a chance to thaw? - artfight attack for @puddor.bsky.social of their OC, Blake! I love this guy sm, he's so cool... hehe ❄️ #artfight2025 #artfightteamfossils #artfight

Without good coding oversight, the current batches of AI will produce poor practice and buggy code. Without a creative mind, you can't have an engrossing story. Without good play testers you end up with a poor play experience. without a good code team you can't make repairs, patches or upgrades.

important life hack for video games

perhaps someday we'll treat the statement 'keep politics out of games' with the same derision that we treat 'keep politics out of music' games have been political for longer than gen z have been alive

time for my new favorite tumblr post

Game dev is a highly collaborative process and ignoring the credits and contributions of others not only can stifle or even hurt the careers of devs, it also perpetuates the common mistreatment of many devs. You should ALWAYS credit people who work on your titles, be it contract, outsource, ect.

"not proship or anti but an adult with a job lol" okay listen I don't use the labels either because I think "tastes in fiction are not inherently indicative of character" is common sense, but this little silly internet argument DOES harm people and you're dismissing it.

mm yeas I love calling the honours government body imbeciles for allowing morrison to get the AC award 2000+ dead to suicide I was almost one of them. I got my Robodebt letter shortly after losing a job. I had just enough severance pay to cover it. If I didn't have that money...

this just wrecked me emotionally. hey, SE. we're still here. we'll be waiting here.

Getting stuck while we're writing is a feature, not a bug. It's the point of the exercise. It's what happens when we are trying to express something we have not expressed before. That friction forces us to make the tools we need to understand and express it. Getting stuck is how we make meaning.

existing as an autistic person is doing something as simple as opening a door and seeing the sims negative impression responses pop up over people’s heads but not knowing why

I get people being upset about the price of the Switch 2, but the main problem that people should be talking about isn't the price of the console, but the wage you're being paid. Overall video game prices have not gone up in price while basically everything else has in the last two decades (1/2)

wow look at all of these better alternatives to Adobe that exist ask me about Pixelart programs if interested in that aspect specifically because you *definitely* don't need PS for that, lol

My game was featured on two DIFFERENT fangame spotlights and I had no idea...I'm flabberghast and so incredibly appreciative to be featured alongside some of the absolute monoliths of Final Fantasy fangames and roms. www.thegamer.com/best-final-f... www.fandomspot.com/best-final-f...

world map making is fun. I can create not-australia and make it perfectly accurate and able to host the correct capital city

Happy "Microsoft trying to force CoPilot subs" day in the UK for all who celebrate. (They just pinged me my renewal notice with it carefully worded to sound like a compulsory general price increase). 1) Go to your account page 2) Hit cancel 3) Change sub back.

how does one test an ARG...

"how would you discipline your kids" easily. i'd sit them down and take away every game except the lion king for the snes

Sorry, as someone who's somewhat invested in the games industry, the price needs to go up. For both indie and triple A titles. Inflation has hit everything EXCEPT videogames, and the expectation to ship insane units or nuke a studio is killing careers.

i miss my boy

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i love how the sentiment is 'creators, somehow manage 10 different socmeds at the same time at full throttle' as opposed to 'if you like someone's work, follow them everywhere'. SocMed management is a full-time job with just 2-3 platforms if you want to maintain momentum....

A game everyone should play at least once in their lifetime. #FinalFantasyVIII

i love this app. i love the little fantasy of being able to control my coziness level, of being able to have a fire going whenver, to have total control of my work environment. It's lovely.

GAME JAMMERS! I wrote a thread with tips on how to build a team, how to find one, and some general advice for participating in game jams! itch.io/jam/road-tri... #RoadTripJam2025 #gamedev #indiedev

if you want artists to make weirder art, you have to create stable living conditions that allow them to. homogeneity isn't a matter of artists lacking culture-- there are many soulful artists out there-- it's a matter of unregulated corporate dominance combined with artists who cant afford to create

Final Fantasy VIII ~ ファイナルファンタジーVIII (1999) Developed by Squaresoft.

We used this for a cooking segment in a visual novel project (unreleased)-- they're super cute and there's massive variety, please check them out!

Pizza Hut Demo Disc 1 (PS1 / 1999) - Final Fantasy VIII Trial Version opening

she was my friend, and my god ate her #ffxivart #valerianart

I'm uncomfortable with the inevitable "his work was always crap" because it seems to say "you can tell who the predators are by how well they write" and ... no no you absolutely cannot, that's the whole point.

A simple guide to avoiding cancellation: 1) Keep your hands to yourself. Fans & colleagues aren't there for your sexual gratification. 2) No, really. Keep your hands to yourself. 3) Don't say hateful shit. 4) Avoid thinking hateful shit. It's not hard. 5) That's it. Hands. Hateful shit. Really.

why do I feel anxious

i love book research

chekov's arsenal for when you know you'll have many, many guns

AI is for people who hate the craft & mistake art for its end product

i want to make content for the lucifer tv series - SPECIFICALLY the TV series - and I'm running into a moral conundrum because of Gaiman creating the characters originally. Like, where is the line drawn? The show is loosely based on the comic series, that was based on Gaiman's work.

They've paywalled the #NeilGaiman article by Lila Shapiro, so here's an archived version. Be warned, it's deeply disturbing. archive.is/HJtxW

i'm so fucking sick of digusting cretin men

i watch a show to get inspired and while I am inspired its not in the right respects but, tbf, any writing is good writing

POOB HAS IT FOR YOU!

im gonna be real one of my favourite styles of flashback episode is where all of the main cast have brushed upon each other but its not time yet iirc og Heroes did a REALLY good one, i should rewatched the first 2 seasons some time