🎃 Prof Spooky 🦇

just checking my email before clocking out for the weekend

learning that the legendary "creator's wife with mobility loss" who everyone says ~inspired~ Dressmaker is in fact a co creator and developer for the game and also they are not even married

Oh yeah this is a game dev account. Progress has slowed and I’m behind a personal goal of releasing a play test, but still working on it everyday. Not much to show since no flashy features are going in, mainly bug fixes when I have time. Might post a stupid bug I’ve been dealing with later

You know you’re in for a treat if the hot sauce bottle has a cartoon of a dude screaming about his prolapsed anus

The white supremacist RFK Jr has set up a trap here. Racist leaders are somewhat educated and know that of course minority communities achieve incredible breakthroughs in science or math. The framing is that people who don’t achieve “greatness” don’t deserve life.

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.

Wake up and get those crumbs

*me after posting the paradox of tolerance poster: it’s actually authoritarianism if the death cult doesn’t have their political party

And liberals wonder why Marxists say it always comes down to revolution in the end

Magneto was wrong in creating an apartheid state. He should have overthrown the government instead

Very amusing that it took two mild posts from Kenney to break the billionaires brain

I can't believe he's still at it, it's been days

LMAO (added alt text)

🎃 Game dev horror story for spooky season 👻

Weird literally all of my friends who know anything about computers have been saying this everyday for over a year so I just knew this? Like in 2025?

Blaming the BioWare shutdown on private equity is avoiding the real problem. Buying up companies and hollowing them out is not a new idea. Competition -> concentration of production -> monopoly. We knew this 150 years ago. The culprit is the profit motive under capitalism

You might have seen the original "no genAI seal" by @kanaratron.bsky.social. I've made the icon into a set of assets in both PNG and vector formats that can be more widely used in different contexts. You can find them here: www.joramwolters.com/no-gen-ai-ico/

Please help, my religion that ranks living things as man -> woman -> child -> animal keeps making evil people

Found a prototype drawing of Luckey’s war hound

#SpookyMonth64

Came across a similar issue when looking into patents. It’s $20k+ to go through the patent process. So yeah you can try the legal route to protect your games, but the whole legal system is set up for the wealthy so they don’t have to settle disputes violently. For everyone else you’re fucked

The year is 2028. There is only one game published by one company; Disney Marvels Fortnite by Kushner Sports

Consolidation is killing our industry. The Gamergaters who make money off the rage game will have you think this is a victory. This is purely a loss. A loss of work and art and fun and expression in a space that desperately needs it. Massive fucking bummer.

Every time you download a Kenney asset pack and use it in an open-source engine, a billionaire cries

No one has ever looked more like an early PS3 fighting game character than Prototype Cena. Put this man in Tekken 6 on the PS-Triple, NOW

Microslop is still a BDS target, so if you have $1800 donate to a Palestine relief fund

90s game advertisement drawn in my notes

Ima be real with yall—I don't make anything from what I do. I maybe get a Twitch payout thanks to a few regular subs every couple of months. Otherwise we live on my partner's disability. So, just throwin my Ko-Fi out there to say if you like what I do and recommend, a couple bucks means the world 🧡

I feel like I show a lot of grace here, my comms are open and anyone can freely reply or quote and I sometimes post about heated topics, but if you come at me with hostility that’s a block

As we wait for the Rockstar tribunal to resume, here's another speech from one of the fired workers as they demonstrated outside the hearing. This is Jacob Jones, formerly an Associate Game Designer on GTA VI's open world team:

The Sloppening is much worse than I imagined. For every human made demo there are 7 diarrhea drops

seems timely this week aftermath.site/tag/tim-swee...

Kenney’s op rang out like a church bell for the billionaire imps. More than AI use, he correctly points out that Musk and Sweeney don’t actually *make* anything. The ruling class only takes like helpless babies, so pointing out this master/slave dynamic triggers an existential threat to their egos

Happy Monday

Most stuff is weak to lightning if we are being honest with ourselves