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“distinctly British AI”

AI WILL SOLVE THE WORLDS PROBLEMS BRO JUST ONE MORE DATACENTRE BRO

i hope it SNOGS this Cartmas

In light of the emerging PHP vulnerabilities, I’m happy to report that I took voluntary redundancy from my web dev job 3 months ago and I don’t give a monkeys.

Tim Sweeney needs to delete his Twitter account. #gamedev #indiegames #noAI

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

UNITY SPORK The game engine with two functions! 1. Create derisory derivative low-effort slop! 2. Destroy the environment and your credibility! #gamedev #indiegames #fuckAI

How I arrived on Bluesky.

Jean-Luc gave up solo #gamedev to live the simpler life of a starship captain

The game I just completed, Dreamfall Chapters (2017), features a minor character who is a slimy nationalist bigot, who harps on about cleansing the homeland of magical people & undesirables & immigrants, and wants your vote to protect ‘our’ women & children. He looks uncannily like Nigel #Farage

In a related post to my previous one about the new Silent Hill, this #indiegame set in a depressingly awful housing estate looks like a lot of joyriding fun. I hope they keep the janky OTT car physics.

Hey @netflix.com - it’s okay, I don’t need you to ‘deliver even more value for my membership’ and offer 85 new releases next month, as you already have more shows & films than I could watch in my entire lifetime. So there’s no need to increase my ’includes ads’ plan fee by 33%. #enshittification

I’ve been so down-in-the-dumps of late and grumpy about everything, including this little one’s annoying shenanigans, but having her curl up on me like this at the end of a crappy #caturday makes things not seem so terrible.

I've never had any interest in playing any Silent Hill game until I saw this. It looks like where I live. Getting by in a town like this is the real survival horror. #Sheffield #videogames #depression

This is a good visual metaphor for #gamedev using generative AI to code… it gives the illusion of competency and creativity without an understanding of what the hell is going on.

See this? I want the opposite of it. I would buy a Switch 2 if they offered it as a screenless brick you plug into a TV. Just a regular game console with a regular gamepad. Charge me £269 instead of £419 and I’ll buy all the games. I’m too old to be squinting at handhelds with fiddly controls.

Me rejecting fugly textured shiny bumpmapped realism in video games.

This little shit drew blood yesterday, after I tried to close the blind to block her view of the local cow cat that bullies her for encroaching on it‘s territory. She won’t listen to me when I tell her it was here first and she should just stay out of its way and ignore it. #caturday

Tomb Raider (1996): Lara runs! Lara jumps! Lara climbs! Lara shoots! Lara pisses off dinosaurs! Lara raids tombs! Tomb Raider (2027): Lara doomscrolls recipe websites full of pointless waffle, ads, mailing list popups, erroneous AI summaries, etc etc etc. #gamedev #enshitification #indiegames

I’ve had to make some very difficult choices about my personal life & career this year. I turned to #gamedev again to help with a creative outlet but I just can’t decide what to do. So I’ve been distracting myself with video games, because they are fun & cool & choices really don’t matter… Oh no.

That GIF is a good depiction of me and my mental health after taking voluntary redundancy in July, thinking I might chill out for a month and do a bit of #gamedev

I’m too tired to do it myself, so here is my cat screaming into the abyss on my behalf. #caturday

Same. Going to take up painting again, and do some mentoring and care work, I think. As for my #gamedev hobby… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I challenge anyone to watch this documentary entirely constructed of archival footage and not feel any or all of the following things: 1. sick to the stomach with anger 2. a barely controllable need to weep 3. a desire to commit an act of homicidal vengeance on behalf of the planet

It’s one week since I left my job and I’ve already had one mental breakdown from lack of sleep and an inability to #gamedev, so I’ve decided to give up the following: - alcohol - caffeine - prescription meds - social media - society - food - water - air I might still play #indiegames though.

It’s the #caturday after I officially finished my university creative tech job of 21 years, following taking voluntary severance. I have very mixed feelings. Going to spend the summer meditating, touching grass, maybe doing a little #gamedev, and chillin’ with my Emotional/Wrist Support Cat.

Thought I’d share a post about generative AI / LLMs by the main chap from one of my fave bands. One of the best pieces I’ve read about using such tools to generate ‘art’, and questioning the world view of tech bro fascists and their creativity-devoid champions who *just don’t get it*.

This makes me so sad, and so angry at the sort of gamers who continually air their grievances in the most unthinking way, no matter how justified their cause. Teeto is awesome, and such #indiegames do not deserve to be the target of this campaign.

Teeto just released, and at a great price too, even before the release discount! I’ve been so looking forward to this charming colourful old skool 3D platformer. The demo was great and played well on my Steam Deck, but it deserves the big screen experience. Congratulations to EPG! 🥳🥳🥳

mandatory reading

I have a new idea for a low-interaction minimalist 3D space haulage game, sort of a cross between Homeworld, No Man’s Sky, Euro Truck Simulator 2 and a screensaver. I was wondering how to implemented this, and then find out that a few days ago it was announced EVE ONLINE code was being open-sourced.