Please steal my loading screen ideas using cellular automata:

It's heartbreaking to see other places going through what Russia went through 15-20 years ago. They will be beating you, they will be murdering and raping you. There will be no one to protect you from them, and even legal means will be made moot. Media will be silent, or spinning lies. It's shit.

PS5 Hyperpop collection fucks

I made a free web tool to create gradients along svg paths ✨ With it, you can create masks to animate fancy curves in your games instead of doing it by hand 🐰 qaqelol.itch.io/svg-gradient #Godot #GameDev #Silksong #HollowKnight #SVG

Huh, Eternals was a much more interesting MCU movie than most of the recent ones. Which naturally means it failed miserably at the box office.

32 GB of RAM for 1080p? In this economy? Also, 32 GB of RAM for a game? How many NPC agents are they simulating in those levels?

Gotta say, Quantumania was at least better than Love and Thunder. Editing was weird, especially around some joke inserts, and MODOK was... yeah... But overall a fine entertainment.

It's so bright outside now at midnight because of all the snow. So pretty 🤩

Holy shit, it's snowing!

And now the world will indiscriminately sanction every citizen and business from the US, right? ..Right? … Eh.

For my parents' 50th wedding anniversary, I made 50 tiny doodle frames, showingcasing big and small events from their life together, as well as their hobbies, jobs, pets, places where they lived and traveled to, and more. Assembled on a frame!

I like the optimism!

A few years ago I was on a team moderating a substantially sized community and we had a member on a farther end of the spectrum. It took a significant amount of grace and patience from the entire team to communicate and guide them, and ultimately a hard truth moment. I despise this whole industry.

🎄 Under your tree today is SLAMY with a bunch of new features! 🎁 Effects & filters for sounds in your library! 🎁 Playsets to keep a list of sfx for a rainy day! 🎁 Maaany new hotkeys to be productive in 2026! And more QoL as cherry on top! Still FREE 💰 yurisizov.itch.io/slamy #audio #gamedev #foss

Trending section says that "Happy New Year" is a hot topic. Has anyone heard about that?!

For a country that has been bombed for months mere 25 years ago, people here are entirely too comfortable with loud-ass firecrackers. At least fireworks I can understand.

🎄 Under your tree today is SLAMY with a bunch of new features! 🎁 Effects & filters for sounds in your library! 🎁 Playsets to keep a list of sfx for a rainy day! 🎁 Maaany new hotkeys to be productive in 2026! And more QoL as cherry on top! Still FREE 💰 yurisizov.itch.io/slamy #audio #gamedev #foss

Every time a political disturbance is discussed on Reddit, there are many popular comments claiming it to be a Russian conspiracy and blaming EU politicians for idleness in its wake. I feel like these comments are themselves a part of Russian conspiracy, more than the actual event being discussed.

🎓 A stupidly simple trick. If you have a repeating widget, give each subsequent item a slight color shift. 🎨 In my case, I need to reserve different hues for different filters. So instead I'm just taking the same base color and making it lighter and lighter.

👀 By the way, if you like how SLAMY looks, go support @v3x3d.bsky.social and buy their amazing fonts! itch.io/s/107531/meg... SLAMY uses Tomorrow Night, and that's like half the charm right there! 😍

🧐 For audio effects in SLAMY I didn't want to just show twenty thousand sliders. It's fine to have a couple per form, but it can quickly become monotonous and blind. Not fun, not very pretty! Instead, I'm grouping several parameters into a "profile" widget, which is still sliders, but pretty 🤩

Wait, next Avengers and next Dune are scheduled to come out on the same day? Huh. Huh.

Why do they always hack Sonys and Ubisofts, instead of hacking and releasing full, unredacted Epstein files? Pussies.

Finished Indika, and it's kind of like a short story rather than a full-fledged game. It has something to say, but is unlikely to lead to major revelations about religion. Also not sure why it's tagged as horror... Visually it's as horrific as any typical Russian village (gigantism aside).

So, 2025 ends, eh? My country leaves its people either shattered and hopeless or delusional and disassociated. You can probably guess which particular brand of misery I can accept. But many people and things I'm tied to choose the other option. Which means you can never fully break free from it.

