But then how will the parasite that attached itself to so many communities make any *money*? Won't you think of the poor parasite?!

the secret truth is that GDC always felt like 4 different conferences to me under a single roof * professional knowledge-sharing and meetup conf with messy economic intersection due to the expense of talks * weird AI/crypto showfloor * cool grassroots showfloor dev stuff * publisher meeting hub

the best thing that could happen to the industry is for gdc to just go the way of e3 and be replaced by something that's more sensible and takes place somewhere people can actually travel to

Remember when they had GDC Europe? and GDC China?

'it's okay for us to set bad moderation policy and apply it inconsistently because you can always take your ball and go home (we'll just prevent the vast majority of users from seeing your posts)' at this point reads as willfully dishonest

it's kinda funny to see toby rip down the facade, say "hey, you can make your own stuff, imagine stuff for yourself, there's always gonna be mysteries" and then seeing people immediately go "NOOO GO DOWN THE STAIRS/LOOK AT NOELLE PLEASEEEE"

Them: "The TV series Kojak had a pilot movie" Me: "Okay, sure, that makes sense, a lot of them did back then" Them: "the movie is almost 2 hours and 20 minutes long" Me: "What is this, modern cape garbage?"

"An investigation by the Intercept, the Nation and DeSmog found that The Economist is one of the leading media outlets that publishes advertising for the fossil fuel industry."

Basic functionality people have been asking for *forever*

I can see my house from up here

Platform holders want you to call what you make and what you enjoy as content for you consume or binge and nothing more. They want you to devalue the work you make and the work of others you enjoy. Like Anna says give your art more respect and respect your peers to not devalue their work as well.

Oxford has been around since 1096. Imagine tossing almost a thousand years of academic reputation into the garbage, setting it on fire, and then pissing it out over a useless fucking plagiarism machine what loses billions of dollars a year telling people to kill themselves.

I'm starting to get texts about this now so I guess I need to say something: There is a fundraiser going around about a "preservation disaster" raising money right now that I highly advise you to stay very far away from. A particular British tabloid is running with it unquestioningly. Thread:

Developers and AI experts explore the nuanced reasons for growing concern about generative AI reducing the quality of games.

I actually think it’s good when deeply offputting users have horrible AI avatars. its the 2025 version of this

In these really trying times when the games industry is in such a dire state and finding work is very hard even for experienced and versatile professionals, it's good that I never tied my self-worth to success in the industry or how my work is perceived. Unfortunately I did tie paying rent to it,

Let what happened to rubygems galvanise you into switching languages for your projects

"It's no use, Mr. James—it's game betas all the way down."

Sure the new moderation policy doesn't make any sense, but all of us on this website are already in violation of another, higher rule

the “Play for Peace - Games for Palestine 2025 Charity Bundle” needs as much support as it can get right now. it’s halfway there with just 2 days to go! itch.io/b/2979/play-... please share and spread the word.

"We have to prove we aren't violent. We have to be better." Okay show me a single instance in world history when offering no resistance to tyranny led to anything but brutal exploitation and murder.

same brain cell that comes up with buying a product and destroying it to try and hurt a company

I don't know who came up with #blueskyblackout2025 but it's an impossibly stupid idea, and you obviously shouldn't do it. They want NSFW creators gone. Why tf would you offer that up to them willingly?

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

I keep this Kongregate image around as a reminder of how easily huge chunks of the video game scene can vanish without a trace. Similarly, ゲームアツマール (kinda like Japan's Newgrounds, but based on RPG Maker) died in 2023 without a single note on Western media... how many die without us even knowing?

Kitsune Tails is still on sale for 30% if a weekend of disaster sword lesbian fox girls sounds like a good time store.steampowered.com/app/1325260

Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant. Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

my brother you invented a casio

DO NOT participate in #blueskyblackout2025 I'm nsfw artist and other nsfw artists are asking you to SHOUT! Bsky wants to censor us so the worst thing we can do is censor ourselves! Publicly shame them, use the feedback button, and post about it using the tag #bskycensorship Silence is compliance!

71. Sucking up to abusers and bigots will not protect you. I repeat: SUCKING UP TO ABUSERS AND BIGOTS WILL NOT PROTECT YOU.

