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ok fine it's getting to that point, how is codeberg? should I use it instead of github? what are my options to escape microsoft's orbit entirely?

What's up with Discord's window's "maximize" behavior? It always feels broken and horrible hahahaha. Confusing for an app that otherwise seems pretty well maintained/designed.

WE WON THE #Godot #WildJam 98!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice I'll take it! Not bad for a solo jam, now I just need to team up with some other people next time hahaha

hearing more and more people vibe coding tools for their game dev workflows. mediocre homebrew tools are a big part of the sauce that makes each developer's games unique, quirky, and recognizable. not "user-facing" and better than some usage, but users still feel it and it homogenizes your games.

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Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

screencap of my katamari inspired game over screen for my game jam entry

Game industry - don't tell me you liked my video - I don't care - get the fuck off twitter This election cycle Elon Musk doubled his contributions to around 1/2 billion dollars including for some of the most vile ads - he gave $5m to a Vivek PAC for instance He is limiting Starlink to aid Russia

this is a great representation of where my brain goes whenever anyone talks about "revenue share" as a valid counterbalance to the bullshit the gen ai industry is pulling on us in the USA.

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 💖

Next Fest is really demonstrating the curse of the idea guy. Anyone can have an idea or steal one, but to make it good means living with it, working it, exploring it and finding what makes it work and is special. Or you can just have Claude shit out slop no one wants to play. Valve always needs

wrote a devlog about my half-baked normal map idea for this game jam f-c-r.itch.io/finding-frog...

lol why tf is mozilla firefox advertising in discord hahahahhaa

Against my better judgement, I did a game jam by myself again! I think my entry is pretty fun! Didn't finish optimizations in time so it lags a bit on the web build when you start. If that persists, turn off graphics stuff in settings! (and comment your score!) f-c-r.itch.io/finding-frog...

man, godot is INSANELY fast for prototyping. doing another @godotwildjam.bsky.social entry this week and i can't believe how much i can do with this amazing engine

Whenever people talk about using AI to study, learn, help them find information, etc, I can't help but think that it's literally never been harder to find information online. It's the worst it's ever been lol. You just weren't using computers until you could talk to them like they were your servant.

i saw a very popular music production influencer who has been a grifter for years now make a video about how his main use case for AI in his music workflow is to batch bounce and batch name stems for his beats. Like... we've had that feature in Reaper for like a decade or something, goofy shit

calling the fucking DMV and them using an "AI assistant" that includes office background and typing sound effects is so fucking infuriating and dystopian. Like it's not a person, so don't fucking waste my time making me listen to a recording of someone inputting data on their computer between lines

"Googlebook" has to be the most uninspired product name from a major company in years

my friend left some NA beers here and it's kinda fun ripping through cold canned drinks that look like beers while I'm technically at work hahahaha. I don't ilke the taste of NA beer but this one is super tasty actually, "best day brewing electro-lime mexican style"

just had an ai bro backtrack on what he was saying in his video talking about how he "uses AI to playtest games" lol. Like, playtesting isn't about any specific metric. it's about the player's fun, there's literally no way something that isn't actually playing the game can tell if it feels good.

me and my friend drew are playing a show in san diego ca at black cat on oct 3, we go on first! also before anyone asks how i made this masterpiece, i edited the video using reaper and aseprite hahahaha

I would have assumed people using these AI apps to do stuff for them would be surrounded by other people doing that, and be able to see that the game they're "making" looks exactly like the ones their friends have, and have a lightbulb moment, but... I guess they actually just don't have friends?

ok i love the love for ms rachel but a lot of posts are like "she's on the tv all day at the house" and like... please don't have the tv on for your kids all day hahaaha. I don't think she'd want that either

who exactly is the target audience for meta muse? from what i gather it's a new take on the "agentic ai" that's designed... to spend your money for you? like, in this economy? must be nice havin the cash to let your computer buy stuff with your money and not worry about overdrafting your account lol

How good would a game have to be for you to tolerate this? Like I think I'd actually prefer never playing a videogame again than interacting with this concept hahaha

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What a great deep cut. Evokes so many childhood memories for me www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL-T...

jeez i was today years old when i realized all i had to do was make an account on wikipedia to enable dark mode

I'm playing a show at Black Cat Bar in San Diego on Oct 3. Synthesizers abound

Why has Silicon Valley gotten so crazy right wing and loony? You taught them they could, as there is nothing, nothing Elon Musk can do to get so many of you to not buy a Tesla or god forbid not use Twitter. They look at what he can get away with and think they deserve that as well.

Had this insanely deep cut stuck in my head randomly. Any Lord of the rings fans out there who are also fans of the 1981 bbc radio version of the books remember this? I had this on cassette and listened to it so much as a kid youtu.be/qWBecwqNGkM?...

blasting enya and drawing 2d assets for my game, hell yeah kinda day

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Man this "AI will take over the world" and "AI will kill all humans" shit is beyond insufferable. Like stop building it if you believe that, and since you obviously won't stop building it please shut the fuck up and stay in your lane. It's genuinely the most annoying marketing I've ever seen

Finding out it costs like, hiring an employee level money to use these AI apps the way that tech bro influencers are talking about them is insane. Cool reskin of space invaders, took a week and thousands of dollars? Anyone who has ever done a game jam can do it better in a weekend lol

Zoom is such awful software, BUT why don't very many other video call programs have markup/annotation features? I pretty much always want to be able to turn on the ability to draw on someone's screen

ACE studio ai WILL NOT STOP CONTACTING ME. I blocked them and they're contacting me through an intermediary agency offering me "approximately $54.80 to $164.41" per video promoting their slop machine. my previous email literally said "fuck off" no caps just like that hahahha.

Dang the new openai product's *cinematic advertisement* doesn't even contain stuff that's exciting or scary. Everyone's like "game dev is cooked! it can connect to blender and make space invaders clone with a 3D model based on your prompt!" Like nobody actually wants to buy that lol

I fuckin love this game. (Ark Nova if you don't recognize it)

The transition from Enya's "May It Be" to the Shire theme is probably the best ultra-hollywood emotional payoff you can do in film. absolute master class in basic "V is related to I" music theory just absolutely sent home with beautiful melodies and orchestration. 10/10 no notes

hire me to do audio stuff for you (or just send me money so i can work on my own game without getting distracted by paid work hahahaha)