Here’s a sneak peek at why you need to be at the AI and Games Conference 2025 this November in London by @tommy.aiandgames.com. For all the detailed updates check out @conference.aiandgames.com. #AIandGames #Conference2025 #GameAI #GameDev #IndieGames

Next up panel led by @georgeosborn.bsky.social about the future of play! #nexus #nexusconference

Today I'll be at te Nexus conference here in Dublin - and who would be better to kick it off than @tommy.aiandgames.com #nexus #nexusconference

I've just pushed up a version of my GenoView project but implemented in Python (using raylib bindings). Hopefully that is useful to anyone doing ML research building interactive animation systems who wants to make use of PyTorch, Numpy, etc. github.com/orangeduck/GenoViewPython

Look ma, it's me!

@rystorm.com I applaud you single-handedly strongarming United Airlines to serve stroopwafels on their flights!

I will be speaking at Devcom next week! #ddc2025 @devcom.bsky.social I am hosting the Tool Design Roundtable on Monday morning, so if you want to improve the usability of your pipelines & workflows, come on over and let's talk about the user experience of game development tools!

this is why I keep PowerTools locksmith around, most times it's the classic "file still in use by explorer" and this does the trick

Unreal 5: What's the most practical way to test (locally) how long a build takes to build shaders on first run? I guess I could force my Intel integrated chip to run all games... XD

Time’s almost up: If you’ve been meaning to hit send, now’s your moment. Whether you’re sharing an experiment, a breakthrough, or just a fresh take on AI in games — we’d love to hear it. Submit your talk before 1Aug: 👉 submit.aiandgamesconference.com #AIandGames #GameDev #GamesIndustry

Any caveas using symlinks on Windows? Context: In the Skribidi project, I have a set of assets that the example needs (fonts, etc). Currently they are copied to the bin folder in windows, and symlink on other systems. I wonder if there's something with Windows symlinks that will say meh?

Just 1 week left to submit your talk! Don’t wait till the last minute. Meet our final advisor @alanzucconi.com , Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, one of 5 experts here to help shape your talk. 🎤 Submit by 1 Aug: submit.aiandgamesconference.com #AIandGames #GameDev #Conference2025

Here's a fly-by with the new trees. The fact that they cast/receive shadows even in the distance makes a huge difference compared to the old Unity billboard ones, which destroyed the sense of depth in the distance. #ProcGen #GameDev (Video of old trees here: mastodon.gamedev.place/@runevision/...)

Hey nerds, does anyone know people who are good at Microsoft PowerBI tooling, especially their copilot integration?

Get your demos, prototypes or case studies ready because the #AIIDE25 case studies deadline is coming up in a week (EOD July 9th)! sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/...

Game AI/NPC behaviour/Navigation people! Share your insights and techniques. Call for talks open until August 1st! See you in November in London?

Got ya covered mynoise.net/NoiseMachine...

I'm frequently asked "how much does @compiler-explorer.com cost to run". I've done some digging and posted xania.org/202506/compi... which is a high-level breakdown of the costs (and revenue); and links to a more in depth report if you want all the gory details.

One of my favourite dev stories is from about eight years and two jobs ago, when our Xbox tests would just fail randomly and without any useful error messages. Turned out the issue was the Xbox dev kits were in a stack under someone’s desk and every so often he’d kick them by mistake

It’s only been a day since the announcement, and we’re genuinely blown away by the incredible response! Thank you all for the support! 🙏 We can’t wait to see you in November, so don’t miss out and grab those early bird tickets now! www.tickettailor.com/events/gamea...

Very excited that Havok is sponsoring the 2025 AI and Games conference! It's hands down the best event in Europe for people in Game AI/NPC behavior/navigation. Looking forward to see everyone there in November!

It's been a while since I've written about the innards of @compiler-explorer.com. xania.org/202506/how-c... has the details, some statistics and some fun war stories.

i can't believe they faked it

You know those internal debug levels used for testing character controllers in games? I have always heard those referred to as 'Gym'. Has anyone else heard any other name for those, or is it always Gym?

