Here's some of the outer gatefold art & credits. I can smell it. I can taste it.

i dunno I think sometimes people just enjoy talking to like minded people. do you do this kind of shit with your friends offline

Someone actually crunched the numbers, and using GenAI can decrease reviews for indie game on Steam (a useful proxy stat for sales) by as much as *58%* 🤖

hybrid set with @domenig.bsky.social Searching new ways to connect my art, music and writing and got inspired by @stvulture.bsky.social yesterday :) #art #music #electronic #jungle

"Might they say no? Of course. But they might also say yes. We’re broken. We gotta keep shit simple. No complex planning. No calendar bullshit. No ranges of dates. No pencilling shit in. We are very much in “Get in loser. We’re doing crimes.” territory." How to stay friends

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Not just rocket engineers, but this same mode of self-mythologizing is rampant in software engineering across the entire tech industry, deeply enculturated by the PR of the tech companies, VC and founder networks, etc. The virtuous pioneers of cyberspace.

We also finally made an updated version for @lauflauf.games that showcases all our projects. Check it out: lauflauf.games #indiegames #gaming #portfolio

Also, I finally made a new small tiny website for myself, which just lists all the stuff i do and have done: basilsutter.com It runs on pure html and will never break, take that, death of the internet. #portfolio #gamedev #essay

I have written another @lauflauf.games newsletter! This time about summer weather, finally turning systems into content and about the web I have never experienced but feel a strange nostalgia for: mailchi.mp/442bc7deba94... #gamedev #interaction #art

i am more of the view that it's impossible for LLMs to be used for automation myself

ya can't learn to swim in a library

"Expanding a boundary is the wrong phrase or framing. This is more like cooking or gardening. We do new things and experiment to find what we care about, to find new things to share with other people, and to remind ourselves that nothing is static and that we can define the future for ourselves."

Another good reason we (also we as developers and designers) should oppose tracking and unnecessary data collection as much as we can. this world we are in finds ways to turn this data into malicious things

we spent like thirty years arguing about whether games with guns were the problem when it is actually games with any sort of social tracking component. the most violently offensive game in the world has less blood on its hands than pokemon goddamned motherfucking go.

the cars don't drive themselves and we're still nowhere near Mars, but you can't question Elon Musk's ability to deliver screwworms and racial violence

Did you know that in Zurich, Switzerland, there was a space where more than 160 indie devs (including @strayfawnstudio.bsky.social and Blowfish) worked together? It's called the @swissgamehub.com and Sam from @lauflauf.games was kind enough to show me around. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ith...

«Der Denkfehler… liegt darin, dass Menschen keine Hühner sind. Es wurde nie beobachtet, dass ein Huhn zehn- oder hundertmal so viel Futter frisst wie ein anderes, zehn- oder hundertmal so viel Platz beansprucht und zehn- oder hundertmal so viel Dreck macht.» www.woz.ch/2623/gastbei...

mailchi.mp/23c3449d6939... Yesterday we wrote another edition of our @lauflauf.games newsletter! It's about the morra project, progress in Castle Come and our visit to amaze :) #indiegames #amazefestival #gaming

it works, the new renderer is bug free! to catch folks up on the experiment, this is a zero polygon renderer which uses a heightmap raycaster similar to comanche. it's a single pass with terrain + n bookended pairs of layered geometry, so you can do overlaps.

Really pleased to announce we @lauflauf.games received the Migros Storylab grant for early prototype development for our new project "Hand Anthology". A game about migration, cultural legacy of games and Switzerland. storylab.migros-kulturprozent.ch/projects/han... #games #indiegames #gaming

Wonder how long it'll be before they remove the option to disable remixing

Working on the dynamic water system for my cozy building game Island Architect! Think about where water should come from. Should it rain every now and then or should you directly place water sources? More thoughts in 🧵 #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiegame

Another lauflauf newsletter up in the ether. We write about new features for Castle Come us12.campaign-archive.com?e=__test_ema... #gamedev #indiegames #gaming

In a great short essay, @robhorning.bsky.social has some sharp observations on the same phenomenon: «AI slop clips often latch on to news stories and try to show viewers what the news would be like if it could be stripped of its context and presented as maximally engaging to an individual user.»

So, I started a newsletter where I will write longer articles about our research, upcoming exhibitions and collaborations. Sign up here if you're interested: dominicsutter.ch/newsletter/ The image is from two weeks ago testing our interface in Croatia! #diving #ocean #ecology #animals #unity3d

I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer. This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level. taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

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Noch einmal, liebe Medien: bitte aufhören mächtigen, reichen Führungsfiguren nach ihren Prognosen für die Welt zu fragen. Und- so wie @sgenner.bsky.social schreibt- echte Arbeitsmarktexpert:innen zum Thema " KI und Jobs" fragen.

Trans friends, thank you for being you, and for, when you can, sharing yourselves with a world that is so frequently undeserving of the light you bring to it. I love and support you, always. 🏳️‍⚧️🫂🫶

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In other words, companies like OpenAI do not develop consumer products, but merely launch demos that can be retracted once they've fulfilled their function—never mind that in the meantime,they are flooding our mediascape with a deluge of slop and destroying entire cultural sectors in the process 3/

As a game dev it’s not possible *not* to be scared about DLSS 5: It messes with artistic integrity, it messes with artistic intent, it messes with just about everything game designers made *after* they made it. The arrogance of NVIDIA is baffling. kotaku.com/we-spoke-to-...

truly incredible that strava leaks are still happening after all this time

It is a fundamental problem that the games industry is viewed, and often views itself, as a technology problem

Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.

A funny thing happened on the weekend, seems like my AI critical essay from ~2 years ago has hit top google result for said tagwords. I was wondering where the sudden influx of google referrals was coming from. Proud to see it resonate so well. medium.com/@hi_52656/on... #digital #noAI #essay

you ever think about the worlds that were that you will never know?

Wobei: Die emergent narratives, die Spiele wie Dwarf Fortress, RimWorld, Crusader Kings & Co hervorbringen, hat auch keiner geschrieben. Allerdings kommt dabei auch kein blödes LLM unserer eigenen menschlichen Apophänie in die Quere

Der Großangriff von Rechtsaußen auf den ÖR in der Schweiz ist fulminant gescheitert: 61,9 Prozent stimmen dagegen. Das war ein Kraftakt. Aber toll!

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A new Castle Come playtest went up! #indiegames #gaming #gamedev

Same thing happened to the plants that produced menthol, probably also a deterrent to keep mammals from eating them, as menthol binds to our TRPM8 receptor that primarily senses cold (lack of heat). That's why we like cooling mint flavors so much!

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

“The next time someone shares with you some anti-London b******t, be sure to send them this video" Excellent explainer from @evanedinger.bsky.social, countering hate and lies about London www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDky... #racism #hateforprofit #stopfundinghate