Anyone else still have a bookshelf for games? Or have you all gone digital?

A shovel salesman argues that every person needs a shovel, as it's essential for survival. He questions how one could exist without one and suggests that those without a shovel will fall behind. He advocates for Universal Basic Shovels for everyone in the future.

Which game is the blueprint for the third person action adventure genre? What inspired the gameplay of uncharted, last of us, God of war, batman arkham?

Tech designers, how do you your job to normies?

In most modern video games, no matter how cool your character looks, the player is actually just controlling a capsule.

Blue prince is a fantastic game, but the safe puzzles were definitely not designed to be enjoyed but rather inflicted into the player's minds.

Fun game dev fact: If you're holding a map of a place while standing in that place, there's always at least one point on the map that aligns perfectly with its real-world location. This is why mini maps work.

Game designers, learn to adjectify, verbify, and nounify. Your untargetable, dash-charging goblobs will be a lot easier to talk about.

Can someone explain the profability of the streaming model? You have X users that can go up or down monthly. A new series costs Y. Y cost can only be justified if X goes up enough because of the series and stays up long enough for delta X * subcost > Y. Am I missing something?

fun fact: if you draw fanart for a game within the first week of any sort of major PR event for it (announcement, demo, release etc) there is a 99% chance the entire dev team on the game knows who you are because they are doing nothing but reposting fanart in slack

I still can't believe that Grammerly can legally sell thier Gen AI tools to students, while simultaneously selling tools to teachers to detect use of Gen AI in thier students assignments. ChatGPT can you define Conflict of Interest?

How? Like seriously. Where did that money go? Facebook bought oculus over a decade ago for 2 billion , and changed it's name to Meta only 4 years ago. They aren't throwing money at various studios to build VR experiences. Where is this money going??

It's now extremely common to see bots comment on social media posts. Short form content is thier favourite as all they have to do is repeat the last line and put a laughing emoji and they will get a ton of engagement from real people. We are at the gates of hell

People who wait for their friends to be out of earshot before discussing spoilers are the real heroes

Severance is a masterclass of mise en scene. They know how to tell a story by just framing a shot.

The worst position to be in when buying a gift is knowing them well enough to get them something they would love and want, but not knowing them well enough to know if they already have it.

Civilization VII needs a Philomena Cunk mod!

LMAO, Grammerly sells students AI generated text tools to complete and correct their assignments and sells educators tools to auto correct and detect AI in assignments. What a horrible way to play both sides.

I've been trying to track down a ms dos game whose name I don't know but only what it looked like. It's been a nightmare

This is nuts! The game is a gem.

Kristala is a magic-driven ARPG in which you play as a catlike warrior from 1 of 6 clans. Customize your warrior's fur length and pattern - and choose between three different weapon sets at start of game. Play MEOW on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1... #actionrpg #soulslike #indiegame #rpg

Can someone give me a rational argument for why credit checks should affect your credit score? What is it? shrodinger's debt?

Why can't we have an arms race for this?

This is terrifying, but also misleading. It's the equivalent of looking at active player numbers for a single player game months after launch.

What is it about League of Legends that makes it's player more prone to tilt compared to other social online games?

What do people think namaste means??

It's strange how most viral riddles or puzzles are just programming questions.

This is why most tech companies never step into the revenue game. If they are always in loss but gaining customers, they can claim to be valued way higher than the fundamentals reflect. Unfortunately in this finite game of capitalism, there's only so much thier user base is be able to afford.

The biggest scam no one talks about is that Internet speed is measured in BITS per second, and files are measured in BYTES. If you've ever wondered why you're 100mb file takes more than a second to download on 100mbs connection, it's because your Internet speed is 1/8th the speed you think it is.

One day we will move past the questions of whether games are art, and answer the spicier question, which games are not art.

Remember tommorow is the last day you can create your game dev discourse 2025 bingo card! Luckily we already had the Yellow paint discourse so close to the New year so it probably won't happen again until March.

The Yellow paint video irked me when they used immersiveness and realism interchangeably. A game does not need to be realistic to be immersive, it just needs to be consistent. If breakable barrels are marked in yellow paint, a barrel with yellow paint that you can't break is immersion breaking.

One key aspect missing from the Yellow paint discourse is the fact that identifying paths is not the core appealing feature of the game. I don't want to find the path by jumping to my death because it wasn't climable, I just want to get to the top. The Ff7 wall has so many false leads.

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What is a narrative focused game that you would recommend for non gamers? Like Edith Finch?

Riot has always gone out it's way create more multi media projects than any other video game company. People joke that they are a music label pretending to make video games. It might not make them money, but it keeps making me return. They've created enough interest for a heavy narrative driven MMO.

The karts are going to be replaced by shopping carts.

If you see this post an anime that you love

I'm scared. But I hear the voice. it's calling for me.

You know the game awards have a short term memory cause Animal Well was nowhere to be seen.

I had a creative director tell me that game development is "building the airplane you are in mid-air as it is coming in for a landing, and the plane is on fire." Game dev is a non-euclidian, seat-of-your-pants nightmare every minute. You fight problems at every angle constantly. And I love it.

Sharing some of my old work on a new platform. When learning how to make a combat system, I decided to mix up a bit of free flow with firebending.

What is the most important bit of maths for making games?

go.bsky.app/H9yJfCB Resharing a great list of Technical Designers to follow.

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The key to being an effective technical designer is to know enough about code to ensure you're using the bare amount necessary to make something work.

Sooo... What does the 'Open' in OpenAi stand for anymore?

I'm really proud and happy to be working with my coworkers. Definitely feels like a special place to be.