My career started in a little room @wearegameheads.bsky.social started in a little room @cstoneintstudio.bsky.social started in a little room We had almost nothing but hope and the bravery to risk it all. You don’t need money to start your dreams. You just need to make a little space for them.

Not today anxiety #caturday edition

#caturday When cats try to take our minds off how awful things are.

Petty from the grave is the best petty

I wouldn’t pay that much to see the second coming of Jesus.

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

Never have I ever modeled animated vfxed this much genitalia before or since Dantes Inferno And I worked on a South Park game I worked the Lust minions & exploding vagine attacks Countless wall annus hazards Also Satan had an anatomically correct 🍆 with hair and physics It was a different time…

perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers they just profited from us

STOP having "conversations" with ChatGPT and START talking to your stuffed animals like a normal person

I can hear the holiday schedule release panic as we speak...

EXCLUSIVE on @gamedeveloper.bsky.social: not only has The Game Awards not nominated a Future Class for 2025, it's told alumni it "does not have any active programming plans" for the award. The Future Class page was taken down sometime this year—eliminating a definitive archive of honorees.

So not only is Square Enix going to try to replace 70% of its QA with AI, it's also apparently laying off at least 100 people (possibly significantly more) as it continues to consolidate its operations further and further: www.ign.com/articles/squ...

Everything about making video games is harder than you think.

So they're going to do this for one, maybe two games. It'll be full speed ahead until it's 6 months from release and the game is falling apart, at which point they'll pay an insane overtime rate for a QA studio to do it last minute which won't be enough. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-...

Talisha: “I don’t think Ai is a shortcut” Gayle: “You can’t sing…”

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

The first hit of hopium is free. The rest we will have to pay for. Volunteer. Vote. Fight.

Dispatch coming out in episodes appears to have been a very good strategy for developer Adhoc Studio. Astounding numbers here. Episodic games often risk losing audience attention over time but 8 episodes across 4 weeks seems like the perfect cadence to keep players hooked and talking

All the socialist New Yorkers tomorrow morning hangovers... www.tiktok.com/@marcrebille...

The AI bubble should burst tonight too just for the hell of it

GOP resorted to racism just to fuck around and start socialism! Muahahahahaha!

If a person's desire to *be* the change outweighs their desire to *see* the change, be cautious of them no matter how virtuous the cause they're leading the charge on They may want credit more than progress

This article should be painted on the walls and used as criteria for every Execs performance review with bonuses tied to performance www.gamedeveloper.com/production/h...

When studio leaders say they "Do not crunch" but don't reduce scope, provide appropriate hires/resources, or enough budget the policy is complete bullshit Getting on camera and making a speech doesn't make it so. Hard work and coordination between production, design, and art do. Not hot air.

More than half of developers feel they rely too heavily on Steam to distribute their games, with 72% believing the platform has a monopoly on the PC games market www.gamesindustry.biz/72-of-devs-b...

I think it's a really smart business decision, personally, to make my company wholly dependent on software that we never needed before. Surely the gAI subscriptions I now rely on will *never* raise dramatically in price.

It's cool how we keep proving over and over and over again that there's a significant market for narrative-heavy, character-driven, single-player experiences in video games and publishers just categorically refuse to believe us

Game Awards desperately needs a puzzle game category

Thanks to private equity game studios now have the lifespan of black nightclubs...

This. and Frankenbae is a snack! beautiful art direction. No notes!!!

Heavenface

me: Adonis leave papa alone. he doesn't need to be up yet Adonis:

Did a little paint job of one of my first minis 🐸✨

The number 2 rule about Art Direction is that the word “skid“ should not be next to anything brown like ever...

With October coming to a close things really escallated quickly. We now know of so many games industry layoff waves in 2025 that we're only one short of matching 2024, and we have two months still to go.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

Happy halloween and old paintings for thee

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

First rule of fight club…

Happy Halloween from all the dogs you cannot pet

IT TURNED OUT SO GOOD WOW!

I have a really scary costume this year. I’m a burnt out game developer with back problems

With multiple conflicting interviews around Arc Raiders' use of AI, I tried to pick apart what is and isn't "generative," how much that distinction matters ethically, and the tension between today's efficiency tools and tomorrow's eliminated jobs.

Layoffs at Launch: that's game dev.

A few additional ways to support our friends and "cousins" in the Caribbean via additional orgs, for this week and on the road to recovery. . This is ALSO a good time to support game creators from the Carribbean. Show them some love. Names in 🧵. Share ppl you know below too Images via Walkgood IG

Being laid off feels especially hard when I remember how many times I put my job first before my own health, well-being, and family. When I worked weeknights until 11pm and on weekends to hit production quotas, during PTO, and filed three stories the day before it happened. There's a lot of grief.