This shout out of A Gamer's Introduction to MonoGame is awesome!!! Thanks @monogame.net. If you're an instructor or an enthusiast looking for a code-forward way to dig into game design, this book might be what you're looking for! 🕹️👾💻

During this month's AMA we mentioned the release of Aaron Langille's ( @aaronlangille.bsky.social ) book "A Gamer's Introduction to Programming with MonoGame". Watch it here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Ub... . Watch our AMA playlist here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZTr...

Canadian friends, your government is seeking commentary on GenAi strategies and policies. Please let them know exactly how you feel about GenAi, it’s impacts, and what next steps should be! Perhaps it’s respecting artists works, environmental considerations and so on! Share your thoughts here 👇

Our weekly CodeTime! is every Friday (today in 40mins) @ 11:00 EDT, 15:00 UTC, 16:00 BST, 17:00 CET! Read our blog for links to YouTube, Twitch and Facebook: monogame.net/blog/2025-10... See you soon!

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I wrote this a couple of years ago to practice vector-based movement in @monogame.net. I'm so happy I did because it's about to be the ⭐ of Monday's lecture on AI movement in games. 🕹️👾💻 Thanks @elthen.bsky.social for the awesome gremlin sprites. Still my fave. #MonoGame #GameAI #GameCoding

What happens when the player looks down?🍄✨🔮 Last week some behind the scenes footage of our game went viral. We got heaps of comments from people wondering if players could see between the thousands of hand drawn illustrations that make up our world. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #gamedevelopment

This might look like a follow up textbook, but it's actually a cleverly disguised follow up portal to writing your own games with @monogame.net. Learn #MonoGame. Make games. (out soon!!!) Just saying (again). 🚀🕹️💻

This might look like a textbook, but it's actually a cleverly disguised portal to writing your own game code. Learn to code. Make games. Just saying. ⚔️🕹️💻 #LearnToCode #BookSky #LearnCSharp

The "using AI to generate concept art early in the process to quickly iterate ideas" thing is so absurd to me because like. You don't know what concept art is. You don't know what concept art *does*.

Join us TODAY for our 11th "Open Hours" AMA When: @ 12:00 EDT, 16:00 UTC, 17:00 BST, 18:00 CET Details here: monogame.net/blog/2025-08... Special Guest - @jonathanpeppers.bsky.social of Draw a Stickman EPIC! (over 5 million downloads!) Join via: discord.gg/H2tAkbSq?eve... See you there!

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text

lol, judge away. So much Torchlight and Awesomenauts for my kid. Post a screenshot of your first 5 Steam purchases and let Bluesky judge you

Wrote about AI, and the way we talk about it all having the quality of a ghost story. open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...

OpenAI doesn't realise that PhD-level expertise has very little to do with the stuff you know and more to do with how you can think. I forget facts from mine all the time! The value in my PhD is knowing how to reliably generate, evaluate, and defend or dismiss information that's new to the world.

Great move by Denmark: "The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice."

Today I submitted the final edits for my upcoming book - A Gamer's Introduction to Programming with MonoGame (@monogame.net). That means it'll be in production and available sooooon! 🚀 ⚔️ 🕹️

Let’s freaking gooooooo 💪

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Lol. This is perfect.

Saw this news break through @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, who always is on top of this news and rightfully congratulated @cloudflare.social with their rightful stance. Cloudflare now blocks AI crawlers by default. Incredible. www.cloudflare.com/press-releas...

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Was just talking to someone today about how much Kenney contributes to the community. We better show up for this, is all I’m saying.

Unions in Quebec representing 25,000 creatives are demanding that lawmakers treat creators fairly with respect to generative AI. Demands include: - No copyright exceptions for gen AI training - Full data transparency - Labelling of AI content 🙌 lartesthumain.com/en/

Disney isn’t on the side of artists (they happily use genAI themselves when it suits them), but I still hope they absolutely eviscerate Midjourney who should finally suffer consequences of building a plagiarism machine. Both those things can be true.

Seriously considering a @play.date over a Switch 2. Anyone else?

Fascinating to finally see some AI skepticism from... CNN? Let's go??? www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...

Stevia is like AI: works well for some people but I sure don’t need it in everything.

This sentiment can’t be amplified enough!!! 🕹️👾💻

Bye #Duolingo. I doubt that that “AI first” will work out for you. If you prioritized people instead, I’d still be working on my streak, and paying to do it.

AI images are already easily accessible. But if they become the de facto answer to any trend, could broad wins for AI mean loss after loss for working illustrators?

So many people are using @monogame.net to make their games!! If you're new to coding or to #MonoGame and want in on the action, I've written some books to help! A Gamer's Intro to C# (out now) and A Gamer's Intro to #MonoGame (coming soon). Art & illustrations by @guildedhut.bsky.social. 🕹️👾💻

Can’t wait!!!!!

If anyone wants to actually learn how to paint a ghibli picture, I have a tutorial for beginners that’s only £1 🩵 tobyfoxart.gumroad.com/l/intro-to-d...

Zelda Williams (the daughter of the great Robin Williams) sure had a lot to say about the “Studio Ghibli style” AI images that have been trending recently. I think those people should read these posts and really think about what they’re doing.

It's been a while since I've done this, and the world is bleak - so we can all use a little art & creativity. What is everyone creating nowadays? Games, art, music, video, writing, anything - whether it is early, almost done, or just shipped. Feel free to include trailers, images, links - whatever.

🟥 Thomas was Alone | 50% OFF Guide a group of rectangles through a series of obstacles, using their different skills together to get to the end of each environment. store.steampowered.com/app/220780/T...

I forgot that Mario is playing "Kid Icarus" in the movie. As a player of ancient games, this makes me joyfully happy. Just sayin.

I just submitted 100K words of #MonoGame awesomeness to my publisher. It'll be a while yet, but things are officially in motion. I'll share more when I've recovered from the marathon writing/editing sessions of the past few weeks, but here are some screenshots for now. @monogame.net #authorSky

I just submitted 100K words of #MonoGame awesomeness to my publisher. It'll be a while yet, but things are officially in motion. I'll share more when I've recovered from the marathon writing/editing sessions of the past few weeks, but here are some screenshots for now. @monogame.net #authorSky

Behold! The traditional gift as one enters their 50th year…antique juggling pins.

12 days left to get my @monogame.net book in. Today I found some unexpected code behaviour - not a #MonoGame issue, just something I didn't expect. Having to update 6 chapters doesn't really help my tight timeline, but better to find this now than after it's in your hands, right? 🕹️👾📖💻 #authorsky

Excited to announce that we're looking for a tenure-track hire in Game Studies! Our department is home to two fantastic undergraduate programs in games/interactive media, and Canada's first MA in Game Studies program. Please share! brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/brocku...

I feel even generative AI saw this coming.

Me to my editor: when do i have to have this @monogame.net book done so it can be out for September classes? My editor to me: 3 weeks. Me to me: 😮🫠☠️ Also me to me: Clear my schedule! 🕹️👾💻📖 #authorSky #learnToProgram #MonoGame

Hi! Welcome to Bluesky! I hope y'all will be kind and enjoy talking to real people! I'm Dom2D, an artist and game designer, up for freelance and joining fun creative projects! ✨#gamedev #illustration What are you up to and what is exciting for you this year?

My favorite part of writing this @monogame.net book is when the current chapter (collisions) isn't working out because of poor decisions I made 3 chapters ago (objects). 1 chapter fixed, 2 to go. Yay #BookWriting. Yay me. At least the artwork is done. Thanks @guildedhut.bsky.social for that. 🕹️👾💻