Chat, is it good sign for a technology's adoption that when some rag claims a dev is using it, the immediate response from their publisher is "Delete this or we'll see you in court"

guess who just got 🎵yelled at🎵

"I blow on your pussy" "Roll for initiative"

Everything I done did over the past two weeks! I try to write these changelogs every Sunday, but I got really, really busy with work 😅 #IndieGameDev #GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev #WLCG

The thing about writing weekly changelogs is that it always gets me chomping at the bit to fix the fucking gggaammmeee

One of the surprising things I learned from a character artist yesterday is that my character should have more bones! 🦴 By adding some fake hip bones, I can create much more range in my animation! As long as I patch up the images 😅 #IndieGameDev #GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev #WLCG

A repost for my most faithful reposter is the least I can do 🫡

SuccuDeck (2026)

Yes hello, former senior dev here: Every time someone says “AI does [useful thing]” you can place a safe bet that what they actually mean is “a machine learning algorithm trained on very specific high quality data does [useful thing]”

It's not an "evil spell book", it's an-

Amazing things are happening

I want to play this pornographic video game

This is literally what I do btw. I listen to my horrible Vocal Trance mixes on FreeTube at work and spend my previously-Spotify money on the music that's actually good on Bandcamp 🎶

And that's a wrap on the last Amsterdam Indie Gamedev Meetup of the year! I got some great feedback on my character skinning efforts from an actual artist today 😊

I know he’s only using it as a general example, but when talking about this with artist and writer friends I often say a variation of: genai doesn’t impact me as much as it does you so I can be more nuanced, but the moment someone hands me a generated design doc I will go absolutely nuclear

Reskeet to jumpscare a level designer

It's not an "evil spell book", it's an-

Why would you make tear up over a stupid car like this 😭

Another great giveaway. What if Silent Hill was set in London and about toxic romance instead of trauma. There's a little bit of Killer7 vibe in there too, and you can't miss the vocal boss themes.

Put another way, *two-thirds* of people over 45 hate GenAI in games already, and we're really only two years in

LOOK AT MY BEAUTIFUL SOOOOOOON

Is this Pluribus

Any artist worth their salt will tell you that a napkin sketch is better than some prompted garbage, because it allows them to fill in the blanks. It's been so great to work with @emilydrawsstuff.bsky.social, who turned my messy strip club sketch into something gorgeous for SuccuDeck 😘

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

What's great about GenAI for games is that instead of paying an artist pennies to draw a custom icon, you can get some double-barelled slop that does serious harm to your premium brand for practically free

As a retired newsletter writer: If it's too hard to identify GenAI usage in media, your job as a journalist is to ask loudly why that is, and who stands to gain from that perception

What's great about GenAI for games is that instead of paying an artist pennies to draw a custom icon, you can get some double-barelled slop that does serious harm to your premium brand for practically free

Imagine having two Weird Little Guys in your home that hiss and run back their cuddle pile when your hands get too close 😭

CONGRATS TO "Sorry We're Closed" FOR BEST DEBUT INDIE AND TO "Blue Prince" FOR GOTY!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉✨✨✨

Clair Obscur’s now confirmed Gen-AI usage during the development process has caused their IGA debut and GOTY wins to be retracted.

If you like Super Mario Brothers 3 you should definitely check out Kitsune Tails. It's the only non-ROM hack completely original spiritual successor to SMB3 specifically that I can think of, and it's a very good one at that. Play the lesbian fox platformer with kuribo shoes

The payment processors have finally pushed too hard on American hegemony, and something broke 😊

a better world is possible

Trying to get those last animations in before the gamedev meetup tomorrow 😘 #IndieGameDev #GameDev #IndieDev #WLCG

I finally started playing Clair Obscur, and I'm trying very hard to resist the urge to completely redesign my own turn-based battler around its combat system 😅

my honest reaction

They put their biggest, scariest plans in the one place they knew Americans would never look: Inside the covers of a glossy book available to order

Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974

Turns out Kubrick was in the files too

They're practically giving away the monsterfucking, folks!!

This is a list of "your favorite game designer's favorite games", which is SICK

PNG Tuber reference sheet ✨ Clean, expressive, and ready for streaming! Open for PNG Tuber & VTuber commissions 💜 DMs open for work! #pngtuber #vtubermodel #referencesheet #characterdesign #commissionopen #christmasoffer #christmascommissionopen #artwork #noAI

There are no games

I've said it before but as an indie game developer, your primary mode of competition (whether it be for money, time, mind-share) is not against other indie games. It's not even Indie vs. AAA. The war you are fighting is "Games as an art form" vs "Games as a service"

My nephew only plays Rocket League *through* Fortnite. We've agressively focused on monetization for the past decade or more, and the bill has come due. Players aren't moving from mobile to console, and they're not even moving from game to game anymore

Statues of these American deities could be found in many dwellings, displayed in prominent places of the household

Writing an effective prompt for an LLM is like writing a contract for a ten-year-old that is looking to get back to his LEGOs, and this is a very good example on how to constrain the output to what you want it to do

I use a single 4K monitor as my daily driver. It has a 16:9 aspect ratio, which means I can run games at 1440p, and it's large enough to put windows side-by-side. The only downside is when giving presentations, I cannot have my notes on a separate screen

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.