Fireye

Fireye

@fireye.coffee

They/Them // https://fireye.coffee Gamedev, FOSS, Music, Creative Writing, TTRPGs, blogging

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
@uwotc-official.bsky.social

Yesterday, Wizards informed us that it doesn’t intend to voluntarily recognize the D&D or Studio X units of our union ahead of a vote. We remain committed to creating a workplace focused on wellness, transparency, and collaboration by winning our coming election.

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Emily M. Bender
@emilymbender.bsky.social

Replying to @emilymbender.bsky.social

"It's already here, what do you mean you think you can refuse?" is just another variation of the agency-stealing inevitability narrative. The future is not yet written, and we can shape it, starting with rejecting inevitability and claiming our agency. /fin

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Ludum Dare
@ludumdare.com

Sign-up emails work again. The new user invitation code for LD60 is "sixtober". NOTE: New accounts are invisible until approved manually, so please make a post or say something human sounding in your profile. #LDJAM

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
@uwotc-official.bsky.social

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

unitedwizardsofthecoast.comDungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWAToday, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
Fireye
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I was a fan of Jacob Geller. I will not be litigating anything on this, past my condolences and best wishes for the victim. In the chaos, I found myself transfixed to this app in a way and for a duration that has genuinely concerned me; I think I will be removing bluesky from my phone.

Fireye
@fireye.coffee

The subject material has proven painful to read yet impossible to ignore. I can liken the experience to being bludgeoned on the head repeatedly and coming back for more despite every brain cell remaining begging me to stop I don't like that my brain works like this; Addiction truly never goes away.

Fireye
@fireye.coffee

This is not enough games. Some honorable mentions include: hades, inscryption, stardew valley, wanderstop, life is strange 1, the stanley parable, night in the woods, what remains of Edith finch, I was a teenage exocolonist, and many many more. #my9games

Fireye
@fireye.coffee

If I took a shot whenever I heard a "its not good at X but it's really good at code!!!1!" I would be dead.

feeb 🔜 BosBAF & MICE!@magicmooshka.bsky.social

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

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Black Tabby Games (This is Tony) - Slay the Princess
@blacktabbygames.com

As exciting as a lucky dice roll can be in a story-heavy game, they often feel like a vestigial holdover from TTRPGs, where the abstraction of dice for social/story checks is necessary to keep events flowing forward. There also isn't savescumming in TTRPGs. Players have to adapt to a bad roll...

Fireye
@fireye.coffee

Been writing disco tools docs for the past 2 hours. Someone please stop me I have so much homework and a linear algebra midterm later today.

Fireye
@fireye.coffee

This too is art

InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social

The moment you've all been waiting for: InfoWars: Theme Songs Vol. 1 is here. LISTEN NOW Spotify: https://bit.ly/4yeWXYx Apple Music: https://apple.co/4he9nds YouTube: https://bit.ly/4xE5ALb

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Emi
@coppolaemilio.com

Watching the video: Oh nice! Moldrise, a Godot game! Oh nice! Pathogenic, another Godot game! Oh nice! Pathogenic is being compared to Slay the Spire 2, another Godot game! Is this what world domination looks like?

Jacob Geller@jacobgeller.com

Some games use infection as an aesthetic. Others use it as a strategy. youtu.be/LWz7u1sf67U

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cyber disposables
@twen.bsky.social

Replying to @dioneira.bsky.social

Apparently it’s about ripeness and size! I’d love to get a look at the actual requirement sheet I wanna find a way to give my bananas body dysmorphia

Fireye
@fireye.coffee

This was exactly my mindset when I wrote I hate fun games fireye.coffee/blog/i-hate-...

fireye.coffeeI hate fun gamesManifesto Jam 2026
Haus of Decline@hausofdecline.bsky.social

Hit my late 30s & now if I think about playing video games it triggers a disgust response. Don't think this is a universal feeling nor do I think it is a medium without merit. But I'm paralyzed by the thought of how much time I spent on them when I could have been doing something more constructive.

Fireye
@fireye.coffee

Which I still stand by btw. It: s a bit strongly worded and hyperbolic (as is the established manifesto convention) but the thesis still kicks ass

Fireye
@fireye.coffee

If you can afford it, consider paying for free software!

