My favorite genre of youtube creator is the Insightful Oddball I Never Would Have Thought To Seek Out But Accidentally Stumbled Upon and Now Dearly Treasure Moon Channel is one of those ones

It really needs to be pointed out how every one of these embarrassing statements is made by a c-suite executive and not an artist or even art department lead

Oops posted a surprise Superman Movies with Mikey on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHF3...

It literally has a disclosure on its Steam page. It didn't "slip through", man. You tried to charge people for a thing that's got slop in it and they're mad. I have an extension to add a pop-up on the Steam page for it but I really think it should be by default top-of-page.

Hello fellow nerds! I've got a hypothesis about the intersectionality of gamers and disabilities I'm trying to test. Even if you're not a gamer or disabled, please take 10 minutes and fill this out! Thanks so much, and feel free to ask me any questions. forms.gle/S7F7iSGMAMd7...

Happens so much in gaming now. Yes, video games have always adopted new tech, and AI like machine learning has been a part of that. Hell, Rogue used generative algorithms in the 80s. But the use of GenAI in gaming is new, and quite different. Although companies using it love to say it isn't.

Can’t believe it’s Desert Bus time again. Hey, come and hang out while we raise money for children in hospitals. Going live in ~20 minutes, and then staying live for like a week. DesertBus.org

I don't believe that NPCs or dialog are somehow INCOMPATIBLE with Metroid games on some fundamental, immutable level. But it doesn't help that no Metroid game in history has EVER had good dialog or a single worthwhile NPC

Death of the Author: An Alan Wake Series Retrospective youtu.be/RRh3r_AhUw0

This month just WILL NOT STOP. Sanabi came out two years ago and was a massive hit, and this DLC is just coming out of nowhere. If you haven't played it, it's a fantastic grappling-hook/physics-heavy platformer that's structured and paced like a great thriller movie.

Made an incredible discovery for language learning: Chrono Trigger DS lets you access the options menu to change the langauge *mid-dialogue box*. If you're having trouble with a line you can double-check the official localization without even closing the dialogue box. Feels very rare.

azhdarchid.com/against-metr... I really do hate the term 'metroidbrania'. I think so do many of you. Let's nip it in the bud before it becomes something people are financially invested in.

Stop quoting stuff CEOs say about game development. They don't know shit. Even game devs only know about their own tiny slice of gamedev, so the suits definitely have no idea. You don't have to listen to them or debunk them, sometimes you can just be like "that's idiotic" and live on.

oh no i just remembered how rad Lumines is

Much of the hand wringing, imo, is over a critic explicitly saying they are judging the moral fabric of a piece of art because of the tools used to create it and it’s making some folks feel uncomfortable and shamed. The people who feel that way should sit with that feeling.

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

I'm gonna analyze some more game animations and there's not a single thing you or ANYONE can do to stop me #animation youtu.be/LUzB8zYLn_s

Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice. They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.

If you're in post-Silksong withdrawals and need your Gorgeous Metroidvania fix, I strongly recommend giving this one a look

The most basic argument I can give you for ditching Spotify for *anything* is Spotify, uniquely, pays *nothing* for much of the music on the platform. Is there *any* improvement in paying for Spotify over pirating? You're a paper-thin moral slice away from buying music from a bootlegger. Why do it?

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

So they're going to do this for one, maybe two games. It'll be full speed ahead until it's 6 months from release and the game is falling apart, at which point they'll pay an insane overtime rate for a QA studio to do it last minute which won't be enough. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-...

This goes into that “deprofessionalization” of the game industry article that went around a few months ago. People who don’t understand the work or care about the value of the people doing the work or honestly even care about quality at all. They just want to not have to pay workers.

Oh my goodness- in just one weekend, I've gotten over 1/3 of the way to securing the funds for this machine. If you'd like to help a disabled artist- and get some cool art in thanks- every bit helps! -Sara

Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off in today's Daily Deal! The cheapest the wizards have ever allowed us to price them. To celebrate, we've added a community missions pack, featuring some great ones players have made since launch. store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .

Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels: • YouTube Studio • Settings • Channel • Advanced settings • Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality" • Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"

Misery Loop-- A Critique of Cronos: The New Dawn www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCIL...

Some more recent DJ&D NPCs

Let's talk about how One Piece became the official anime of The Revolution youtu.be/-VQ3e7YbFmw

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

Owlcat Games has launched a free game development learning resource, featuring over 350 learning resources including software recommendations, tutorials, and online courses www.gamesindustry.biz/owlcat-games...

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Let us battle! #rocktober13 !!! 🤘🤘🤘

Started this years ago, but gonna try to continue drawing monsters/body horror film stuff for the month.

If only there was a lesson to be learned here #silksong

just a reminder that bandcamp friday is tomorrow & streaming services are interrupting music streams with ai generated shit, flooding the database with artists that don't exist in any way other than profiting the platform owners so instead of paying a monthly fee, buy an album or two each month ok

My game Smushi Come Home has a lil 40% discount this week for the Steam Fall sale! 🍄🍂

One of the best party games ever made is on Switch now

help, i'm running out of space on my Do Not Work For This Company list

lrt: I think as game designers we have a lot of anxiety that playing the game "wrong" will ruin it somehow but when I think back to me as a kid I found nothing but delight in playing games in obtuse ways or using cheat codes and that's an important part of the history of the medium too imo

Hornet has had it up to HERE with these ants #Silksong

My friend @causeimdanjones.bsky.social is doin a streamathon to help raise funds to cover some expensive dental work by playing a randomizer of SIX ZELDA GAMES mixed together (LTTP, LA, OOT, MM, WW, and TP). Consider givin' it a peep! www.twitch.tv/causeimdanjo...

Thus begin the adventures of Taller Bug Knight #silksong

I'm so giddy to be playing a Hollow Knight game again

If your placeholder assets aren't clearly placeholders, you'll forget to replace them Back in ~1999, the art director for some dollhouse game made a temporary diamond-shaped model for their character UI. By the time he realized they hadn't replaced it, it was too late and it shipped as-is. Oops!

playing 1000XRESIST. visually stunning game. really enjoying it!

Any month now, I'm sure Nightreign will throw in something new that us casual dregs can participate in

Latest Archipel book looks excellent.