Bought some ink pens and nibs today. Drew a cat and tried to draw a deer. I love how the metal nib pens feel to use. #art #artsharing #beginner

Every day I look at the art for this game and I think I love it more each time. This art style just looks so cool to me.

If you want to see some really nice indie game art, throw "ATTENTION INDIEDEVS" into the bluesky search bar. Finding so many really good looking projects to follow today.

The reality of working as a teacher; I have been ill with five different infections since returning to work on January 5th. I have never been sick more frequently, or with such a variety of illnesses, than during my time as a teacher. 🤢 😷 🤢 😷

Where do people post their artwork and creative projects these days? I logged into artstation for the first time in years and hated everything about the new layout (the AI BS not withstanding). #art #community

Brilliant use of a quote. “1984” offers many as well.

I really miss working full time in game development. Not having to fit making stuff between the cracks of your completely unrelated, physically and mentally exhausting day job.

The actual Step 1 to improve my art, imagination and creativity: Get offline.

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

Everything feels like a second job. What happened to fun.

Back to work on Monday. Going to do some paintings as New Year gifts. Got the line art scribbled out this evening. #traditionalart #drawing

I was helping with a friends indie game, a #lowpoly survival horror game inspired by the first Silent Hill. It's been delayed by nearly a year but, I can post some of the prop assets I made for it.

Just sat with someone for 8 hours while they tried to use ChatGPT to code an elevator to show me how "good" AI is now... They ended up with an utterly broken mess. At least I got some drawing done. AI gamedev is trash.

My first and only #gdc was a parade of people coming up, obviously checking my badge for studio name, and then walking off hahaha

Today's #gamedesign train wreck discourse seems to be implying that "game design" isn't art and more akin to pulling the wings off a butterfly. Spontaneous and holistic game creation only?

I'm genuinely excited for this game. It looks beautiful and the gameplay is interesting.

It's been almost a decade but I dusted off my watercolours for a spot of #painting #watercolor #art

Last year I proclaimed I wouldn't be working next week. I'm working next week. FML

Stop hijacking #screenshotsaturday There's no need to "host" a hastag, it only give you visibility and buries everyone who replies while boosting you. It's so insincere and self serving. Encourage others to use the hastags independently. I was hoping this would disappear with twitter. #gamedev

Today on the internet: I like this thing. But if I like it, the algorithm will then flood my timeline with things arbitrarily connected. So I won't like it.

Incredible deal: only 3 days left to get 1200 commercial use fonts for $19 - that's 90% off the usual price. Use them for game dev, ttrpgs, book covers, web comics, merchandise, videos, art, you name it! ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack #gamedev #digitalart #writingcommunity #booksky #graphicdesign

#Disney openly buying into AI so massively is extremely depressing. They were never saints but this is miserable.

Muting "The Game Awards" for 24 hours until I get home from work and can face the inevitable tsunami of bad takes and other fallout.

🎶 'Tis the season to be jolly! 🎵 ESPECIALLY if you're a dev looking for fonts. Another mate of mine, @hawtpixel.bsky.social, has a massive fire-sale on right now for their font bundle. Check it out! hawtpixel.itch.io/hawtpixel-fo... #gamedev #indiedev #IndieGameDev #WebDev #webdeveloper

On my way to #TokyoComicCon First time going to a con, taking a half day off work.

Well these have a depressing number of upvotes on the Steam SubReddit. I guess not paying humans and using AI slop can now be called an artistic choice.

As a kid I always thought Carol of the Bells sounded vaguely sinister in English. In the original Ukrainian it’s beautiful. 🇺🇦 youtu.be/4OUJLYLtqSs?...

Some more cheeky #GodotEngine 'watch-dev'. On the one hand, was an interesting challenge thinking of a game that made sense on the form factor. Only radial game I could think of was old school Tempest. On the other, these devices clearly aren't made for it. I rinsed the battery in no time!

The fact that no one outside of DMA could see the potential of something as blatantly futuristic as GTA3 shows just how myopic and weak-willed all of the suits, publishers and executives are in the gaming space. anyone with a soul could see this was special www.timeextension.com/news/2025/11...

Oddest experience just now. My depression just suddenly fell away and my normal feelings came back. It's like the tide went out and I'm standing on sand again. I'm going to have a very productive day tomorrow! #gamedev

Thought I'd try out #Unity, I'm loving how clearly it tells me what went wrong so I can troubleshoot it. #Gamedev

Spent my entire day in various doctors clinics and drew this unseen scene from one of my favorite games to feel better. If I feel better I’ll go over it again and get it finished. It’s almost time for my semiannual play through of Grim Fandango too. #Art #humanart

Remember, Human creativity is obsolete. Creative thoughts and works now require a subscription. #AI

feels like Ive been waiting 15 years for this funko single-handedly seems to have ruined the floor real estate in every hobby, comic book, videogame store. I travel anywhere in the world, visit a comic shop or used game store, and 1/3rd of the floor is these fucking useless, dead-eyed funkos

that’s what I’ve been saaaayying maaan

I've spent about a year trying to cultivate my #BlueSky feed into a garden of inspiration and artwork. My feed is still full of uncensored sex videos. I don't think the show me less button does anything.

Heads up. Linkedin are about to use everything they have on you to train their LLMs. You can opt out of Microsoft using your private data for AI training here: www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi...

Redrew and coloured my upscale of Tiny Tiger from the cancelled Crash Bandicoot 5 game. A few days later the Netflix series was announced. #CrashBandicoot #Art

I can see the Latino community outcry to defend Trumps government...

The Whitehouse is essentially stating all #Democrats are not #American #shutdown

Remember, Human creativity is obsolete. Creative thoughts and works now require a subscription. #AI

Spent an evening watching The Addams Family and drew this in Procreate. #Disney #Oswald #Procreate

Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances (1994) was signed by: United States United Kingdom Russia Supported by: France China What use is another defence pact going to be when the last one was violated? #ukraine #russia #war #putin #standwithukraine www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...

Washington D.C. getting the Pyongyang social makeover I see. It's already awful for the massive amount of homeless, without national guard soldiers being deployed to remove them to no-one knows where.

I was really hoping the practice of "hosting" a hashtag in order to shamelessly promote yourself would stay and die on Twitter. We already have hashtag hosting, it's called BlueSky!! It's so obvious and disingenuous.

Ah, gamedev Reddit

If you just really want to hear me explain why so many publishers are just utterly useless now, here's a talk for you.

YouTube just can't stop recommending videos about horrific air crashes to me, despite the fact I tell it "Not interested" and "Don't recommend" every, single, time.

As a severely overworked teacher I resorted to using Chatgpt just to try and get my schedule done in the miniscule amount of time I get a month. It couldn't even do that right! I asked it to explain itself and I am BAFFLED that big tech think this can replace humans. #AI #Chatgpt