whole industry needs a healthy Ubisoft, so no shadenfreude here). But diversity, and related expertise, is indeed key.

In all the discussion of a singular "millennial anthem", we all did overlook this particular entry for a particular kind of too-online person.

People hate AI. In fact the trend is that more people hate AI over time and it's not slow. The numbers are clear: if you think AI is the future then *you're* the one in the echo chamber www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/how-americ...

The post says Google's new flagship AI model, Gemini Omni, allows multiple refinements of a video without "losing the thread" so where is the violin, google? Where did the violin go? HOW DID YOU LOSE THE WHOLE DAMN VIOLIN IN THE FIRST STEP

I'm happy to announce that Prophet Margin will be participating the this year's @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social and @thinkygames.com's Thinky Direct with its first ever demo on the 28th! Check out the game on steam and wishlist it now! store.steampowered.com/app/3624110/...

CROAK!!! 🐸 Walk The Frog comes out tomorrow on Steam!! 🎉🥳 #gamedev #indiegames

Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.

Earlier today I was gonna do a "most corrupt thing a president's done SO FAR" meme about the slush fund but didn't bother. And now hours later we have an even more brazenly corrupt thing

when ur owner says theres food in ur bowl but u can still see the bottom of the bowl get the sticker: mcapriglione.art

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

Look at This cuddly baby! #CatsOfBluesky

lol any way 💅

No, for real, though, here’s my proposal: As soon as you crest into $1 billion, we throw you a party, congratulate you for winning the game, and then we build a bunch of affordable housing and you wake up tomorrow in an apartment with $1000 to your name. When you win the game, it resets.

GitHub Copilot allowed this guy to spend $25 for every dollar of subscription, or put another way, $11,432 of tokens for $451

When a trans person so much as jaywalks there's a month of calls for all of us to die screaming and I need people to bring that energy to holding every transphobic monster that helped make this murder happen accountable for it. Juniper's death is the intended outcome of transphobic propaganda.

this is the last photo on my parents' video birdfeeder before it was mysteriously destroyed we may never know what happened

if you liked LBP pleaaaaase check out the restitched demo on steam. its just a character creator but it has everything that made LBP so fun with stickers and more. i cant wait for the whole game, plus it has workshop uploads

Leslie Benzies and Mark Gerhard from Build a Rocket Boy went live on YouTube to answer some questions but it seems like only 4 people did participate in the chat. youtu.be/1WqUlBxIN1M

lol. lmao even.

we can laugh about the cost of AI and how it's actually going to be much more expensive than just hiring devs but honestly so many SLTs are just really really really bad at financials anyway. like they are going to allow their studios to crash and burn before they admit this direction is a mistake

for UK friends. I recommend this grant if you're trying to get your new game rolling. Worked really well for us

It's very funny that they have to have significantly expanded jury pools for Elon's court cases because so many people fucking hate him so much

worked up one of those ideas for fun.

I recorded a dramatic reading of Ryan Cohen getting body slammed by a Real Business Adult. drive.google.com/file/d/11Bfc...