Leonard Nimoy, best known for his role as uncredited U.S. Army staff sergeant in “Them!” (1954)

Bryan Cranston, best known for his role as Ranger Ericsson in the Babylon 5 episode "The Long Night" (1997)

Here's hoping. If the EU can kill predatory F2P mechanics, especially ones that target children while hiding behind smokescreens like "ah, but *technically* it's not gambling", then I'm all for it.

The most hair-pulling part of this is that some of the data stolen was photos of people's government ID. Verifiers keep saying "yeah, we want an ID photo, but we delete it straight away!" Either this company was storing them, or the breach allowed the attackers to grab the data in real time.

Mini of the month competition October - Terrain-ing day Your mission this month involves no minis at all. Instead you are to create a terrain piece from scratch. Old school style. So cardboard, foam, plastic bottles etc. Rules on skeet 2 (please read them) 1/2 #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

I finally understand why timezones are so hard. #gamedev

A couple of scratchbuilt giant wasteland robots (built for Bill Making Stuff Patreon challenges) #FindFolkFriday #Nerdlings

On a visit to Kennedy Space Center I sketched the Atlantis space shuttle. In other news, Atlantis upside down looks like a bewildered shark.

...it's only just hit me that it's called the "Steam Autumn Sale". That doesn't sound weird to me as a Brit, but if you'd asked me to guess what it was called, I'd have said "Steam Fall Sale". It's not just localized for the UK, either, the announcement post uses "Autumn":

My indie puzzle game is going for 40% off in the Steam sale!

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

If you see this, QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhood!

I've started a blog! I'm planning on using my 15 years experience in games to write about being an artist, the struggles we encounter (art block anyone?), tips on working as a professional artist, maybe some tutorials, general thoughts and BTS on my own work! anasteiner.pika.page/posts/septem...

Prototype progress: MORE THAN ONE LEVEL, some dev art, and various bits of behind-the-scenes stitching for level transitions and restarting levels. Slowly turning things into prefabs. #gamedev

I'm not really sure why I slogged through the (rereleased) Hexen again, but I did. I see that one in seven players who did the same dropped it so quickly once they'd killed Korax that they didn't even bother to walk through the final portal to get the "complete the game" achievement.

Electric car acquired! Hopefully I'll never have to buy petrol again. The next job is ordering a home charger installation.

Prototype progress: Collisions handled with manual collider casts, now stable. Internal physics tick disabled. Fine apart from about 2 hours lost because even when Unity's physics tick is running, at the start of FixedUpdate colliders are one step behind and I had to call SyncTransforms 🫠 #gamedev

"Objective public tender decisions" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Slightly diminish a book... Loose Change Island

Uh...this started about 10 mins ago. Although this page describes the problem as a "technical issue", it very much reads like a legal one. Especially the bit about account data not coming back. Something something GDPR, and they're blocking it until they've rewritten some systems? #biblegateway

Prototype progress - one trivial level working, and I'm definitely going to have to handle movement and collision myself, rather than hoping Rigidbody2D will work. #gamedev

Here we go! Prototype of Something New incoming. #gamedev #indiedev

BEHOLD! MY FACE!

Ana is great to work with, and she did an absolute banger of a job on Hexahedra. She did concept art, key art, in-game character and environment illustrations, all fantastic. I'd work with her again in a heartbeat.

Mini of the month - Are you joking? Entry 2 by @sheroqueer.com "Who's the fruitiest warrior ? THE BANAKNIGHT” #Nerdlings #MiniOfTheMonth

I'm BAAAAAAACK! That's right! it's me, Doc, and I'm here to tell you all about guns in first person shooters, hopefully helping you be way more creative in your weapon design by breaking 'em down into the basics that's right, it's FPS Design 102: da guns docseuss.medium.com/the-way-of-t...

My game "Replicube": Code, Logic, and Math never looked so TASTY🍉 25% off on Steam right now to celebrate back to school! s.team/a/3401490

Hey @blackmagicdesign.bsky.social, I know that in an ideal world I wouldn't be trying to edit video on my 1080p laptop, but as it stands it's very hard to sign up because the registration form isn't scrollable (on Firefox or Edge) and is taller than my browser window.

Slightly diminish a band: The 1974

The Talos Principle. Great just as a puzzle game, but also asks the player to seriously engage with questions like "what makes someone a person?"

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 28th More info 👇 grants.draknek.org

All I can think of now is an increasingly mutated, sausage-like mouse struggling to support its weight on its ever-more-distant two pairs of legs. It doesn't want to keep eating, but the child forces it. After collecting the final piece of cheese, the mouse shrieks "tue-moi, je t'en prie".

I always learn something from one of doc's articles, and from now on I shall think of all FPS protagonists as having a camera-shaped head.

As a non-QWERTY user, you quickly realize that there are three basic ways to handle keyboard layouts, with varying levels of frustration. I've rated them, worst to best. Getting this right helps a chunk of your users, and shows that you care about crafting a well-built game. #gamedev 1/🧵

28 Days Later, Evri Still Haven't Delivered My Parcel #MildHorror

As a Linux user, I find it odd that Ellie Chowns can't just make herself leader of the Green Party. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Hello, I am an extra in a bar fight in a Western. Many of us will get hit in the face with glass bottles, but nobody will bleed.

Look, I'm the guy with all the filters on so I don't see NSFW stuff. My only indie game to date has a bloke who's more interested in his mobile barbecue robot than office romance. But a system where two payment processors are deciding what's available and what isn't is a terrible way to run things.

More people are considering AI lovers and we shouldn't judge.

TIL that "flea-bitten horse" refers to its colour, not its status as an insect cafeteria.

Loading computer games via cassette player, listening to the weird garbled noises of fun loading very slowly.

You are a prompt engineer because you try to cajole a hallucinating ignoramus into producing a semblance of an answer. I am a prompt engineer because I deliver work in a timely fashion. We are not the same.

LINE ENDINGS OF COURSE IT WAS LINE ENDINGS AAAAAAA #gamedev

Precision drop by the Automatons for maximum tactical advantage. #Helldivers

Their disguises become harder to detect by the day.

Perhaps he should ask these synthetic voters whether any of them are on the electoral roll. www.spectator.co.uk/article/can-...

A list of amazing stuff. And remember, if you buy a thinky game and you enjoy it, please leave a review and tell your thinky game-enjoying friends!

A friend has got me into Blood Bowl, but I'm a Necron player at heart, so I'm now building the Triarch Titans, a suspiciously metallic Shambling Undead team. Here's the first Mummy, Obduron the Sizeable. #PaintingWarhammer

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.