Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni

Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni

@azilyn.bsky.social

My exploration/adventure RPG will rule the night. 🌙 Night owls rise up 🌙 ~✨She/her ・ LGBTQ+✨~ Tired mom, but I persist. 🚫 AI bad. Human good.

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I also want the bad news to be turned into a better ending than "guess we'll just die." "Tim Sweeney is being a fucking prick again, raising the case for Fortnite players to buy indies, and thousands of UE dev studios to embrace Godot."

Mike Rose@mikerose.bsky.social

Genuinely not trying to start any sort of argument. Really just would love if Good News got more headline space than “Tim Sweeney is being a fucking prick again”

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I also want the bad news to be turned into a better ending than "guess we'll just die." "Tim Sweeney is being a fucking prick again, raising the case for Fortnite players to buy indies, and thousands of UE dev studios to embrace Godot."

Mike Rose@mikerose.bsky.social

Genuinely not trying to start any sort of argument. Really just would love if Good News got more headline space than “Tim Sweeney is being a fucking prick again”

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Sony and XBOX ending physical media? Hardware arms race has priced out millions of players? New demand for up-and-coming manufacturers like Panic or Evercade to step in with budget low/mid-range gaming hardware.

I also want the bad news to be turned into a better ending than "guess we'll just die." "Tim Sweeney is being a fucking prick again, raising the case for Fortnite players to buy indies, and thousands of UE dev studios to embrace Godot."

Mike Rose@mikerose.bsky.social

Genuinely not trying to start any sort of argument. Really just would love if Good News got more headline space than “Tim Sweeney is being a fucking prick again”

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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

Aftermath@aftermath.site

Why isn’t anyone funding video games anymore? aftermath.site/you-are-error-...

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Aftermath has been highlighting tons of little indie games lately, and I am so here for it.

Aftermath@aftermath.site

A Little Age is a neat little game about building tiny towns: aftermath.site/a-little-age-i...

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If you're an #indiegamedev #indiegames participating in Next Fest, and you are NOT using genAi poppycock, feel free to put your steam page here if it makes it easier for folks to find your game. I will share and try to get eye balls for you.

Steam@steampowered.com

Next Fest is back, with a new and improved UI for all your browsing needs! From now until October 26th, check out thousands (literally) of demos for games of all types - from frantic cooking typers to frozen railway games, there's something for everyone. store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest

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"The issue is Claude Opus 5.5’s ability to decompile a game’s code." - It did not suddenly gain this ability. New model releases don't birth new capabilities whole cloth like this. Citing the full name and model release is just advertising ffs.

- Company declares bankruptcy. - Disney bidding for the company's IP. - Disney coincidentally hired the company's former CEO 4 weeks prior. This is just laundering. Literally the plot of organized crime movies.

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This game is incredible and I love it. It's a steal.

Chris Perry@perridot.bsky.social

OH!WARE, my first commercial release, IS OUT NOW! Your ancestors whisper guidance. The Gods all watch. They want you to check it out and give it a review 🙏♥️ store.steampowered.com/app/4121430/...

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Clicking Google's fun whimsical throwback logo today sends you to an AI chat pre-filled with a goofy prompt and immediately hits you with a warning that it is potentially dangerous to continue. You couldn't make a better commentary on how badly they have fucked up the internet if you tried.

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Hmmm....so apparently I need to write something contentious to drive engagement.... ...hey you! The thing in videogames you like is bad design and that thing you hate is good design. Prove me wrong!

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Need something to play this weekend? Here's a selection of indie games we've been into lately: 🧵

Hell yeah! Doubly excited for this.

Rei Kitakaze@reikitakaze.bsky.social

The cat's out of the bag! I'm proud to announce that I'll be the lead composer for @stillsunark.bsky.social! I'm very excited to bring this beautiful and dangerous alien world to life through my music! #indiedev #JRPG #OST

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Slop slingers aren't in it for the love of the art. They don't stop and smell the roses. Your potential ceiling will always be higher than theirs because you can do what they can't. Build a community of people that love art. Champion the creatives. Here's one of Rado's games.

store.steampowered.comFallen Blades on SteamSpark a rebellion in this top-down slasher where you lead rogue armies against hundreds of imperial soldiers at once. Master split-second combat in the story-driven campaign – playable solo or in co-o...
Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski@sosowski.bsky.social

My friend made a cool game on a game jam and within a month a slopclone of it is on Steam. This is happening every day for indie devs and I hate it.

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Indie game devs should band together and sell their games on CD or DVD at local events. So everyone at an event sells all the games for everyone in the group, and not just their own. Lil indie dev cooperative sales groups.

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The only part of game development I don't care about is the shareholders

Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social

“GenAI is great for parts of the game you don’t care about” Wait. Is that an option?

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"The ai slop game made 100k we're doomed!" Good news! That means your game you poured your heart out into can make that too! It starts with showing your game and getting wishlists. Do what they can't. Do it for the love of the art and let people know about it. 🧵

store.steampowered.comAge of the Deep on SteamAge of the Deep is a mermaid fashion looter rpg. Explore the beautiful, and terrifying, mysteries of the ocean surrounding the islands, fight off pirates that threaten the inhabitants, dive deep to un...

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We’ve got some art and design roles open at Kinali! Very chill company, very cool game (if I do say so myself)

Alma Stone@kinaliworks.bsky.social

Small team. Big heart. Bigger ambitions. We're expanding our indie studio focused on memorable games, exceptional craft, and treating people well along the way. Open positions here: https://kinaliworks.com/careers #RemoteGameJobs #DevJobs #IndieStudio #IndieGame

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New IRL Profession: Heavy Metal Friend Refer me to your shitty workplace. I'll do whatever it takes to get hired. Then I'll steal a few paychecks doing nothing but supporting you, even picking fights on your behalf. No need to pay me. Your employer will do that for you.

New IRL Profession: Heavy Metal Friend Refer me to your shitty workplace. I'll do whatever it takes to get hired. Then I'll steal a few paychecks doing nothing but supporting you, even picking fights on your behalf. No need to pay me. Your employer will do that for you.

[Backend dev's ticket got a frontend request. BE dev is east coast, already out of office] Me: "I went ahead and did the frontend work. Here's a pull request you can test in the morning." BE Dev: "It was my ticket and you touched it, so now it's your ticket and you have to do everything."

Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni@azilyn.bsky.social

I don't understand how mean people even do it. Someone at work got extremely petty with me and I very reasonably stood up for myself. I am still trembling 3 hours later just from standing up for myself.

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Artificial Intelligence? Buddy, I'm not even incorporating Artificial Stupidity. If my NPC behaviour code ever exceeds 3 lines I scrap the whole project and start over.

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KILLY krat muahah >w<@spookybiscuits.com

i think the success of Drag'n Wash just reveals where dragons sit in the cultural consciousness, which is squarely in the middle between Car and Dog and Husband

This should be such an open and shut case it's ridiculous.

Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1