func_Mathias

Just released building instructions for a x6 upscaled Energy Crystal I have been working on. Always loved the Energy Crystals so having a bigger one was long overdue! Hope someone else finds enjoyment in this as well! Link bellow this post. #Lego #MOC #RockRaiders

I'm making wonderful things and will not elaborat 🐀🚶‍♂️🕷️ #Gamedev #Indiegame

It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

because it is relevant to my work, I have tried very hard to educate myself on how AI works, be fair and measured in how I evaluate it, and regularly test new tools to confirm or debunk my priors and tbh AI haters are just nailing it with less work like 99% of the time. keep at it folks

to me the existential threat posed by AI slop games is less "AI slop games will steal our sales" and more "the onslaught of AI slop and the exhaustion over having to second guess every new game will make people mentally check out from supporting new games at all and retreat to their backlogs"

Made a nice little catapult system for my current game project, got some nice editor previews so you can see how and where a physics object will be flung before running the game. Also works and previews with gravity volumes which took some extra work, but is neat I think! #gamedev #indiedev

A reminder for those at the back.

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

"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...

wild to be living in a world with live-streamed state executions and legal daylight kidnappings, but every time you turn around some loser is saying, hey man, what if art were completely frictionless? what if we killed even the possibility of human connection??

I'm making wonderful things and will not elaborat 🐀🚶‍♂️🕷️ #Gamedev #Indiegame

Been having fun (and pain) experimenting with this project for over a year now, I understand now why there's not many portal based games. 😅 Also need to get better at actually posting about stuff I'm doing, so have a random screenshot too for #screenshotsaturday showing some laser testing.

Seventeen years later… The time has come for Machinarium 2 🦾🔧 Wishlist NOW on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1619280/...

Instant Transmission

The feeling of questioning whether or not something is AI as part of its destruction of all visual art

Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying

Things can never just work huh 😅? Glad it got caught but that's a silly one #Gamedev #Indiegame

New trailer for Chirax's Fortress! An indie game inspired by Yoshi's Island where you play as a hydra! Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3798540/... #indiegame #gamedev #yoshisisland #snes #platformer #godot #pixelart #noai #dragons #steam

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SONIC!! 35 years old already? Holy Unc status - #sonicthehedgehog #sonic35th #art #fanart

barrier to entry for making videogame was once Very High,, we would spend entire weekend figuring out how to use Rpgmaker thankfully now for low price of PLANET NOT INHABITABLE you can instruct mr computer to copy someone’s code from github and put your name on it and He will tell you did a good job

Just as a reminder, genAI images and videos aren't bad because they look bad. How close they get to the real thing is irrelevant. The reason they're bad is because ultimately genAI exists to put the creative process itself into the hands of corporations instead of actual creatives.

grisped like a freshly plucked spud

oh she is my whole heart

How I like to word it, as someone generally pro tech but anti "AI". Specific and purpose trained machine learning (with ethical training data) for things humans can't easily do (or takes an unreasonable amount of time) like complex data processing, can be good, and that existed before the hype boom.

I'm fine with machine learning with the correct conditions, but anything labeled AI I will assume the worst. That's the industry's own doing and they can lie in that bed. To me "AI" is a mindset, an attitude, a shitty movement, something we should 100% be against. Say you're not anti ML instead imo.

Messy desk photo while I work hard on wrapping up the design of my big Lego project. Been a combined 4+ months at this point cause I keep looking for improvements but I think it's time to finish! Will be released with instructions in the hopefully near future. #Lego #LegoMOC #RockRaiders

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

UNITY. DUTY. DESTINY.

Here was Shadow doing her "rob a purse" trick! This one will always be one of my favorites, and was one of the tricks that really taught me what amazing learners rats are! . I have a rat training book available here! www.etsy.com/listing/1605... amzn.to/484u2Mv

Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.

part of why I don't like AI is bc it's so often the antithesis of caring for the little things, the appreciation of the mundane, of seeing beauty where others haven't yet been able to, and seeking genuine fundamental understanding all in the name of "get product faster" I find it so disheartening

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

Suraj has a point.

Anyway I'm just going to say it outright: if you're an indie dev using AI for coding, above and beyond any other objections, what you're telling me is that you have no solidarity with anyone else in games. Not artists, not writers, not other coders. You beleive in personal convenience at all costs.

So a consequence of making a picross game is that I now have to make hundreds of pixel art pictures 😵 I've barely ever touched pixel art, but after having made a bit over 30 now I have to say I'm doing pretty good I think?!? These are some of my favorite so far! #PixelArt #GameDev #IndieDev #Picross

I bit the bullet and finally modeled and animated the main enemy for the portal-like game i am making with @funcmathias.bsky.social It is the first time ever i made a 3D animation and i think it came out pretty good. Let me know what you think! #indiedev #gamedev #Portal youtu.be/gFjHsTNO4Wk

smells you

it's still insane to me that valve never invest in game development outside their little studio. it's straightforwardly good business to start doing dev grants, or at least lower their cut until a dev makes a million bucks or whatever. the industry is falling apart and they wouldn't feel it at all

“We can disagree and still be friends.” Yeah. About whether a hot dog is a sandwich. Not whether some people deserve rights.

hey man we used AI in the production process of this game but don't worry none of it made it in the game, it was a huge waste of time and money, and we could've just looked at stock photos at the end of the day. You have to accept the future.

Some time ago, I decided to add my thoughts about "AI" to my site… #tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #GenAI #AISlop