Adriaan@adriaan.games

Godot contributors and Godot Foundation people are really good people, ya’ll. There’s so much goodwill and best effort action, many of their efforts unpaid, under-appreciated, and invisible. Please continue to send them kindness. And donate a bit of what you can spare. fund.godotengine.org

fund.godotengine.orgGodot Development FundJoin the Development Fund and support the Godot Foundation to work on Godot Engine.
Fireye
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Beautiful little technical post here. Thanks!

Godot Engine@godotengine.org

From the outside, rendering optimization can look a little bit like black magic. That's why @clayjohn.bsky.social, lead maintainer of the rendering team, is here to show a few examples of some optimizations from this year to highlight that optimizing rendering code isn’t as scary as it sounds.

godotengine.orgOptimizing CPU-side Rendering Code – Godot EngineOptimizing CPU code is a lot of fun. Here’s how we do it
Fireye
@fireye.coffee

If i had a nickel for every trans person who's making a dysphoria project i think i would have enough money to fund a game studio to make my dysphoria project.

Fireye
@fireye.coffee

Just became aware of stripe funding facismOS, is anyone aware of any other payment processors that are not PayPal?

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D2Jam
@d2jam.com

Only 2 days left! Come on, start alreadyyyy! Still plenty of time to join at: d2jam.com #gamejam #gamedev #indiedev

Fireye
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Just finished the hex. I was already an inscryption fan and this was just such a fascinating entry. It's honestly the closest thing i've played to the beginners guide, which isn't the comparison that I thought I'd be making going into it. Very good nonetheless! Quite hyped for Pony island 2.

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Quinns
@itsquinns.bsky.social

WHO??

Dropout@dropout.tv

This week on Dropout... 🃏 Monday: Game Changer (with Lily Du, Brian David Gilbert, Vic Michaelis, Jacquis Neal, and Ele Woods) 🎨 Tuesday: Toonout 🗣️ Wednesday: Adventuring Academy (with Quinns Smith) 🐷 Friday: Smartyshorts 👇👇👇

Fireye
@fireye.coffee

Fun fact: the unity game engine still doesn't support fractional scaling on linux in 2026. This game design degree will be the end of me.

Fireye
@fireye.coffee

I don't care if DLSS5 looks "better" or not. It is ethically unconscionable, sets dangerous precedent, will end up homogenizing art direction in games if broadly adopted, and not to mention raise already sky-high performance, and thus cost, barriers.

Fireye@fireye.coffee

Getting out of the weeds real quick on #DLSS5, all else aside, I'm kinda concerned about the idea of letting nvidia dictate what ends up on people's displays. Even putting aside any nefarious applications therein, the dataset bias alone has a very real capacity to shape societal perception.

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG
@eternalskies.neocities.org

Daniel is sharing his starter pack of game devs that don't use AI, so I figured rather than just repost it, I would quote post it with my three no AI game dev starter packs. go.bsky.app/6DRdowf go.bsky.app/AS5R4p7 go.bsky.app/7K7JDCJ

Daniel J. Menezes@danjohnston.uk

Creating this no-ai indie games starter pack is one of the best things I ever did on BlueSky. Lots of great developers in here, making things with their own hands, some of whom I might not have found otherwise!! go.bsky.app/78u8M6Y

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Marx S—
@phophos.bsky.social

luddism is about resisting the reverse osmosis of wealth. a luddite rages against the machine not because it is a machine, but because the machine is there to efficiently convert capital into misery.

Fireye
@fireye.coffee

Every couple of months I'll remember the adobe hbomb video and check YouTube like i've somehow missed it out of sheer cope

Fireye
@fireye.coffee

I'm seeing a lot of games doomer posting, and yes we 100% have a shitty industry, but don't let all that noise and money trick you into thinking games are a dead medium. If nobody is making genuine art in games, then I will be dead, and I know the same is true for many of my contemporaries.

Fireye
@fireye.coffee

However shitty the industry is, know that there are still people that will be making cool shit anyway, and maybe take some time away from the despair™ every now and again to go and look for them.