in 2027 they're going to be showing up in unmarked vans at made up addresses demanding to arrest a pretend person that openai confabulated

they aren't even bothering to manufacture consent for this shit

We applied last time and just going through the application itself was a really nice team exercice! If you're a team in Canada interested in having a studio with worker-led and cooperative structure you should check it out!

Fidelity is killing the game industry.

OK, this is all working in real-time in the level editor. To clarify: I'm not "procedurally-generating" anything, I've just rigged enviro kit-pieces with joints (like a character mesh), "posed" them, and baked them out to static collision.

Random trip down memory lane has me mourning the old Inglis sign. "The sign's former space is no longer considered viable for advertising because it is obscured by condominiums."

EVERYONE SHUT UP WE GOT A NEW TRAILER AND IT IS SOOOOOOO FREAKING PRETTY YOU GUYS!!

Responses to the We’re Done Playing Petition responses are often brutal. The layoffs game developers experience are shocking, callous, and wreak havoc on their lives, and the lives of the people closest to them. Have you signed the petition? Add your voice here: actionnetwork.org/forms/were-d...

New snag for Chicken Scratch where you can only see part of the screen while drawing/guessing. #gamedev #indiegames

As the old adage goes, "The only perfect codebase is the one with zero lines of code."

In an hour of playing this I laughed myself to tears at least twice. I say at least because I'm pretty sure I blacked out at some point.

This is how it is: the US is now a violent mobster, and rolling over for it just means you'll be next, and at what cost? You made countless enemies for failing the world order, only to prove yourself an easy target for future US exploitation. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

It's nice that OpenAI includes a little "ask ChatGPT" thing at the bottom of their own bullshit so that even ChatGPT can make a statistical guess that it is indeed bullshit.

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

Whens the last time you just sat down and beat a game over a weekend and still got other things done. That's one of the many reasons I made DropShot. youtu.be/m4OksMrPXEU?...

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

A reminder that fascism thrives when people choose to sacrifice the weaker, and that people that might otherwise be sensible and kind but do step over that line will blame anyone but themselves to soothe their conscience when fascism does win.

Back in the saddle working on my "scaffold" level-editting system for Nightshift. I got a bit exhausted having to procedurally topologize everything (esp texture UVs, ugh), so I'm experimenting with making mesh "stamps" in blender that are distorted & combined in the game editor.

just read an incredible comic by Gilly @/profesh_baby on the importance of masking even in 2026. more people are dying of covid than prostate and breast cancer COMBINED. I highly recommend you check it out: shorturl.at/uuu1D covid's still relevant and not going away #covid #n95 #ProtectYourCommunity

Looking online for examples of good UI in games it is interesting to compare the examples in PC & Console gamedev communities to those in player communities. In Gamedev communities the examples are often the UI's that have as little UI as possible. The minimalist and diegetic UI's #gamedev #ux

next form of credit laundering coming soon: "well we didn't ask it to bomb it / target that person, the AI decided to" time to update 1979 ibm slide again

Tricky one today. I had to make use of the notes a few times to see where I would run into a contradiction. Fivefold Daily Puzzle #110 (Feb 28, 2026) solved in 6:39 with 0 hints! fivefold.ca

This is a really fun design space; I recommend checking it out:

There’s just under a week of Canadian studios to apply for Cooperative Foundations from @babyghosts.fund and supported by the @gammaspace.bsky.social community!

the united states government's almost pathological framing of their violence as liberation is so ghoulish. illegal, deadly, evil airstrikes, a senseless war announced in the middle of the night, and still the framing is "liberation". it's sickening

Made some wind chime tech. In the editor, I can author unique notes for each wind chime and preview them with an inspector button. In game, there's some nice physics interactions. 🐧🎐🎶 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

A war no one asked for, started in an attempt to improve a president’s poll numbers, and now children we allegedly want to free are dead.

GU2 - mutant guy - GU:reveal the top card of target library until you reveal a creature, exile that creature and mutant guy gains one of: 1. it's power and toughness 2. all of it's card text 3. it's creatures types and card name and color

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

I think this article below is a must read, I've been thinking about it a lot. I've seen so many takes like this one regarding the media consolidation. It sucks, but: No. Your individual purchasing choices are not enough, you cannot buy your way out of this. It has to be collective action to work.

Your jam team wants to become a real studio but you don't know how to split the money, make decisions, or set it up so nobody gets screwed in two years. We teach that! Applications close March 6. Free. babyghosts.fund/coop-foundat...

The terrain query API is coming along well, and it's fast! ⚡ Game dev stuff like placing objects, snapping characters to the ground and responding to mouse clicks is going to be mega easy~ #threejs #tsl #webgpu

made something i'm calling "really easy tetris"

"Generative AI is basically a cosmic game of telephone where information is passed through a process that privileges the frequency of information over nearly all else."

Game development is when we all dress fancy and hop on the treadmill for a stately walk I don't make the rules, this is just what gamedev is, I don't think AAA even does gamedev anymore, like do they even Have a hat rack, let alone a smoking jacket?

A look behind the curtains (or behind the canopy? 😜). The collision geometry is completely rigid. To fake the look of physical response, the shader just has a single radial wave that is reinitiated for every impact detected. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Yearly reminder that any personal info you put in your profile on the GDC app is visible by anyone, including address and phone number. #gdc2026

Seems with all the #pokemon excitement I should repost this. It’s a NFC Pokémon battler that really works. The Gen 1 starters and the electric rat all have their correct moves and I made new animations. I need to dig up the sprites I made to get this too work.

2026: we talk up "Canadian Identity" to avoid getting invaded, but we don't understand the icons we use, and can't create new ones, because we've decided culture is a luxury disconnected from economic propulsion, and that luxury itself is a benefit for billionaires, not the public.

The recurring line from execs right now is that AI will remove jobs that “nobody wants to do” because executives have never experienced the joy of caring about something enough to pay attention to the details.

We cannot and should not let generative AI take away these tiny, insignificant, but probably fun as hell jobs from artists

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

I haven’t posted in a while. I have been working on taking those CA disks in a different direction. There’s still a very long way to go, but here’s a recent #WIP. Now using #threejs & #glsl. #generativeart #genartclub #codeart

Glad to see this opinion is starting to get shared. It’s seems so obvious that wealth should not be consolidated in such few hands. It makes our country weaker.

Added some automated physics generation for cloth canopies and gave them some poofy feedback effects. Uses just one rigid body - no soft body or cloth simulation. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

sharing this postmortem on my latest game again, icymi… “You can’t just give the player text. Writing is so much more than text. Writing is alive. Writing is a space! It’s feeling… Text has to have a purpose. It’s even better if it’s part of the world.”

When I get posting fever and my ADHD makes me want to write endlessly about things in the news that bother me, I head over to my favorite stop drinking subreddit and use that energy to send people who are posting their struggles encouraging messages. There's always a way to help someone.