NEW: For the last seven weeks, Naughty Dog has enacted mandatory overtime for staff to finish an internal demo of their next game, Intergalactic. The game won't be out until 2027, leaving some staff wondering: If they're crunching now, what will next year be like? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

i think it’s fine, but not ideal, to crunch for a week or two, with buy-in from individuals who can and want to participate because they want the game to be extra on release. but to -order- months of team crunch… for an internal demo?! that is f’ing gross. aftermath.site/naughty-dog-... #gamedev

Inverse Kinematics returns to Godot 4.6! 🕺 After a long wait, IK is back with significant improvements. Tokage breaks down the new implementation:

Absolute game-changer Proper profiling support was one of my main pet peeves with Godot and GDScript, next to the lack of interfaces/traits

submitted my Quake level "One Need Not Be A House" to Quake Brutalist Jam 3, one of 50+ maps!! the mod will maybe release in a few weeks, after QA and bug fixes

I've explained the concept of "virtual scrolling" in UI several times recently, so I decided to put together a small graphic. If you have a scrolling list of items that are all the same height, you can use a simple calculation to only process the ones currently on screen.

It's got less spyware. It doesn't have a subscription. It has buttons. It generally works and if not is easier to repair. It's not as easy to get hacked. They don't get constant pop ups and ads. They're fucking right too. Tech has just become rent seeking bloatware.

Anti-ICE poster spotted in Portland, Oregon

It was a rotten idea from the get go, of course - but I think another issue is that Meta is a remarkably terrible software developer in general

Vous avez sorti un jeu cool en 2025 et n'avez pas forcément de quoi le soumettre aux #Pégases2026 ? Cette industrie a besoin de plus de diversité, de personnes comme de contenus ! Je prends en charge vos frais d’inscription : pegases26 -at- monkeymoon -dot- net. (Exception : pas de contenu IA.)

Zuckerberg's attempt at making Second Life again could almost certainly have funded every indie game in the history of indie games combined.

At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs. There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.

The death of Flash basically killing an entire segment of independent and free game development overnight is one of those things that never really gets spoken about, which is a real shame because a lot of that first generation of Newgrounds talent did break into the animation and games industries.

Got sick of the terrible documentation on Steam and wrote my own on how to upload stuff. link: github.com/Miziziziz/St...

Hey aspiring indie devs, here is an example of a strong hook. Skate story: they wanted to make a skateboard game but can't take on EA on it. They went for an "extremely different" visual style + epic fantasy quest to stand out. That's how you fight when small. bsky.app/profile/skat...

technology that makes people more productive is inherently used to perpetuate capitalism, that’s why I make videogames, technology that makes people less productive

'We survive or fail on our own terms:' The rise and risk of independent game media

But top seller on GoG. Don't know when I'll have time to play this, but I do have the GoG Galaxy launcher on my pc for the first time ever.

@canardpc.com fait le point sur les investissements saoudiens dans le jeu vidéo, entre soft power et stratégie industrielle, et ce dossier signé @kocobe.fr est en ACCES LIBRE cette semaine grâce aux abonnés. Avec une belle infographie de @totodglingo.bsky.social www.canardpc.com/jeu-video/do...

have you ever thought, "man, i want to make a game, but i don't know what to make?" 🤔 well, i made a 🔁RANDOM GENRE MASHER🔁 to help you! it takes 426 genre tags from steam & randomly mashes two together. make the [your genre here] game of your dreams NOW!! 🎮 npckc.itch.io/random-genre...

/noclip's YouTube discovery has dropped off a cliff in 2025 so just gonna keep posting this as it's one of our most anticipated projects in years. Also we're really proud of it. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6m...

rhythm gamers in december 2025:

The numbers in here are hilarious. Do you use AI on the job? Execs: 87% Managers: 57% Workers: 27% Planned investment by 2030: $5T "Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B Current annual revenue: $50B

As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely. They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things. Only you have the power to kill it.

Technically “fuck around and find out” is the scientific method

THIS will be my biggest highlight of the upcoming Godot 4.6 update: the ability to profile both GDScript and the engine’s C++ calls in one overview using profiling tool tracy. I REALLY missed this when we profiled / optimized Rift Riff. github.com/godotengine/... #godotengine #godot #gamedev

your turn @valvesoftware.com

fashion victim (2024)

UFO 50 has been shortlisted for Best Game at the 2025 #GameMaker Awards! Fantastic group of games we're a part of - it's an honor. Our team members have been using GameMaker to make games for a long time. Big thanks to everyone at @gamemaker.io! 🗳️You can vote for us here: opr.as/GMA25-Vote

A behind the scenes look at how I turn pixel art into animated 3D meshes for my game Reconfigure 🎨 #godot #aseprite

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

D'Electronic Arts à Nintendo, en passant par Take-Two, petit inventaire des investissements gargantuesques de l'État saoudien dans les grandes firmes de jeu vidéo : www.canardpc.com/jeu...

Whenever I say this, people get Really Mad, but it's true. Same of any other art, too. You have to read the book, watch the film, see the painting, listen to the song, whatever. I'm sorry, but watching a video about it on YouTube is not enough. You have not experience the art.

Absolutely insane story Spoiler : the physics friction of a guard's feet (?!) is evaluated differently on modern instruction sets (floating-point precision shenanigans), causing the guard to NOT move out of the way of the opening door. With the SAME source code.

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This is an excellent analysis and matches my own thoughts. I was hoping someone with more development expertise could explain the use of ML/AI in Arc Raiders and unpack that both in terms of technical implementation and ethical impact on the broader industry.

The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.

Jusqu'à demain soir, le jeu @wednesdays-game.bsky.social est gratuit sur Steam et itch.io à l'occasion de la journée internationale des droits de l'enfant. Une expérience unique, bouleversante, et une manière à fois douce et forte de traiter le sujet si difficile des violences sexuelles sur mineurs.

My interactive tween guide for Godot is out ! If you have trouble using tweens, adding "Juice" or picking the right transition, it should hopefully help! The guide is free and will always be 🩵 qaqelol.itch.io/tweens #Godot #GameDev #Animation #Tutorial #Guide #Tweens

It's powerful, it's moving, it's short, it's fun, it's important and it's... FREE. Children rights day giveaway is a great time to play this gem (one of my GOTY for sure). Grab it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/... or Itch: artefrance.itch.io/wednesdays before November 21th 9PM CET!

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Pendant 20 ans, on m’a dit que pirater les œuvres des artistes c’était le mal absolu et que ça allait détruire la culture, et maintenant on me dit que oh bon, les IA génératives, qu’est-ce qu’on y peut, hein, les gens vont s’en servir de toutes façons.

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Half-Life 3 looks fucking SICK

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

1. Great, let's do this 2. Here's some useful info (from my agent). You have until March 23, 2026 and it now includes illustrators 3. Here is the Works Lookup link: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Notably, this marks the third major not-game-dev-specific sponsor of Godot, including Jetbrains and Sentry. Pretty cool that the project is getting recognition outside the industry!

Un grand merci à toutes les personnes qui sont venues voir ma keynote sur comment nous avons transformé les Restos du Coeur en Cloud Provider au @capitoledulibre.org, les slides sont ⬇️

En plus de composer des bandes-son marquantes, il avait des ANNEES d'avance sur l'electro et le travail en home studio Fred Pallem & Le Sacre du Tympan avaient fait un hommage en album vraiment top Mention pour ce morceau intégrant une interview originale du compositeur youtu.be/7OtyfOqgha8?...