Dan Floyd

It's the Best Game Animation of 2025, now with some additional entries that are no longer under boycott! I'm very glad to finally be able to give them the praise they deserve

GOOD life lessons learned from gamedev: - Savagely hacking down scope is the fastest and most effective way to make an awesome product - Limitations make you do your job better - A button or seam in the right place is all you need to turn a character from garbage to fuckable

HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!! Desert Bus for Hope 2026, the 20th year of Desert Bus! I hope y'all are ready for what promises to be the greatest show on Earth featuring a bus. What mischief, excitement, wonder and hilarity have we cooked up for this most auspicious year? Head to desertbus.org right now!

we don’t use generative AI, have hand drawn 2D animated sprites, AND our game is coded by a bearded canadian guy with glasses so you be the judge of that

ITS THAT TIME AGAIN! Dan Jones and Dragons Spinoff Session 3! www.twitch.tv/causeimdanjo...

Not so much a "crash" as a "burning and pillaging"

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what a MASSIVE FUCKING WASTE oh my god

french animators man

@desertbus.org #ffxiv #mtg My deckbox for Desert Bus! Get a good look inside, learn how it was made, and maybe make your own with my FREE pattern! youtu.be/2tAYgL8VUUQ?...

i judge for a few festivals, and i can safely say that the games that always stand out the most are ones with personal creative care taken in every aspect of the game. people say AI should replace this but you can’t automate intentionality or love. if you bank on that then you don’t understand art.

makes slightly less sense but good for her

makes sense

I didn’t know the WSJ was posting Crusader Kings guides

Rockstar Announces ‘GTA VI’ Soundtrack Contains 10,000 Songs By Randy Newman

Tangentially but not unrelatedly, if you're wondering why some indie studios in canada have lived so long, the fact that the Canada Media Fund disperses around 350 million dollars in arts grants a year has something to do with it

AND THAT'S $13 MILLION RAISED LIFETIME!! @desertbus.org

Final Fantasy VIII (PS1) added to the library (1766 assets): characters, bosses, monsters with animations, Guardian Forces summons and effects playback, World Map with trains, Gardens, Lunatic Pandora and story events, pre-rendered fields, battle stages, Triple Triad cards. #ff8 #ffviii #retrogames

youtu.be/_fTZVoJGzDk It's live

We're a year-old today! To celebrate, we're making five changes to the site — and dropping the price of our most popular paid subscription tier.

absolutely disgusting to shamelessly gloat about vibecoding your product as you're charging ahead to devalue an entire industry and several art forms with copious amounts of AI confetti hyperslop, depriving real artists and developers of oxygen

"We vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher" because "programming is hard", announce company we're somehow supposed to see as a serious Steam competitor https://bit.ly/4hMHbi5

the crazy thing about this trend is how badly this exposes that these people have the same attachment and awareness of video games as scalpers do for pokemon

I've seen folks speculate that video essayists make their videos longer with more extravagant production over time due to algorithm-chasing or audience expectations, but no It's because we keep seeing our peers doing rad shit and it curses us with ideas

If you wanna know who's in it btw:

How has no one stolen Burnout's long-abandoned Crash mode yet

20 minutes!!!

"AI lets you focus on the higher level ideas!!" because we all grew up dreaming of becoming managers and CEOs we all know the real artists at the very highest level are the shareholders, famously full of amazing ideas

I think most people don't know how stupid assassin's Creed has gotten

Exactly. I am tired of seeing the “I always knew”/“their work was actually bad” takes whenever allegations emerge. Sometimes—often, actually!—bad people find their way into good spaces and make good things. And you’re not better than the folks who were taken advantage of for “always knowing”

Technical Animation in Video Games returns for a second edition! Included are nearly 100 new pages, major rewrites and factors to update the text for the latest software versions, plus corrections, bug fixes, and rewrites throughout to communicate more info to you!

Pet project: 1) Advanced PS1/N64 game extraction (+all animations). 2) Website where you can browse and compare models, textures, animations, FMVs, for preservation. Already have FF7, Mega Man Legends 1 and 2 and MediEvil fully ripped. #FF7 #FinalFantasy #FFVII #PS1 #PSX #RetroGame #N64

digging into my twitter archive for my favourite "you can tell the designer calculated this all in a spreadsheet" skill point system example

Pragmata - Diana facial capture, rig and hair system.

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