TJ Cioffe | onewinter games

First ClickCrafter Steam Playtest Now Live! It's finally here! Join the first ClickCrafter Steam Playtest today and help shape the game's finished form! The first playtest covers the opening 15-20 or so minutes of the game. You'll get an introduction to the island and its mysterious Keeper…

That's all of us too, in our every day lives, not just talking a good game online

There can never be another "water under the bridge" administration ever again, and part of that is going to involve shaming everyone on board with this one - voters included - as the disgusting pig racists they are

I refuse to believe this is a real Politico reporter, that is Jeremy Strong's Luigi. That is a Spirit Halloween costume called "Substack."

Firebug! Firebug! Firebug!!!

I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive

i'll do another proper announcement post later around primetime but the no AI notice with cute fox is up on itch now: eniko.itch.io/cute-fox-no-...

got the made by humans no AI splash screen from @rally.luckyraven.cc and i'll be putting it up on itch under creative commons license later so everyone can use it

Hey, @anthonymoser.com. I wish I had written this! anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

GOOD life lessons learned from gamedev: - Savagely hacking down scope is the fastest and most effective way to make an awesome product - Limitations make you do your job better - A button or seam in the right place is all you need to turn a character from garbage to fuckable

RT if you don't use AI for coding

I think it's odd to live in a time where we're just past the peak of everything. In less then two decades, billionaires have stripped all progress, turned to warmongering, and ensured we will all suffer for their pissing contest. That said, luggage wheels are great.

One of the biggest problems with AI projects is that they are so verbose it takes an incredible amount of time going through the docs before you realize they’re lying and hallucinating and thus wasting your fucking time.

art lets me open a door in my world, and have that opening open a door in yours, but it is not the same door.

Airbnb went from a cheap way to crash in a spare bedroom or rent a vacation house for a weekend and turned into "what if hotels openly hated you and acted like they were doing you a favor by letting you give them hundreds of dollars to stay there, and also it's more expensive"

You might have seen the original "no genAI seal" by @kanaratron.bsky.social. I've made the icon into a set of assets in both PNG and vector formats that can be more widely used in different contexts. You can find them here: www.joramwolters.com/no-gen-ai-ico/

I had to go on Twitter to confirm this was real because Ship Awesome Games In A Weekend having a hand with six fingers was so on the nose I was about to pass out

"we need to show games in person" "we need to show games later" "there are too many games and too much AI, what are we going to do?" motherfucker what is VALVE GOING TO DO, they take 30% of every sale! this is on them!

As an IT professional - don’t do this. A good phishing testing strategy involves not enraging your users. There’s a lot of better ways to do this that don’t make you seem like a huge dickhole.

in Fight Club the guy is like "when one of our cars has a defect that kills people horrifically, we only do a recall if it's cheaper than dealing with the lawsuits" which was dystopian and everything but now i feel like he could go "we just never do a recall no matter what" and you'd be like "sure"

Artists don't need to be miserable, depressed people to be great. That is a toxic myth. But art does need to be miserable and painful and scary at points to be good. There's no shortcut.

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

I feel obliged to once again reiterate that lay offs and closures are not a reaction to the economy, but a failure of leadership. Each wave of closures and layoffs should be looked upon as a consequence of greed and incompetence. If you can't keep your people employed, you are bad at your job.

I always thought the ultimate goal of growing up was mastering things like humility, empathy, and critical thinking. They’re still important, but it turns out, an equally crucial life skill is just learning how to remain unbothered by people who refuse to do any of those things.

i used to like tech

it's 2030. there is one american game job. the game is a result of the fortnite-roblox merger. they added gatchas and ads exclusively for prediction market platforms. while you work on it, jared kushner and a random c-suite with at least 3 sexual assault cases take turns yelling at you.

At this point the only sensible conclusion is that the games industry is doing great but the desperate greed of capitalism keeps murdering us

In case anyone thought making a crafting game didn't ultimately come down to a bunch of spreadsheets and data setup/entry... 🫠🙃 #gamedev #indiegames #craftergames #indiedev #gamedesign #systemsdesign (sidenote: how is the #bluesky alt text also somehow broken on the web app? 😬)

i love coding for a living and the idea that i would willingly spend my time just reviewing code that a machine spat out is so insane to me i want to MAKE things with my HANDS

web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

There is a peculiar species of ambition that mistakes stubbornness for courage and cruelty for strength. A wise man knows when to retreat from folly. A fool mistakes every warning for an invitation to proceed.

We are at the point of the Trump administration where the courtiers are complaining about their fellow grifters for cutting in on their rackets.

like how do you even run a studio where everyone working there has all the reason to think 1. their days with the company are numbered, 2. their performance has nothing to do with outcomes, 3. the thing they're working on won't ship

Gamers, would you pay $1800 to play Madden on a NEW console? No? What if we sweetened the deal a bit and charged you a fee to play online and took away discs and all games & controllers cost $100 now? Still no? What if we put out a new CEO deep dive article every month talking about how great we are

Broke: Abolish ICE Woke: Abolish MBA www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

seen this headline for every type of media in existence by now. if this technology does work for some things, who exactly is expected to pay for a something that was made by typing a sentence into a computer program when anyone can just go type their own sentence into a computer program instead?

No one in the world will ever touch the peak level designs Peach Momoko has done for Magik. From the upcoming Maystorm series.

most annoying man of all time jesus christ does he ever shut the fuck up

hit play on this and see if it don't hit www.youtube.com/watch?v=scic...

What this piece says—and then derangedly refuses to hear itself saying!!—is that seniors spend less money because the American work force got its stable, guaranteed pensions taken away and replaced with personal investment savings. And then it wonders why they're risk-averse with the money!

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.

Every time I mention how much I hate James Carville, even in the context of a joke, someone on here will try to tell me that he's a great fighter for Democracy and he's doing his best to make things better and I need to give him respect. Get it through your head, James Carville is a malignancy.