Ack. Okay I gotta get better at showing off cool stuff I make For maybe 2 months I've been jamming out a little Game Boy homebrew drop game in C using ZGE as a side thing It's been really fun! Not done yet and got some bugs to iron out but coding for hardware is SUPER cool #gameboy #indiedev

My head fills with the Avatar The Last Airbender end credits song watching this fly through https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@runevision/116676181224214669

Are you in Atlanta and want to watch game development talks with local gamedevs at a cool game bar with free food?? This Saturday, May 23rd at 12 pm I'll be hosting a Game Workers Conference watch party at Joystick Gamebar, and come hang out! Can't make it, but know someone who might be […]

Are you in Atlanta and want to watch game development talks with local gamedevs at a cool game bar with free food?? This Saturday, May 23rd at 12 pm I'll be hosting a Game Workers Conference watch party at Joystick Gamebar, and come hang out! Can't make it, but know someone who might be […]

Last post is relevant to a local event I'll post about in a bit, but like how would I actually reach people in a relevant tag if it's so popular there's a new post every 5 minutes? Who's subscribing to tags that would fire hose your timeline or are flooded with news accounts if you put them in […]

I'd love to see Mastodon steal Reddit's concept of a "multireddit." A multireddit was a combination of subreddits chained together with a '+' symbol, eg. /r/funny+pics. How I picture it working on Mastodon is chaining together # tags. Ideally there's an option to show all posts that have at […]

I'm so proud that three organizations I've co-founded are giving talks at @gameworkerscon.bsky.social. Get ready for talks from @gameworkers.co.uk, @gameworkersolidarity.com, and @nogamesforgenocide.com! gameworkersconference.org

[Invincible TV Show Season 4 Spoilers] The quoted post is one thing from the last season that stuck out to me. And I really hope they don't sour this in the end by further pushing Nolan and Debbie back together. I haven't read the comics so I've got no idea where's it going to end up. If […]

How to get a night time post filter that collapses posts behind a content warning if they have an image that's 50% + white space, so I'm not blasted with light every couple of posts

Studio piece based on a plein air at Codman Farm Estate in Lincoln MA. Big struggle this but finally got somewhere I think #watercolor #pleinair #painting #lincolnma #codmanfarm

Ok, say Sony pivots from trying to make 10 live service games work at the same time to putting more money on big budget single player exclusives right. What if to recover losses since buying Bungie, they: 1. Remake a title from their past 2. Reuse a bunch of assets from their recent game 3 […]

@frameworkcomputer i bought my laptop 3 years ago, and i still love it. at the time, i knew it was the best that was available, but i also saw that this kind of disappointment was basically inevitable. framework's company is not organized in a fashion conducive to long term ethical behavior. it […]

How many girls are riding their bikes to school is a better measure of a country's success than GDP. Tells you about so much more, about education, gender equality, road safety, the environment... #kiatikakiapono

Okay, yeah. I'd call this a real stage now. (feat. debug env collision boxes) #platsky #ProjectUkemi #gamedev

A doctor's pre check up form had among the preferred languages on its list: Old English, Middle English, Ancient Greek, Indo European, and many more dead languages. I was very tempted

Remembering to paint more. A Pineapple Spritz. #watercolor #painting #pleinair

I just searched for "technical artist" here on masto and followed a bunch more peeps. Would recommend. (also hi)

the only thing we have in common is being hoes for decentralization

I read the essay "The Philosophy of Composition" by Edgar Allen Poe last night, and it's so damn cool. He breaks down his process for determining the elements he used to write his poem The Raven. His process reminds me a lot of the method of game design pillars in gamedev; determine your […]

Check out this event by UVW 👀 "The United Videogame Workers of CWA, in partnership with other unions and worker-centered organizations, announce the Game Workers Conference. May 22-23, 2026. GWC is an entirely new game industry event, made by and for […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

Hey it's #Mar10 Day! Here, have Tumble He's the host from Mario Party 3, my personal favorite Mario Party! All of his character writing begins and ends at "happy lil' guy" but I still kind of adore his design to this day.

Are there like no FOSS audio or sfx library management tools? Being FOSS isn't even my biggest ask, none of the big 4-5 apps I see get recommended have Linux ports.

