Vildravn

New year, new(ish) intro post Hey everyone, I am Vildravn and I've been in the #gamedev industry for over 10 years now. I am a build engineer by profession - it's like playing Factorio but in real life! On the side, I dabble in variety of coding and try to make my own games or help other devs.

You demanded so we delivered! We've just pushed a major update! For starters those of you in NA, we see you. We know our servers in the UK have not been smooth sailing so you can now stream to an NA based node which should improve performance! Find out how here! altstream.online/documentatio...

If you'd like to support me (for free) you could help out by wishlisting All-in-1 on Steam. It's at 2,000 wishlists now but hoping to reach 5,000 or (even better) 10,000 before release! store.steampowered.com/app/4059160/...

In the last year, No More Robots has funded + is currently funding a dozen games, and has paid numerous devs to make prototypes happen for free But obviously, getting press is absolutely impossible for us, because only doom and gloom gets clicks

Refusing to have sawdust in your hamburger is becoming an extremely privileged lifestyle choice that feels social justicey while actually being the complete opposite

Google was really trying to hide its water use figures, to the degree that it got the council to try to keep its water use figures secret. The community finally got the actual numbers and found out Google was using 29 percent of the water in the community. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Sick of twitch and want to help an alternative platform grow? We are currently building our coffers up to pay for business expenses, but the sooner we get that sorted the sooner we can expand our hardware fleet! If you would like to support us check out our support page! altstream.online/support

Actions speak louder than words, personally I was in talks with Epic to get all my game assets on their Fab.com marketplace (for free) but cancelled the deal immediately. If they want slop, let them have slop.

Hey everyone! MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT! I'm currently looking for a Transfem voice actress to do some (*PAID*) work for a major project I'm working on right now. If you'd like to audition, please reach out to me on my Discord "lukevaughn" for more details! Thanks!

"Is EA the villain that killed BioWare?" asks Rob Fahey. "Ultimately, yes – but the real tragedy is how ordinary this particular brand of villainy has become in this industry, especially when private equity is there to put a knife in its hand." https://bit.ly/4iBVupV

How to Hibernate. Scanned by us from the 1952 book Animal Fair, by the Provensens. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/h... It’s time.

Every boss that puts a "ha ha, everything you do in your 'free' time is also ours, because you're our slave and we fucking own all of you, you idiot" clause in a contract needs to be torn apart by a pack of wild dogs. "But Turf, that's most bosses" Yes, and?

A fun discussion with @tekwendell about Valve and its Linux support / SteamOS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfVV...

v0.2.0 adds an additional build target - browsers! Now you can use altstream-js in your Node or vanilla JS projects to build tools on top of AltStream. codeberg.org/fletchmakes/...

this also goes for indies btw, which is why the 30% cut steam takes is so egregious. that 30% is often the difference between one and done, or a studio that gets to make a second and maybe third game. and it would cost them literally nothing to take no cut for the first 100k, it's a rounding error

Working in this industry, I sometimes have doubts, but videogames absolutely are an important medium.

while you port and emulate games, I ported Jira to my PSP

Let me share some positive news for a change: Despite all the gloomy headlines today, my understanding is that there are multiple paths actively being explored that would save Arkane Lyon. Anything can happen during negotiations, but at this point I'd be surprised if the studio is shut down.

Inability to read the room, indies are worried about a wave of slop during Next Fest and afraid to show their in-progress games in fear of getting cloned and they announce this. Like literally, don't they have 1 person at that company reading socials or the news?

people who are fine with AI code that is completely opaque to the people generating and using it might as well be literal aliens to me. there is no way i can bridge that gap

Now, you can pay for Tuta in the currency of more than 170 countries WORLDWIDE & as we don't annoy you with ads, we'd be most grateful if you choose to upgrade. (In case you're wondering why you should, check the image!) 🙏🏼 Check out all the payment options we offer 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-...

remember folks, next time you interview anyone at ea you should extremely be asking them about their new owners they might not answer, but as a journalist you should feel obliged to ask

I feel it's important to share this again. The internet is so hostile toward creators nowadays. I've seen people have their work stolen, and no longer feel comfortable sharing their creations. We can do better. Let's be supportive to the people that make this a better place! 💞

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

✨ Kenku Bard #art #illustration

Game UI Database is back in the news! Huge thanks to @verticalslice.news and @kerrblimey.bsky.social for this article on the ongoing issues I've had with AI bots scraping the site, and my efforts to push back against them: www.verticalslice.news/there-will-d...

To honor one of the studios that defined PC gaming, we've republished more than 20 articles about BioWare today. The pcgamer.com homepage is dedicated to interviews, retrospectives, and making-ofs about some of the best RPGs of all time.

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's closure of BioWare is transparently a vile move to shutter the studio that made by far their queerest titles. In the wake of this, I implore you: MAKE MORE QUEER ART. Make it trans. Make it horny. Make it scary. Make it loving. Make it with every inch of yourself. Flood the world with it!

Losing Bioware's so brutal. Iconic Canadian studio, gone, because the US president's son-in-law wants to help some Saudis own EA Sports FC or whatever

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...

We're looking for a graphic designer/illustrator to join the Hello Sunshine team for a few months, starting ASAP. There are a lot of artists here looking for new opportunities so I'd be super grateful if y'all could share this call with your followers! www.redthreadgames.com/graphic-desi...

As of the new update Google Translate on Android is now a chatbot. Mandatory AI "suggestions". Wanted to translate a sentence? WRONG!! NO!! Gemini knows what sentence you SHOULD have translated!! Type in English & every letter it suggests a whole sentence. THE AI! WILL WRITE! FOR YOU! No off switch.

I've made 6 open-source @godotengine.org projects perfect for as a base for your first or next game. Completely human-made and easy to understand code & comments. All visuals and sounds included, CC0! kenney.nl/starter-kits

In case anybody needs social proof/thinks I'm exaggerating.

Thanks all for reaching out to me, in public & privately. I'm doing well! I feel inspired to keep supporting creatives and eager to continue doing what I do in the way I want. @chetsucks.com made a video, and I think he's much better with words than I am. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQuN...

Today: "Billionaire former dev whose engineering firm has been mismanaged to the point it has to vibe-code a launcher takes offense at AI-critique of popular developer that every developer that started since 2015 or so adores; Elon Musk gets involved to support the side that is obviously wrong."

this is incredibly funny from a business perspective, like if that were true, then why would anyone buy the slop being extruded out of xbox if you can just prompt it yourself

Fledgling indie publisher Aggro Crab is over generative AI: "Show me your dogshit MS Paint drawing of your vision"

Anyway, New game assets! ✨ Tiny City contains 130 tiles and works great with my previous (also free) Tiny-series of packs. Feel free to use this in your games, no need for attribution or permission because it's all yours. Download: kenney.nl/assets/tiny-...

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.