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We in the games industry need to normalize having more of these public-facing blooper videos. Not only are they very funny, but it helps show regular gamers that it's very common for things to be very broken before ship

A lesser studio wouldve just slapped some slop all over it and been done. One of the many reasons I love Remedy.

I really want to make a pixel art game. But I also really like animating in 3D... so trying a head transplant (In game it'll be rendered at low res) #gamedev #blender

I wanted to not write this! I'd rather talk about the cool games that are coming out every day. Yes, Sweeney has half a point. But for everything correct he says about Valve's near-monopoly, he does two headass things that only drive people further towards Valve. Billionaire yells at monolith.

or like, building a ton of custom tools on top of Unity to create something it was absolutely not designed for youtu.be/jvPPXbo87ds?...

The 'only two sexes' argument is a political myth, not a scientific reality As politicians debate sex and gender ahead of the midterm elections,The Trevor Project's Zach Eisenstein explains why science tells a more complicated story & why that matters for intersex people. www.out.com/voices/two-s...

the world is cruel, come hang out in my low poly record room instead 💗

buy my 69 cent game for Steam Scream V! it has poetry AND horror 😌

Buuut this means my lightmapper works now! Free, beautiful and easy-to-integrate baked lighting for any custom game engine that uses glTF and PBR #gamedev

I'm currently experimenting with CSS and SVG filter effects. This one is based on the "Grainy Gradients" tutorial: css-tricks.com/grainy-gradi... The goal is to get a print-dithering like effect. I also added a few more color splots to make it even more organic. #generative #generativeart #css

Amplify only what you want more of--you're not in traffic, you are traffic

✨Notice little things and that they indeed are tremendous. ✨

I wish I could make a living just making and giving away cool little 3d models like this

RE: games layoffs youtube.com/shorts/a5dkD...

Bleed map got a write-up in Killscreen! Really cool to see people get the concept and run with it! www.killscreen.com/bleed-map-is...

Totally forgot I was part of this because time has no meaning in 2026, but had a wonderful evening alongside the brilliant @hollynielsen.bsky.social, @cashdecuir.bsky.social & @flom.bsky.social for the @writersguildgb.bsky.social panel on editing videogames - you can watch the whole thing below 👇🏿

Ahh can’t wait to read this, who better to write about weird game events than Marie

Keeping bike lanes was my personal single issue till late in the race, but imo it finally turned into a referendum on "strong mayor powers" (Michigan-style direct provincial control). Folks got that the same authority to kill bike lanes was also gonna do residential datacenters and privatized water

Finishing Journey for the first time, walking side-by-side with a stranger, and the major turning point in Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons. Still thinking about both over a decade later.

One of the most important things a scenario writer learns from playtest is which entirely throwaway details players obsessively latch onto and spend a ton of time and thought on.

It's like peanut butter and jelly

I THINK one of the things we're really seeing is a continent, maybe industry-wide shift away from full-time employees and towards gig/codev work. And that transition looks like layoffs across the board even from studios that just had big successes.

Ahhh so nice to see Ace & Aro: One Night Early in this selection of awesome (gen AI free) indie games! 💜💚

The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse.

Ideas and worlds live way beyond their creators, that's like the entire thing human culture IS. What are you all even talking about lol.

I mean I don't really think it's true AT ALL that a thing is its creators, that seems facially untrue and basically completely tied to our concept of commercial copyright and authorship; but like I don't think there's any reason to think EA would do a good job with a new mass effect haha.

I feel like I could write an entire book on platform tuning considerations by this point

Damn, really sad to see this. I have a Proton subscription, but if this is the way the company is managed, I won't be renewing. This is not a practice I can support.

I am minded once again of the principle that if a company has to force its employees to use a tool, that tool is probably not fit for purpose

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie.

Watching the rest of the world wake up and fight for a better future while Canada keeps electing the conservatives who work for the four price-fixing families who own everything in this country is a bittersweet thing 😐

The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.

this is kinda funny but it is also the first evidence of the 2 tiered system AI customer service et al is meant to instantiate. normal people: stuck with bots, shit out of luck, reaching out to journalists to get anyone to listen to them. ppl with money will simply reach out to the people in charge

I’ve gotten a bunch of these from people, and I’m just… some guy. They’re very obviously people just copying & pasting messages that AI wrote for them, saying “send them to this guy, and he’ll complain for you, and then maybe a big tech company will help you”. It’s real fuckin’ terrible.

I dream of a world where people buy games they're interested in at full price rather than waiting for deep discounts and hoarding them in backlogs, never to be played

A pretty solid list of things being constantly attacked by the Ford government would you look at that

12 languages now. 😎🐘 Feel free to look at the thread if you're looking to localize your own game! Even easier than going to look in the credits. (Though everyone here is also there of course! 🫡)

Want a say in what Hand Eye does in 2027? Come to the AGM at Ubisoft Toronto on Sunday, Nov 1, 2-5 PM. Free, in person or online 🎮. www.handeyesociety.com/event/hes-an...

This kinda stuff is why I just won't go anywhere near that shit, ethics or no I don't know what (if anything) is different in Big Tech jobs. Test coverage? Many undependent micro services? Maybe you've huge QA teams? But lol games ain't got none of that and we actually gotta support our shit yeah?

Glad I set up an igloo interior workflow long ago - Really saving my life now! When I tweak things, all the cuts, tesselation, and tiles update non-destructively. Imagine doing this all by hand because you need to move a piece of furniture. *shudder* #gamedev #indiedev #b3d

Ontario folks: don't forget to vote in your municipal election today! Polls are open 10am-8pm. Your municipal government affects so much of your day to day life, so have a say in who they are!