Claps for Cabo Verde from everyone at Melbourne International Departures. Atmosphere was great. They did amazingly well #WorldCup

Having used Domino, Havok, Box 2D, my own crap + more this is very exciting from Erin! Even if you have a middling interest in Physics please go read. Also glad to see friends @bobbyanguelov.bsky.social + @mas-bandwidth.bsky.social already on the bandwagon. Great extra seal of approval.

Right, but right now, all the MSFT silos are considered 'on their own' - they own all the P&L's and have to survive/flourish just on that. While this works for Azure, Windows, Office etc, it does NOT work for a hit based economy, as games are. Fundamental misunderstanding of the biz they are in.

When I speak with my family vs my friends.

The Cost of AI alextardif.com/AI.html

This is Oscar. He's not dead and there's nothing wrong with him except that he's just so bloody handsome.

Mixtape is 100% hand keyed animation created by myself and my small team of animators (4 including me). I'm VERY proud of what we were able to accomplish.

We're #hiring an engineer with a focus on Rendering. Come work with the lovely legends at Gravity Well! We are: 🔥Making rad new IP ❤️An empathetic AAA Team 💸Have profit sharing and focused on being sustainable long term Interested? Please apply! gravitywell.games #gamedev #gamedevjobs

I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.

1 hour of 1m people playing a big released game is as much testing time as 100 internal testers playing 8hr a day for 1250 straight days.

I regret to inform everyone that during the AI bubble with extremely high PC prices, I've decided to become a Home Lab / Home Server guy. Very excited to learn some cool stuff!

If I ever get screw you money I'm going fund all of The Arts

Lol, the kids are alright

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I know someone who was a "Senior Associate Engineer" (junior role) and got hired as a "Senior Engineer" elsewhere because the title confused the other company.

Be sure to tell all your friends where they can get 1200+ commercial use fonts for all their game dev and graphic design needs ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack

I had the immense pleasure of putting together an illustration for this new australian Magazine, very humbled that that @serrels.bsky.social and @jacksonwryan.com chose me to scribble on their first cover. Please consider backing local australian journalism. there are stories here worth telling.

Sometimes it pays to be scrappy. What a novel way to help make the green screen process for film so much better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Plo...

Our next game is Verminsteel! You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun PLEASE go wishlist it, it'll make me really happy and help me stop low-key panicking and stuff: store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

To be fair to GenAI, it is not _useless_ like NFTs, it is more akin IMHO to the metaverse. It has its use cases, but the actual usability of the tech is around 0.001% of what is being sold. The bullshit hype train pump and dump cash grab is 100% analogous to NFTs tho.

This game has the best publisher store.steampowered.com/app/3639060/...

No I'm not worried on missing the boat on AI. I'm not the one who's offloading my critical thinking skills to a sycophant.

Reminder to other indie dev teams especially new teams. Most of us are happy to share advice and give feedback on publisher/funding/platform deals and terms. There are some shady predatory biz weasels that will take advantage of you as soon as your game starts to pop off. Please reach out.

My jaw dropped when I got to the twist that Ars Technica then published an LLM-generated article about this whole mess full of hallucinated quotes from Shambaugh that he did not ever actually say Douglas Adams couldn't have written this

With the amount of gambling ads on YouTube, I can't leave my dog alone anymore with "Dog TV - 9 HOURS of Sheep Relaxation" because she just ends up on Sportsbet blowing our life savings away.

AI / LLM's are just a reverse compression tool. The average worker is using it to expand their dot points into a longer email. The recipient is using it to summarise the long email back to dot points. Guzzle some water and burn a forest along the way.

Ethernet Enabled Hills Hoist

What the fuck did I just read? I'm not sure who's hallucinating harder - the AIs or the humans using the AI. Into the sea with all of them...

In today's episode of 'everyone THINKS they can be a game designer'.

My blog post about how software rendered depth based occlusion culling in Block Game functions is out now! enikofox.com/posts/softwa... #GameDev #ProcGen 🎮

Me when I see @teanah.bsky.social, or when Tina and I see anything dinosaur related.

crunch in games is reckless, it’s running a car without oil or care, watching sparks fly and smoke billow and going “that’s what maximum efficiency sounds like, when parts fail I’ll replace them knowing I squeezed 110% from them” except the parts are people so the driver is evil as well as stupid

We're #hiring a bunch of roles in 2026, including Engineers! Come work with the lovely legends at @gravitywell.games We are: 🔥Making rad new IP ❤️An empathetic AAA Team 💸Have profit sharing and focused on being sustainable long term Interested? Please apply! gravitywell.games #gamedev #gamedevjobs

I had the most Aussie day yesterday: - Tyre blowout on the highway due to extreme heat from the bushfires - Did a mild ocean rescue when our nephew got caught in a rip at the beach - Got stung by an insect or something in bed while trying to sleep Still love it though. Strayaaaaaaaaaaa

45C heat 90km/h winds. Stay safe everyone.

I know it's early but this is my GOTY woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...

Hey, if you’re in the game industry and have a literature degree, would you please comment? We got a family friend over here who insists my having a career in games while holding a literature degree is a one-off aberration and per usual, I’m not letting it go.

Blue noise for object placement youtu.be/24EmhUJeIAs?...

I wished for job security as a game developer who's good at writing fast, high performance code. Not like this though. Monkey Paw. (Lemme press the button)

I was hired on as an intern for what became CoD4, and two years later was paying off car & student loans - because Vince & Jason had set us up to rightly share in our successes. The industry still hasn't caught up. Vince has always been around, and I kind of thought he always would be. Awful stuff.

PSA to get your dogs lumps checked. As with most Staffy's our girl gets skin tags and lumps. There was a tiny one that wouldn't go away and turns out it was cancerous. Caught it early thankfully!

This is incredibly painful for me. I have never asked for help like this before. But I have had people reach out to me asking if they can help, so I am sharing my story and finally asking for help. I've been lucky to have a lovely group of followers here, please share if you can, anything helps <3

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

We're #hiring a few Art and Audio roles right now at Gravity Well! 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

Rode around on the new metro train lines and stations today - caught me off guard how exciting it'd be. Bloody love how pumped everyone is for new public infrastructure in Melbourne right now!

Help please! If you were hosting a LAN for 6 friends, what are your must play games?