Subnautica devs v. Krafton ruling is ABSOLUTELY stunning. Start at the top of page 32 and read until the end of that section on page 37. Krafton CEO was warned by their legal personnel to not follow ChatGPT into what is likely Some Of The Dumbest Legal Shit Ever, CEO believed the plagiarism bot.

GDC's 2026 IGF winner calls out U.S. cruelty at home and abroad

I'd like to announce I have a new(ish) Podcast! It's called GameDev Unsung Heroes, and it's basically interviewing all the names in games you don't know about what they do, their career path, a few stories along the way. All free. Here's the link gamedevunsungheroes.com I could use re-posting :)

"spanish bioshock but with catholic statues and your gun shoots your own blood"

🩷 ɪᴛ'ꜱ ꜱᴜᴘᴇʀ ᴇꜰꜰᴇᴄᴛɪᴠᴇ! 🩷

I love how tonally inconsistent Resident Evil 9 is. It doesn’t try to justify it. You just have to accept and love it for what it is.

So ARC Raiders is actual spyware: timothymeadows.com/arc-raiders-...

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright. (Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

Anyway all of this is endemic of the mode through which we monetize video game development. It's shifted to offloading risk from the wealthy publisher that can afford it (tencent) to the poorer developer that cannot (wildlight) we don't have to make games like that aftermath.site/indie-game-p...

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

PSA for Discord's new age verification! If you get hit by it and refuse to give them any ID or face scans as you should, here's a way to just... bypass it. Go to Settings - Family Centre and then just enter a date of birth that's 18+ It's really that simple. Give them nothing.

Again, I cannot emphasize enough: do not go to the US even if you're privileged enough to have never been scared or worried of a border crossing in you're life. Do not go ESPECIALLY for something as optional & outrageously expensive as GDC. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Reminder to other indie dev teams especially new teams. Most of us are happy to share advice and give feedback on publisher/funding/platform deals and terms. There are some shady predatory biz weasels that will take advantage of you as soon as your game starts to pop off. Please reach out.

“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?” www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Working with a union can also be extremely fulfilling and also the people are cool as hell. uvw-cwa.org UVW is an organization where the members ARE the organization. There’s no MBA at the top who has never made a game in their life.

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

people make mistakes every day, blondes, it’s our time to shine (while pretending to be confused all the time) www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

This is tangential, but: Anybody who says producers and QA aren't "real" gamedevs needs to take a long, hard look at themselves and ask where they'd be without support structures built into the fabric of their work life

so don't get too comfortable. #art

If you are (understandably) too angry to exercise discretion in what you post then log off for a while.

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

Minneapolis General Strike solidarity actions have spread to at least 43 cities according to our strike tracking Check our map here. paydayreport.com/minneap/

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained

I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years

Is that bad

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

Hey #portfolioday I’m a environment artist specializing in materials. I’ve done everything from props, vehicles, environments, photogrammetry, & shaders during my time in games: 🎨: www.artstation.com/chrisnvasquez Some material & sculpts I had fun doing on my personal time! #zbrush

This is how it should have been day one. This is how it should look all over the country.

“this isn’t the america i know” you don’t know a lot

love how citizens have to police themselves at every turn in the tiniest possible ways but a guy can be captured from 5 different angles in media res murdering somebody and everyone has to scream and demand that he ever face consequences

whichever candidate runs on prosecuting every single ice agent fuck to the fullest extent of the law has my vote

ice agents simply aren't trained well enough to be on the street. they are a genuine danger to citizens

Be sad and scared, but look for that part of you that says “no” and refuses to bend, and give it something to do to help.

Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.

Anyone in my feed made the switch to Linux? I’m building a little Ubuntu homelab server and a bit intimidated where to start. Probably gonna start with setting up Pi-Hole, but not sure what to try next

"We Beat 'Em Before... (Portland's Version)" This idea came to me late. I think it fits really well since Portland Frog Brigade literally carries no weapons and yet ICE has no idea how to respond to them. Just feckless incompetent goons all around.

I was shocked when I joined ILM as a FT employee that I would get paid overtime(!) and overtime pay(!!!) after coming from a career in games. Unions work folks!!

Keep thinking about this term "pre-digested" that Kojima used to describe art that's instantly gratifying. And how it's better when people grow to love something instead. I've gravitated, as player and designer, toward the latter, but that term "pre-digested" is new and feels very strong.

As somebody at a remote-only studio, I can only stare at the rest of the industry in disbelief.

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

Cannot stress how bad shit is about to get if you want to build any kind of PC.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

I played a lot of Consume Me over the Thanksgiving holiday - it's filled with so much charm. highly recommended!!!

I understand why people stay on services that suck but not Spotify. There’s so many other platforms that are 1-to-1 the same but with less garbage if not objectively better.

Working in games means your answer to the question "If you could do anything you wanted in life, what would it be?" isn't a different career, but the same career in a kinder version of the same industry.

Santa Ragione, a venerable, innovative and award-winning studio, may close due to @valvesoftware.com's unaccountable, counter-factual ban. From an early build of HORSES I can easily say it's another award-contender. Valve can still rectify this poor judgement. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-it...

Played Horses at a Day of the Devs and was immediately obsessed. You want to talk about games being artistic endeavors? SAVE HORSES.