If you feel like taking a little #gamedev vacation to Latvia next year and doing a weeklong game jam in a castle, www.castlegamejam.com is taking early reservations now They need about 40 more signups to be able to make the event happen

Awful lot of paedophiles today wishing they'd got this message a few years ago, I imagine

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Glad to see Polygon cover the resistance of game developers to generative AI--and to be able to speak briefly to one of the greatest dangers of this entire thing. Gen AI doubles down on making MORE SPACE for production issues that *already make games worse.* www.polygon.com/arc-raiders-...

This is an utterly bizarre thing to think or say if you've had even a passing awareness videogames at any time in the last 4 decades

Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied: "Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀

A few years ago, I overhauled all my lighting and the MVP is Phillips WarmGlow. It's a dimmable LED bulb (numerous socket types), that gets warmer as it dims. 2700k at max brightness and 2200k at min. Has incredible range as well so you can dim it right down to a barely visble cosy ambiance

in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said

Tiny kitten staying with me right now. He's very sweet but Loppan has opinions #CatsOfBluesky

Drill Bird is now on Steam!! ⛏️🐦✨ I am really happy with how joyful this lil game felt to make, and how it turned out. I hope people like it! 🥰 store.steampowered.com/app/3809940/...

I'm just over halfway through Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein and I dunno you guys, I'm starting to wonder if maybe this creature isn't a monster at all 🤔

Elon has been desperately trying to calibrate Grok towards more right-wing content for ages and now it's asking children for nudes Is this not just a statistical proof of pedocon theory?

I spent several years as a teenager dealing with suicidal ideation *every single day*. I have scars from cutting myself with razor blades as a release valve for those feelings If ChatGPT was available to me at that time I probably wouldn't be here today This shit is abhorrent

The fact that 30% of our stock market is wrapped up in “help-kids-kill-themselves” technology seems to be an important datapoint in the evolution of late stage capitalism.

Also can video game journalists, please, please stop framing QA as a 'gateway' into the industry or a way for people to get their foot in the door so they can go into 'more creative' disciplines? QA is its own specialized field which requires very capable and specialized professionals.

Game publisher execs are about two more fads away from putting all their faith in literal magic beans. They went all-in on services, all-in on NFTs, all-in on AI. Every time they’re convinced they’ve invested in a divine cure-all. They believe in magic the way a child might. Except kids learn.

After all these years I'm still haunted by "Class A (Legal) : "PS" and "Vita" must not be separated by line breaks [MUSTFIX]" (we did not have support for non-breaking spaces in our game 😰)

The time management mechanic in the Séance of Blake Manor is both very neat and also very stressful. I have absolutely no idea how much time I can afford to spend on anything and it's really good

I'm constantly surprised by how no-one doing web development knows what css is *for* or how to use it This is just styling the html inline with extra steps. Absolute clown shit

In case you'd like to do it yourself, here's the node setup for object-stable screenspace UVs I'm using The original is by @jankaluza.bsky.social, and I've changed it to add a fixed radius and set it up as a Material Function on my end Should work in any version of Unreal 4/5

The Halloween sale ends in less than 24 hours! kaylousberg.itch.io Grab some assets today and get a head-start on your Halloween project for next year! 🎃 #gamedev #indiedev

Autumnal adventures #CatsOfBluesky

Of all the breakout hit games this year - most of them indies - how many were made using AI? Fucking none?

This has been such an Illuminating part of our current moment: It’s revealed just how unwilling those with actual power are to even just ask tough questions, while highlighting how willing pajama-wearing suburbanites are to physically drive off guys armed with actual guns.

GodSVG, my free & open-source SVG editor made in Godot, just released alpha 12. This prerelease introduces many quality of life improvements and a new layout area for previewing SVGs at various sizes! More details: www.godsvg.com/article/1-0-... #GodotEngine #VectorArt #OpenSource

I'm working on earnings stuff for the next episode of @virtualeconcast.com and I feel the deep urge to remind you that when a large corporation cites "market conditions" for their "necessary" layoffs, they aren't telling the whole truth.

"Today, he deals with the center’s impacts in real time - the one that bothers him the most is the noise pollution. "'There are no birds around here anymore,' he said, noting the humming or buzzing noise the center emits scares away a lot of wildlife from his area."

Still looking for a new job! I'm a Tech Artist / Generalist who loves pushing visual side of things, 13 years of #UnrealEngine, Tech Art, Lighting, Lookdev, Env, Cinematics, HLSL, BP, PCG, Niagara, Python as well as a Houdini & Substance skillset Avaliable mid Dec #GameDev #VFX #FX #GameArt

Bugs, faith, and honey. Find out what happened to the moths. Chiaroscuro Imago, our narrative-driven horror game about murky secrets and stark realities, will be releasing on Steam come November 10th! Very exciting. You should probably wishlist it so you don't forget! Link below! 🔽🐝📞🍯

We’re making a game about a mouse surviving winter! 🥧 bake pies 🌲 explore the forest 🍄 forage for mushrooms 🧶 knit warm clothes & more! … there are many good times to be had 😌

Kitties hanging out. The white one is my cat, Loppan. She loves to hang out there because she's on top of the AV receiver which is warm as fuck. Black one is her brother, Baggis, who is visiting and very nervous, so he's being brave just hanging out in the open

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT

whomst amongst us

Time to talk about *unproven studio heads, accountability, and the ones who invest >millions in them and their projects. This is something @writnelson.bsky.social and I had a fireside talk about at Reboot Develop 2024, and we should all be talking about on a greater level. 🧵

I'm watching these four adorable kittens on his #Caturday

Round birbs from round the world! New magnet sets are now on the shop ^^ Available here: www.birdietam.art

It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

If you need a slide showing "here's why these AI deals don't show demand for AI is that high," this Morgan Stanley Research slide is pretty good at showing how dang circular it all is. They look like they're just passing the same dollar around lmao Source: finance.yahoo.com/news/very-tr...

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

Struggling to put trends aside? Take the lead from these beautiful unique games on our Outlier List! 😍 Shoutout the Bad North devs: @oskarstalberg.bsky.social, @rtm223.me & Martin Kvale (published by @rawfury.bsky.social ) And Studio Snowblind behind Glaciered (published by @playismen.bsky.social)

Ooh, REANIMAL demo dropping just a dew days after Little Nightmares 3 has a pretty rough launch is some pretty interesting timing store.steampowered.com/app/4019420/...

Came home to a crime scene this evening. But who has murdered my plant? Luckily detective Loppan is on the case and I'm sure has no biasses in this case

If, as is claimed here, they paid someone the absolute minimum they could to produce a single logo treatment then butchered (sorry, "polished") that with an algorithm, that's still bad And if you have a designer for your logo, they will do those extra treatments for you. That's part of the job

Rider autocomplete has gotten *significantly* worse from 2024.x to 2025.2. It's now adding autocomplete recommendations at the end of lines, so hitting Enter doesn't go to next line, it spaffs out nonsense I've got all the GenAI bullshit switched off, but I'm betting this is LLM madness creeping in

Have YOU considered whether you have enough RAPTOR utility in your life? For survival AND construction - the two domains we all associate with RAPTORS

Neglected to take photos, but I got a spiralizer today and made a stir fry with spiralized courgette noodles in and it was extremely good Looking forward to an overly-spiralized lifestyle for the foreseeable future

when people say genAI is the future I am struck by how short sighted and fatalistic this is as a concept it’s recycling our past for the future, it’s drinking our filtered waste while not thinking about how many times you can do that, it’s hoping tomorrow’s answers have already been said