Richard Meredith

Richard Meredith

@rtm223.me

Game developer @foldedfox.games | Previously: Bad North, Little Nightmares, LittleBigPlanet | He/Him http://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rtm223

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Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

Just released v1.3 of my #UE5 SDF generator plugin for UE5.8 support Also now has some material functions to make procedural, irregular, self-intersecting, n-sided polygons. A thing that probably no one will ever need for their video games github.com/rtm223/RTMSDF

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database
@eddcoates.bsky.social

Someone ran a poll on X, asking players if they would prefer "all games on Steam made by humans" or "all games on Epic made by AI". 139,568 people voted, with just 1.6% voting for AI and Epic. Faith in humanity restored!

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Dylan Browne
@dylanbrowne.bsky.social

Feeling down about the AI focused re-launch of a certain game jam? fear not, I am putting together a week long gamejam celebrating Human Made creations, come join us and make some cool stuff in the Hand Crafted Jam. itch.io/jam/hand-cra... #GameDev #IndieDev

itch.ioHand Crafted JamA game jam from 2026-11-12 to 2026-11-26 hosted by Dylan Browne. Welcome to the first Hand Crafted Jam, a Game Jam all about Human Made Games and things because Human Made art rules and we should cele...

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the Juice Media
@thejuicemedia.com

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

I keep on getting these AI-Generated cold calling emails that entirely fail to communicate who is contacting me, or about what. Even if the goal is "volume of outreach", surely you want people to know what the pitch is. Surely you want to communicate *something* to me?

Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

Presumably they've got an agent out there scraping websites for potential contacts (annoying, but sure, I get the idea), but why let the agent send utter word salad to those contacts?

Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

Something that's really funny about Tim Sweeney's crusade against AI disclosures on Steam is that he has proven himself to be uniquely inept at running a pc games store Like why would Valve care what he thinks about their business when he took a swing for them and missed completely

Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

Yes, I imagine it would be difficult to make a video game if you have absolutely zero relevant skills and refuse to learn any

Kim Hu@kim-hu.com

I can't believe he's still at it, it's been days

Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

Sooo.. We heard about that "sandbox" thing that everyone's been talking about and after several months of struggling to wrap our heads around it... Yeah ok, we finally understand why you'd want that. Please give us more money, we're very smart

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com

OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”

techcrunch.comOpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.

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mtsw
@mtsw.bsky.social

lol they really do not want you to see this movie huh

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online

hang on, so Bleecker Street was sold to a Pierre Omidyar-backed group that also happens to back Tosca Musk's Passionflix... and now "MUSK" is disappearing from theaters?

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Jon Wood
@jonwood.bsky.social

Replying to @rtm223.me

This is a thing in UK law, where courts can bar someone from being a director or other person with significant control of a registered company (usually for a period of time), similar to banning someone from driving if they do so recklessly.

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Chairman George
@superbunnyhop.bsky.social

Tonight in about 3 hours (8pm US Eastern-ish) I'll be checking out a game demo, BOLD: Networked Newt Action by friend of the channel @soft-rodvt.itch.io and crew. It's like umm, indiecore homebrew Spies vs. Mercs. But actually Furries vs. Scalies. store.steampowered.com/app/4153760/...

store.steampowered.comBOLD: Networked Newt Action on SteamBOLD: Networked Newt Action redefines multiplayer stealth action for the modern day, with a return to classic Spies vs Mercs style 2v2 asymmetrical gameplay in a dark Sci-Fi world with anthropomorphic...
Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

Once you're fining a company $25B for violating laws, you really do need to be identifying he people responsible and either A) Sending them to prison, or preferably B) Removing *entirely* their ability to manage businesses or hold stocks

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social

“Added up, that’s a lot of billions. And yet: It’s still just the cost of doing business for Meta.”

wired.comHow Many Billions Would It Take to Hold Meta Accountable?Meta got hit this week with its biggest fine yet, the latest in a mounting pile of court-ordered payments.
Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

I genuinely believe there needs to be a legal structure for us, as a society, to say, "you ran this company so bad and did so much harm to us, that you will never be allowed anywhere near influence over another company again"

Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

Like, you can still have a job, and a pension account, maybe even let you invest in funds or some other indirect investments. But you're not having a executive or management position, nor trade stocks again, and all your prior stocks are held by a government trust now

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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀
@coil.bsky.social

The six-fingered hand is a spiteful jab, but know what else Laurence Fishburne doesn't have? White skin. GenAI sucks.

