Dasterin

Dasterin

@dasterin.bsky.social

Hobbyist gamedev, but mostly posting about FFXIV OC brainworms right now πŸ’š @kiravinaves.bsky.social πŸ’š FFXIV: Rinh Lanbatal (Faerie) Profile pic by @esfimorales.art she/her

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I think genAI is a techno-fascist project to attack art and creativity, the concept of critical reasoning, the existence of expertise, and the notion of truth itself. If humanity could be said to have a 'soul', genAI is a weapon aimed at its heart.

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I appreciate that people want a new Mass Effect, but the future where fans advocate for the work itself and not the people who make it is the one the vultures at EA want. If you'll take it however you get it, they can keep treating people who make what you love as expendable.

kotaku.comWhat Does It Even Mean To β€˜Save’ Mass Effect? - KotakuThousands of fans are rallying around a campaign to save the series after BioWare's shutdown, but what does that look like?

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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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Hi everyone! We’re hosting an art raffle/fundraiser to help support our friend Lore! We’re hoping this will offset most of the remaining expenses/help him fulfill his goal! πŸ’œ Raffle entry form link: forms.gle/tTQYQ8ELzqRe...

LoreπŸŽ† @ :/@lorething.etheirys.social

Final update: My dad passed away about two hours ago. All remaining donations and funds will go towards his cremation and funeral services. I have increased the goal to 4000 due to this. Thank you for all of your help during this painful year.

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Kenney has done more for the profession than any billionare -- great place to start if you want to get into making your own games.

Kenney@kenney.nl

I've made 6 open-source @godotengine.org projects perfect for as a base for your first or next game. Completely human-made and easy to understand code & comments. All visuals and sounds included, CC0! kenney.nl/starter-kits

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Just got all my boys together to take on the wandering ronin who came to town. There’s like 15 of us and only one of him so pretty much the only thing that would give me any pause is if he was master of the devastating and lightning-fast iaidō style. But that’s not likely. Coward hasn’t even drawn h

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So I think everyone understands this already, but this is basically a euphemism for "we're hiring fewer full time employees and more contractors and codev studios because we don't have to pay them as much." I wish I could say this was an isolated case but I'm seeing it p much everywhere.

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social

Star Wars: Galactic Racer was made by a core team of 75 people. "What we wanted to do was keep that core small, smaller than perhaps you might have done in the past, and scale capacity and capability with what we call distributed development." https://bit.ly/4hT02qg

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It's royalties day! Royalties should be standard practice in any creative field. If you spend your life on something, it should keep taking care of you. Today, we're passing $120,000 in royalties distributed to the artists, writers, and designers of Triangle Agency. I am so proud we get to do this.

Carlos Cisco@carloscisco.bsky.social

I wanna give @hauntedtable.games their flowers. In addition to paying us solid rates, we also get royalties for our work on Triangle Agency. I always forget that those exist because I have no object permanence, but whenever I get the email about it it’s a reminder of what a rarity that is.

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Can yall please stop playing fortnite now

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

NEW: Epic Games has delayed its upcoming (not yet announced) Star Wars + Marvel shooter as it pivots to complete AI game development. "No more hand-written code," a director told staff. All art "generated with full AI workflows." Full scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

Edd Coates | Game UI Database@eddcoates.bsky.social

Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.

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Replying to @itsjoelokay.bsky.social

i think "the government has an obligation to make your life easier in clear measurable ways" is a pretty compelling moral framework to offer people