Lately, there’s been a lot of worry over game discs. But did you know there’s one disc that will never let you down? That’s right: I’m talking about Aten, the disc of the sun— the only god you’ll ever need to worship.

REDLINE (2009)

I am too tired to go into detail again, but in my experienxe GIT is not suitable for artists in gamedev. No, LFS does not fix the issue. It is the way GIT is structured and designed that directly conflicts to the way artists need to work. Run. Away.

this is so fucking funny

Today I was discussing Executive Dysfunction with some folks, and how in our household we call it "The Sits" I decided to make an info poster. It's based on my personal experience with it. Yes, the person is me 😆 #neurodivergent #memes #executivedysfunction

Throughout almost 5 years working on @destinythegame.bungie.net, the main processes I contributed to were our static marketing assets including Gear & Character Composites, & Key Art, working in the amazing Creative Studios team.💠 Here's some highlights. Let me know your favorite piece!

I think at the extreme, artistry at all cost is to manifest your vision, process be damned craftsmanship at all cost, is a beautiful gem you spent ages polishing, but will never finish creativity at all cost is a fascinating philosophical exercise in problem solving, but with nothing to show for

It’s important to know your faults. For example if I’m not careful my Kermit the Frog impression will often veer into Marvin the Martian territory

Don't take what Tim Sweeney says at face value. His only goal is to force everyone into the ecosystem he controls so he can extract rent from everyone forever. He is not making statements from a position of good faith.

1) Open this image up 2) Find the small, blue feature in the very middle Congratulations, you've spotted the Perseverance rover on Mars, photographed from orbit! 3) Trace the rover tracks as they wend their way across the surface

I held out hope that there would be someone who could see reason in the absurdity of this situation, but I guess not. It really is the end, and it could've been so easily avoided.

Our next CGDA Masterclass is focusing on the narrative side of our industry this time. July 10th, doors open at 5 and the event starts at 5:30. You can find more details here: www.showpass.com/cgda-masterc... As with our other masterclasses this is free for CGDA+ members!

watching twilight and I keep making myself laugh imagining if it was just that bitch alucard or any other vampire instead of Edward

A good, if not overly important, read about the reality of AI. I've shifted from "that's ass" to "oh it can sometimes be neat" to "wow, that's actually competent", and none of it was from using it directly. The most beneficial thing to do is to be aware of what AI is capable of, even if you hate it.

AI: virtually no subject provokes such vitriol in my communities. I can grant the haters many of its harms, but their solutions leave much to be desired. I fear for the future even as I wonder at the future we are living. And so, dear hater, I must write: shaping.systems/blog/ai-suck...

Getting DMs from a bunch of indie devs being suspended from X/Twitter. Just. Leave. It. You don’t need X. It’s terrible.

Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive. Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.

AI is forcing a wedge between those who see any given craft as a means to an end vs. those who have learned to enjoy and value the skillful execution of the craft itself

I think Aura's take here is a much better explainer for AI discourse in games right now - climate, water, energy, rights: these things are all important and part of the discussion, but it makes people think they can explain away particular parts to justify things. It doesn't work like that.

And I say this as someone whose work has been routinely misunderstood for the last fifteen years, long before half of today's vibecoders knew what the letters AI stood for. It's a little different as a scientist, sure, but I think the people who are afraid and hurt deserve more sympathy than most.

I'm trying to find a nice way to phrase/frame my other thoughts but a lot of it boils down to "if you started using AI in your gamedev in the last 18 months you presumably did it knowing exactly how many people you'd piss off if they found out".

Bevy, the Rust language powered Data-Driven 2D/3D game development framework just released Bevy 0.19. Well sorta "just" released... gamefromscratch.com/bevy-0-19-re... #gamedev #indiedev #rust

Monday Mood

ME, EVERY SINGLE MONDAY, 6:45AM:

Best Art Style at Game Con Canada went to Project Visceral from The Foundation! @thefoundationgames.bsky.social @gameconcanada.bsky.social

Bevy 0.19 is out now! It features Next Generation Scenes, Render Bigger Scenes Faster, Contact Shadows, More Feathers Widgets, Text Input, Richer Text, App Settings, Post Processing Effects, Improved Skinned Mesh Culling, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-19

First time I'm in the contributors list, so happy to help get this out!

Any mutuals at NAGIS & GCC in Edmonton this weekend?

Everything coming out of that Unreal event is ... Not looking good.

I made a petition for Epic Games to keep Blueprints in Unreal Engine 6. Maybe if we get enough signatures Epic will realize how idiotic it is to completely replace Blueprints for their ridiculous text-only programming language, Verse. #unreal #gamedev #indiegame

Artistic comrades do not outsource thinking to AI. You already own the means of production, do not give it away.

Ahhhh so that's what 3 days of crunch before a convention feels like. No thanks, not again 🙃

Broke the Plasma login managers (both SDDM and PLM) by deleting .cargo from my home directory. I guess my shell (fish) was looking for a file in .cargo and because it couldn't find it the login managers would crash? I don't even know anymore man.

✨

Tip for #IndieGameDev / #GameDev working on LARGE games in #bevy Focus harder on plugin isolation. I am breaking my game into workspace crates and the “exceptions” I made are painful. If I knew I would have to break things out into crates I would not have treated isolation as an academic nicety.

obsessed with thomas. happy pride 🪿🌈✨

this is insane

Exciting times for Rust on consoles! Looking forward to seeing how different engines are able to work with it! akaganite.com

Couch Chilis is pleased to announce we entered a partnership with Geofront to help them finish their game, POLDERS! POLDERS is a casual city builder inspired by Dutch history, and like our games, it is built with #Bevy. store.steampowered.com/app/3417550/... #gamedev

AI bros need to realize that "Art" is the process, not the product. They'll consistently try to make better tools, better prompts, better anything, when the fundamental problem is that what they're trying to "solve" is antithetical to art itself.

When the sinuses finally clear after a head cold

Because you owned them.

Now that I'm back home, getting into all the out-of-game bullshit with Sony and Bungie is making me genuinely mad. My heart breaks for the devs that are getting laid off or shuffled around, and to let a massive, red-hot franchise like Destiny go dormant is just infuriating.

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

I’m really digging Randy Chitto’s sculptures