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kavi ~ (•̀ж•́)

@kavidevs.bsky.social

Tech Lead @ Radian Simulations | GHPC on STEAM NOW | silly old things: http://kaptan.itch.io | opinions are my own

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Currently working on Gunner, HEAT, PC! GHPC is an indie tank combat game with simulation elements, all made in Unity. We keep our focus on authenticity and fun! Currently available via Steam in Early Access!! #gamedev #indiedev #tanks

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Replying to @fasterandworse.com

prototyping isn't about *the prototype*, it's about the shit you have to go through to create a prototype that works

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Actions speak louder than words, personally I was in talks with Epic to get all my game assets on their Fab.com marketplace (for free) but cancelled the deal immediately. If they want slop, let them have slop.

Between Tim Sweeney being an absolute AI chud and the harassment of our beloved @kenney.nl, we've decided to cancel our previously announced Epic Games Store release for Shape Sender Deluxe 🚮

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Got a little annoyed at a tool again - a lot of blender addons trying to add WASD style movement were 1,500+ lines and getting it wrong. Unreal-like movement with panning, WASD nav and camera smoothing. controls configurable. GPL.💖 #blender #unrealengine #gamedev 🔗 codeberg.org/shaderwitch/...

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Yes, I imagine it would be difficult to make a video game if you have absolutely zero relevant skills and refuse to learn any

Kim Hu@kim-hu.com

I can't believe he's still at it, it's been days

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Arguably, there’s nothing more political than the erasure of artists, composers and writers from this world, just so people like Tim can get even richer. Billionaires HATE art because it gives ordinary people a voice. That terrifies them.

Tim doesn't have to cheerlead or platform crude, AI-collaged strawmen. He doesn't even need to respond to critique with junk suppositions. He could be the game dev he probably was when he started out and throw out all this shitty corpo suit-think. But he wants to be liked by low-skill AI rubes.

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agreed, it is what I said on this interview even before the steam fest discourse started: kotaku.com/ai-vibe-codi...

kotaku.comInterview: The Video Game Industry’s Vibe-Coded FutureWe spoke to Take-Two’s former head of AI and Godot Engine’s executive director about the Claude Opus–shaped problem that the industry is currently facing
Aftermath@aftermath.site

Devs shouldn't have to be protecting their games, Valve should be protecting its shopfront: aftermath.site/steam-indie-ga...

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Look Outside on Nintendo Switch 2. Look Outside on Nintendo Switch. Look Outside on PlayStation 5. Look Outside on PlayStation 4. All on October 30. 🪟 👀

My wife and I said goodbye to our dog Zissou today. He had an amazing week of being spoiled leading up to it. Z was an incredible dog, living a very full 19 years, 16 of which as my boss. He had seniority over me with my wife. I'll miss him forever. Thanks for everything, little bear.

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My PC-98 inspired yuri visual novel "if you stay" is OUT NOW! It is available for free on Steam and itch.io (Windows, Mac, and Linux). Links below!

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I always loved seeing him in anything, from Alien to Dead Zone to Poison Ivy (lol) to being a huge asshole judge on Law & Order SVU. Another one of the greats. RIP, king.

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com

Tom Skerritt, Emmy-winning actor with roles in ‘Picket Fences,’ ‘Alien’ and ‘Top Gun,’ dies at 93

Lordy... Well, big engines becoming shitty? Time to use small engines.

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've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

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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...

what in the idiocracy is this

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social

Scoop from @brettlogiurato.bsky.social: CBS has sold its local election night coverage to DraftKings, stirring more controversy inside the David Ellison-owned company. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-draftk...

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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

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

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I spoke with Game UI Database founder @eddcoates.bsky.social about the strain he and the platform are being put under by increasingly sophisticated generative AI bots Just another example of how the technology is actively corroding human-made resources with real, tangible value

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i love coding for a living and the idea that i would willingly spend my time just reviewing code that a machine spat out is so insane to me i want to MAKE things with my HANDS

adamatomic@adamatomic.bsky.social

sorry, code is fucking beautiful. its fucking magical i can type words in the thing and fucking TRIANGLES just appear ? oops i typed it wrong and the triangles did something i didn't EXPECT ?? now weird shit is happening ?? this is the best shit of all time. i was born to fight the computer

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At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com

Nikki from OBSESSION joins FORTNITE tomorrow. You wished for this...

Against the Storm is just the right amount of comfy and stress. It's like having a soothing hot chocolate while listening to the rain, and then you have to deal with a cursed shrine that eats people if you wait too long.

@kenney.nl expressing solidarity with creators while admonishing creeps pushing AI slop is admirable. Sweeney coming in flailing and only seeing himself as a tech authority is a great self-own for those who consider results the only goal of making art.

Kenney@kenney.nl

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so in Godot, 1. is C# a first-class citizen or is it left to the wayside in favor of GDScript? 2. does it have low level parallelism with compute shaders GPU side and NativeArray style job system CPU side? 3. does it have a profiler similar to unity's? 4. is the render pipeline customizable?

someone's minor gripe with our game: >Anyways I found the instant mission stuff kinda arcadely only because it's open and play Brother, the name of the mission category is Instant Action. Open and play is quite literally in the title!

I have not really been feeling gamedev lately. There's all the tech doomerism atm yes, but also I've just been frazzled working on too many things at main gamedev gig and not wanting to do side gig stuff. Kind of a shit feeling: I'm incredibly lucky to have what I have, but also just stressed.

There are other life things wrapped up around there ofc: - doggo on the way out - summer spent on too many hobbies - lots of travel to fun places But when I'm doing other things I want to gamedev, and when I'm doing gamedev I want to do other things. It's pretty meh.