Cale Michael@xjustified.bsky.social

This shit just writes itself at this point. Just the name "Epic AI MegaJam" is a joke that best describes what is going on with these companies.

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nathaniel
@pedrothedagger.bsky.social

sorry but the replies here are whack. co-dev is good and healthy for the industry. co-dev means that when you finish your project, instead of laying off the surge of people you hired to finish the game, they go work on a different game with a different core team and different publisher.

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social

Star Wars: Galactic Racer was made by a core team of 75 people. "What we wanted to do was keep that core small, smaller than perhaps you might have done in the past, and scale capacity and capability with what we call distributed development." https://bit.ly/4hT02qg

Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

I'm begging you all. I know this stuff is frustrating and exhausting and scary but you have to stop catastrophising and buying into the AI "inevitability" narrative. Cause it's sure as hell not even vaguely close to a done deal

Dominic Tarason@dominictarason.com

FYI, the Next Fest page has updated! Where previously it was slop, my top recommendations in the main listing are: Dead of the Brain Queen's Domain ReBlade Annalynn MD Anomalith TETRIC (which is new to me and looks WILD) Derelikt Godzilla: DAMM Surfpunk Prison Of Husks Hell Wait Zero AI. Told ya.

Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

And when you waver in that belief, as is reasonable in these times, maybe take it up with some friends to discuss in private instead of broadcasting it to the world? You don't have to do free PR work for some of the worst companies on the planet

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Dominic Tarason
@dominictarason.com

Replying to @dominictarason.com

Seriously, go check it out now. The transformation after 48 hours and they have some numbers to work with is staggering. It also confirms what I keep saying: Nobody is actually buying these AI games. Or even playing them for free. The only time they get any airtime is when it's random & unranked.

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Dominic Tarason
@dominictarason.com

FYI, the Next Fest page has updated! Where previously it was slop, my top recommendations in the main listing are: Dead of the Brain Queen's Domain ReBlade Annalynn MD Anomalith TETRIC (which is new to me and looks WILD) Derelikt Godzilla: DAMM Surfpunk Prison Of Husks Hell Wait Zero AI. Told ya.

Dominic Tarason@dominictarason.com

Okay, people are already getting really depressed and frustrated with the Next Fest, so I'll say what I said last time round: Wait a day or two. They order the games on the pages by hours played, and 99% of the AI garbage will sink like a stone. Right now it's just undifferentiated and unranked.

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Frank Cifaldi
@frankcifaldi.bsky.social

Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

I've been thinking a lot recently about how videogames "just cost so much to make now", yet no one wants to acknowledge the choices that go into a AAA game budget Years of "our strategy is fewer, bigger games" and/or "only live services"... Yeah, no wonder games got expensive to make 🙄

Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham!@futterish.fsquared.biz

I am begging every AAA exec and platform holder: THINK SMALLER. Growth forever in ANYTHING is impossible. And now is a moment to lean into the art form and create the goodwill you’ll need to propel forward after this cursed AI stuff is put in the ground.

