Alex Swaim

NEW: Remedy's latest game, Control Resonant, is filled with art galleries. The galleries are filled with real art When I began talking to Remedy about it, I was delighted to discover who the artists are: many are the game developers' parents My story... www.gamefile.news/p/control-re...

Recession indicators jumping straight past cabbage

Thread 🧵: the fraudulent transgender mailers have a connection back to Dallas, Texas, where a local Republican megadonor used a similar playbook years ago when he funded a fake BLM group to send letters to wealthy white parents that were designed to discredit the BLM movement.

I have mixed feelings about this as an idea. I do think something living on stream like a Bandcamp Weekly for games would be cool, since that kind of thing has gone extinct. But if it becomes "get a spot in that or die" and you get a bad reviewer it's worse than what we have.

Low-angle view of Wemby failing to get around Amen Corner.

Kenney has done more for the profession than any billionare -- great place to start if you want to get into making your own games.

Diminish an anime. Kids on the Slight Incline

Fall of the Rebel Angels, by Orazio Gentileschi, 1601, 📸 by @noahgphotos

this is so perfect, so pure

The @roguelike.club social space is rad because we can run into issues like “ah you’ve accidentally slipped into a past world, rooms that exist and yet do not. We don’t know how to follow you there. We’re not sure what happens when you leave. Please click the obelisk and hard refresh your browser.”

Hey folks, added Car Park Capital to my Steam Curator, an absurd and brilliant satire of car culture with a nice isometric artstyle, feels like the kind of game Bullfrog would've made at their peak, jammed somewhere between Theme Hospital and Dungeon Keeper, except you play even more of a villain.

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

Welcome to the precession of simulacra, I'm something like your host

Do you think they teach you about the Q Continuum at Starfleet Academy? Like, you just have a C3071 'Introduction To The Weird Stuff' class you have to take? Or do they just brief you about it the first time you're on a ship where it's something you should know about?

Support indie developers! Plus, look at this title card. A+++

this goes incredible places and I love everyone involved

honestly re: reverse engineering it just kinda blows to see your fun hobby get completely blown up by AI shit and people who love the slop machine because it's faster. AI art and shit at least *most* people correctly loathe + shun it, but too many people think that code isn't similarly creative.

#timelapse

that small upward spike there in 2021-22 is like half of what drove the billionaire class completely nuts

@hazelmonforton.com in case you haven't already gotten 20 photos of it on display at the state fair, here's another

*lays off a thousand programmers* Wow, programming is hard!

Your daily reminder that more people are playing and buying PC games than ever before. This is a growing industry. The only reason the industry is struggling is because the people are the top are vacuuming up all the money made to divert it to AI in an unhinged all-in multi-trillion-dollar gamble.

harrison mevis has an all-time great wikipedia photo. 96 pixels wide, 8 kb, cartoonish width/height ratio, screenshotted from a youtube short. "select all photos that include football player" type photo

ime a crappy dev will make crappy code faster, an experienced dev might have better results but the tools are designed to nudge you into letting go more and more and reading less and less. its a slot machine in the sense that the machine is designed to make you turn your brain off at every level.

ravenkwok.com/ecd2/ There's something about the animated mosaic-like patterns I find really compelling. Also it's a great example of "if you have rules for constructing something then you have rules for animating something"

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Game programmer: Disabled rendering to improve performance when outside of player visibility

Environmental storytelling

Two new contract positions on Project D! Know how to make Unreal shine? Come make something beautiful & surprising! These are remote contract roles, ideally EU timezones => ➡️ Senior Environment Artist ➡️ Environment Artist www.workwithindies.com/work-with/ha... #gamejobs #gamedevjobs #gamedev

The Gen Z kids at work when I do something cool

Covid is out of control in Texas right now, probably the worst surge in the U.S. although other states are feeling it. I caught it last weekend at a house party. Get your Covid booster ASAP. They have a new one out. Thanks to RFK, you may have to tell them you have a health condition to get one.

Urist McDetective takes a long sip from his ≡flask≡ while looking over the crime scene. "Aye, this was no accident. And it weren't no goblins either. Somebody didn't want this caravan to reach the depot."

I do support anyone who wants to claim that Tracery is a sentient baby god.

“Finish every day and be done with it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to his daughter in 1854.

Ok if your UI looks like this I'm definitely interested in your game

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still thinking about "mario's eye view"