Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Ah man. Back to work and having a severe case of the post-con blues.

See you later, London, stay weird.

Without giving too many details, I was also lucky enough to be part of a wonderful dev team invited to a certain party at a certain place...

Gutted that I couldn’t attend this one 🙃

Really heartfelt and inspiring talk by @thepixelhunt.bsky.social and @wednesdays-game.bsky.social, didn't do it justice in this thread but I can only type so fast...

Let's get depressing! (Or, "The Gamedev 2025 Experience"🥰)

A lot of really good stuff about good procgen narrative in Stark Holborn's talk on the development of Shadows of Doubt, but lemme just focus on the "fuck AI"* slide: * (my wording, not hers. Because, well, fuck LLMs)

Day 2 of #AdventureX2025! Sagar Beroshi on how to cut content without dying in the process (my words; grim reaper imagery might have had an influence). Really clear insights and super mellow energy from this guy. Loved his previous talk (advx 2023?) on history lessons for game dev.

The voice of Guybrush Threepwood, doing the Guybrush method.

At #AdventureX2025, with Jon Ingold dropping pearl after pearl of storytelling wisdom, can't wait to rewatch this one a few times.

First man in. #AdventureX2025

We don't know. What we do know is the wiring diagram works. We built it, virtually, in @godotengine.org. We fed it scans of the books we found. And the books are very, very strange. The "game" that resulted is also strange. We're hoping people can make sense of it for us.

👋 Hello #gamedev! ✍️Sr Narrative Designer (10 published games) looking for new projects! 💻I've worked RPGs, Metroidvanias, VR, FPs, Portal-style puzzlers, narrative games... 🎖️...done quest design, dialogs, VA direction, barks, branching dialog... ✉️Hit me up: www.victorojuel.org RTS appreciated!

So I'm going to #AdventureX2025, who's gonna be around? 🫶

Why, hello again.

So I'm going to #AdventureX2025, who's gonna be around? 🫶

It's been a month?

There are a lot of great conversations about branching narrative under this post: bsky.app/profile/vict...

The UN has been good for nothing except symbolic gestures since Iraq War 2, but at least we have the gesture. (Alt text: video of UN delegates walking out on Nazinyahu) www.eldiario.es/1_c0ce12?utm...

Ari singing "Hit the road, Jack" 😍🥰

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT 🏆My #indiedev interactive fiction "The Ivory Calico" took 1st place at this year's IntroComp! 🤩 🖱You can play it online at the competition website: introcomp.iftechfoundation.org 🧵 Let me explain what's it about and how it fits the #ProjectShamus cinematic universe (😜)... ➡️🧵 1/?

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT 🏆My #indiedev interactive fiction "The Ivory Calico" took 1st place at this year's IntroComp! 🤩 🖱You can play it online at the competition website: introcomp.iftechfoundation.org 🧵 Let me explain what's it about and how it fits the #ProjectShamus cinematic universe (😜)... ➡️🧵 1/?

One thing I've learned about the US lately: apparently it's not okay for some people to get shot.

Went hiking. Maybe it's time for new boots.

2.5 Musketeers

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

People be like "the situation in the games industry is unprecedented," but come on, enough hyperbole. We have obvious precedents, like the USSR in the 30s,

Having a Ricard in bed, listening to some Aznavour while I try to nail down a certain mood for a story. (The mood is Sad Girls, because it always is.)

The first time around, Fascism had innovative elements, at least in aesthetics; think the Italian Futurists. The Second Coming is just derivate, cheap meme versions of books they haven't read and movies they haven't understood. Trumpism is the ultimate form of American vulgarianism.

Recommend a good HD? It's time to back up all my stuff in one place, and Because Of Reasons, I don't like to do it online/in the cloud.

(LRT: I should do this more often, but the heat keeps melting my brain... ) Like! Reskeet or whatever! Subscribe! I'm always on the lookout for new projects! Get your narrative design here! Hot storytelling at affordable prices!

Recommend a good HD? It's time to back up all my stuff in one place, and Because Of Reasons, I don't like to do it online/in the cloud.

This could get my Spanish citizenship revoked, but I just think we should add soy sauce to everything.

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

Vini vidi bitches

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

CALL STRIPE CALL PAYPAL CALL MASTERCARD CALL VISA DO NOT. STOP. CALLING! #rocktheboat stop-paypros.neocities.org

I got a haircut AND a wardrobe.

then die

Sometimes videogames should stay videogames. (Ngl very amusing to watch, don't actually do this to humans)

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*.

Paypros still haven't receded. We need to keep exhausting them until they give up. Letting them win wouldn't be the death of just furries but the entirety of the internet will be controlled by paypros if we let this slide.

studios arent turning to AI. Ownership and dipshit leadership are, and are making everyone's jobs harder in the process.

So fuck Gamescon and fuck your "sentiment" as a shitty excuse to fire professionals 😊✨️

Every single concept artist who uses AI is a fucking clanker scab and should be ashamed btw. How DARE you, honestly. If your boss is pressuring you to use that shit in a way where you need that job to pay rent and they won't take no for an answer I feel for you, everyone else, get in the bin.

Driving home from Galicia was fun... (An extra 200 km detour worth of fun...)

Ari asking the real questions: how do mermaids pee and poop? We're coming up with theories.

I have just fixed a remote control by the very Advanced Electronics method of sticking a tightly folded piece of paper inside it before screwing it shut again. (It forces a tiny piece of metal inside to make contact with the battery, otherwise it just dangles loose).