Hi all! 🦝 I'm looking for a new position as a game design lead / director! I've been designing games for almost 15 years now (😳) with 6 of those as a lead, on anything from AAA transmedia worlds to experimental indie projects. My website: robin-v.net Please share! (and friends, say hi!) 💜

Hi all! 🦝 I'm looking for a new position as a game design lead / director! I've been designing games for almost 15 years now (😳) with 6 of those as a lead, on anything from AAA transmedia worlds to experimental indie projects. My website: robin-v.net Please share! (and friends, say hi!) 💜

Two games entirely about flipping coins releasing in the same week!! What are the odds!!!

just typed the letters for the acronym of Mars First Logistics in the wrong order. fml.

Now that Israel’s mass surveillance project can’t be stored on Microsoft’s Azure, Unit 8200 plans to transfer the data to the Amazon Web Services cloud. Palestinians call for escalating pressure on all BDS priority tech targets– including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Palantir, and Cisco.

Cancel your streaming services. "But how will I watch—" shh, shhh. It's alright. Don't worry. (hands you a little note that just says "stremio dot com")

GDC revamp caters to libertarian founders and platform holders (incl content marketplaces like Roblox, Fortnite etc); and satellite entrepreneurs (influencers, streamers). "Traditional game dev" is thrown under the bus. Makes sense for a private event that is only concerned with following the money

@unormal.bsky.social I made this... live and drink bsky.app/profile/did:...

Free Palestine forever 🇵🇸

Taking a small break from intentional non-doom-posting to say— I have been left aghast, demoralized and scared by the political & media treatment of the death of a monster. Yet we can persist; flashes of hope sometimes hint at an okay future. The entire thing can and will be toppled. Love can win.

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

anyway, hit me with your design jobs robin-v.net

people who use AI chatbots are like if they had a little angel and devil on their shoulders – but they fully ignore them and instead only ever listen to a 3rd mini-character named Wilbur who happens to be the stupidest motherfucker you've ever heard of and lives lodged deep inside of their asshole

What film camera should I get for my partner's birthday? (She hasn't had one before, looking for something good but beginner-friendly and not $$$$.) Hesitating between vintage (Minolta X-700?) and pretend-vintage (Kodak Ektar H35N?) Please tag your expert friends 🙂‍↕️📸

What film camera should I get for my partner's birthday? (She hasn't had one before, looking for something good but beginner-friendly and not $$$$.) Hesitating between vintage (Minolta X-700?) and pretend-vintage (Kodak Ektar H35N?) Please tag your expert friends 🙂‍↕️📸

Really cool initiative (from a really cool dev) to show some solidarity for itch and help them put out fires... so they can go back to improving their tools and safety for queer creators. Setting here: itch.io/user/setting... (Sharing with johnnemann's permission because he's not on here!)

on the payment processor situation from someone with experience in fintech… voidfox.com/blog/payment... “I guess I'm asking for some understanding, both of Itch's position, and the entire landscape, before declaring them at complete fault and dumping them in the sewer with all the other bad actors.”

Really cool initiative (from a really cool dev) to show some solidarity for itch and help them put out fires... so they can go back to improving their tools and safety for queer creators. Setting here: itch.io/user/setting... (Sharing with johnnemann's permission because he's not on here!)

Absolutely bonkers to see itch, at worst, awkwardly scrambling to fix things and be met with a million "fuck you stop lying you evil piece of shit"

still rattled by the sheer giddy glee with which some queers are coming for itch.io, one of the largest collections of queer games in existence. i know it's scary to accept, but we do actually have good things worth defending. we have things it would damage us to lose

my pitch for bluesky is to add a little checkbox for when you're posting your take on a viral prompt ("slightly diminish a band"). then it goes in a special feed called "thank you so much, very funny ☺️"

I wonder if billionaire CEOs get informed of developments like these by grovelling advisors, much like emperors sitting in thrones of gold learning of a revolt in some fiefdom or other. But this is how empires are toppled.

the only true art is the art of not posting

For a long time now I've been thinking about the idea of 'premature antifascism' www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

The videogame industry has been a long-time proponent of the marvels of AI. As early as 1983, revered game designer Shigeru Miyamoto declared his support for the technology, by giving the protagonists of his seminal "Mario Bros." hats featuring the letters M and L (standing for Machine Learning)

We've posted an addendum FAQ to our original blog post about NSFW content. You can read it here: itch.io/updates/upda... Thank you for your patience as we navigate through this. We're upset too. We're doing what we can but there are still many unknowns at this point.

It's sure been a "why even attempt to do anything good ever" couple of days

If you're new to the industry: you do not need to go to GDC. If you've been around for some time: you do not need to go to GDC. The only people who may need to go is CEOs hoping to score business deals. We're WAY beyond "i just go to see friends" and if that's your line I urge you to reconsider.

idk if Microsoft gutted their entire games business just to invest in AI. I think they're making financial decisions hoping to thrive under a fascist regime.

Interesting thread – good reminder that all play requires the boundaries of a social contract, which all players enter willfully, therefore "cooperating"... But I have some thought! Below ⬇️

NYC you beautiful bastards

I legit think that if we take this energy and momentum and these lessons in coalition building from NYC and expand them far.... a whole lot of very good stuff could happen. We don't need to be tied down by the inert vision of entrenched Democrat leaders. We can build something ourselves.

today I made one small mistake. I clicked "yes" when windows innocently offered to back up my computer. this instantly (and irrevocably?) fucked up my entire file explorer, created a dozen folders and file redirections, catapulted my stuff to a cloud location I didn't ask for, made everything shit.

Sam Altman's latest blog reveals the energy costs of running ChatGPT. Lately OpenAI was bragging about 1 billion queries daily, so summing it up: Running (not training) ChatGPT uses over 10 GWh monthly on average, plus nearly 10 million liters of water. Insane. blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...

Kidnapping people and locking them up in basements & prisons is violent. Shipping people to labour camps is violent. Exploiting immigrant workers fleeing the effects of imperialism is violent. Policing is violent. Denouncing protest is supporting the violence of the status quo.

You don't need to watch the Xbox showcase today. Free Palestine. www.bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...

Your friendly reminder that any money Microsoft/Xbox/etc earns through online ad/stream revenue and direct purchases continues to support the Palestinian genocide. Avoid giving them either through whatever means you see fit.

Games media can't ignore BDS Xbox boycott aftermath.site/microsoft-bds-...

90% of these “I agree with your goals but not your methods” arguments are just rationalizations by people who benefit from the status quo, or are too afraid to fight back, and feel guilty about it. They can’t admit that, so instead they twist themselves into logical knots to try to justify inaction.

I'm a solo dev. Every time I'm on a bus I look through the window and imagine a little dude running along on the sidewalk, jumping and ducking to avoid obstacles. a game made just by me and just for me

geoff & his csuite friends are focusing on team sizes to launder the last 2-3 years of layoffs "games are still coming out despite firing tens of thousands of devs! we still got the juice! see??"

big walk

posts about how you just bought a new console get a boo from me. bring back the simple private enjoyment of things imo

This is a hell of a thing to read.

Alright I feel I might regret this but say I wanted to get into gundam, where would I start?

re. what I was talking about in that thread ⬇️ The Verge just did this fascinating itw of Google's CEO. Whenever he's asked about the future of AI, he defaults to "it will be transformative, it will be everywhere". In between the lines, he admits he *does not know* what AI will do. It's all faith.

If someone argues "the AI future is unavoidable" – it's important to consider WHY it can seem that way. (aside: of course the claim is false, no need to point out here all the previous technologies that were marketed as unavoidable and that have since slid into oblivion.) 1/4