just dropped the announce trailer + steam page for my spies vs mercs game! give it a wishlist if it seems like your jam 🙏💚

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

Is GenAI so good at hooking people in partially BECAUSE it's so unreliable? Is it the ultimate variable-reward skinner box? Like are people getting addicted to the generate button because it's basically gambling? I have no idea if this thought is idiotic or profound

Springtime adventurer

awesome plugin, really recomend!

Merged the preview into main and uploaded the precompiled release as zips for for #unrealengine 5.4-5.7 Also added a couple new examples to the interactive examples browser, including vertex shader shenanigans to expand your SDF glows outside of the widget geometry :) github.com/rtm223/RTMSDF

Every "centrist" pundit with a complaint about the bluesky echo chamber: wow big numbers!

"People wanted my product too much" shouldn't cause you to lose money, that's just not how that works in a real company. What the fuck are you doing Sam??

happy easter

I'm more than skeptical of that idea, but at the same time, interest in indies is consistently pretty good? I feel like the main thing right now is it's more important than ever to be keeping your min spec low, as people just aren't gonna be buying new hardware for a while

Preview version 1.2 of my #UE5 SDF plugin is in github now. This release mostly adds 73 material functions for manipulating 2D SDFs and generating those good procedural SDF shapes that we all love Prebuilt releases should be available tomorrowish github.com/rtm223/RTMSD... #gamedev #unrealengine

“Everyone from Walmart to your local bodega will need to maintain a presence in Fortnite to stay relevant” is so profoundly stupid I’m just glad I have the documentation to prove someone legitimately believed it.

I'd say this a complete misunderstanding of what toys and games are, because a game is inherently structured play, and a toy enables unstructured play And I have seen this with wildly successful digital toys that tried to present as games

He's been doing that little Monday morning market manipulation thing for a while now This could just be to emotionally destroy investors over the long weekend, before he pops up Tuesday morning to tell them everything's gonna be great and they all rush to receive their "fell for it again" awards

I love this stupid rat

At the time, I was working on LittleBigPlanet that did a lot of brand collaborations and we were told that PlayStation couldn't possibly get us a Star Wars tie-in because "Lucas Film is very protective of the IP", so the Darth Vader dancing game was always a extremely funny to us

This is JUST context Claude has entered the the text "I'm happy to see you" into the context, so it's then statistically biased to pull from training data that aligns with "being happy" "More effort in coding" is almost certainly just more enthusiastic conversarion responses while generating code

At the time, I was working on LittleBigPlanet that did a lot of brand collaborations and we were told that PlayStation couldn't possibly get us a Star Wars tie-in because "Lucas Film is very protective of the IP", so the Darth Vader dancing game was always a extremely funny to us

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

This is a wild and lengthy thread about someone checking out the Claude Code leak and I'm no expert but was still surprised at some of what was in there. neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632...

Oh so now copyright matters.

Quick glance at their company filings suggests Embark probably had over USD$100M in costs for the 2024 financial year (most recent on record) Clearly not the most expensive games out there, but hardly running super lean

I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u #transdayofvisibility #tdov

Happy trans day of visibility!! 🏳️‍⚧️ #transdayofvisibility My name is Gannon I'm a senior World Builder for games. My personal art is also very trans.

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Continuing to marvel at how generous a lot of dystopian sci-fi has been. Can’t remember any set dressing that portrayed the hellworld security robots functioning on the same level as a poorly maintained fast food drivethru speaker complete with poorly trained worker

Trans Day Of Give My Game Visibility Please And Thank You

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Starter Kit Racing for @godotengine.org has been updated! Now includes support for motorcycles, dynamic zoom, collision sounds & optimization and overall script improvements and project clean-up! github.com/KenneyNL/Sta... (MIT License, assets CC0)

The "GenAI is great for repetative code / boilerplate" crowd drives me insane because we've always had dozens of more efficient, more reliable, ethical ways of automating those tasks, and those chucklefucks didn't even think to *try* until the bar was lowered to the point of "ask a chatbot"

Consuming a lot of something doesn’t mean you’re automatically qualified to make that thing. Corollary: you don’t have to personally enjoy something in order to make it well

i love the small print “because the regulators won’t let us :(“

I don't know if this will accomplish anything But it is very fucking funny.

My erosion filter is out! Video, blog post, and shader source. It emulates erosion without simulation, so it's fast, GPU friendly, and trivial to generate in chunks. Explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4V2... Companion blog post: blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast... #ProcGen #vfx #GameDev

Before anyone else messages me: Yes, I saw Tim’s post. Epic reached out and they’re working with me to figure out the insurance situation. I’ve got a bunch of phone calls to make tomorrow.

Longtime college friend of mine, Mike Prinke, was among those laid off at Epic Games: he has been fighting terminal brain cancer, and now he, his wife, and kid, have no income or health insurance. Sharing here in hopes it can reach the right people on their behalf. #epicgames

Cuddly baby #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

Just the signature, or is he gonna put one of his famous signed doodles on there?

See also: the Netflix adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events is INCREDIBLE

Using powerful AI requires you to have a very powerful mind

A question for audio folks! 🎤 I've built a recording studio but it's completely empty and I want to start recording new foley sounds for free distribution. If you'd have a $1,000 USD budget - what is the equipment you'd buy? (soundproof booth + computer is handled)

I got added to the "techno-pessimists" moderation list, and while that's extremely silly and funny, it's worth highlighting that "techno pessimist" is a riff on Marc Andreesen's* 2023 "Techno-Optimist Manifesto", which is an overtly fascist text *of recent "I have zero introspection" fame

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

Before clicking this I was like "I don't even remember what the Night Rider theme sounds like" and then of course, 2 notes in i was remembered, "Turn it up / Fire it up" by Busta Rhymes That confusion aside, this is really good

This will end up being likely a monologue and part of the intro of this week's premium, but every single person that wrote a "Sora 2 is destroying Hollywood" piece should be apologizing to their audiences and to the entertainment industry for deliberately misleading and scaring people in TV/Cinema

FWIW as brutal layoffs are once again hitting the industry, JangaFX is offering 6 months of access to their vfx tools to devs who've been recently laid off jangafx.com/layoff-assis...

this is the fourth time a company has said they'd either send openai billions or get openai to send them billions that's never actually come through - AMD's 6GW of data centers, SK Hynix/Samsung's 900k of DRAM wafers, NVIDIA's $100bn, and Broadcom's 10GW - none of them are real!

I really hope we get back to some sort of normal where it’s desirable to have boring but necessary stuff stay boring and just be done reliably well. How is this my dream for the future it’s so stupid