I'm building my own games now "from scratch" to learn more and for the independence. I've gotten far enough with this Pong clone that I feel it's worth sharing updates. I've been using RayLib (raylib-cs) and MoonTools.ECS, and it's been a lot of fun! […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

I now have a new screensaver. #raylib

Never have I been so happy to see a bouncing ball. Finally some sorta working ECS collision resolution again

I just had a masochistic binge reading several forum threads on the Paint.NET forums (from the past two decades!) all from users requesting a "File > Export As" feature separate from "File > Save As" which flattens all of your layers as the file is no longer a PDN file. Every single thread […]

Hey #b3d #blender folks in the UK! We're looking for a senior animator to work with us for 6 months. It's a hybrid position, coming to the office at least 1 day a week. Come work with me! https://www.mediamolecule.com/jobs/senior-animator-6-month-contract/5751525004 #animation #gamedev #jobs #uk

One of my biggest #retrogaming issues is re-releases seldom include the manual. The actual, printed, full-color manual with art, maps, diagrams. Players were expected to read the manual before playing from at least the NES era to PS2 era, and a lot of description/story is simply not in the game […]

*DUNE music* https://mastodon.social/@wonderofscience/115782593587692086

Almost forgot, happy winter solstice!

An illustration teacher told us one day “an artist is only as good as his reference folder” and I still think about that. Delegating the ref-gathering & moodboarding to genAI, aside from all the ethical concerns, seems to me the single most cruel and devastating thing you can do to your design.

My PBR infected brain seeing this: Mary, you have Metal set on your apple material! The Albedo shouldn't be affecting the specular highlights on this only semi glossy fruit! Mary! https://tech.intersects.art/@pomological/115738875467032551

So here's Planet Jellyham, the movement focused metroidvania game I've been doing VFX and shaders for with a team of friends. We're ramping up for release to release this early next year, and for free! #gamedev #metroidvania

Hey! Yeah so this Metroidvania grew out of a game jam we did a long while back. I was involved in just about every animated character you see in this game! EXTRA for enemies, I animated 100% of every enemy in the game, including the bosses! Super hype to announce this!!✨ #Metroidvania #gamedev

Yeah, like, I *know* trying to normalize a vector of all zeroes is undefined because of the division the operation, BUT whyyy does your library function silently give me NaNs?? And undocumented to boot https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.numerics.vector3.normalize

I'm about to crest a hill with my 3d project because I took a detour to relearn collision physics, and things are clicking together again. I want to start an progress thread once I had visual things to show, but we'll see

I wonder if you could get people to auto balance metro train cars adding places to tap their metro cards on each car and giving out trip discounts for getting on emptier cars, eg. ones further from the platform entrance.

Travel tip: Use your 3DS as a pedometer instead of a spyware smartwatch! Also, use the camera for lo-fi digital pictures! #3ds #nintendo3ds #ニンテンドー3ds

Happy Halloween! 🎃 Remember to exorcise your normal maps! 👻 #gamedev

A few weeks ago I hit a really fun personal milestone: my text editor is now sufficiently complete that I can start using it as my daily driver. Now that I'm using it full-time, I'm finding so many opportunities to make tiny productivity improvements here and […] [Original post on social.coop]

Deeply disappointed by Fedora's new AI policies that allows AI contributions. It is impossible to argue *who* owns any snippet of AI generated code. Is code that is generated by OpenAI is owned by OpenAI? The person who sniped it from their chatlog? This is ignoring that the AI industry itself […]

A project I have no time or expertise for: A FOSS sample/sound effect manager that can organize my libraries with tags, play back sounds, and importantly make subclips from sound files with multiple sounds

Anyone ever done a meta-analysis research study (?) on 3D character movement in games? I've been finding academic styled papers on Quake and Team Fortress 2 movement which got me wondering

A funny idea I want to try for rendering a game would be to render the world with real time tracing but at like a game boy resolution

Some of the articles I've written for my blog have been things I've been passionate about, but the next one I do might be out of spite

Thanks for hosting Davis! I'm Spex, 3d generalist/tech artist and hobby gamedev who likes to branch out into whatever seems interesting. I have a few games I'm working on, and I post about game jams a lot - but you'll mostly see me posting bright low/midpoly 3d art and the occasional 3d print!

Wow I don't think I've had such a visceral reaction to a new UI design as I've had to the Android 16 brightness and volume bars. Just straight up bad.

Reposting for Fedi 👀. "Each October, the VFX Apprentice community joins the fun in a daily challenge called Flipbooktober. There are no requirements to participate every single day, but it's a great way to challenge yourself to create a flipbook […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]