Dylan Ilvento

😲 Cool! New! Deal! Time! 💪 We've partnered with @febucci.com and the rest of the crew to bring you a bundle! Now you can get Yarn Spinner+ AND Text Animator for Unity for one low price! It's two great tastes that taste great together! But for dialogue!!! itch.io/b/3815/yarn-...

NEW: I spoke with current and former EA employees to understand how the latest layoff round played out and the realities of daily life at the U.S. publisher. The short version? EA is controlled by an executive class that "cannot fail, only be failed." Workers, then, will always pay the price.

It’s important to realize that we, the players, are no longer the customers of video game companies. We’re just a source of money. The real customers are the investors, and no matter what, the companies need to keep them happy and show them that their investments are paying off.

Don’t know how to say it other than, creatives are currently enduring an Era of Punishment from rich people who just despise people with functioning brains.

what is there to even say at this point i just want to make video games in an industry where that contribution is valued, alongside my peers, so that we can have a paycheck and some fucking dignity, man

big era for buying companies full of people who are good at making things together, destroying their ability to do that, and then shutting them down

soon there will only be 1 video game job left and it'll be Tim Sweeney vibe coding a pop star into Fortnite

Idk you could just not be a baby and learn to code like shit or draw like shit like the rest of us

The demo for Type Me Home, my new typing game/platformer hybrid, Is out now for Steam Next Fest! store.steampowered.com/app/4772200/... Type in commands to help a little lizard home!

The Immortal Coil demo is up on @steampowered.com NextFest! A strategy card game with 100% human squeezed pixels! #nextfest Try the Demo! store.steampowered.com/app/3858030/...

You gotta really hand it to both Workday and Salesforce: both are some of the worst software you'll have to interact with as an employee in a large organization, but both have somehow convinced every company to use them. These licenses must be cheap as hell.

The way The Diplomat S4 is going through these parallel threads of dysfunctional relationships and dysfunctional governance is DELICIOUS. What a good-ass show.

Given that the person who had their game "replicated" is also an AI slopper, is lying about that, and the "replica" was on Steam before their game was: I feel ok using this as a jumping off point for discussing why I don't think this is anywhere near as much of an issue as people are worried about

Vibe coded programs are extremely dangerous. You have no idea wtf the code is made to do, and neither does the person distributing it. Like sure, it could infect your PC or create backdoors, but also memory leaks, render files unusable, brick it so you can't boot, anything Do not install them

hey quick question, is "programming is hard so we won't do it" something you want to hear from a company you're giving money to

Moving to a new place so I finally took the time to frame this limited edition print I bought from the Yetee like years ago of the PAL Mega Man 1 box art.

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

In The Northman the He-Witch is wearing a strip of bark with an Ægishjálmur ("helm of awe"), a galdrastafur (incantation staff) written on it. While galdrastafir were almost exclusively associated with men, the practice of using them did not appear until the 16th century, at the earliest.

"In my joke blog post (during my time at Unity) I invented the Semantic Game Builder Interface as a silly cautionary tale." Unity 12 years later: "At long last, we have created the Semantic Game Builder Interface from classic April 1st blog p- web.archive.org/web/20120501...

I’m cashing in a lifetime of karma for every time I bought a notebook for a project thinking it would solve everything, only for me to not use it — I just bought one to keep Lexa design notes separate from technical and meeting notes and I feel like ideas are just pouring out of me into this thing.

i got so many people calling this tweet fakeposting back when i made it but since this is bluesky and things have less reach on here im just going to post the photo

At Ward Games, we only create bespoke, artisanal space corridors for your gaming enjoyment.

YouTube hasn't paid out music streaming earnings to Distrokid for almost two months with no communication, so my income has been cut in half just for fun. It's a startling reminder that the entire streaming ecosystem could just go away overnight because a tech company lets it. Buy albums if you can.

Being a writer is great, your job is just words and every time you see the slightest edit in a google doc you get to think that everyone hates you actually

My apartment complex does this really cool thing where if you miss paying your rent by even a day, they send you a very scary "PAY OR VACATE IN 14 DAYS" notice, which is not at all stress-inducing.

My current contract is ending this month and I'm once again available for work! Part-time or full-time. I've been a freelancer in games for well over a decade, and I bring a lot of energy to the projects I'm on! Need an extra pair of hands? Let's talk! maenots.carrd.co contact: maenots@gmail.com

Jacob Geller is no longer a part of MinnMax. He won't be on content moving forward and we won't be publicly airing this week's episode of The MinnMax Show. We're in shock and deeply hurt. Thank you for your patience during this sensitive time.

Pet project: 1) Advanced PS1/N64 game extraction (+all animations). 2) Website where you can browse and compare models, textures, animations, FMVs, for preservation. Already have FF7, Mega Man Legends 1 and 2 and MediEvil fully ripped. #FF7 #FinalFantasy #FFVII #PS1 #PSX #RetroGame #N64

I maaaaay have been a bit distracted this month and maaaay have forgotten to put out a post after we published this announcement, but happy to say that we decided on a final name for Project Lexa, which is now Lexa!

bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers

I think you are not only seeing Sharma's managerial style in these moves, but also the clear influence of people who have been desperate to treat game development as a spreadsheet venture for years at Xbox and are finally getting their chance.

It’s football vaugepost season.

All my homies hate making UML sequence diagrams.

chess but i gave black a predeployed infantry to counter first turn advantage as is the standard policy

Useless Wizard crashes the party!