He's doing the thing again where he is trying to get back into his hide but his entire butt is blocking the hole cmon buddy you got this It's not like he doesn't have the ability to move backwards too, I think he is just panicking

Job listings for producers where the role is barely minimum wage, short term, no benefits, and the project that is "launching soon" is in critical danger of collapsing in on itself after years of mismanagement and burnout

Well he was looking but then gravity spooked him

Oh I could build his other birthday presents for his entertainment

He has found a perch from which to judge me, but I just finished playing a solo dungeon crawler so he is a little late to the party

Tobias says hi (again)

Why isn’t Hannibal Lecter in Eat Pray Love

Yeah when I think Durham I think headless pylons and men with scythes. Iconic Durham building there too yup absolutely a building that exists in Durham yes have my vote

If you want to start making games, instead of trying to make your magnum opus on your first go, please do some game jams. Ludum Dare. Something short with a fixed time limit and specs you need to follow. Learn about developing under restrictions, how to get creative in them, how to scope smartly.

3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment. 2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

Not them playing the music from Cannibal Holocaust on the radio lmao

he's superman, he wouldn't steer you wrong

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

This afternoon, IWGB Game Workers joined together with unions from all over Europe, including @stjv.fr and @csvi-cgt.bsky.social to protest against Rockstar's union busting in Paris - on est là!

Took a bunny out the freezer for the Bois birthday treat tomorrow He hasn't had a different kind of mammal before so I'm curious about what he'll think He will probably be afraid

I know nobody wants to say it, but I'll say it just to get it out in the open. Im emotionally prepared to find out Rockstar's using this shit in GTA 6.

I'm picking Tomb Raider then running in the other direction because I don't know how to handle the second decision It would be even harder if that was FFVIII and Spyro 2 🥲

v good thread to show to your cis people who don’t understand the kafkaesque web of insane bureaucratic nonsense that british trans people have been trapped in for decades

The oculus controllers are fucking garbage for anything that requires precision taps/analogue sticks, god. I need to figure out how to hook up a dual sense for Lumines, I cant get past higher levels without it dumping blocks on me. Had the same problem in tetris effect 🫠

Another reason I'm eager to get the steam vr is the oculus link absolutely sucks, and I don't think that's the fault of steam. I just want to play Lumines oh my god it's just not loading properly it worked fine before this new update

NOOOOOO My fucking oculus updated while I had it on charge and they removed my chill canyon house and replaced it with some ugly gaudy metaverse house? DEVASTATED. Valve release your VR I am ready please release me from this hell 😭

I was curious to see if tamagotchis could die anymore and it turns out yes, which would be fine but I just wiped out my entire genetic line just as I got some decent genes for big eyes/no duck lips LOL oh well

I find it hard to sit down and play AAA games myself tbh, i had to *force* myself to spend 3 hours every weekend sitting down in front of my TV to get through The Last of Us, like with a timer and everything. Do you think I EVER needed a timer for Balatro, Dead by Daylight or Elden Ring?

AND ANOTHER THING, you know what kids aren't switching out of every 2 seconds to check some other app? Minecraft. Fortnite. Roblox probably. Shit that actually lets you play it. Half the devs out here are falling over themselves to present you with a game that plays like a series of error messages

I hope thats a typo and they mean above one million vietnamese dong because what the fuck

It’s called fashion

The Metroids are eating her! And then they’re going to eat me! Oh my Goooooooooooooood!

[Norman Rockwell Freedom of Speech image] I think it's fine for bros to exchange blowjobs.

No YOU are buying a £40 thermal blanket for your snake because its too cold

Its nice how cramps change it up every month to keep you on your toes yeah really appreciate it. Gonna enjoy downing a CBD soda to nuke you you stabby little shits

Wait were we meant to be putting cold water in them

Additionally, AAA has to be engaged in this race to the bottom because their bloated budgets means they have to appeal to the broadest group of players. That leads to blander output that is inherently less interesting, so of course they have to deal with people getting bored of their work quicker

I'm seeing variants of "ah but today's gamers just don't have attention spans so we sort of have to-" rolled out earnestly so No. You can let those players fail. The AAA conception of handholding is silly. There's huge genres that don't do it. You just have a bad manager making you do dumb things.

the average salary of tens of thousands of games industry professionals is actually now $0, hope that clears things up

don't worry everyone i figured out this metroid situation, just wait and see 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Be ungovernable

I think, as a general rule for an artist, it is a really, really, really bad idea to make art in which you make the worst possible assumptions about your audience

We need to bring back the optional level/starting hub where you wander round the protagonists mansion/place of work and do training minigames. This would also, be useful for when you come back to a game after a break and cant remember a single fuckin control. Vermintide 2 does this really well!

True game dev story: Back around 2010, I was developing Facebook social games (think Farmville type with some twists). Specifically, my studio's second title like this! And I learned something that sticks with me to this day, completely by mistake.

I think it's okay if players who don't pay attention get lost.

I am begrudging that vinyl sounds so good at volume 3 on my player because above that is ' BLAST IT LETS GOOO ' levels but has speaker hum unless you really crank it to ' not fun for anybody' levels. Like I wanna blast it but then I have to babysit the hum by touching the volume knob to ground it 😭

GET EM GERMANY

An important thing to think about with this: When companies use AI in spaces like this, they don't think you deserve good things. They want to give you the absolute barest minimum, because they think you're too stupid to care either way

A sampling of strewn about stickers! 🌟

Please read this in the gentlest possible voice but we HAVE to divest from mil-sims as gamedevs. Even before this AI bullshit in the latest Black Ops, these games have done so much harm and contributed massively to the dehumanization of several populations worldwide. It’s US foreign pol propaganda.

Mom can you tell him the neat story you used to tell me about the credit card numbers and pin numbers of the richest men in the USA

I just think he's neat

Some more pics from his little curiosity session