Boldtransdev

Boldtransdev

@boldtransdev.bsky.social

27 (she/her, it/its) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💜💙 Trans gal looking to do game dev awesomeness! Known sometimes as Izzy Plural Level Designer, Game Designer, Programmer. I love everything about the diff fields in game dev No compromise with fash

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🎃 The Halloween Sale 2026 is live! Check out the Sale Explorer to find your next game or asset, with other 32,000 pages already on sale! itch.io/sales

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*Long sigh* Yeah it seems like this is exactly what's up, actually. This new "NaNoWriMo" 2.0 is AI all the way. prowritingaid.com/novel-november Their website tries *real* hard not to mention AI, but then you catch stuff like, "...ran it through Plot Analysis" and yeah that's kind of a giveaway.

prowritingaid.comNovel November™ by ProWritingAid: The Free Writing ChallengeJoin 100k writers taking on Novel November. Write 50,000 words in 30 days, track your progress, and finish your novel. Register free.
Lili Saintcrow@lilithsaintcrow.com

So, wait, has NaNoWriMo rebranded as "Novel November", paid for by ProWritingAid, which used to be a spell/grammar checker but now is (you guessed it) an "'AI' grammar checker"--in short, yet another way for a griftslop machine to grab human-written text? Do I have that right?

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I’ll be real, after actually reading the update notes, this is fine Only applies to servers in the Discover Tab & Public, and it sadly makes sense given how much pertinent information is in Servers vs how it used to be with forums/reddit

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buried lede here is that they're laying off most of their staff, i don't think a studio like dontnod will be able to survive with an outsourcing-forward model unless they undergo massive transformation of their internal practices

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This is huge. Myself and many of my coworkers and friends who were dismissed suddenly last year were working toward this exact moment and while I’m sad we’re not there anymore to see it through I sincerely hope we see the cohort at Rockstar make the right decision 🤞

Aftermath@aftermath.site

Rockstar workers set to officially vote on union just as GTA VI comes out aftermath.site/rockstar-games...

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After 1.5 years of pouring my heart into my very first game, I'm so excited to finally announce that... Drawquarium is coming to Steam on November 13! 🥹 Draw your own fish, bring them to life, and create your little underwater world, even as a live wallpaper! Like+RT = ♥️ #IndieGames #Cozygames

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Am I seriously going to turn right back around and try to make Keepass work in 2026 because of this? ...Im genuinely considering just throwing in the towel This shit is exhausting

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One thing about the whole "you have to read books if you want to be an author" thing is that if you aim to do more than just genre inbreeding, you have to read stuff outside the genre you're writing, too. May even have to read [shudders] nonfiction.

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It's a blatant display of intellectual dishonesty: he claims to believe that "AI" is the future of gaming development and it should be embraced, but he also seems to think its use should be a matter of privacy and not to be broadcasted to customers. Such an intolerable dipshit.

Rock Paper Shotgun@rockpapershotgun.bsky.social

Steam's AI disclosures are akin to "forcing developers to list their voting history", says man who must hate seeing eggs virtue signal that they're free-range. https://bit.ly/4yHFEyK

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When trans creators are subtle, people dismiss the trans subtext as “headcanon.” When trans creators are loud and proud, people call it “obnoxious” and “cringe.” They just don’t want us to be represented in media at all. Because they don’t want us to exist at all.

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we've created a no AI notice to reassure people seeing our trailers and games with hand drawn lettering and a relaxing cute fox, and it's also up on itch in multiple formats* for anyone to use: eniko.itch.io/cute-fox-no-... *with/without fox, transparent/opaque, in 4k, 2160p, 1440p, 1080p, and 720p

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Some Girl Mecha Pilot adopts, reach out to me in DMs or on discord (ShadeFish). payment done via paypal invoice and final piece delivered via email. #LancerRPG #GirlFrame #Mecha #Lancer

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making games so you can hopefully afford to make more games is literally a different industry from grinding up people so number goes up and it is harmful to pretend otherwise regardless of whether or not we share a platform or a binary format

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Actions speak louder than words, personally I was in talks with Epic to get all my game assets on their Fab.com marketplace (for free) but cancelled the deal immediately. If they want slop, let them have slop.

Between Tim Sweeney being an absolute AI chud and the harassment of our beloved @kenney.nl, we've decided to cancel our previously announced Epic Games Store release for Shape Sender Deluxe 🚮

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There are people, even some trans people, who think that we can give up sports to appease bigots. That if we give up on sports, this all goes away. That is a lie. I have reported on this for years, and EVERY state that passed a sports ban as a moderate compromise has gone on to pass worse.

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I feel it's important to share this again. The internet is so hostile toward creators nowadays. I've seen people have their work stolen, and no longer feel comfortable sharing their creations. We can do better. Let's be supportive to the people that make this a better place! 💞

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It’s amazing, on multiple levels, just how much american arcade operators, and more broadly, developers, rushed to turn their playerbases into pure cattle; they went so far as to construct a reality and industry in which being treated like cattle is an ideal for players to seek out in art software.

Derek Yu@mossmouth.bsky.social

It's a lesson on how much these systems can shape player perception, not just of an individual game but of entire genres and eras of gaming. In the case of beat 'em ups, the continue system literally flattened them to the point where most people can only distinguish the themes.