I love it when a dev takes the art form of videogames, and fully embraces the fact that "you can make anything". #gamedev #indiedev

David’s stuff is so good. You should hire him for your games. #gamedev #gameart #vfx

Did this on a whim and wasn't sure if individual foot shadows would make any difference. Originally, I tried to darken the big blob to make it more obvious, but it only looked good in some environments and bad in others. The individual foot shadows gave me what I needed everywhere. #gameart #gamedev

Sometimes I look at simple designs and I still catch myself thinking "obvious". I know better. Things that feel right can also feel obvious, and it takes a lot of work to make something that feels that right. #gamedev #gameart

Wish I had actively maintained connections when migrating to bsky. I was so disgusted with twitter/x that I stopped using it and then only dipped my toe in here. If you’re still on there because you’re afraid of losing that network, coordinate the move with them. They’re leaving anyway. #gamedev

This is because we made fun of Nic Robertson. We’re being punished for our winter hubris.

Last night, CTV National News parroted the US administration’s description of both Renee Good and Alex Pretti without telling viewers that there was video evidence disproving those narratives. When news orgs are willing to do things like that, it makes me question their other reporting.

Agreed. I saw the videos and this thread plus Bellingcat’s (linked) is a better way to catch up with what happened with the murder in MN. Just awful.

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It was a Hawaiian blend with hints of hazelnut and coconut (hot and black). Good, but would be better iced in the summer. Also, the nice lady at House of Java recommended some peaberry coffee beans (they don’t split when roasting) that I’m looking forward to trying.

I accidentally spilled hot coffee on my sleeve and it froze instantly 😆. That convinced me I should probably cut my walk short and go back inside. Still a beautiful sunny day in Hamilton Ontario.

@timcullings.bsky.social sorry to be your 667th follower

I'm going through my twitter mutuals to add people here and whenever I click on someone from The Games Industry Gathering, the "similar accounts" section includes an account that is just a picture of a butthole. I haven't clicked on it to see why it is similar.

My old twitter account was TheGrittyDev and I moved here about a year ago. If I follow you, there's a good chance we were mutuals. I used it for DMing and keeping up with peers. I'm sad that network is gone, so let's remake those connections!

There was also something about Canadian TV that felt very close. And it wasn't just because the Possum Van was stored on my school bus route and I saw it almost every day.

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AI companies are actively hurting every other industry by driving up the cost of computer hardware for everyone, and the cost of both electricity and water for anyone near a data centre.

I love the way this scene looks in A Fold Apart (a bit different from this one which is experimental). The teacher looks so brave. #gameart #gamedev #indiedev

When you crank the indirect multiplier on purpose #gamedev #gameart

When you accidentally crank the indirect multiplier #gamedev #gameart

I don’t hear this brought up enough in these discussions. Sporting bodies have gone through so many iterations to figure this out because every time they think they have a rule that works, it blocks an AFAB person from playing. All the simple definitions of “woman” fall apart in practice.

This story was the first thing I thought about when I opened my eyes this morning, an odd little mystery that got so weird so quickly and feels like just one more example of how tough things are for journalism these days

#tbt to this weird bug that looked like a horror poster. #gamedev #indiedev #gameart

Don’t underestimate the importance of not getting rejected. The US will be a good place to visit again someday, and you don’t want the current nonsense to have lasting effects. Come to Game Developer Cheeseburgers in Toronto instead.

So many of the sales pitches for AI are “You can now easily make a thing that you never cared about making before”. If the creator doesn’t care about the thing, why do they think anyone else will? People can recognize slop, and they’re not going to want it.

Sometimes, I love the looks when a bunch of scenes get loaded together and the lighting explodes. #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev

Hi, I’m an enormous roll of foundation wrap falling from a warehouse upper level onto a walkway.

Just 6 away!

I loved Sleep No More and this would have been right up my alley if travelling to the US wasn’t such a repellant idea right now.

I was designing a birthday card the other day and needed to redraw this mouse at least five times before it stopped looking like a penis.

I can passively absorb a movie and feel like I came away with something, but a game forces me to engage more deeply and makes me more conscious of the time I’m spending with it. The need to know “what happens next?” is always satisfied in movies but can be frustrated by bad interactivity in games.

Held the door for Vidal Sassoon

There we go! A background water material made using the normal map from one crumpled piece of paper. #gamedev #unity3d

Does fixing mistakes feel better than not making them? #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

The lost crumpled paper water shader has been rewritten, saved, and checked into the repo. Now I can make the shore foam look better. #gamedev

Well… I accidentally pressed the cleanup button on the shader editor when the last node wasn’t connected, and it deleted everything… and Undo didn’t bring it back… 😮‍💨 Time to start again. #gamedev

Making a water shader that looks like crumpled paper. Funny when you accidentally invert the colours. #unity3d #gamedev

Make a Bond film casual Lawn Raker

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

I knew things were going to be bad, but I was not prepared to hear that a student asylum seeker, staying in Mexico, showed up to his scheduled interview with US CBP, and was then taken from the interview (FOR ASYLUM) and sent to a prison that brags about its human rights violations. He was a prop.

Mike Flanagan making a Clayface movie for the new DCU could be interesting!

I’m not quoting this to highlight anything negative. I’m quoting this because I appreciate when an organization has a code of ethics that isn’t just lip service. It would be so easy to say “Oh shoot. Too late. We’ll do better next year.” but instead they did the difficult work of enforcing it.

Sign, sign, sign!

This happened to us once. After our game released we saw another - more established - dev lamenting that they were working on one with a similar mechanic. Their game looked amazing and we told them so.

A Fold Apart used emissive glow so the player stood out in puzzles on small screens. They popped too much on big ones though. I wanted to try fresnel edge glow, but it made the character look like a cutout. But then adding a smoothstep to the world normal y made them pop AND blend #unity3d #gamedev

I love these highlight threads… AND YOU WILL TOO!

A composer sent me their portfolio and they used AI images as the visuals for their tracks on YouTube. My gut reaction was that the music was AI too. I suppressed that reaction, did some digging, and figured the music was legit, BUT that first impression put a stink on the whole thing.

Even bumping up the resolution for baked lighting makes a big difference and with better hardware (on both the dev and runtime side) these bigger maps are a lot more practical to make and run. #gamedev