Had multiple emails to the effect of: 'Hello I pirated your game a while ago, but I stopped since. Do I need to buy things in your game or is deleting your game good enough?' Almost always worded the same from different emails. What's this scam folks? #gamedev

You can say "fuck off" to this, but this is the exact same impulse as all those people who admitted they were stealing from Whole Foods. It's people who are bored with their lives and want to do something bad to spice it up a bit, and that impulse is worth recognizing.

Quite literally this Leave voter in 2016

Apparently there is now an account posing as me giving false donation information! Please beware! It was just deleted but whoever made it will probably make another. It had my avatar and display name, so please double-check any posts and be weary of fishy-looking donation links!

lmao let’s goooo

When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project

I checked through my list and aghast that "Stop Dead" has under 100 reviews still! A speedrunning, telekinetic, quick shooter Somewhere between Titanfall 2, I am Your Beast and Mirrors Edge. Extremely worth your time! store.steampowered.com/app/2164030/...

🎉🎉🎉 Mythmatch has officially hit 1.0!! 🎉🎉🎉 About time since it launches in THREE DAYS! It's a town-building narrative-rich merge game about found family under the oppressive weight of the Greek gods. store.steampowered.com/app/1778050/... Wishlist Now!

if you have a salary job making 70k or more a year then make friends with a couple of trans people online who are busting their asses to barely eat and send them 10 or so dollars here there please please please together we can make difference

Welp, I did it Everybody follow @oocmags.bsky.social!!!!

AMAZING STORIES v23 n02 (April 1946)

SAVE THE DATE: Thursday, March 12th will be STELLATHON: A FUNDRAISER FOR YOUR COOL ONLINE FRIEND. Games streamers! Artists! Storytellers! Giveaways, baby! Participants will be revealed throughout the next week. Let’s get @antlervel.vet her money back! Poster by @yotsuben.bsky.social.

Bare minimum: Email your MP www.parliament.uk/get-involved...

Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful. Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.

Medical transition for trans kids is now banned for new referrals on the NHS. Trans kids in the UK can still go private or DIY (for now). This means the new clinics that replaced GIDS are close to useless at best, conversion therapy at worst. 1/5

Former Pixar employee u/PixelatedRonin fires back at chief creative officer Pete Docter on Reddit over claims on LGBT storyline cut from 'Elio' (2025):

VHOLUME is great and you should play it. (then tell me your time)

If anyone would like some notes on a script, I've got some capacity to have a read! #scriptsky

can confirm youraislopbores.me is incredible (via @innes.bsky.social)

If you're in the game industry and use LinkedIn, please do me a favor and share my post about Sentona Games screwing me out of money I'm owed. Thank you

Attention people who think Stella is funny and cool (that’s you, reading this) — With Stella’s blessing I am organizing a fundraiser event (probably a livestream) to try and raise as much money as we can to replace the $24k that was stolen from her! Please DM me if you’d like to be involved!

📖 THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW! www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope 100+ essays on writing & narrative design, with articles from the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Control, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Sam and Max... ALSO the Kaleidoscope Podcast with 2 full eps!

hi! i'm the Community Manager for Black Tabby Games and Sunset Visitor. you might assume from my job title that i'm quite comfortable with socializing... but i struggle with it pretty often! if you do too, here's a handy article for navigating GDC (Great Difficulties with Communicating) 💖

I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?

I enjoy how this shop is named like an insult a Scottish person would throw at a group of English lads wearing too much lynx Africa

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

stole this off reddit for the very niche group of you who will enjoy it as much as I did

Spring Breakers

And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting. In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...

Don't underestimate the power of a "what the fuck, man". The status quo depends on the silence of bystanders.

short about working at the coast guard

✨i'm looking to talk to folks who make/design faces in video games for a story on @mothership.blog! please reach out if you'd like to talk. email: [email protected] signal: nicolecarpenter.87

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

i propose a coordinated bsky effort from we who actually work in the industry (vs parasitically attach ourselves to it) to respond to every one of these LinkedIn posts with derision not to be a dick but because the money is there & they NEED the reality check (& we need them inside reality)

What's your ideal writing music? I think I'm one of the few people who likes lyrical music when writing. This is my ideal track: open.spotify.com/track/3vnEA3... #scriptsky

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

Or if you want a direct link to the consultation: www.gov.uk/government/c...

UK folks: if we care about what is happening in the US with ICE, we must take steps to push back against anti-immigrant and refugee policy by our own government. Fill out this consultation. It really doesn't take long. Amnesty have put together a super clear and helpful guide to follow.

Absolutely peak Bluesky.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

“Jeffrey Epstein is the reason we have microtransactions in video games” Can we stop saying this meme? It simply isn't true... at all. And it makes him sound like some super genius pulling the strings from afar vs some guy who raped and killed children and helped others do the same.

Pretty telling that the response to Mewgenics is to immediately discount it because "it's Edmund McMillen" The game does a load of interesting and notable things. The devs have all made hyper long-term commitments to their careers and some of that is paying off. You have agency and can do things.

Drop a random movie vid or gif 🎥🖤

My number one piece of writing advice is: don’t do it if you don’t actually like writing

Thank you for supporting us, we've reached 120,000 wishlist on Steam. You are the MVP!

Script update

It feels like a dream. Nearly 4 months ago now, we were in Wales getting ready to shoot FAIRY DUST. Got to meet so many wonderful artists and actors who busted their ass to bring my vision alive. It's all quiet surreal. I miss my UK team fiercely, and hope to return someday to play again.

❄️ Update: The GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ will be published soon - we just sent a proof to the authors. 400 pages - 100k+ words - 118 authors - including the writers from several well-beloved games and major franchises. If you want to be notified when it releases, you can add your name below!

As ever, the truth is absolutely bad enough there is no need to make stuff up and it devalues the impact of what actually happened.