Someone actually crunched the numbers, and using GenAI can decrease reviews for indie game on Steam (a useful proxy stat for sales) by as much as *58%* 🤖

Up to 50 job applications submitted!

#StateOfPlay it’s so nice to see Ikumi Nakamura again! KEMURI looks really cool

This is actually such a perfect metaphor for ai I'm surprised nobody made it sooner? The bathhouse staff shoveling endless resources into a insatiable monster in return for something ultimately worthless, eventually turning on them when that isn't enough

v1.0.0 of @icons, my icon library for #Godot developers, is now OUT! 🎉 🔣 400 icons designed to fit with the default editor icons ; 🎨 available in all 4 node colors (default, 2D, 3D, and control) ; ⚖️ free & open source! (MIT license) i hope they'll be useful to you! :) github.com/Voxybuns/at-...

Hello everyone, I just made this starter pack for game devs who refuse to use generative AI. In any capacity at all, including for ideas or placeholders or code or inspiration or whatever excuses people have. No AI use, period. Let me know if you want added. go.bsky.app/6DRdowf

OPPORTUNITY - Lead Narrative Designer - EA - Battlefield - Hybrid - UK Absolutely affiliated (a chance to work together!). Shares very welcome! jobs.ea.com/en_US/career...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Double Fine is unionizing aftermath.site/double-fine-un...

The Academy has banned AI from ever winning an Oscar. • Only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” can be nominated for acting Oscars • Screenplays “must be human-authored” to qualify for a nomination

Useful thing to use here

PSA: SUPERMAN SMASHES THE KLAN, one of the best superhero comics ever made, is FREE TO READ all this month on DC Universe Infinite.

OpenAI is shutting down its AI video slop-making platform Sora.

We will see our friends again someday, so we will care for this world they left behind. And I know they will be proud of us.

I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life. I'm serious, read it all please

Long live 2D animation (& practical effects).

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened 🫡

Question I will ask again, has ANYONE even announced they are running in the Democratic primaries for president? We don’t owe anyone undying support before we even know who all the options are. Grow the fuck up, people.

Indie game devs, when you use the slop machine in your game, it makes it clear to players that you don't give a fuck and just want money. Draw crappy but genuine art instead.

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

First poster for ‘GODZILLA MINUS ZERO’ In theaters on November 6, 2026.

BREAKING Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.

Hope everyone has had a very happy holidays 😁 got the LEGO Gameboy yesterday and it was a very fun build to do.

Top movie of 2006. Guess it’ll be a year for sailing the high seas🏴‍☠️

Only a hallucinating AI can make the dream of a direct line to LGA reality, apparently. Also, what have they been feeding Roosevelt island?? Also also, congrats to Brooklyn for their total conquest of Staten Island

Our feature artist/tutorial today is this great CEL-SHADING step-by-step, by the talented @everblue_comic! This clear, easy to follow guide is an EXCELLENT starting point for those looking to attain this look in their colouring. #comics #colourist #illustration #anime #manga

If I tried to draw my self portrait I’d just be drawing Asgore. I suppose I could’ve drawn my online pfp, but ah well. Scuffed Sans it is.

Rosewater, my Wild West adventure game, has been out nearly 4 months and has been very well-received! But I also feel like it’s reached a fraction of its potential audience. If you can spare a repost and help spread the word, it would be greatly appreciated! www.grundislav.games/Rosewater.html

ICYDK: Godot, the open-source game creation software used to make Dome Keeper, Cassette Beasts, and Brotato, has a VERY beginner-friendly series of online tutorials here. gdquest.github.io/learn-gdscri... It says it requires absolutely zero prior experience with coding, and it means it.

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Nintendo Switch first party games for $39 at Walmart right now: bit.ly/44OPMdp Splatoon 3 New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe Animal Crossing: New Horizons Super Mario RPG Pikmin 4 Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe Send this to a friend who thinks these games never go on sale

Thread Notice how in most of these it always starts out with casual usage, for writing or grammar help or whatever. Don't use this shit. Not even once, not a single time

Yet another, albeit very large reason I will never, EVER use ChatGPT. Generative AI is a plague on society.

Happy #Juneteenth. Make bigots afraid again.

this official art is altering my brain chemistry

Deltarune............................................................ tomorrow!

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giving myself a gold star for this

Been watching HBO’s The Last of Us show, and S1E3 “Long, Long Time” might be one of the best things I’ve ever watched. Such a beautiful story of love. Massive props to Nick Offerman and Murray Barlett. 10/10 would cry again.

I assure you, the experience of driving your car into Manhattan is not in any way an experience of “freedom.” Much closer, viscerally to the experience of confinement, and being caged.

Golf Galaxy’s new The Last of Us Season 2 promotion goes crazy

I just wish this could be a moment for some class consciousness... the switch 2 and its games' prices are, adjusting for inflation, totally fine and more than worth it. Nobody seems to be examining whether their own wages have been adjusted for inflation to match. That's the problem here. argh