ouughh i need to make an announcement that shroudfall cove is likely discontinued and wont have a full release but i am scared OTL especially because we JUST got a nice comment last week

In a pkm mood today! #nonwaste_oc #art

If you're looking for company this holiday season, try hanging out with the gang at Honey Twigs? Maybe you can even score a date :3c crayoncat.itch.io/honey-twigs-...

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merry starlight🎄

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

i am currently making a visual novel about an amnesiac girl that's green, and who needs to decide if she wants to remember the buff himbo thats red, or the cool butch thats blue it's called Truth Scrapper, and you can wishlist it Right Now 📚 store.steampowered.com/app/3239830/...

Wow, been a while since I posted. Holidays have been kicking my butt! But things should be getting back to normal soon! Merry Christmas to all the awesome people out there! —- #christmas #merrychristmas #bayonetta #art #fanart #christmasart #xmas #xmasart #nintendo #christmaswitch #santa #pinup

Wishing every JP artist a very "join bsky so I can see your art again"

わくわくを一緒に #christmas2025 #クリスマスイラスト2025

do robots dream of electric hoes?(?)

🌸 #ff7 #aerith

sorry i get on to bsky just be a huge bitch about gen-AI

Also, the "huge uproar[...]some reason" is so dismissive. The "journalist" did not even bother trying to genuinely find out why the community was so outraged. Attributing it to amorphous, random reasons invalidates actual concerns over using a harmful tool (if you want to call it one).

besides the obvious near-term concrete win here (congratulations Blue Prince, new winner of GOTY) I appreciate this also hopefully makes ultra clear to newer teams that even if their work was as well received as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, AI'll make it ineligible or get an asterisk in awards shows

Only $20 away from the goal!! WE CAN DO THIS #VNDev

the little "mrrrrph" sound cats make when they jump from a high place reskeet if u agree

only a few hours into this game jam and i am not having fun at all :|

Related to this disaster of a move by @girlswhocode.bsky.social, is there an organization/non-profit focused on increasing the number of women in computer science that we could support instead?

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

It's the most wonderful time of the year~ no, not Christmas, silly. #PolyJamorous2025 ! ✨ Let's celebrate polyamorous romance together, jam runs from Nov 1st-Feb 14th 🩷 Credit to @reclusedreamer.bsky.social for the stunning artwork! itch.io/jam/polyjamo...

not to beat a dead horse but i also think that inexperienced, aspiring devs think concept art is polished and clean which is simply not true. it doesn't help that artbooks and promo material often show very well-rendered images as concept work. there's a lot of scribbling during the initial phases.

"but what if they can't draw" here's hideo kojima making level blockouts for metal gear solid 1 and 2 with LEGO I am begging AI bros to use their brains for two seconds

It's been one year. I’ve written a long post reflecting on nearly quitting game dev, on rejection, on why I make deeply personal games, and why I will continue even if doors stay closed and resources never come. meiri.itch.io/one-last-sto... #VNDev #indiedev #gamedev #DoceFim

"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-" wrong I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI get good

the thing that drives me insane about genAI/chatgpt bullshit is that brother, the process IS the work IS the entire thing. no artist comes to art for the final result. the final result is inextricable from the fucking labor that came into making it

If you want to communicate your idea to an artist all you need is 30 seconds and the basic ability to grip a pen

I dont know why so many think that the process of ideation is so tedious that it must be delegated to gen-ai. Spending hours looking for references is important- sometimes seeing some refs can change your idea, or make your idea better. Or it can even give you the push to scrap it and start over.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found out he was a bug and not a feature.

“AI is inevitable” yeah so is dying, bro. Go create something with the time you have left here

That’s making the game!! If you don’t like that part of making the game, don’t make that a feature of the game or hire a weird pervert who does like recording a million barks and efforts (affectionate)!! Don’t turn to the environment-ruining plagiarism machine, christ.

bluesky makes every post i make blow up now EXCEPT for posts about my game, but nevertheless, i will never shut up about it. if you need a good night inside this holiday season, go read my visual novel, parfum nostalgique. priro.itch.io/parfum-nosta... it's free. you pay with your tears.

ngl the larian news has been super demoralizing and frustrating. A lot of studios are going to look at them and think hey yeah we should do that too. ://

I've seen lots of acceleration due to the use of AI: acceleration of inequality, acceleration of climate catastrophe, acceleration of slop, acceleration of trust collapse, acceleration of scams, acceleration of model collapsed acceleration of misinformation, acceleration of drought

Been spending my annual winter hibernation rediscovering my love for indie web dev. So now I have a Neocities site! It's still a bit of a work in progress, but there's some art in the gallery that I haven't posted publicly 👀 ✨ hollowmend.neocities.org ✨

The concept, the essence of a thing is what makes us strive to fullfil it Where we start is JUST as Important as where we end up People thinking that the "Output" or "Content" is what matters instead of the actual process have lost touch with what it means to create or be human

+Road Kamelot+

I've opened a permanent artist interest form for Meiri Games. If you're an artist interested in illustrating for visual novels in the future, fill it out! 💝 Shares appreciated. I want to find talented folks to work with! forms.gle/PaubzgH7U112... #VNDev #indiedev #gamedev

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Being unable to tolerate frustration + chasing social media clout gotta be a big reason why ppl jumped on the gen ai machine to churn out slop

If you consider random NPC dialogue "boring and unimportant" and you're okay with relegating that to gen AI, frankly I can't trust that the rest of your narrative is any good either.

Demonschool's credits show rest of games industry how it's done aftermath.site/demonschool-...

this is a real indie dev horror story an unorthodox game getting pre banned by steam and the team patently and methodically attempting to get in touch with a human at valve to sort it out and just getting nowhere

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