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.

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

Another fantastic behind-the-scenes animation breakdown from Kyle here! I'd love to see animators from more studios given the green light to share their team's creative process like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=92MS...

I despise how hard YouTube actively fucks over its users and creators at every turn. Be sure to check your devices (Yes, plural DEVICE(S), because they’ve made it per device not just account), and make sure this setting is OFF! It’s potentially hiding thousands of videos from you.

NEW DOC - The Making of Wolfenstein The second doc in our MachineGames series focuses on their iconic Wolfenstein series. This one is a lot of fun with loads of interesting anecdotes and insight into their creative process. WATCH HERE: youtu.be/E189QG28rnE

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Oh HELL yes

Bug Knight meets a mimic #HollowKnight youtube.com/shorts/ZpbTf...

Reminder: if you are worried about AI replacing you as an artist: don’t use AI voices, If you don’t want composing to be handed over to AI: don’t use it to write text. You get the idea. If you value your job: protect others jobs too.

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

A commenter suggested the idea of a PlayFrame "animator shop talk" compilation, which would be a GREAT idea if I could remember in which of our thousands of videos those rambles had happened

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extremely excited for the adventures of Bug Knight's best friend, Taller Bug Knight

She finally answered #Silksong

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

This basically summarizes the Elden Ring enemy randomizer experience

Oh my god what a resource

The demo version of Mario Kart: Double Dash contains an unused Game Over screen. Notably, the smoke graphics used here are humorously called "smork" internally. It is unknown if this is a legitimate misspelling of "smoke" or if the word was deliberately spelled in a funny way.

Dan's commitment to this is equal parts admirable and absurd.

Earlier this year, I did something very silly and reconstructed a full hour of Elden Ring gameplay audio using sounds from N64 Zelda games. By hand. It took a long time Here's a behind-the-scenes breakdown of the process:

An oldie. If you follow Selmers to the poetry society meeting in Night In The Woods, this is her poem. 1/4 #comic #nitw #nightinthewoods

“Listen, son. I don’t know about your fight with the heartless or Organizations or whatnot. But if you’re using propane and propane accessories to win this fight, then you’ll have this honest texan fighting alongside you.”

This is a real bummer, these were some of the best pieces Polygon ever published and the FF7 one in particular has been immensely helpful while writing the next New Frame Plus video. Fortunately, that FF7 piece also exists as a print book (which you should totally get, it's gorgeous)

And I've obviously been saying this a lot lately, but BDS does not expect anyone to drop everything made by Microsoft all at once. They pick very specific targets in order to get as wide a coalition as possible, and in the case of Xbox, even suggest different tiers of engagement.

it took so long because the sword is long - A Silly Little Guide to Monster Hunter Wilds - Longsword youtu.be/5EJP4EGgdxU

Shoutout to these folks for taking a theme that already sounded for all the world like it was meant to be a Sondheim duet and making it actually BE that thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kdX...

Boat is bullying me

Reminder that dunks disseminate. You're not owning some asshole, you're being his free street team. Please stop putting stupid shit in my timeline. Just block and move on.

when these companies try to claim this is about what’s legal or not, they’re lying. none of the games that were removed from steam or itch broke the law. financial companies are making subjective decisions based on what might inconvenience them aftermath.site/steam-itch-p...

still asking

The year is 2025. I right click on an AI-generated comment on my YouTube video to delete it, only the "Remove" button has been shifted down to make way for a button that generates video ideas based on the AI-generated comment. This is hell.

New video is up on the channel now! The Terribly Tragic, Totally Avoidable, Absolute Collapse Of The Gaming Industry

This child is not helpful #zelda #windwaker