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Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

Also continuing to chase fidelity and realism by default, for a whole ass decade since we hit severe diminishing returns has been a huge driver of cost spirals in game budgets "PS5/XBox series hardware increased budgets dramatically" - no it didn't, it just enabled execs to CHOOSE to increase costs

Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

Obvs, big fancy expensive games deserve to get made, but making that the ONLY play in certain corners of the industry has been a catastrophic move and pretending that game budgets are just a force of nature is kind of embarrassingly naive

Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

I've been thinking a lot recently about how videogames "just cost so much to make now", yet no one wants to acknowledge the choices that go into a AAA game budget Years of "our strategy is fewer, bigger games" and/or "only live services"... Yeah, no wonder games got expensive to make 🙄

Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham!@futterish.fsquared.biz

I am begging every AAA exec and platform holder: THINK SMALLER. Growth forever in ANYTHING is impossible. And now is a moment to lean into the art form and create the goodwill you’ll need to propel forward after this cursed AI stuff is put in the ground.

Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

There's a million levers you can push on to change the budget of your game, and it turns out cranking them all up to max all the time is going to cost a lot of money Yes, inflation has made a difference, but that's not causing you to spend $300M on a spiderman game. Scoping choices are

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Megan Fox
@glassbottommeg.bsky.social

Folks panicking over that one demo graph from Next Fest should probs come look at this graph and calm back down. Seriously, Steam's algorithms are remarkably good at just sending slop straight into the abyss. Nobody wants this shit.

zagawee@zachisagardner.bsky.social

just wanted to share something i discovered the amount of games released in 2022 compared to this year has increased by 77%. I use 2022 because that marks the last year before AI really took over the internet whats crazy to me is that the amount of games with ZERO REVIEWS has ALMOST TRIPLED. ZERO?

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Ed Zitron
@edzitron.com

NVIDIA seems to be channel stuffing, forcing Amazon and other customers to take early delivery. The argument that these things are "scarce" when you don't even have anywhere to plug them into is nonsense...unless NVIDIA is saying you NEED to take them now, or else. GPUs are stacked in warehouses.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

Business Insider also reporting that Amazon projects it would take delivery of $3 billion a month in GPUs “every month for the foreseeable future,” all while not having anywhere to put them, as part of an “early rack receipt” program. Extremely strange!

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ari velazquez 🌯
@ari.velazquez.fyi

. @soft-rodvt.itch.io has been cooking up an exquisite spies vs mercs style game and i highly recommend checking out the demo with some friends! SVM as a game mode is inherently a bit complex off the bat, asymmetrical always is, but it's a blast to play

BOLD:\\ networked newt action@boldgame.online

- 3D action espionage PVP on Unreal Engine 5.8 - Revival of the classic Spies vs Mercs game mode - Absolutely no AI, whatsoever. - Demo available now Download today as a part of @steampowered.com Next Fest at boldgame.online

Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

I'm really not enjoying the current trend of people who don't like AI doing big PR pushes for AI on the timeline. You just don't gotta do it. I know it's exhausting and a little scary, but you absolutely don't need to declare any unearned victories to your opponents. That's a weird thing to do.

Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

The entire nature of the last decade of tech hype cycles has been dipshits declaring victory long before they have achieved it and then failing I know this one is bigger and arguably more real, but it's also kinda as fake as the others and you do not have to declare premature victories for them 

Richard Meredith
@rtm223.me

Seeing a lot of people catastrophising about the state of AI in Next Fest who very, very clearly do not understand how Next Fest works Dominic is 100% correct here. Valve's far from perfect but they've been actively, and quite successfully, trying to manage this issue

Dominic Tarason@dominictarason.com

Last Next Fest is was like 50% AI garbage on the front page at first. The moment they had some actual data, you had to go through HUNDREDS of games to find anything significantly slopped up.

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Tomas Sala
@falconeerdev.bsky.social

"A game about the joy of designing ships, and nothing else." Okay, I lied. But anyone paying attention knows I've been popping turrets from ships I designed since 2018... Now it's your turn. The multiplayer playtest kicks off next week. Join via player.gg/explore/game... #shipshaper #indiedev

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lex luddy needs a nap
@lexluddy.xyz

xbox's new marketing campaign of "fuck you, eat your slop" seems to be going great

Holly Green@winnersusedrugs.bsky.social

Senior Business Strategy Manager Brandon Stirrup is over on X confirming that Microsoft/Xbox is using AI in games development