And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

something that I’ve been thinking about since DICE is that a lot of highly skilled devs are subject to management labelling them as ‘difficult’ and sidelining them simply because they point out and want to solve a problem, mismanagement which I think has contributed to a lot of failed projects

Only 4 days left before the Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle sale ends, and about $8,000USD away from hitting $100k USD. Please RT and help push this as far and to as many people as possible for this last stretch. Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

I keep thinking about "3D impressionism" as a much needed term for the way we think about art direction in games To me measuring how "better" or "worse" the graphics are only in terms of their relation to reality is like claiming the photo of a street in Arles is objectively superior to Van Gogh

Mysterious Cities of Gold: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ycG...

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

I would rather play a game with rough unpolished mechanics that lets me visit an interesting world than an ultra-polished game that has the same boring setting and same story and characters I've seen a million times. Show me something new.

In Donkey Kong Bananza, Pauline's idle animations evolve over the course of the game as she learns to be more comfortable around DK. In the beginning, she looks around worriedly. After Sublayer 300, she starts ruffling his hair, and after Sublayer 1400, starts tickling him.

I feel like the unspoken fourth line of this one is that it's impossible to please everyone and if your only goal is to hammer down every feedback mole that pops up you will end often with everyone unhappy. Have your audience and creative goals in mind. Not everything NEEDS fixing

Hitman VR makes you feel so slick I can't believe you can do this

The giant rat from King's Quest 1. You had to type "give cheese" quick, or he eats you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulq4...

seeing a lot of folks on here sharing things they work on without adding links to it, doing links in comments, links in bio, etc. but unlike twitter I’m pretty sure bluesky doesn’t punish you for making people go off the website! please include your links

In that context, when i look, right now, at a group of hobbyist journalists who, as far as I can tell, are not game developers at all, pivoting from calling mastercard to attacking an individual itch employee for having the gall to disagree with them, leveraging their power solely for that purpose

Posted this a few months ago when itch went offline (following the bogus phishing report from Funko), still very relevant today for different reasons

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

‪A little panther jaguar trot cycle I've been working on #animation #b3d:

"If you see this, quote this post with a title screen that's iconic to you." I can think of a couple (HL2, VTMB, Grim Fandango, Deus Ex, so many good ones) This is one's a classic: Psychonauts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjVX...

Are there many animators on here posting personal work? I feel like I followed a bunch on twitter, but (maybe because of the initial lack of video) i don't seem to have the same crowd here?

ARTISTS! if you have an old drawing tablet that doesn't have any drivers available anymore or is just unsupported now, i HIGHLY recommend checking out opentabletdriver.net my old wacom bamboo is now unsupported and you can't even get old drivers anymore, works perfectly (even in windows 11).

Last boost for the new video Totally unexpected performance Thank you to all who watched and subbed! youtu.be/4q4Fkhjk2kI?...

Yes, itch is basically 1 person: Leaf. I believe that the max itch ever was, was 2 with Amos. AFAIK none of them have a yacht. Love it or hate it, but when Visa/Master Card knocks at your doors with pressure to close your 10 years old business, you mostly likely panic and do what you can.

Because some people still do not get it, I have produced this professional and detailed diagram explaining the options available to Itch.io upon being threatened by payment processors: Option A: Comply, sacrificing some NSFW content. Option B: Do not comply, sacrificing EVERYONE ELSE + Option A.

I've updated my custom Hybridkeys keymap for Blender 4.5: ninjadodo.gumroad.com/l/hybridkeys #b3d #blender

Found this on TikTok and it made me emotional ❤️ Artists create universes from nothing. Being an animator is an intimate understanding of life, environments, physics, what it MEANS to be alive, and the ability to convey the beauty within our world in seconds.

"The industry response to Stop Killing Games has tended to be pretty dismissive," writes Rob Fahey. "The hand-waving about impossibility has been joined by some fairly bad-faith mischaracterisation of what Stop Killing Games is even asking for." www.gamesindustry.biz/stop-being-d...

Antiporn groups said they were only going after games with violence against women. But what got censored? Award-winning games about disordered eating, LGBTQ+ games and anything flagged NSFW. @megannicolett.bsky.social's reporting raises alarms about the real danger of this censorship campaign.

A very small lobbying group has shut down the two biggest games stores in the world, under the false pretence of protecting kids. It was inevitable this would hit itch.io, and I do believe we’ll find a way around, but it’s incredibly saddening to see them have to do this.

Putting aside many of the ways this is insanely embarassing and focusing on one mistake you'd maybe think this particular kind of person would not make: surely a programmer on video games of all things would know better than to draw a conclusion like this about a program from its *output*?

apple charging $100 annually to keep your dev account active and then pulling your app if you haven't updated it in 3 years is such a racket

Blender Foundation and the online developer community proudly present Blender 4.5 LTS! Vulkan, faster EEVEE, improved compositor, Geometry Nodes, nearly 500 bugs fixed, and so, so much more. 👉 Release notes: www.blender.org/download/rel... 📺 Video recap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPhA... #b3d

Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:

It really is astounding that, even with all the evidence right in front of them, there continue to those who not only claim climate change isn't real, but actually roll back the minimal steps we have taken to combat it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A quick tip regarding horse leg posing. #animation

People generally don't quite understand this yet but the impact of these layoffs from 2022 through today, even if they stop now to return to 2021 levels, are going to impact the games industry and games themselves as a medium for well over a decade. We've guaranteed games will be worse for years.

In light of the 9000 person layoff from Microsoft, I want to talk about what a games industry could look like that is fully unionized and why I push for that so much. I am not exaggerating when I say I believe it could be world changing. 1/

With how many layoffs we’ve had over the past several years, remote work should be the default. Requiring relocation at this point is unreasonable for the risk that we’re just going to get laid off two months, six months, a year in.

Ross Scott, the founder of #StopKillingGames, released a video detailing his efforts spearheading the movement, as well as addressing detractors and what could be next for the future: youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo We salute his efforts and those of all the volunteers who have pushed this movement forward! o7

i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable

youtu.be/N17wHsoHiG0?... I made a short video detailing gameplay animation, along with some responsibilities you could expect on the job. The hope is to help shed light on some aspects of the role, as well as help newcomers have insight into how to gear their work for an application. #animation

If you cannot run your business by following simple laws, you don’t have a business, you have a racket.

After a few more small revisions my Barinasuchus skull reconstruction is finally done. Sculpted in #Blender, and here 3d printed at 1/6th scale. #sciart #paleoart #paleontology

Tech has entirely turned on the customer www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

One thing I do not like in @bsky.app UI is when you move your mouse across the screen quickly to click on say a link and because you (however briefly) moved past someone's profile picture it will open a mouse-over popup for that, so instead of clicking on what you wanted you click on that instead.

Great job everyone

Hello citizens of the European Union, there are only 125,000 signatures left for this petition to be taken into account! It really does take 30 seconds.

Had an experience recently with a very computer literate friend using it for work and knowing nothing at all about the error rate, to the point where he didn't believe me and was then quietly horrified when he checked the work. People just don't know.

One more time for the people in the back