Guys, do not use the Discord Checkpoint thing (Discord's attempt at Spotify Wrapped). It requires enabling them access to scrape your data, and has an alarming amount of private data being used for it. Make sure you have these disabled.

Cats!!!???

It's not just that the output is fucked, the premise of teaching a child to prompt a book cover design instead of making it with their owns hands is so sad.

I wrote this huge, 3,000-word or so deep dive into the state of game actors’ contracts in the UK, which is a hot mess of exploitation, AI clauses and chaotic rate calculations. And no one read it. But you really, REALLY should. www.gamesindustry.biz/contracts-fo...

My wife got me the U.S.S Enterprise NCC-1701-D Lego set and I am astounded. So is Douglas, who took all of 10 seconds to find the packing box.

reminder: It is illegal to use a device like the Allmiibo ($12) to skirt around the $30 greed of a $4b company UNLESS of course you own every Amiibo and manually scanned them into the Allmiibo (after wiping it because it comes preloaded with all of them) you should never do this

✨Today is Bandcamp friday! Best day to support your fav artists on the platform 😇 bibikigarcia.bandcamp.com/album/arco-o...

Bandcamp Friday is here again. All earnings go straight to the artists. A little reminder to grab music you love and enjoy the best quality. And I’ll just casually leave my link here 🤣 isidorbobinec.bandcamp.com/album/stella...

Wild(ly frustrating) time to be alive when the industry is lamenting difficulty getting vis/retaining players but only putting money into growth and performance marketing, gimmicks, AI etc knowing that everyone is sick of ads and craving authenticity, connection and quality experiences

Looking forward to a new DC Comics series that gets canned one season in because it didn’t print Stranger Things money.

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

An easy way to explain luddites: Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand. And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before. That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

bit more! needs more work still but it's coming together slowly

A short video on the banning of the game HORSES on Steam - from a porn game developer perspective

tbh valve's overarching principle for steam is "do not make us do work"

Lots of friends I know are out of work. They are all super skilled, experienced, empathetic, hardworking, and have lots of titles to their names. They're people I would never ever think would have trouble finding work. The only thing separating the people working right now and those not is luck.

bummer situation but grim lol at this exception on the epic games store

Generative AI is a disease! I drew & painted this one myself, thus distributing creative work back to the humans ✊

I cannot emphasise enough how important it is to have a couple good asset packs in your catalog. Even if you never use any of them in production, the ability to just drop something in that fits “well enough” is understated. For $40 this is a steal, but it’s $20 and on sale for $10!

71 fish ponds #StardewValley www.twitch.tv/ckuemper

We don't talk enough about the concept of technical debt and the majority of money men executives have little or zero understanding of the concept. This is a sunk cost fallacy at work- they think the product is a singular item, a tower moving ever upwards.

Before and after She's had a trim!

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

I am SO beyond excited to announce: My next adventure will be at Sunset Visitor, the studio behind the amazing 1000xRESIST! I can't wait to get started and see what we can cook up together ❤️✨

nothing of value has been made with it nothing but it has led bosses to fire people leading to wrongly done work, messed up universities, wrecked any progress made on climate change goals, so your aunt can get wrong answers to unimportant questions for less than it cost the company to provide them

Moevember 2025 is complete! I hope you enjoyed what has, once again, been a really stupid Moe-nth. Thank you to anyone who has took a Moe-ment to appreciate Springfield’s favourite bartender. Keep the Moe spirit in your heart all year round.

Huh, unexpected Zootopia lore.

You know, my exposure to Zootopia is entirely through memes and cultural osmosis. So until last night where I saw an advert for the sequel on the side of a city bus, I had absolutely zero idea it’s called Zootroplis here in the UK. My ignorance is unintentional but I need to fix my cluelessness.

also thanks for the threadless orders too!!! i appreciate you all so very much

This seems like a pretty good deal. itch.io/s/169922/kit...

Having seen this, I’ve got to say, the KPop Demon Hunter fans need to re-discover Final Fantasy X-2, where you play a girl band who changes fighting classes by changing dresses and has no less than two concerts on the way to saving the world from a giant weapon.

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

Saw someone cite the Collective Shout thing and payment processors in regards to the Horse situation and say "Valve can't fight them by itself", and I think we maybe shouldn't be defending multi-billion dollar companies for arbitrary takedowns of artistic works and acting like they're the little guy

THIS IS INCREDIBLE

ANIMATORS‼️ PAID WORK‼️ Looking for animators with experience making their own animations start to finish (boards, rough animation, cleanup) for a personal project (not far-fetched related!). Link your work below.

The Horses thing is odd to me. Probably gonna piss off a few people but: - Steam absolutely shouldn’t have this much sway in the industry. - Dear fucking god the original premise for Horses as delivered to Steam all those years ago was never going to fly.

We are looking for translators for the first episode of Bunlith show! Translators, please send your rate and examples of previous published work to the attached email address (past published work is mandatory. If you have no examples of previous published work, please do not send an email!)

Still slowly putting together that outer wilds video. The more I write the more I realise just how tragic the Nomai actually are in the story.

It’s 3am. I can’t sleep. My cat Douglas is trying his best to comfort me. He’s a solid 120cm long at stretch which means he’s currently kicking both my belly and my toes.

BTW I am working on this game now look how cool this frigging game is 👀 ( I'm still working on my designs so that's not my HUD yet but I promise I am making a sick HUD 🫡 )

My monitor broke. If I have to pay for the repair it’ll be at least £350 out of pocket. If it is what I think it is, it’s the power board that’s died. The same circuitry that is in your common power brick, but internal to the monitor. So a £50 brick turned into a £350 pain in the ass.

Lead them to paradise!⏳ The soundtrack to "Dune Part Two" by the one and only Hans Zimmer is coming to vinyl thanks to Made by Mutant. Now up for pre-order on multicoloured wax! Back to Arrakis: buff.ly/rWCKOSF

The fact that itch posted this and not even an hour later I got a bunch of new sales proves how big it is when other people talk about your games. It can literally be a life changing events. When John Harper made a nice quote tweet about Breathless, hundreds of people looked at the game. Wild

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

In the back of manual for the PAL version of G-Police (PSX), there are level unlock passwords for the entire game. However, the code for 14 actually unlocks a secret level where you play as a tank on the ground. This isn’t intended. The hash matches the real level select code, and overrides!

just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years: zombiesrungame.com observer.co.uk/the-critics/...

With any luck we're gonna finish Astroneer tonight! *And by finish we mean turn on the unknown station, something we have never done.

Really feeling the whole “random sparks piloting a meat mech” thing today. My mech needs oil.

For her birthday, our (now) 13 year old asked if she could give a presentation on the various deaths in Return of the Obra Dinn and The Case of the Golden Idol... @dukope.bsky.social @goldenidol.bsky.social