If your a game dev and saying that ai has a place with in the industry just know your peers who are being made redundant every week due to mismanaged ai investments talent funding out of the industry and they see your posts.

Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

Microsoft blaming the rising costs of computer components after spending $146 billion dollars on AI investments

Ouroboros 20XX

this is his gofundme btw. would encourage everyone else who can to chuck this fella a couple quid www.gofundme.com/f/get-artist...

strange knights from 2017

Bonus little creature from tonight

good for angels

strange knights from 2017

After a great couple of months at AGBO it looks like my contract with the company is coming to an end this Friday. So if anyone needs a Senior/mid Environment Artist with 8 years experience feel free to bother me whenever as i look for my next adventure! #gamedev www.artstation.com/klllj0y

Today is my birthday!! Thank you so much for a wonderful year!!❤❤❤ ..a wonderful gift will be a repost of the works 🥺👉👈

unlikely I'll be able to make new original art or art projects in a long time, so I guess I'll just start re-posting old stuff

burnt out on the concept of fandom

I was up to some decent shit in 2016

is artstation okay these days, or is it still filled with AI slop?

Helping out our brothers and sisters in the Quake mapping scene! NextBroom, the non-generative-AI fork of Trenchbroom, is welcoming contributors to lend a helping hand! Head on over to codeberg.org/NextBroomTea... to check it out!

unfortunately trenchbroom is vibe coded now

Quake is kinda cool.

The CEO is saying this will retain "creative control" while saying this is primarily used to drive storyboarders out of a job. How is that retaining creative control? You're driving artists out of the industry, you swine.

Happy 30th anniversary of Quake! Here's the first map jam I've ever hosted

In happier news, happy 30th Quake! Here's a vid I released earlier in the year on my favourite Quake mod, QBJ3 (which also covers Quake and other things [like Librequake + Meowgun]), which you should go play! youtu.be/o5HuYr961Uw

I went to a live figure drawing session yesterday. It was a long pose session. As someone used to quick fire poses, it drove my adhd brain nuts. So I got a little creative after drawing the same pose for the fifth time…. #kierstenhaleart #pinup #figuredrawing #barbarian

Like, the fundamental thing with "AI" - it all starts with a massive and ongoing act of theft (or infringement, if you like). It's a few billionaire, or trillionaire, owned tech companies stealing everything we ever did then selling it back as a worse version of the work we all do.

Enough sad/bad posting. Let's work on that next Quake pack. Monetarily and gen AI free.

Wonder if we'll see any big Quake mod releases today for the 30th anniverary. But in the meantime, if you haven't already, play QBJ3. The biggest community project ever, and one of the best. It's also available in mod or fully standalone free game forms. Quake has been EVOLVING. qbj3.slipseer.com

This "ai code/art is already everywhere and impossible to avoid so you should just relax about people using it" shit has to stop, it's not remotely true. Same exact shit as "it's the inevitable future!" or "you can't put the genie back in the bottle!!" We can literally do whatever the fuck we want

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

I swear to god if someone wanted to make an engine that has a level editor and was fiercly anti AI now is the fuckin time man

I'm so fucking tired, dude

Unreal quadrupling down on AI? Well, if you're considering Godot, keep in mind that the last version that was not made with AI contributions was 4.5. You can perhaps extend some courtesy to 4.6, but 4.7 openly includes AI-generated code and LLM-assisted changes. Do with this info what you will.

I was up to some decent shit in 2016

If you see this, post your dark / night art !

for anyone concerned about AI code in TrenchBroom, the AI agents file was added in March 2026 (github.com/TrenchBroom/...) so the last no-AI version was likely v2025.4 (github.com/TrenchBroom/...)

🎨 I’m a veteran game artist open for new work. I’ve been illustrating, directing, animating, and designing since 2000 -not just pixel art (though I love it). Clients include Minecraft, WB’s Space Jam, Unity and Rami Ismail. If you need visual worldbuilding, I’m your person. DMs open, email in bio

Someone actually crunched the numbers, and using GenAI can decrease reviews for indie game on Steam (a useful proxy stat for sales) by as much as *58%* 🤖

Happy Juneteenth! If you'd like to support a queer Black disabled writer, consultant + sensitivity reader, I have had the honor of working on some fantastic books (including Juneteenth Is!) & video games, with more coming soon 💗 jayjustice.net www.venmo.com/ThatJayJustice cash.me/$ThatJayJust...

CALLING ALL BLACK COMIC ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND ALL-AROUND CARTOONISTS! Reply to or quote this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!

Going to start a thread of all the areas I worked on for Marathon <3 <3 first up: bioresearch #MarathonTheGame #Marathon

been working on remaking my old industrial brick textures

It's #Juneteenth again, my art is black because I make it. Lizards and monsters are my thing. I worked on Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur and Lackadaisy (current) if that matters. None of us are free til all of us are free.

So for this Juneteenth, I went back and updated my feature on the need to incorporate more Blackness into your gaming perspective, more relevant now than when I wrote it years ago. Check it out on @pcmag.com www.pcmag.com/opinions/cel...

been working on remaking my old industrial brick textures

If you're looking for a story featuring an alt pink haired witch who's messy and not just "quirky" written and illustrated by an actual alternative story artist— HELLAWEEN and HELLAWEEN: Spellbent are available wherever books are sold 🙃🫠 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/HWN/h...

LETS TALK ABOUT BLACK CHARACTER DESIGN IN ANIMATION! Here's our FOURTH BONUS UMBERT EP Featuring Austin Faber of @blacknanimated.bsky.social! Brought to you by our EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BACKERS!!!

got this ghost notification for a DM that isn't showing up anywhere, even in message requests. can't get it to go away after going through every message I have. anyone else get something like this?

The arc of Epic is Tim Sweeney deciding he wants his very successful business to get up to that higher echelon of wealth, so he wants a consumer monopoly to call his own. So he tries to take on Valve, fails. Tries to take on Apple, fails. Now he's going for Roblox and he'll fail.

Another music scribble, this one called "Bells" 🔔 2026-06-17, based on a melody from 2019 The orchestration here is very much inspired by the individual who inspired me to start writing orchestral music to begin with: @makkon.bsky.social Also OBS didn't like me today, hence the choppiness

"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"

the duality of Chloé (this month’s sketchbook so far)

feels like I keep forgetting how to draw. like getting on a bike I ride all the time and feeling like I'm gonna lose my balance.