Imperfectly reproducing human behavior to smash humanity in the ‘nads. It’s a perfect allegory.

I had some expectations from a couple of games this year. Expedition 33 delivered big time and made me fall in love with a new genre. Blue Prince, on the other hand, was a huge disappointment. I wish it was more of a puzzle game than a roguelike. Sadly, I didn't play as many new games as I wished.

Why does Godot have a peak filter effect that is not exposed or user accessible in any way? 🤔 Just sits there since the first public commit (although that predates the audio server rewrite of 2017, when the modern effects system was introduced).

Has anyone made a comprehensive stylebox-that-extends-other-styleboxes before? 🤔 #godot #ui

Nobody shares starter packs unless there is an exodus from somewhere :/ It's a cool feature though!

🧐 As I said, so I did! You can now organize sounds into sets (with user notes!) using SLAMY. Along with multiple shortcuts added and improved (and some bugs fixed), this turns into a pretty nice update! Now, one more feature to look into... #audio #gamedev #foss

Sometimes I look at a clock, and it says 12:34, and I think "yeah, that's alright"

If my last GDScript fact didn't make you uncomfortable, this one surely will! You can indicate your intention to type a function argument, but forgo actually typing it.

Fun fact: in GDScript you can add as many whitespace characters between the property accessor operator and the property identifier as you want. Are you mad enough to start aligning your code like that? Am I?!

I keep rewatching this clip, and damn, it was like a lifetime ago... We made the bulk of it (the UI, the platform) like 4 years ago to the date. 'Twas such a lovely time, and my most kindly remembered experience working in a team since I left my office job for gamedev and related activities.

We made this free open source app to help people take their first steps with coding. It's used in schools and part of Godot docs' getting started series. After focusing on our curriculum, I'm back to improving it. Next version drops in January with clearer lessons where newcomers struggle most.

Been hanging out in my head the last few days, with no creative will in sight. So I decided to do some improvements to SLAMY! There are so many shortcuts now, I started hanging them all over the place 🎄

Where were you when the great boom of hitboxes enthralled us in 2014-2016? Were you a part of the hitbox bubble collapse?

I'd rather they did hallucinogenic drugs. That'd be like human brain at 200% rather than at 0.0001% when it's on GPT.

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

When one country invades another, there is only one side who is in the right. When one country sieges and bombs another, there is an obvious choice who to support. Why is it, when our creative spaces and life in general get attacked, some people go like "🤔 let's have a nuanced conversation"?

Anybody used itch.io community boards successfully for their project? I was thinking it might be a good alternative to Discord for keeping discussions public and indexable... And yet, I realize now that I've never ended up on those pages when looking up something online.

This is the sentiment that I see from every professional artist and game developer in the last couple of days. And yet, you visit, say, Reddit, and become awash with players calling critics crybabies who know nothing about game development :/ Perhaps SkillUp can make some of them listen.

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...

Something changed between Godot 4.3 and 4.5, and native file dialogs no longer block the parent window. Which is, like, really bad. It used to work on Windows, but not on Linux. Not sure about Godot on macOS, but all three OSes (Linux w/ X11 at least) are capable of that behavior in principle.

This whole Larian situation makes me realize that it's not one studio's tech decisions that hurt the soul the most. It's this wide public stance that ends justify the means when it comes to one's entertainment, as hundreds of artists scream in agony. Unionize, or something.. Players def don't care.

Early-access version of my #godot powered music making program Power Composer is available for download! Check out here: powercomposer.net Here's a vid I made describing what Power Composer is www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFT-... And you can join the discord for discussion/updates! discord.gg/N7XVfpG3

I see pictures with my mind’s eye that I want to show others. I get excited when they enjoy them as I do.

Two worst words in UX in 2025: "not now". "Not now" robs you of any agency. "Not now" pretends to have decency. "Not now" threatens and makes you anxious. You cannot say "no", "not ever", "stop". You are being coerced and abused. You are being pressured and violated. Big tech loves that.

🔊👂 Working on sound effects and audio design is lotsa fun! SLAMY helps a ton with that, but also shows what it's missing (like more hotkeys for everything). Interesting how different the game sounds with headphones and through speakers 🤔 In any case, it really comes together now! #gamedev #audio