Remedy needs your help! We're testing the matchmaking and balancing of FBC: Firebreak in our CLOSED Technical Test, running from May 15th until May 19th. PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S players are all needed so sign up now: firebreak.firstlook.gg/signup/tech-... Crossplay will be available!

Live++ 2.9.1 out now: liveplusplus.tech/releases.html Fixes for newly reported bugs and a regression that snuck into the 2.9.0 release. Thanks to all the people reporting issues and providing feedback! #cpp #gamedev

Ein Freund von mir ist vor 13 Jahren aus Österreich ins Silicone Valley gezogen und hat dort als Product Manager gearbeitet. Er möchte mit seiner kleinen Familie nach Österreich zurück, aus offensichtlichen Gründen. Kennt wer Tech-Firma in Wien die einen Product Manager braucht? CV auf Anfrage.

anyone got any good talks on roguelike/ccg architecture? basically anything super open ended, where you need to support a ton of different systems all poking each other?

It's close to easter - so it's important to train your hopping skills. Not shown: the 7 crashpads which make the landing okay. Boulder: Ice 9 in Carrigshouk in Wicklow (allegedly 6C with one ascent before people started to do it more recently. Most likely more 7A/7A+) #bouldering #boulderinglife

Time has come ! Here is Picocraft ! a #pico8 -demake of Warcraft III Reign of Chaos. You want to try a 1 vs 1 skirmish against CPU player, and firsts Human troops ? You're at the right place ! www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=148... The cool pixels are x.com/brullov_art ⚔️ #indiegame

Here are all the tire sprite rotations extracted from the game's resources:

@lorenschmidt.bsky.social found a shrine to your avatar when walking in San Francisco

I'm a puppy! I'm a truck!

Looks fantastic 😍

Procedural Content Generation for Games is a thriving research field with an amazing methodological diversity (including LLMs, RL, and evolutionary algorithms as well as more problem-specific solutions) but few good benchmarks. Until now! We present... the PCG benchmark!

Hey Dutch folks: I am looking for a new accountant. One that has experience working with someone that has clients and invoices all over the world, and almost never in The Netherlands. Which is me! Is there a particular one that folks in gamedev in The Netherlands use, which you can recommend?

I get that most devs go straight to destruction when they think about physics, so I'm really happy we got to make this demo. It illustrates the important point of "Why think kaboom and not balloon?" youtu.be/5Gh9MzBe2ig

my job is great most days but being a fly on the wall while the brothers who made Dwarf Fortress go through a list of reported bugs is definitely in my top 10. these guys are the best

Pretty please 🥺

Like many people I have wondered how far I'd get on one of the most famous boulders in the world. The answer - 2 moves in. I like to think that if I'd manage to unlock the move to the left crimp I would get to the mantle and most likely wimp out #bouldering #boulderinglife #yosemite

TIL that because the FFmpeg project has gained so much experience in hand-writing assembly code to provide huge speedups, they now are putting together a series of lessons for learning assembly: Vibe coding is fun and all, but this is probably a better use of time! github.com/FFmpeg/asm-l...

Roaming San Francisco after GDC I seem to have taken a wrong turn somewhere

If you've never played Dwarf Fortress and always wanted to know what the fuss was about, this is the series for you. Massive thanks to @bay12games.com & @kitfoxgames.com for letting us take a few years putting together this story. WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxV2...

GDC25 ✅ Now some rest and then upwards and onwards!

#GDC25 talk done! Happy how it turned out and hope people can take the performance improvement tips for large world navigation back to their teams. Thanks for having me Game AI summit!

Ah, the coffee line was long. So I missed the start of @richardkogelnig.bsky.social from Havok talking about their experiences in building custom support for navigation in large open worlds in games.

Hey folks. I have another survey I'd like to get responses for, but I'm *only looking for game developers* to respond. Most people qualify, whether you enter game jams, release free experimental art on itch.io, or make AAA blockbusters - but it's not a general public thing forms.gle/uQydeogCnfkB...