Silly me thought piracy was a crime

Romain is an art god and if you’re sprucing up your portfolio it would be valuable to take all of his advice

I finally did it. I turned to the guy loudly watching videos on the train and asked: "What are we watching?" Immediately turned it off. A nearby aunty gave me the nod of approval.

Everyone should check out The Florist, not just because cool people are working on it because they're making a cool game too. (Also scary for you horror nerds out there)

I'm sure it's the result of the cost of living, but it's a shame no one gives themselves permission to suck at things anymore. You don't need to be the best at your hobby or make it a side hustle.

Happy birthday to me. The birthday hat is a big hit.

Every servo out in woop woop has world building like this btw

@mtrobbiani.bsky.social I think I'm a dumb dumb. Was that you who came past earlier today? I think I confused you with someone else. I didn't recognise you with the mask sorry!

Great video on how most games don’t need a gameplay hook, they need to create an experience people want to play. It’s like how lots of game trailers have title cards like: “harvest, prep, cook, plate, serve!” without ever stating a goal of say: “Make your dream Taiwanese food restaurant!"

It's been a rad #GCAP25 so far! I love catching up with old friends, but please come find me if you're new in the industry. I'll intro you to rad folks and answer questions if you have any. Also feel free to throw tomatoes at me on my panel today or keynote tomorrow. I'm Italian so I love em. #MIGW

Another year, another #gcap25 where I'm about to laugh my head off and walk out with a head full of knowledge thanks to @tonyalbrecht.bsky.social

Had a great start to #MIGW yesterday at #HighScore2025 talking about my Indie Game, the video game version of Chessplus: store.steampowered.com/app/3273750/... It's going to be a fantastic games week this year. I can't bloody wait!

What is in the water in Queensland? They've won the: State of Origin AFL Premiership NRLW Premiership NRL Premiership and Guot Guot runs, really really fast.

Bit of software gore for ya. No actual message but so many options!

Currently looking for a new job! I'm a Tech Artist who loves pushing the rendering side of things, with 13 years of #UnrealEngine experience, Lighting, Lookdev, Cinematics, HLSL, BP, PCG, Niagara, Python as well as a solid Houdini & Substance skillset. #GameDev #VFX. Avaliable from November/December

Surprise! We've volunteered an early build of my indie game, Chessplus: Combine + Conquer, to the #HighScore25 conference. Composers attending can use our game for a practice pitch and get real feedback from a live panel of game audio veterans. See y'all at #MIGW! :) beat.com.au/high-score-2...

every company on earth demanding its underpaid workers use the garbage generator machine for everything and now they're mad that all they're getting is garbage

Very chuffed that I'll be chatting with some lovely legends at GCAP (Aussie GDC) later this year. You should come throw tomatoes - specifically at me. Also I'm be around all of #MIGW so come say hi if you see me at @paxaus.bsky.social or other events!

I wonder why all these great indie games are coming out of Australia where they have a massive public funding effort for videogame creators

In cracking news, my indie game Chessplus, is featured in the ANZ Indie Festival on the Steam home page! Massive thanks to @theindiebrew.com.au for organizing. There's so many rad games I didn't know were Aussie or Kiwi made, I'm so chuffed!

I played Daytona on an arcade machine today and uhh is Sonic okay?

Australians, spread this petition far and wide. Demands Parliament “open anti-trust investigations and penalize the unregulated monopoly of a key part of everyday infrastructure,” as “payment processors are not there to regulate what legal content people consume.” www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

Melbourne was gorgeous today.

Huge congrats to @teamcherry.bsky.social on the Silksong release - so popular they crashed Steam! Also seeing Aussie #gamedev punching above their weight yet again is awesome. It's actually becoming a large list, just recently-ish: Schedule 1 Unpacking Untitled Goose Game Cult of the Lamb

Every time someone posts a photo of a hike, nature etc @rdurand.bsky.social will add it to his art reference collection and post this underneath. It gets me every time 😅

In super exciting news, my indie game Chessplus just finished being featured in its first Steam Festival! Big shout out to @spiritcitylofi.bsky.social for organizing the Back to School Game Celebration, was rad to see it alongside so many other great games. store.steampowered.com/app/3273750/...

Are you guys aware of google's last snafu? There is automatic AI upscaling of ALL of youtube shorts happening right now www.youtube.com/watch?v=86nh... It's infuriating

AI strikes again!

This also goes for 3D editors. If daily functionality is hidden in menus and dropdowns, so that the UI feels ‘cleaner’, you’re really just limiting workflow for the sake of design.

My dog just said her first words and now I'm scared.

the thing is basically all interesting art happens when the next token isnt predicted by the previous ones

Cockpit view of Spanish 43rd Air Force Group CL-215T firefighting flying boat scooping water.

We're hiring a bunch of Design and Art roles right now at @gravitywell.games! We are: 🔥 Making rad new IP ❤️An empathetic AAA Team 💸 Have profit sharing and focused on being sustainable long term If this interests you, please apply here! gravitywell.games #gamedev #gamedevjobs

It's incredibly satisfying to see stuff like the Tomorrow Corporation that could be done at scale. But our data pipelines are decades old and would have required big investment and tricky gambles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=72y2...

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Reminded of ATVI blowing up Infinity Ward because the bonuses due to the dev team Cool quote from an ATVI exec email thread months before they fired our studio heads and took away our bonuses, "we are paying way too many people way too much, we need to find a way to put caps on our bonus payouts"

Years later, still the best assert message I've written.

With the AI shenanigans going on at the moment, I had an excellent chat with @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social with the @theguardian.com about it's impact on #gamedev. We touched on the ethical / social / legal / creative / environmental impacts and how it's causing collateral damage along the way.

Sinus infection 3 in 4 weeks and there was no GP available so I used the Victorian Virtual ED for the first time. Highly recommend it if you're based in VIC. It's free, got a prescription and the nurses / doctors were super friendly, knowledgeable and took time to answer my silly questions.

|| Serve the Fuedostate || Catch King Crabs || Survive Crabmeat is a short fishing-first-person-point-and-click-survival-horror releasing later this year. Wishlist now on steam to make sure you meet quota. store.steampowered.com/app/3671850/...

He's the real deal www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/hide...

The is most patriotic I've been since the 'Tillies went on their World Cup run. Congrats @househouse.bsky.social on the cracking trailer! I can't to see more joy and art brought to the world in due time.

We're thrilled to welcome our incredible 2025 Summer Interns to the Gravity Well team! 🎮 Jack - Production Intern Ben - Design Intern Constanza - Engineering Intern We're so excited to have them join us for a season of learning and growth! 🎉

Either fight me or back this awesome game on Kickstarter. Preferably the latter (please).

Every time I read a new pitch for what AI can do for games, I just see, "I haven't spoken to anyone who does this, but I have imagined incorrectly what the bulk of their job is and I have an idea of how to automate it."

REAC 2025 talk details have been posted on the website! Register today - it's free! enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm If you can share this message, we'd appreciate it. Thanks, and see you soon!

My neighbourhood is concerned about crime, but these new homes security measures are over the top.

Got our Australian "I Voted Sticker" aka the #democracysausage