TIME GUN

MFW dad takes me on a boat.

Looking at the weather forecast and genuinely wondering if I should take some little robots to paint whilst I hide from the rain.

I really can't believe Gearbox would put out a game in a bad state to meet a deadline. Absolutely unheard of. Unprecedented. Would never happen. 👀

How this film is rated 15 in the UK I have no idea. What are the BBFC doing. Even in the US it got an R. 😵

Going on holiday in the Lake District next week..

Just got back from watching this, and it... damaged me. Best film of the year certainly.

I would place a generous bet that police data for domestic abuse incidents almost flatlined yesterday and then exploded some time after the last trains out of King's Cross and Paddington.

TRN is the stamp of Turan a Turkish ammo maker. This is what the literal front pages of UK newspapers have used at the basis of their transphobic articles? Jesus wept.

TV in the gym was US shooting for a straight hour and half. You'd have been forgiven for thinking nothing else happened in the UK or indeed the world in the last 24 hours. Hard to believe the media isn't complicit in some severe dead-catting, if not clearly pushing the narratives of global fascism.

Day 2 of talk announcements and oh boy am I excited... CD PROJEKT RED is coming to @conference.aiandgames.com! Maciej Celmer will be presenting the design of the expanded police and MaxTac systems in Cyberpunk 2077! The first of several big AAA games we have to announce for 2025. Hell yeah!

HEALTH - ORDINARY LOSS youwillloveeachother.bandcamp.com/track/ordina...

Hello doom scrollers. Something actually very good just happened today. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I have decided it's best that I do not post today.

I've been thinking that the most unrealistic part of The Three Body Problem (novel), is the idea that theoretical physicists would halt their research if they couldn't produce experimental data to back it up. 😂

This game is about a tired looking freelancer with an aggressive skin fade, barely keeping things together, and I can relate.

Windows 10 support ends next month. (Although you can pay for an extra year) Windows 11 still feels like a experimental late alpha release. Microsoft should be at panic stations, but instead are still seemingly spending all their energy on their low quality LLM offerings.

Bristol games people! I'm popping down tomorrow evening. Would anyone like to grab some food?

What's the highest bang-for-buck automated test? The one that's going to catch the most issues for the least investment? I'd argue it's probably smoke tests! You can read a full blog post on them below, but here's a short thread summary... #testautomation #gamedev

Happy Labor Day! Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work... Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

PGI are releasing a DLC for their nearly 7 year old MW5 game, using the assets and pipelines from their newer Mechwarrior game. This feels pretty unprecedented in the industry for a title to get such a significant expansion so late into its life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78-...

About 15 years ago there would be a monthly round of "What's the Citizen Kane of games?" discourse in the industry. It mostly stemmed from internalised shame that gen-X games journalists had about the subject of their work not meeting the approval of their parents..

Steam Survey for August 2025 is out and here's the Linux / SteamOS details #Steam #Linux #SteamOS

Wip. Comstar Locust. So much panel work left to do. 🥲 #battletech

Sonic Mayhem has released a whole album of unreleased/unfinished music from Deus Ex: Mankind Divided! sonicmayhem.bandcamp.com/album/fragme...

Someone dropped loads of plum pits in the local park and Mora found and ate them. She's been ill as hell for three days, and I have not slept at all during that time. Got meds from the vet and a follow up tomorrow.

I hope your day is going better than mine!

When asked how they are being treated by Paradox the Chinese Room spokesperson replied "We get adequate food and adequate clothing and medical care when we require it.". They seemed to be blinking a lot under the harsh Gamescom lighting.

Hey folks - I am around for work from mid September so if you need for your game: -Technical environment work -VFX work -Level design DM me or get me at my email address Jamie.degen(at)gmail.com Reshares of this are greatly appreciated!

Reposting from X. I can't stress this enough. We live in a fascist society. When capitalism strips stories of their context and meaning and sells them back as empty nostalgia, they stop questioning power and become just aesthetics. That’s how we forget what they were meant to teach us.

When asked how they are being treated by Paradox the Chinese Room spokesperson replied "We get adequate food and adequate clothing and medical care when we require it.". They seemed to be blinking a lot under the harsh Gamescom lighting.

NEW: 2K Games laid off more than 80 people at BioShock 4 developer Cloud Chamber this week, about 1/3 of the studio. This new BioShock has been in the works for more than a decade across multiple studios. Here's the story behind its development hell: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Paradoxes terrible decision making has been well documented, but has anyone covered what happened internally? They have had a ten year streak of disastrous misplays. What happened after the IPO? Something for @chrisbratt.bsky.social to get on to I guess. 😅

I carefully avoided posting something spicy in the discussion about auteurs in game development. Of course it's mostly nonsense, but I do have to say this... In games development, there are plenty of people with ideas, but there are very few with a vision.

'M6' from my new album ESCAPE spacerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/m6

This 1000 times. By @macdaddyillustration.

Safety first kids!

It finally happened. A DJ at a random normie alt night clocked us, nodded, and then mixed straight into the blood rave. Perfect.

Gamedev heads-up. People (especially non English speakers) are skipping tutorials and then asking LLMs how to play your game. An LLM told a Maia player a core mechanic (repairing your base's life support) was purely cosmetic. And with Trash Goblin it made up game mechanics and items.

It's my smelly girl's 8th birthday today. 😁

Interested in supporting a new, premium #gamedev conference on a beach in #Cornwall #UK with up to 500 attendees? Think Develop Reboot with surfing & summer half term/bank holiday for your family. In the design stages & would love for sponsors and partners to come on board early to get their input.

Has anyone been to a (Unity Engine) Unite conference and found it useful?

Voice as a primary input. I'm sure that's going to gel well with all those back-to-the-office mandates.

I spent a big chunk of the day reading through programmer CVs.. and I have quite a lot of polite advice I need to impart. Might do a thread tonight. 🧐

This school is near to me. They charge 4k-7k a term and have nearly 400 kids there. Somehow they had close to a million quid of debt and financial struggles going back years... Yet they blamed the VAT increase. I'd probably send in the forensic accountants because it doesn't add up at all.

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft, as CEO Thomas Dohmke resigns. GitHub is now moving to Microsoft's AI engineering team, CoreAI, with a new structure for GitHub's leadership team. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

Not going to quote tweet the discourse, but the problem with most recent scifi books is they try so hard to be current and grounded, that they feel embarrassingly dated even a couple years after publication. That, or they are performatively edgy whilst being heartless and bland. Not great for teens.

I need to scream in the face of the investment and tech press that no jobs in tech have been lost to AI. The layoffs are just Welchian asset stripping, accelerating out of control by a reality distortion field that has escaped silicon valley and is now viral in the markets.

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 28th More info 👇 grants.draknek.org

Big data protection yikes. Especially when OpenAI had a large breach of user data.. this week. You probably don't want your sensitive correspondence with your MP beamed straight over to the US...