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Dark Messiah: Community Edition is now available for wishlist on Steam. - new game modes (NG+, co-op, trials) - new mechanics (sliding, relics, spells, weapons, transformations) - updated Source engine (Linux, Win64, CSM) - achievements, cloud saves, workshop, controller support

Its forever been the wildest thing being at games conferences -especially the largest ones- and the talk schedule is like - creating sincere art from playful naivete - balancing passion and health - how to dodge parental controls when monetizing toddlers - regrets from my 1st commercial codebase

One of the most insightful comments about game development came from a former boss. He said “Making a game is like starting a band. You can’t throw money at a new studio with random AAA veterans and expect it to crank out a hit.” 🧵

Nice thread on Warren Spector's opinions and experience

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Quick little desktop companion sidequest, demo/page coming soon

“Uh oh our chair on the mocap stage was too short! What do we do? Remodel the sofa? Re animate the characters??” Environment artist: “I got you”

IT'S OUT NOW! There is a "Friend pass" so only 1 player has to purchase the game ❤️ s.team/a/4461870

Love how they ignore that all the other genAI access settings on our account are OFF and default this tasks bullshit to ON. We need a data protection law that stipulates new features like this are never initialized as on. Like the laws we have about email opt-ins.

Take on Me filter in Godot!! Pen-and-ink style compositor effect with real vector polylines. Normal-Driven Hatching and Depth-Based Contours in Godot Compute Shaders. I've had the idea for a while now and decided to try it out. I'm very happy with the result. And it's fast too. #gamedev #godot

The end of Whiplash except it's the Mute City theme from F-Zero.

I saw this video on Reddit of DuneCrawl, which uses my Asset Forge for sketching. I love it, in fact, I loved seeing this so much that it gave me a lot of inspiration. Big plans for Asset Forge, hopefully will already be able to share soon. redd.it/1x2fy0r

This has the potential to be an INVALUABLE resource

"A perpetually self-feeding meat grinder:" The futile search for developers who adore the latest prompt-gobblers from Unity and Google

Ce type a licencié 1000 personnes en mars 2026 et vient nous expliquer sept mois plus tard que l'adoption massive d'IA ne remplace pas les gens. Gars. GARS !

Appreciated some Godot features for this piece: 1. You can tweak the hell out of shadows. Treat them as part of the art style. 2. NoiseTexture is super versatile for prototypes / simple stuff. 3. Subtle SSS can give even simple graphics some extra "oomf". #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

"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...

Daniel Mullins Games will release Pony Island 2 soon, and on that occasion they're giving away for free the first Pony Island - a psychological meta-horror that pretends to be a game about cute pony. You can take it for free on Steam until October, 12, 17:00 UTC store.steampowered.com/app/405640

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this is so fucking sad

While I was struggling with protecting my mom's site from the bot swarm I kept asking everyone who is still in the industry how small sites who don't have a kid with a computer science degree survive and the answer was pretty much "they don't" and that's so grim

Going through old twitter bookmarks.

Something that has seemed increasingly apparent to me is the power of a platform to set expectations for the quality bar and production value of the games it runs. Platforms have immense _curation_ powers

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

So - want to add lights to your Godot 2D scenes? Check out this quick tutorial! 🔥 👉 youtu.be/Qvtxx3evMwg #gamedev #godot #GodotEngine #godot4 #gdscript #csharp #madewithgodot #tutorial #programming #lighting

AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.

Rare feeling of working on something that's getting me kind of excited #IndieGame #GameDev #Godot #DarkFantasy #ScreenshotSaturday

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

"There are as many water shader as there are games" - a very smart friend

bringing her back

#RAMpocalypse Le PDG de Micron, un des 3 géants de la RAM : - j'ai déjà vendu toute ma production 2027 - pas de nouvelles capacités de production avant 2028 - les prix en 2027 et 2028 seront pires qu'en 2026 - pas de visibilité sur une date d'amélioration www.theregister.com/systems/2026...

I want to say it cannot be said enough how important it is for other men to say things about this shit. In the moment, or ASAP My first ever game dev event I was sexually harassed (assaulted?) by a Sony exec while all of my coworkers saw and said nothing Please say something, for people that can't

Oh no...

A Godot alternative to famous @freya.bsky.social's Shapes plugin for Unity

I spoke to several sources working hard at The Coalition, who have experienced increased anxiety around layoffs and promised Metacritic bonuses since Xbox's Reset. The sudden cut of story director Juan Vaca only fueled these fears. Read it below!

we should teach kids not to gamble by making them play xcom

A lot of people—I’d say almost all adults—are not told “I’m proud of you” often enough. Culturally it seems we reserve that praise for mentees or kids. Be that person! Say it to your spouse. Your siblings. Your friends. Even your parents and folks you look up to!

Here's the delightful development story behind Big Walk, one of this year's best video games www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Dude, no freaking way... What you're seeing here is me doing live-blending / animations on baked lightmaps in Godot... 3700 FPS #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

THE FACT THAT YOU ARE DIGGING AROUND ON THIS DISK AND THINKING ABOUT HOW TO DECODE IT IS PROOF THAT THE GAME IS FUN ENOUGH TO TRY TO STEAL IT AND GIVE IT TO YOUR FRIENDS.

Final two cents on the PMG x Kotick story: It is paramount that you support the journalism you want to see in the world. Outlets like PMG continue to raise the bar, BUT if you want even more of that probing journalism you have to give reporters the runway and financial backing to produce it.

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

video games as a whole make hundreds of billions of dollars a year and apparently somehow nobody can make any money on them or pay anyone to make them

in a week that saw microsoft give activision the reins to halo and bungie pivot back to destiny, one thing has become abundantly clear: the people in charge do not have a long-term, overriding plan. they’re just reacting. the result, when times are bad, is chaos

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts