If you have a personal website with anything cool, be it art, writing, code, tutorials, breakdowns, science, movies, anything, then drop it in a reply, let's get a little thread of gems and non slop human work going. I'll start: I have a blog on 3D Art with guides and tutorials petedimitrovart.com

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

This is an important video on a lot of levels, but specifically it’s fascinating how the level of global complicity and support required to prop up apartheid has increased in the digital age. And how distributed and diffuse the infrastructure is. youtu.be/Ybj10537yi4?...

European game unions combine forces to protest against AI, toxic workplaces and layoffs www.gamesindustry.biz/european-gam...

I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being. Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.

Hybridkeys updated for Blender 5.0: ninjadodo.gumroad.com/l/hybridkeys #b3d #blender

🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️ The Making of Disco Elysium - Part One: Foundations www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6m... After over 18 months of research, interviews & editing our Disco Elysium series is here. In this first episode we focus on the cultural and personal foundations of the world of Elysium.

A little fan art project for Outcast 2, in which I critique a specific scene in a game by way of creature animation (or here's what I would've added). www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VIxI7-LlIg

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

games people, if you could talk to a game developer about their craft for an hour, who would it be, and what would you ask them about?

Great news for the #StopKillingGames campaign. Signatures are looking good. A ton already verified with only 3 % being discarded so far. Two biggest countries still to be counted. Everything points to the EU Initiative going through.

Check out this amazing bird we made (I work on it's silicone feet a lot and was on a lot of the car/road shots): youtu.be/3HQ-HrwIgOc?...

Outcast (1999) score by Lennie Moore: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Old video but I just saw it. Really neat way to do more dynamic interactive music in unpredictable strategy games: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tGT...

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.