Ben Nadler
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Associate Art Director at That's No Moon. 🌖 Making a lil spooky game called TIDALFLATS for fun.
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Rami Ismail (رامي)
3 days ago
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.
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https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=392880
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AmericanTruckSongs10
7 days ago
GDC's 2026 IGF winner calls out U.S. cruelty at home and abroad
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Jake Simpson
10 days ago
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
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Gamedev Unsung Heroes
https://gamedevunsungheroes.com/
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Luke Plunkett
10 days ago
"spanish bioshock but with catholic statues and your gun shoots your own blood"
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DREW WISE
12 days ago
🩷 ɪᴛ'ꜱ ꜱᴜᴘᴇʀ ᴇꜰꜰᴇᴄᴛɪᴠᴇ! 🩷
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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.
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Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️
14 days ago
So ARC Raiders is actual spyware:
timothymeadows.com/arc-raiders-...
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Arc Raiders - Discord SDK Data Exposure
Summary During gameplay of Arc Raiders, private Discord Direct Message (DM) conversations between two users were found being written in plaintext to a local game log file. Additionally, a full Discord...
https://timothymeadows.com/arc-raiders-discord-sdk-data-exposure/
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ToonHive
16 days ago
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:
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Ash Parrish, Temporal Light Witch
16 days ago
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...
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Meet The Unconventional Publishers Trying To Unfuck The Games Industry
Developers turned publishers like Innersloth and Pocketpair are leveraging their success to help other indie games thrive.
https://aftermath.site/indie-game-publishers-outersloth-pocketpair/
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Mythic 🦊
19 days ago
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
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Luz Lavorre
28 days ago
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.
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Rami Ismail (رامي)
26 days ago
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...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Eka | Dosa Divas
29 days ago
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.
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Cinephilia & Beyond
about 1 month ago
“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...
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Gore Verbinski Sounds Off on AI as He Launches ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’
The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ filmmaker is back after nearly a decade, and is ready to skewer how technology has taken over our lives (even more) in that time: “Why is AI helping me write a song or t...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/gore-verbinski-sounds-off-on-ai-good-luck-have-fun-dont-die-1236500668/
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Shayna Moon (she/they)
about 1 month ago
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.
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sarah jeong
about 1 month ago
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...
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ICE is afraid of children protesting
“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”
https://www.theverge.com/policy/872783/tear-gas-children-portland-ice-labor?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Ik82RXlIMFRrQmciLCJwIjoiL3BvbGljeS84NzI3ODMvdGVhci1nYXMtY2hpbGRyZW4tcG9ydGxhbmQtaWNlLWxhYm9yIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcwNTU5NDA5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzAxMjc0MDl9.NXDhQVZs0OcbLM77v7-6vvt15w2y84nywTGWgPgZ1uo&utm_medium=gift-link
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Leena 🌵
about 2 months ago
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
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Xavier will shader for food
about 2 months ago
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
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🌱 MK/RET
about 2 months ago
so don't get too comfortable.
#art
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Scott Horton
about 2 months ago
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Stephen Nuñez
about 2 months ago
If you are (understandably) too angry to exercise discretion in what you post then log off for a while.
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Tanya 🧚♀️👑
about 2 months ago
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!
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Mike Elk
about 2 months ago
Minneapolis General Strike solidarity actions have spread to at least 43 cities according to our strike tracking Check our map here.
paydayreport.com/minneap/
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MAP: Minneapolis General Strike Movement Spreads to 43 Cities Across U.S.
At least 43 cities plan to hold actions in solidarity with the Minneapolis General Strike
https://paydayreport.com/minneap/
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Scoiattolo
about 2 months ago
This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained
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A secret third thing
about 2 months ago
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
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Cross-laminated Tinder
about 2 months ago
Is that bad
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Rachel Cohen
2 months ago
pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
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jess m.
2 months ago
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Chris Vasquez
2 months ago
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
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This is how it should have been day one. This is how it should look all over the country.
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Emily
2 months ago
“this isn’t the america i know” you don’t know a lot
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jess m.
2 months ago
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
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pete rogers, professional diaper changer
2 months ago
whichever candidate runs on prosecuting every single ice agent fuck to the fullest extent of the law has my vote
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derek guy
2 months ago
ice agents simply aren't trained well enough to be on the street. they are a genuine danger to citizens
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Em, midly
2 months ago
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.
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Daniel Ahmad
3 months ago
Chavez in 2009, while being labelled as paranoid, outlines exactly what is happening today.
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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
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Under an Ember Moon
3 months ago
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Art by Emily K
3 months ago
"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.
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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!!
3 months ago
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Derek Yu
3 months ago
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.
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Kurtis McCathern
3 months ago
As somebody at a remote-only studio, I can only stare at the rest of the industry in disbelief.
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Brad Lander
3 months ago
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.
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Chris Person
4 months ago
Cannot stress how bad shit is about to get if you want to build any kind of PC.
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Jón Kristinsson
4 months ago
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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I played a lot of Consume Me over the Thanksgiving holiday - it's filled with so much charm. highly recommended!!!
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Chris Person
4 months ago
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.
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Samantha Nye 🌿🪬
4 months ago
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.
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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美⏩️GDC
4 months ago
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...
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Alexa Ray Corriea
4 months ago
Played Horses at a Day of the Devs and was immediately obsessed. You want to talk about games being artistic endeavors? SAVE HORSES.
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