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ITS GO TIME LADS! - store.steampowered.com/app/2863680/...

T minus 5 hours till im a husband!

see I've tried using AI for coding I'd like to think I'm special and immune to AI addiction, but the reality is probably just that I'm incapable of feeling any kind of attachment or pride in AI generated code I feel like it pollutes the project and displaces my own motivation, I just don't want it

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

a message from the future

Thinking about Bioware and how the first dragon age was one of the initial core bonding thing for me and my soon to be wife

Truly, TRULY wonder how much of the BIOWARE IS GAY AND MAKES GAY THINGS perception plus wanting to make new owners (aka, government of SA) happy is at play. bsky.app/profile/jaso...

we've identified another vulnerability leak. now hackers on the dark web have identified your bad knee and that weird thing your shoulder does if you sleep on it wrong. there's no patch available for this, they're now just keenly aware you feel like your career has stalled out

because it is relevant to my work, I have tried very hard to educate myself on how AI works, be fair and measured in how I evaluate it, and regularly test new tools to confirm or debunk my priors and tbh AI haters are just nailing it with less work like 99% of the time. keep at it folks

📣 INDIE GAMES DEVS! 📣 If you have a demo in Steam Next Fest and do not use gen AI, drop it in the comments below. I will repost! Let's create a thread where players can actually find our games! (Image courtesy of @kanaratron.bsky.social)

This is an excellent, calm and precise discussion of what it means to draw lines for AI use in a creative community, and the problem of AI users feeling entitled to both have their cake and eat it.

sorry, code is fucking beautiful. its fucking magical i can type words in the thing and fucking TRIANGLES just appear ? oops i typed it wrong and the triangles did something i didn't EXPECT ?? now weird shit is happening ?? this is the best shit of all time. i was born to fight the computer

right now there's no guarantee AI usage becomes embedded in indie games. We're a scene. We don't HAVE to be this. Individual choices couldn't matter more in this moment. To see that you can make a small, positive impact at mild inconvenience to yourself and say "nah" is to give up on a better world.

"dont worry, we didn't use LLMs for real art, like writing, or graphics, or sound, we only used it for dumb gross useless basic shit like programming" always the funnest thing to read as a programmer, as someone whose whole career is based on code, whose handwritten library changed the industry etc

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.

Okay, it's #SteamNextFest and there's a lot of demos out there, so here's a quick thread of suggestions to try out, a lot of these I might not have played, they're just what's tickling my fancy. Let's start with Queen's Domain which is releasing on the 30th!

Given the amount of AI Junk on steam, linkings this useful addon i found for steam (Firefox, but i think there is a chrome version too) - addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefo...

Absolute jaw-dropping snide, sniggering rudeness here. Your reminder that the billionaires are very much not on our side.

Hey remember that time you banned me over “wishing ill” to JK Rowling?

it is of course transphobic bigotry but it should be pointed out that the lie “people need the right healthcare for their biological sex” kills trans people. trans women get breast cancer at far higher rates than cis men. trans men get prostate cancer. hrt changes your sex.

Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.

NO COMPLAINTS! NOT ONE! Because people who aren't TERFs tend to be decent and want everyone to get their best treatment.

once again reminded how the designer of the furby sincerely believes they are alive radiolab.org/podcast/more...

Important for anyone with an Nvidia card btw Getting this out there if it hasn't been already, turn this off! It's automatically switched on after the recent updates.

Wearing my wedding shoes to break them in ahead of next weekend, and im trying to keep my feet on the floo instead of doing the standard bisexual chair position rotation to not scuff them and fuck me its hard to sit like this for hours lmao

I'm wrapping up my time with Cardboard Computer on their unannounced game in early November, & I have some capacity again! If you're looking for consultation or longer term support from an expert game director, narrative designer & writer, drop me a line 💖 contact [at] hannahnicklin.com

you can never mock tim epic enough

I think what bums me is like, I like programming, but tech culture and ways of working are gross and shitty and don’t interest me in the slightest, and AI is like “don’t you want tech culture without all that pesky programming” No, no I do not.

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Read every word of this and share it.

On more fun news though, got to use my new video microscope to do my first micro-soldering tonight!

Also, despite the massive list of reasons not to use AI, i simply refuse to have to continuously spend money to write code. I cannot see the sense of intergrating a thing into your process crrative process that either could massively inflate on price when its too late. Feels massivly short sighted?

I dunno lads, im avoiding using AI in code pretty well so far.

I kind of don't believe them. I mean, I'm sure it can write a bunch of Verse scripts and produce 3d meshes of some sort, but I feel like lots mechanical turking will be necessary. And that sure does sound like humiliating work, doesn't it? Cleaning up after slopbots?

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

I also want Vertical Slice to evolve beyond the confines of a traditional paper. That's why I'm launching The Repository, a growing (free) collection of pitch decks and design docs donated by generous contributors including @kitfoxgames.com, @outersloth.com, and @outerloopgames.bsky.social.