Alan Lawrey

This is a pixel art background I made a few years ago and I’m still very happy with how it turned out. I used Blender to get the perspective correct on the spiral and the rest was done in Aseprite.

Artists, QP with your green art! 🌌💚 #green #arttrain #pixelart

I of course loved him as Chekov, but playing Bester on BABYLON 5 really showed his range. You really forgot the guy ever *was* Chekov in that role. RIP Walter Koenig.

Cancel me all you want from the games industry, but I'm going to be very clear: FUCK YOU, AND FUCK ANYONE WHO IS OKAY WITH THE PLAGIARISM MACHINE, ENVIRONMENTAL MENACE, DEGENERATIVE AI BEING USED FOR CODE AND QA. "As long as it's not being used for something I care about, it's okay" FUCK YOU 3000

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

My 9 anime, which was probably harder than choosing 9 games.

My 9 games

"everyone is using coding agents and anyone who claims otherwise is lying" is just the sort of statement made by someone who is either 1. trying to rile people up, 2. insecure about their own values and projecting that out 3. extremely blinkered in their perspective.

You’re telling me at 34 years old I will have to borrow my Mum’s credit card to verify I’m over 18? Nah chat this ain’t it

I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too

Made a pair of bingo cards for the upcoming Nintendos Direct! (I'm assuming the plural grammar here works like "attorneys general")

A few months ago I started wondering if not using LLMs for coding right now would be a detriment to me as a programmer, but I concluded that the idea is nonsensical. I could start Not Writing My Own Code at any moment, and having stopped programming 2 years ago wouldn’t make me a better programmer.

The Contested Space demo is live on Steam! It's a Coop Sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder where you build your deck mid-combat. Act 1 is fully playable and demo saves carry into the full game. store.steampowered.com/app/4638820/... #indiegame #gamedev #roguelike #deckbuilder #ScreenshotSaturday

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AI placeholders? I'm out. AI art? I'm out. AI graphics? I'm out. AI written story? I'm out. AI voices? I'm out. It is incredibly *DISRESPECTFUL* To use GenAI for anything in video games when you could hire talented people to work on your game. It may take time but I promise you It will be worth it.

Quick PSA. Looking at you, local orgs and small businesses.

A certain AAA studio told employees that their internal gen AI was trained only on local data, but whenever said employees tried to generate an image of a woman holding a gun, it generated Lara Croft. The studio was not Crystal Dynamics, and had never worked on the Tomb Raider IP in any capacity.

The uncomfortable truth about why genAI is permeating programming communities is that they're dominated by dudes focused on end results and short term gains, with little regard for the craft, ethics, or the humanities. AI isn't better at code than prose, guys in the industry simply just care less.

part of why I don't like AI is bc it's so often the antithesis of caring for the little things, the appreciation of the mundane, of seeing beauty where others haven't yet been able to, and seeking genuine fundamental understanding all in the name of "get product faster" I find it so disheartening

"I don't understand why generative AI is so widely accepted among developers. It's so surprising!" So, you've been hearing women and minorities denounce the toxicity and discrimination in those communities for years... decades, even, and you still thought those communities were morally acceptable?

““Starlink is too congested to handle meaningful load at scale so they’re quietly hitting people with $750-$1500 ‘demand surcharges,'” Bode wrote in a recent post on Bluesky.“ apple.news/AE1hHcCEbTkq...

Sometimes you just have to art.

So godot does accept AI generated code and work into their engine. The only thing they say they won't allow is full automation, but as long as you review the PR manually you are free to use genAI tools as much as you please. I'm not sure they understand the issue.

If it's your first time dealing with a core value that you truly find wrong, but everyone else around you accepts it, it can be overwhelming. Don't despair, there are others like you. Find your people, be strong, take care of yourself. And fuck them.

A promise is a promise Idk what to even tag this as lmao

This is a mad story, and it won’t be the last of its kind. We’re at a point where tech giants’ eagerness to cram the most AI into their systems is totally overriding their responsibility to their users: https://bit.ly/3REooLe

I don't often get to be called an artist so it's very exciting to see my art play a part in a game. If you're interested in sci-fi roguelike deckbuilders you should check out Contested Space! store.steampowered.com/app/4638820/...

omg

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

Here's my new Playdate prototype's devlog post, this time focused on the trials and tribulations of creating my own 3D software renderer... because why not? saffroncr.itch.io/katavatis/de...

Pleased to share your first look at Frosty with DLSS 5 on 💙

Exciting news… The Frosty Games team is officially up and running for 2026! ❄️ This year we're working with two wonderful partners who share our passion for ANZ-made indie games, @nz-code.nz and @strangescaffold.bsky.social! 🎉

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Indie game devs, when you use the slop machine in your game, it makes it clear to players that you don't give a fuck and just want money. Draw crappy but genuine art instead.

Fuck AI. 🫳 🎤

Twitter is the world’s largest generator of CSAM & non-consensual porn by a margin of about 8000%, and somehow… MSM isn’t even reporting on it. (also includes advice for reporting ‘deepfake harassment’ to police if it escalates to a point where restraining order is necessary) youtu.be/p71qQKmIGhQ

I cannot stress this enough: this is not possible in a literal technological sense: you cannot train an AI and expect even comprehensible results with under ~1 million pieces of data, nobody can supply all that with the variance needed. You can only achieve it through wanton scraping

Thank you to all the incredible ANZ-based developers who took part in our first Frosty Mini showcase today, and shared such wonderful announcements! What a beautiful line-up 👏🏼

Decided to provide source for the game I’m currently working on. Mostly because I’ve decided that I want to move on from it soon but I also get a lot out of open source software and I want to pass on that in some way. github.com/astrellon/sp...

EA Partnering with Stability AI is not only an insult to the creative industries but an insult to every single person they've laid off in recent years. Games are nothing without the people who make them. Disgusting. www.ea.com/news/ea-part...

I can't believe my boy Johnson is finally back. Once Upon a Katamari is peak. My review: www.well-played.com.au/once-upon-a-...

Frosty is ready for summer 😎 We're excited to reveal the new look for our December show! Frosty Mini will be a shorter showcase (compared to Frosty Games Fest in June), but it will still be packed with some of the coolest games made in Australia & Aotearoa, and a chocka-block Steam event to boot 🎮

I've seen this screenshot doing the rounds but....I am actually kind of interested to see if the error can be reproduced. Does anyone have access to Copilot in Excel? Willing to try reproducing this?

🚨 Just one day left to submit for Frosty's Dec event! 🚨 Last chance to submit your upcoming or recently released game made in Australia & Aotearoa for consideration. Dev submissions close TOMORROW, Sep 30! ⤵️ forms.gle/tt8y9N1dPweS...

It’s time to wake up — if you aren’t using ChatGPT to optimize your work (and your life!) you’re getting left behind. Watch this for 5 simple, lesser-known ChatGPT prompts that geniuses use! youtu.be/IS65dBNlng8

Finally got around to wrapping up some small learning projects about ray-marched SDFs. As usual it feels right to make a video about them because they look better in motion, but here are the GitHub links as well: github.com/astrellon/we... github.com/astrellon/ga... youtu.be/Pn4Dm88hx30