My wife always gets me nerdy T-shirts for my birthday but this year she's outdone herself. I had no idea this Venn diagram intersection of nerdery could possibly exist.

With this employee's firing, the thread of prophecy is severed. Re-hire them to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed industry you have created.

I don’t respect games with Graphics, develop an imagination and learn the power of abstraction

Just launched an update to Seedship that should make the game deal with phone screens with inset cameras, and also fix an interface bug that was happening on iOS. write.as/johnayliff/s...

This is very true of writing, and also now I want to know what Ursula Le Guin's secret to a good pie crust was

Fellow authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP?

The year is 2035. New accounting practices allow games companies to lay off employees they don't actually have. Games are delayed while managers look for ways to make their nega-employees productive.

Me, a wizard: Where hast my scrying orb gone? I cannot seem to find it anywhere in the tower... perhaps this is a cruel trick from my dark warlock rival! My Capricious and Gluttonous Familiar:

What's the weirdest or most interesting inventory system you have seen in a game? I'm working on a long-term project about inventory systems in games, and I would like to see the outliers!

I like to think I've grown a lot since I was 15, but if you strip away the layers you'll find an Asimov nerd.

Put this scene in an MCU movie you cowards

I periodically release new mobile versions Seedship that change nothing except mark them as being targeted at the latest version of the OS, so they don't vanish from the app stores. If I was a corporation focused on the bottom line rather than a solo dev, I probably wouldn't bother.

Developer diary about some of the space heroes that inspired my WIP game: write.as/johnayliff/f...

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

Canadian residents & citizens; I would highly recommend signing this one

“Our video game lets you make dynamic choices that matter” The choices:

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

Games aren't made by studios, they're made by people. The studio is just the logo on the side of the building. The way this industry is undervaluing, abusing, and discarding people is shameful, and it's doing damage to this medium we will never fully know. All while execs line their pockets.

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!

The POINT of the Arabian Nights stories is that the genie ALWAYS goes back in the bottle because the genie promises to give you what you want, but the hero always realizes they're better off without the genie.

License to Bluesk kojira.github.io/bluesky-lice...

I love this weird beautiful movie. Look at how the little spaceship is moving *like a spaceship* -- not always pointing in the direction of travel, little reaction thrusters puffing to change its course.

Just launched an update to Beyond the Chiron Gate to add a dark-on-light colour scheme, for those who like the darkness of space a little less dark spacegoblingames.itch.io/beyond-the-c... store.steampowered.com/app/2960700/... apps.apple.com/us/app/beyon... play.google.com/store/apps/d...

I thought writing a whole game in the voice of an over-the-top pulp space villain would be fun, and it is, but it's also *exhausting*.

1/3 of the game industry has lost their job in the last two years. Ubisoft closed two more studios today. Everyone is out of work. To that end I'm starting a new bundle to benefit a layoffs hardship fund. Game devs: please consider submitting your PAID games to the bundle, which will launch in July.

Finally got round to watching a new sci-fi movie and then realised that the "new" movie was nearly 10 years old.

Start of the season, the Doctor meets a new companion who's evasive about their past and seems to know more than they should. Each episode ends with unresolved mysteries....

Dan is not happy... Late pledges end today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️

Real Steel. An inherently ridiculous movie about robot boxing, but it's like they forgot they were meant to be making a bad movie and made a good movie by mistake.

We should return to the old ways (specifically goofy Bronze Age octopus jugs) 🐙

You know what old comic could make a good movie? Jeff Hawke. Space hero guy but he's more of a diplomat than an action hero, but actually he's mostly a straight man to a bunch of weird bickering aliens who are the real stars.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't find a single word in here about protecting Canadian artists from having their work stolen by AI companies, or compensating them for that stolen work. Why is it that people who create Canadian culture don't deserve accountability or control?

Dan Dare: First Contact colours detail (Michael Woods is brilliant at this stuff) - putting action and adventure back into sci fi. www.kickstarter.com/projects/798...

This bill is legitimately the thing we've been waiting for. Forcing AI to reveal it's sources would cripple it, because it literally can't comply with the law, because all of it is stolen- they didn't record it Please sign to hasten the bubble popping

New: Google is quietly trying to buy code from Android developers to train an AI coding tool as part of a "confidential" program. Tells them it's a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" for "helping society at large" www.404media.co/google-is-qu...

Two things I enjoy are anticapitalist punk fantasy and games where you can knock enemies into one another, so this is right up my alley. I just backed Crownbreakers - Tactical Deckbuilding-Brawler for Steam! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha...

Wondering how long I can spend coming up with spaceship names before it becomes procrastination.

Random idea: Murder mystery show in which each episode is the same murder committed in increasingly clever and elaborate ways. It's gradually revealed that the killer has a time machine, and every time they get caught they go back and try again with foreknowledge of what the detective will do.

Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their AI training datasets - this bill would force them. If that sounds good, we REALLY NEED YOUR HELP! Please sign this petition in support of the bill, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

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Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Anti-porn, anti-sex worker, and anti-sex censorship directly corresponds to a tilt downward into a more ideologically conservative and oppressive society. Regardless of your personal comfort with nsfw content on the internet, it's absolutely critical to support it right now.

Where would a space hero be without their trusty spaceship? On the ground, that's where. Quick dev diary about this month's progress on Foolish Earth Creatures: write.as/johnayliff/f...

From the worlds of the original Dan Dare, the absolutely appalling Mekon and his fearsome minions, by Keith Watson.

An autistic billionaire’s neurotype is not the reason he’s an absolute piece of shit, it has been revealed.

The first time I watched The Black Hole I got so upset when a robot died that I had to stop watching. (Several human characters had died by this point but I had been unbothered.)