Skyler Foxx

Skyler Foxx

@c4dnerd.bsky.social

Indie Game Dev, QA Tester, 3D Artist, and massive Kingdom Hearts fan. Currently developing The Flightless Robin, an action-adventure game based on the original Winnie-the-Pooh books that have entered the public domain.

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“So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.” (The House at Pooh Corner - Chapter X) #winniethepooh100 #publicdomain

Watching the credits for Wildwood and seeing “made with human hands” hit me emotionally way harder than I expected it to. LAIKA has a solid track record, and Wildwood may just be their best yet. It’s a miracle this movie got to be made in this day and age, please see it in theaters while you can.

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After seeing Wildwood, I read an interview with Travis Knight for the Hollywood Reporter that made me cry. I implore everyone to go see Wildwood when they get the chance. Even for Laika, a studio with a solid track record, it is unbelievable what they have accomplished.

Good grief, they really did just decide to wait around the full 30 days and let the claim get auto-released. 💀 Needless to say, I already re-edited the video with a different song to upload that instead.

Skyler Foxx@c4dnerd.bsky.social

This same claimant did a claim on the first teaser trailer for my game as well, but released the claim 2 hours after I disputed it. Disputed this too, but it's already been 24 hours and at this point I'm going to try re-editting the video using a different royalty free song and try my luck.

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Replying to @rincewind.run

there are a lot of people out there who see the admin trying to influence the election and sneering “what are you gonna do, vote harder” and, yes, you can see it in the early voting turnout they are voting quite hard indeed

C.A. Pinkham@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

I believe it might influence the vote. I do not believe it will do so in a way that’s beneficial for them!

Did the thing. Reminder to all ya’ll in the US to be sure to vote in the mid-terms. Do not skip out on this one, there were some pretty scary propositions presented, at least in AZ.

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Replying to @caseyexplosion.bsky.social

The recent story about all the Needle in a Haystack clones that suddenly popped up is very instructive of the kind of slop I complain about clogging up my inboxes all the time; clones of something else. For all the talk of enabling creativity, all I ever see from AI "devs" is someone else's idea.

Aftermath@aftermath.site

Game developers fear that thieving AI vibecoders will make free game demos a thing of the past aftermath.site/steam-next-fes...

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I have trophy notifications turned off on my ps5 because its like a bit demoralizing when you realize that like only 10% of people make it to like the halfway point of a game

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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

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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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! 💞

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Replying to @dylanbrowne.bsky.social

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?

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on this point in particular: egs sales are so bad it's common for devs to share and compare out of disbelief, and often what you find is quite popular games are selling only in the double or triple digits of copies last i checked, my game had sold (drum roll please) five

Joe Wintergreen@joewintergreen.com

did a blog post of my Thoughts on the Actual State of Unreal in 2026, how it has come to this, etc etc. i've been an unreal user since 2008, and this is the worst the vibes have ever been. is there hope? perhaps www.joewintergreen.com/absolute-sta...

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Don't let billionaires convince you slop is the future. They're used to managing & directing, not making things themselves. Of course they can't see the difference. They don't understand your love for the craft. Keep making personal, beautiful games. You've got my support 💖

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This was how the “furries want litter boxes in schools!” hoax got ripped up and (mostly) died. People asked for proof, and every time a school got mentioned the administrators and teachers were quick to say, “No, wtf are you talking about?” Amazing what can happen when reporters ask for proof...

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Will any reporter ask the President of the United States to name the five specific states where he alleges that public school teachers are deciding -- all on their own initiative, over the objections of the parents -- to force their children into gender-affirming surgeries? Seems like a big story?

“So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.” (The House at Pooh Corner - Chapter X) #winniethepooh100 #publicdomain

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In fact, I was a little hesitant to do anything with Pooh going in the public domain *because* so much of my creative energy was spent there in fan-works. Yet when I was stuck in a block with my prior project, it seems that I inevitably always return back to Winnie-the-Pooh.

“So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.” (The House at Pooh Corner - Chapter X) #winniethepooh100 #publicdomain

It really can't be understated how much Winnie-the-Pooh has meant to me growing up. My very first drawings, attempts at writing stories, and even self-teaching myself 3D animation at 8 years old, it was all out of love for that silly ol' Bear and his friends in that Enchanted Forest.

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I really wanna know who thinks this is such a good ui that every Zelda should have it

Hatok@hatok.bsky.social

oh yeah they're just putting the whole inventory in there huh

Congrats to the folks over at The Coalition for the launch of Gears of War E-Day! I had worked on this title very briefly for a few months many years ago, and it's very common in the game industry to remain uncredited in those circumstances, so this was a pleasant surprise to see my name made it in.

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I think the thing that makes me the most mad about the last few years is that we're watching the ruling class voluntarily take the american entertainment industry and throw it into a garbage can.

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Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.

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Replying to @c4dnerd.bsky.social

#gamedev #indiegame #winniethepooh #unrealengine “Pooh, whatever happens, you will understand, won’t you?” - Christopher Robin (The House at Pooh Corner Chapter 10) (alt YouTube link): youtube.com/shorts/p1vCo...

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The fact business news are as confused by what’s going on as me and I don’t keep track of things as close as I assume they must do makes me think its worse on the inside and no way you can make anything worthwhile or even do it comfortably. Them devs having all this hanging over them is bad business

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social

The Xbox reset doesn't have an end date, says Rob Fahey. Originally announced as spanning the "next hundred days", the reorganisation has now stretched past that with no end in sight, and no coherent vision of what comes next https://bit.ly/4rtxN6d

Boy, I really love how even when using royalty free music, you can still get hit by YouTube's Content ID and have the video completely blocked worldwide. Not at all frustrating, nor does it undermine the whole point of using royalty free music to begin with 🙃 /s

This same claimant did a claim on the first teaser trailer for my game as well, but released the claim 2 hours after I disputed it. Disputed this too, but it's already been 24 hours and at this point I'm going to try re-editting the video using a different royalty free song and try my luck.

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sega canceling sonic? that’d be like if microsoft didn’t know what to do with halo, laid off a bunch of people, and gave it to activision

VGC@videogameschronicle.com

Sega wanted to cancel the entire Sonic series but the success of the first movie saved it, says Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sega-wa...

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I know these layoffs are done with zero care or consideration but they going to see how bad of a culture they are preparing for themselves as a organisation. Who chould work well or care much about the job with outcomes like that being a risk. You provide zero security you’re not an employer.