Jed Whitaker

Jed Whitaker

@jed05.bsky.social

Working class humanist. Day job in (not game) dev, mostly dealing with UX. Sometimes games critic/partnered streamer @Jed05 http://Twitch.tv/Jed05 email: Jed@JedWhitaker.cool

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Sorry for posting this cutscene again, but I wanted to show you folks how it looks now. :P I've polished up Whiskur's model and textures, and spent the weekend drawing and adding eye and mouth animations/tracking for both Mina and Whiskur :) #indierpg #nomadsculpt

Millennial slop. I hate it, thanks.

Shacknews@shacknews.com

New Come Back to Firefox ad asks "what happened to the Internet?" and assembles the Avengers of Internet Memes. Please take a look. #Firefox #Memes #Funny

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I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Steam Next Fest recommended demos thread, because why not. No GEN AI slop recs at all, and only fun interesting new stuff.

Jed Whitaker@jed05.bsky.social

Highly recommend Home Paige from Steam Next Fest. One of those 3D platformers where once you grasp the mechanics, you can get zoomin. Has a lot of personality for such simplistic, but stylized art. I'm a fan. store.steampowered.com/app/4098960/...

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At Fate's End. An adventure game that reminds me of Disney or like Steven Universe but even more serious. Beautiful animation, but kind of clunky combat and investigation bits could use some QoL. Still, it's a worthwhile piece of art for sure.

store.steampowered.comAt Fate's End on SteamAt Fate’s End is an action-adventure game where you fight the ones you love and your skill tree is your family tree. Explore a lush fantasy world, defeat the foul creatures of the realm, and face your...

Steam Next Fest recommended demos thread, because why not. No GEN AI slop recs at all, and only fun interesting new stuff.

Jed Whitaker@jed05.bsky.social

Highly recommend Home Paige from Steam Next Fest. One of those 3D platformers where once you grasp the mechanics, you can get zoomin. Has a lot of personality for such simplistic, but stylized art. I'm a fan. store.steampowered.com/app/4098960/...

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Moadra, a grim dark Metroidvania (emphasis on the Metroid bit) that instantly puts you into an interesting story and world where it feels like you're playing as a predator from Predator. Really high quality graphics and animations too. Game is out now, actually. Kinda steep at $25 compared to others

store.steampowered.comSave 10% on Moadra on SteamEndure... Evolve... or die. Embrace the unknown and traverse a vast alien world riddled with bizarre creatures, deadly hazards, and grim mysteries. Seek redemption, and confront the terrifying sin bur...

Steam Next Fest recommended demos thread, because why not. No GEN AI slop recs at all, and only fun interesting new stuff.

Jed Whitaker@jed05.bsky.social

Highly recommend Home Paige from Steam Next Fest. One of those 3D platformers where once you grasp the mechanics, you can get zoomin. Has a lot of personality for such simplistic, but stylized art. I'm a fan. store.steampowered.com/app/4098960/...

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Steam Next Fest recommended demos thread, because why not. No GEN AI slop recs at all, and only fun interesting new stuff.

Jed Whitaker@jed05.bsky.social

Highly recommend Home Paige from Steam Next Fest. One of those 3D platformers where once you grasp the mechanics, you can get zoomin. Has a lot of personality for such simplistic, but stylized art. I'm a fan. store.steampowered.com/app/4098960/...

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Hela: Of Mice & Magic is a cozy 4 player 3D platformer with mice wearing magical frog backpacks that sing and allow you to whip around the outdoors like Spiderman or something. Very cute and relaxing, and thankfully very sign posted if you want it to be.

store.steampowered.comHela: of Mice & Magic on SteamSee the world through the eyes of a brave little mouse in this enchanting 3D co-op adventure. Explore breathtaking landscapes inspired by Northern Sweden, solve puzzles, and be a force for good in a l...

The Switch 2 is jailbroken. If you want to jailbreak, update now, buy Smile BASIC, make sure any games you want updated are, then take it offline.

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The Switch 2 is jailbroken. If you want to jailbreak, update now, buy Smile BASIC, make sure any games you want updated are, then take it offline.

Literally Hades meets Animal Crossing with co-op. This game just needed better marketing.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

Lynked: Banner of the Spark is $3.74 on US eShop buff.ly/zqTuXGn

Truly, the fact that this game never got much press even by influencers goes to show how captured everyone is by PR and marketing, and they do none of the legwork themselves. Just whatever sponsorships etc come their way, and that is it. I mean there are exceptions but still.

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#GodotEngine will support spatial containers in the upcoming 4.8 release and we are excited to see how developers use these new engine's capabilities. Spatial Containers bring new capabilities to XR applications to work in shared spatial environments. Read more: www.khronos.org/blog/openxr-...

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The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

The only thing that trickles down are layoffs. Universal high income (that the AI tech bros preach) will never happen. Dragons don’t just decide to give out wealth.

Nayan Ramachandran@thetrin.blacksky.app

I feel obliged to once again reiterate that lay offs and closures are not a reaction to the economy, but a failure of leadership. Each wave of closures and layoffs should be looked upon as a consequence of greed and incompetence. If you can't keep your people employed, you are bad at your job.

“Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer.” RIP Bioware

You don’t have to avoid LGBTQIA issues if you fire all the developers and studios that would even make said characters. Big shoutout to Jared Kushner and his Saudi friends for being huge pieces of shit.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

Bloomberg: Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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I also wanted to pull out a special part of the piece: fuck Jensen Huang. By forcing customers to take early delivery of GPUs to boost quarterly revenues, he artificially inflated the price of RAM and every consumer electronic. What he and his hyperscale paypigs have done is morally reprehensible.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

Free newsletter: In July, Apollo Economist Torsten Slok said that "AI better work out, or we have a problem." Facing ever-growing high-interest debt, negative-EBITDA AI labs and $200bn+ in warehoused GPUs, that's exactly what the AI industry has. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-had-bette...

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This one just left early access, and cheap at 50% off. Like a mash-up of Deep Rock Galactic & Helldivers, but your enemy are procedurally generated messes of fungal growths and industrial machinery with physics-based movement and locational damage. Tearing apart bosses limb from limb is pretty cool

Most video game journalists don’t have spines because all the ads on their sites are paid for by the publishers, and to be denied review copies in retaliation isn’t unheard of. Warner Bros. threatened to blacklist Destructoid at one point for our reporting on its misleading season pass statements.

Vertical Slice@verticalslice.news

Opinion: Xbox already has a marketing team and (unless I'm mistaken) journalists are not on its payroll A conveyer belt of toothless Asha Sharma profiles have shown one thing: reporters who get access must do better

Steam Next Fest recommended demos thread, because why not. No GEN AI slop recs at all, and only fun interesting new stuff.

Jed Whitaker@jed05.bsky.social

Highly recommend Home Paige from Steam Next Fest. One of those 3D platformers where once you grasp the mechanics, you can get zoomin. Has a lot of personality for such simplistic, but stylized art. I'm a fan. store.steampowered.com/app/4098960/...

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Steam Next Fest recommended demos thread, because why not. No GEN AI slop recs at all, and only fun interesting new stuff.

Jed Whitaker@jed05.bsky.social

Highly recommend Home Paige from Steam Next Fest. One of those 3D platformers where once you grasp the mechanics, you can get zoomin. Has a lot of personality for such simplistic, but stylized art. I'm a fan. store.steampowered.com/app/4098960/...

Half Grip. A roguelike racing game where you have only a right hand. You basically manage steering, shifting, boost, manually loading bullets into your gun, and shooting other drivers. All in gritty PSX like graphics in first person. I promise it isn't half as stressful as it sounds. Real fun.

store.steampowered.comHalf Grip on SteamGet hooked on this brutal one-handed roguelike combat racing game where every action could end in a crash. Steer, shoot and reload - each split-second counts as you compete against armed rivals across...

ALTEREDBLOOD+ [AB+] Ultrakill inspired FPS, story driven. You're a robot at the center of the known universe really super far in the future. The center of the universe is Mother. She built you to kill the rest of the surviving humans. You live and thrive on their blood. Enjoy.

store.steampowered.comALTEREDBLOOD+ [AB+] on SteamA BLOOD-soaking Movement-FPS platformer🩸where you Splatter walls and floors with your foe’s BLOOD. Stand in that BLOOD to [ALTER] yourself and your Weapons. Soak up BLOOD to replenish and keep fightin...

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Even Sonic games often struggle to make Sonic-style movement feel right. This one has the sauce. And great animation. And segues seamlessly from cutscene to gameplay and back again. Just go try it.

Steam Hype@steamhype.com

Home Paige Is a Masterclass in Sonic-Like Platforming, Set Inside of Your Recycle Bin

Not the Lisa I was thinking of

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

LISA x PlayStation Merch up at PS Direct buff.ly/YIHHJzN #ad Hoodie buff.ly/9vZ4GIV Long Sleeve t-shirt buff.ly/vXit5ZN T-shirt buff.ly/AyFV2nZ Knit Beanie buff.ly/p22dKtB Tote Bag buff.ly/iA0LYrR

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Replying to @kinmoku.bsky.social

MEANWHILE IN SECTOR 80 is proudly made 100% by humans for humans. Just because all the characters in-game are robots doesn't mean the people making them should be! If you like the sound of a third-person-shooter and engineering hybrid, give our demo a play! store.steampowered.com/app/2660180?...

store.steampowered.comMEANWHILE IN SECTOR 80 on SteamMS80 is an action-engineering adventure in an abandoned star system. Trapped in a robot body, scavenge your way through the aftermath of a robot rebellion. Your body is a weapon — upgrade it with modu...

Indie devs: You really don’t have to keep making PS1 like games with dog shit inventory management and bad controls. Those were not the things people liked about Resident Evil, actually.

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Had a big natter with @aggrocrabgames.bsky.social for Vertical Slice about what the studio can offer developers as a publisher and why having a little devil on your should might actually be an EXCELLENT THING. Lots of stuff on community building, transparency, and the death of 100% recoup in here!

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Now that Steam Next Fest has started I want to remind everybody to not give games with AI any attention, to help you with this you can download this neat extension that will make it A LOT easier to filter through the slop! github.com/seeeeew/aiwa...

github.comGitHub - seeeeew/aiwarningforsteam: Browser extension to increase the visibility of AI Generated Content Disclosures in the Steam store.Browser extension to increase the visibility of AI Generated Content Disclosures in the Steam store. - seeeeew/aiwarningforsteam

Highly recommend Home Paige from Steam Next Fest. One of those 3D platformers where once you grasp the mechanics, you can get zoomin. Has a lot of personality for such simplistic, but stylized art. I'm a fan. store.steampowered.com/app/4098960/...

store.steampowered.comHome Paige on SteamA momentum-driven 3D platformer set inside a strange Operating System. Run, jump, swing and dash through a vast digital world as Paige, an optimistic girl from the Recycling Bin, a place where useless...