Scott Anderson

It's always my posts complaining about AI which do the big numbers, which is understandable as it's a shared frustration with a lot of people, but I would hope the more positive stuff I post about got half as much attention. 'cos there's a lot to be positive about.

IIRC this is one reason why we didn't see as much new Lancer stuff as we could have

Most roleplaying design is done after hours. Working fulltime is rare. That Wizards of the Coast tries to steal the afterhours work of its employees spits in the face of our industry's history.

Ruin

Been using variations of this code for over a decade now. One of my favorites.

Demons and boxes 👹🧊 #screenshotsaturday #pico8

Please share far and wide, to help it find mates who might need gamedev help 🙏

Looking for game devs who have been directly inspired by anything BioWare for my next video. I suspect the public likely doesn’t quite realize the extent of their influence on the industry, so I’d really like to highlight that. If you are one such game devs, pls reply to this post!

Lately I've noticed the AI generated slopware being sent to me has gone from special pleading about how they're just small little devs to full on Sephiroth posting in the AI Generated Content Disclosure sections, and it's an incredible evolution in slopware purveyors. (The below is just an example)

Ideas are easy, ideas are irrelevant, don’t value them. Warren Spector has exactly 100 ideas for potential games sitting on his hard drive at home. But why work on a particular game, say Deus Ex? Because you BURN TO DO IT

Warren Spector’s talk, encompassing Deus Ex and Epic Mickey and much more, is streaming now at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter but ALSO by request, we are not recording or keeping this stream! Tune in if you want to see it.

that's enough politics posting. time to think about how cool E.V.O: The Search for Eden is www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7z9...

Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up until its closure yesterday www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

I literally don't have words for the news of EA closing Bioware. Unconscionable, incompetent, soulless decision-making. May everyone involved in these decision suffer Renegade interrupts for the rest of their lives.

EA is shutting down BioWare. The next Mass Effect has been canceled: https://www.rpgsite.net/news/21611-bioware-shutting-down-ea-job-cuts-mass-effect-canceled

Fortnite skins should just follow the “Dragon Ball game DLC” path of just adding more and more Gokus. None of this other shit. Just Goku after Goku.

blog post - job mightyvision.blogspot.com/2026/10/job....

I didn't mean for the debug lines to look like spider legs but it's kinda neat

The Zone is an amazing surreal horror TTRPG inspired heavily by media like Annihalation. Find it on our website! #horrorgame #ttrpg #ttrpgtok #ttrpgcommunity #storygame

if you missed the talk about how we localized caves of qud, you can catch it here!

god I am so fucking excited for queen's domain, you have no fucking clue.

this is a problem with having a monopolized digital platform and curators/reviewers/critics and communities getting destroyed by social media algorithms. i don't trust Valve to do anything, because it's not a problem that should be solved by platform owners anyway - and i don't trust what they'd do.

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

P.S. if anyone wants alternate names for CA neighborhoods which aren't names of white guys, i use "ortho" and "N8" instead of "Von Neumann" and "Moore".

OpenXR spatial containers are here: an open, cross-platform API for spatial windowing in XR. Apps can switch between a bounded multitasking mode and a full immersive mode, with the system managing placement. www.khronos.org/blog/openxr-... #OpenXR #XR

Something I've wanted to write up for a while, this is how I wish I'd learned spherical harmonics: andrew-helmer.github.io/demystifying...

Developed in the last years of the Second Committee, the Everest pattern now known as the Sagarmatha experienced some of the bloodiest infighting ever witnessed in Union's history. Both SecComm loyalists and revolutionary forces fielded countless variants in fratricidal struggle.

80 indie games

love that 90% of the economy is just a casino where you bet on magic tricks

I worked for a "AAA" (AA by 2020s standards) studio in NYC back in the day. Avalanche is mentioned and had a longer run, but Kaos was there first

Only one more sleep 'til Rooguelike Celebration! Before getting into the last batch of speaker shoutouts before the show, one more reminder that tickets are pay-what-you-can - we'd love for you to hang out and join us! ti.to/roguelike-ce...

There used to be all these little fan sites around the Internet, each one of them a tiny little aim of joy. Now, there are "fandoms" on social media, but we're much much worse off.

had a dream nintendo released a mario 64 "director's cut" w/ a peach side story where she's trapped in the paintings/gets a plumber's outfit to do platforming in. the dialogue was abstract/kingdom heartsy and she kept going on abt the water world she was lost in. i was posting this when i woke up

Did you hear?? POLY FIGHTER IS OUT! Single-player fighting deckbuilder? Heck yeah! Retro yet timeless, heartful yet fighty, it's got it all, buy it quick while it's still on launch discount @polyfightergame.bsky.social: store.steampowered.com/app/3977340/...

Binary Serialization in df_game_data A new blog post where I talk about how the binary serialization works. In particular, how static vs dynamic sized objects are handled to avoid special case limitations. blog.demofox.org/2026/10/15/b...