it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

Just saw a take that AI brainrot is a skill issue: approaching it with skepticism and rigor will somehow improve your own work. I hate to say this, but if you think that you are clever and virtuous enough to turn a cognitohazard into a valuable tool, you have probably already succumbed to it.

*Someone who has never left Assateague Island voice* 🗣️

one of my all-time favorite weird and wonderful shows - DON'T HUG ME I'M SCARED - is now on dropout! full web series now; TV series (which less people have seen) over the course of the next few months. big thanks to blink industries, becky, and joe for their faith in us.

This guy gets it.

Your semi annual reminder that ‘the little thing that annoys you when you’re testing your own game’ is also gonna be the thing that stings in a review years from now. It’s always ok to just fix the little annoying thing.

If you're doing callout posts about artists creating fictional taboo content, you may not consider yourself a fascist, but you are one. You are their stupid tool at the bare minimum. The good news is you can stop doing that at any time

Sewer Jam 3 is starting! you have three weeks to make a sewer-themed Quake level... I'm gonna fill mine with piss?? thread: www.slipseer.com/index.php?th... but hangout in the discord jam channel for more fun (pictured: Sewer Jam 2 from 2022)

this is an amazing piece of world building (dark souls 1). so if you do research about monster archetypes, one thing you run into is that devils, in a lot of european portrayals, are antisemitic archetypes. they have hooked noses etc. for this reason. but why do they have horns? that seems obscure.

They scream “only two genders exist!!” But every soul shines in its own irreplaceable color 🌈✨ No matter how loud the hate gets, Chiitan will keep waving this flag until everyone can sparkle as themselves🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

New blogpost on some @angelineera.bsky.social game design! Come and learn.. '6 Tips For Making Angeline Era-style Exploration'. buttondown.com/melodicambie...

If you like the humanist philosophy of The Talos Principle, or literally anything else I've worked on, please check out Azathoth Blues. It's a big and important part of my life as an artist, something I've worked towards for a long time. And it's free! Doesn't even have ads.

Again, I cannot emphasize enough: do not go to the US even if you're privileged enough to have never been scared or worried of a border crossing in you're life. Do not go ESPECIALLY for something as optional & outrageously expensive as GDC. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Nazis were just regular people" is not a statement meant to evoke empathy or to excuse their crimes. It is a statement of warning. The capacity to be part of and perpetrate atrocities is not limited to "monsters," it is wholly human. It is what we must always be aware of.

After months working in the shadows… meet Curse of Resthaven. A gothic horror mystery where you govern a cursed island trapped in a time loop while searching for your missing niece. If it’s your kind of weird, please wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/3796150/... More dev secrets soon.

Researchers discovered a publicly exposed frontend on a government-authorized server, containing 2,456 accessible files from the age verification vendor used by Discord.

"We invented pornographic art tens of thousands of years before written language." - @funkittoys.bsky.social points out that history has always been ✨💕fucked💕✨, as illustrated by @erikamoen.bsky.social Public post with references: www.patreon.com/posts/150935...

Oh no your honor, we just make cute video games. There's ZERO parallels to what's happening in the REAL world. That's just silly and coincidental. It's just about cooking, mechs, and turn-based battles.

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something. www.ign.com/articles/tun...

the "looksmaxxing" stuff is yet another case of gender

The open call for Game Poems Magazine Issue 2 is now live! Game Poems is a *playable* magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames. If you make small, experimental games, we'd love to see what you create. Learn more at www.gamepoems.com/submit

I wrote about things to plan early for if you want your game to be Steam Deck verified: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

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I got a great question on my Ramadan thread: do Muslims also need to avoid consumption by proxy in videogames? Does consuming in-game food or drink break the fast? Basically: does your character have to go fast? The answer is no, unless you happen to be playing Sonic the Hedgehog.

so it turns out that the identity verification provder persona, with its well documented links to peter thiel from the epstein files and palintir, is keeping all data of targets and linking them to intelligence databases and watch lists, exactly like you suspected vmfunc.re/blog/persona

Azathoth Blues, the audio drama by Jonas Kyratzes and Chris Christodoulou, is a cosmic horror masterpiece. Discover it and listen to 'Episode 1: Midnight in Babylon' here: www.azathothblues.com

The AI slop retro art/fashion in 25 years or so is gonna be hard for me to handle.

> Half of tech is just running around praying to a sky god that lives on an nvidia chip > a bunch of people who have no idea about tech, but are pretending to have an idea about tech … and a bunch of septuagenarian CEOs are taking their word for it — it’s almost an elder abuse issue going on

If you *are* at GDC for some reason, please boo loudly throughout this section.

Access-Ability Summer Showcase Returning for 2026 Text: access-ability.uk/2026/01/30/a... Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRld...

We've been uploading our backlog of old Future Proof Plays streams! Gregory struggled a bit with the bleakness of Blackwood Crossing, a gorgeous exploration of a family tragedy told from within a nightmare. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT4s...

another favourite scientific headline, following confirmation of Einstein's general theory of relativity by observations of the 1919 solar eclipse. "Stars not where they seemed or were calculated to be, but nobody need worry" is a beautiful sentiment. i would have that on a t-shirt

i am sorry to say, your countenance speaks of the machine. but ah, we have a solution; a more ingenious machine, which you may wear over your own face and hands. we can assure you that our machines will consider it most human-like

Microsoft's apparently AI-slop git intro would like to inform you that the more Tim's you have on your team, the more you can program featue backwards in time, but with less Tim you can actually continvoucly morg back into develop.

The Adult Analysis Anthology, the web's premiere destination for longform writing on adult games, is BACK with more planned essays than ever before, but we need your help to make it happen! Support the creation of high-quality sex-positive writing from diverse voices HERE: itch.io/s/180048/aaa...

The Daughter, The Mother, The Witch #warframe #warframefanart

When Ds are back in charge, they have to change everything. No moderate half-measures. Just relentless razing of the corrupt institutions that enriched the worst people in the world and propped up fascism. A few suggestions...

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of: fund.godotengine.org

points. i hate points / stars / scores in games obsessively. they are often meaningless, random, and terrible motivators in and of itself. they are a quick and dirty band-aid that should be avoided at all cost. there are better solutions, i know it!!

New to this platform, so still figuring out how this works. I've been working on this little game for like a year. This is the first actually sizeable project I started in pico8 and it's about to be released on itch. #pico8 #indiedev #pixelart

"AI detectors" are themselves AI, and yet are endlessly trusted by people on here if they say that a newspaper article is AI. AI detectors are snake oil. None of them reliably works. And UK broadsheet are not yet using AI to write articles. No, that link to the deal you found doesn't prove it.

🌼My new game is here!🥀 "She danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died." alienmelon.itch.io/flower A game poem and interactive fiction about The End. You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil. #IndieGame #VideoGame #GamePoem #Game

I know that we are living in the Age Of Monsters and that hell is visible wherever you turn. I understand that people are traumatized and twitchy. We all are. But part of survival in this ecosystem is not lashing out at every shadow your own mind casts on the world. Not everything is the enemy.

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Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back. Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

We gave failbettergames.com a little spruce. All of our current merchandise is linked there now, and you can also sign up to our newsletter from the landing page. And, sigh, we've beefed up the language that confirms we don't use generative AI.

This, to me, is how games work.

i knew this clip was going get a lot of use going forward

hot takes from within a severe pain flare i don't think laziness is real. it's like the invention of "jaywalking" or "cringe" they brought a neurotoxin word from an alternate dimension where stuff's backwards. it is good to chill. the pedestrian is not the danger. sincerity shouldn't be embarrassing