We're welcoming back Back to Black, Feb. 5-8, 2026!!! Get ready to celebrate Black speedrunning talent alongside @blackinaflash.bsky.social as we raise money for @raceforward.org!! Learn more about BaF and how to join: gdq.gg/baf #BlackJoy #blackspeedrunning

No, but you see, it's a White Failson Simulator, and those guys *never* admit they're wrong, so why would their god they're creating in their own image ever do so?

Not to be all "back in my day" - but BACK IN MY DAY When all sorts of NSFW silliness was going on in Deviantart or subculture forums when someone found a thing they didn't like, THEY HIT THE BACK BUTTON AND MOVED ON :P

Dude I'm not even a NSFW artist and I think it in all its forms should have a place here because there is no way in hell some mod or 3rd party auto solution is gonna ever get it "right". People can already curate their feeds and they have some moderation tools, who is all that stuff really harming

i resent how every time i do an internet search for something now the browser takes a guess at explaining what i am searching for at me. i know what i am looking for actually, do not presume i need it explained, how insulting

block and sky light have been separated, the lighting system is complete, and i have made the sloppiest day night cycle ever to showcase it! enjoy 💜 #EniBlockGame #GameDev 🎮

Sorry for not streaming in a while but we are BACK!! Daikon and I will be #streaming #HappyHour tonight from 9PM UTC+9! The show is a #Japanese and English bilingual stream introducing some cool #IndieGames we found. Come hang out and find new stuff to play! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTp...

Another Sunday project, Ravine, full Houdini -> Unreal workflow, scatters cached out and read by PCG, Hardware Lumen, Real-Time on 4090. #EnvironmentArt #UE5 #UnrealEngine #GameDev #Houdini #Lookdev #Lighitng

<Hbomberguy voice> And how would people interact with your hypothetical fucking never-in-a-million-years "superintelligence" or those stupid "AI" agents, Jakob? </Hbomberguy voice> No "Aquaman?!" equivalent at the end, because literally how would you Use a thing you have no Interface for. Clown.

when an online thing requires us to use a phone app instead of being able to do it on the computer, in browser. especially if it involves typing, money, or anything important. those are big screen, real keyboard activities.

actions that will contribute more to pushing against bluesky's censorship than a blackout: -submitting a feedback request -@ing moderation about it -commenting on mods posts about it -making and sharing memes (ex: "i consent!" sticker) -leaving an app store review -just generally posting about it

There's no fucking ads shoved down your throat making them money on this site, so they won't notice you doing Absolutely Nothing for your little performative Hashtag Blackout. What, you think you're the Protagonist of Reality and everyone will miss your posts? For fuck's sake. Get in their faces.

This is a BAD idea from a tactical pov all this means is an issue that bsky mods do NOT want controversy around will have NO posting about it for a full week a large number of people who come back from the "blackout" will likely not start up the complaints again it hamstrings the cause

I dunno, folks, maybe I just feel some kind of way about constant sniggering behind ivory towered hands about people "refusing" to read texts which they simultaneously, openly admit are intentionally hard, *during the entire West abandoning everyone to the pandemic of literal airborne brain damage*

"...we have to take into account biological factors such as muscle mass..." MUSCLE MASS CHANGES WITH HORMONE THERAPY! Please learn something, anything, just the most basic things about trans people before weighing in on these "concerns" or you just end up looking like an easily duped fool at best.

Not me looking at the multiple loc projects I've been sidelined from in the past year because I had the temerity to tell my PMs there were problems with how things were being run/structured and getting rid of me and my decade of experience was easier than reforming stuff or talking to the client. 🙂

Bro, you made an entire game about how people who put up the pretense of honor are not themselves honorable people, and sometimes you gotta kill a man to free the people. And I was waiting for the sequel, but not so much now

Bluesky manufacturing consent to ban swathes of NSFW material is not a separate phenomenon to the payment processor thing, yes? RETVRN to Wholesomeness, Ban This Sick Filth, ThinkOfTheChildren™; some art is *degenerate* — but for everything else, there's MasterRaceCard

Eldritch's code has been open sourced since 2014, and this alpha version (which is basically the entire game as it originally shipped) has been on the Internet Archive since 2020, and still Eldritch is our best selling game every month. Sharing code and builds and stuff doesn't hurt sales.

I've just released version 1.1.0 of my #UE5 SDF Plugin. Now featuring some extra material functions, some basic materials and this nifty interactive explainer / examples / tutorial window Windows binaries for 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6 up in github github.com/rtm223/RTMSDF #gamedev #UnrealEngine