Nick Dymond

Autumn here is still crazy beautiful (Tornička Bobija, western Serbia)

Please take me to the person who signed-off on the new(ish) shittified windows snipping-tool automatically trying to crop itself whenever you try to screen-grab.

Games are made by people and game studios are made of people but game studios are also made of institutional knowledge, continuity, practices, standards, technology, resources, and IP. And those things do mean something, and it is a loss when they're discarded.

Anyone who submits entries to the ABRSM should read this and make a big fuss. They are using videos of children to train AI, without any consent.

AI companies sure are gonna need to destroy a lot of livelihoods to turn a profit, huh.

To a man with a computer, every problem looks like data.

I remember when Tim Sweeney held court on the idea that all forms of written musical notation are bad and should be entirely replaced by guitar hero style vertical scrolling. This confirmed many things about Tim Sweeney, the kindest of which being that he knows absolutely fuck-all about music.

Future of music tech looks like cheap blank-slate digital boxes for people to swap firmware as they please and high-end analogue stuff that can't be decompiled/ripped. Premium digital is gonna be dead. This might be why Teenage Engineering are talking about leaving synth making behind.

#Archrebel demo is finally OUT! A major milestone has been reached. Thank you folks for staying with me this long. 🍻 #gamedev #indiegamedev

@tildesounds.bsky.social Heads-up that Fuse Audio put out an instagram post and newsletter a few weeks back stating that they have a strict zero-AI policy: www.instagram.com/fuseaudiolab...

Today google turned on even more genAI features for businesses who pay for google suites, which means a lot more things to turn off. It automatically turned on reading all your email and docs for generative AI learning so that probably already happened. Turn it off in your admin panel here:

Old man dance music moan of the day: young producers, stop calling your bootleg remixes “edits”. They’re remixes. An edit primarily rearranges existing material. Adding a familiar vocal to a tune of your own is not an edit, it’s a remix.

I'm pretty sure that grotesque human brutality predates them but sure, lazily tarnish videogames with that well-worn brush.

New VoS plugin - Edgerunner - is killer. varietyofsound.wordpress.com/2026/10/09/e...

!!!PAPERHEAD OUT NOW!!! store.steampowered.com/app/2680280/...

Top-tier weird little guy on an incantation bowl from Nippur, Iraq, c 500 BCE, in the Penn Museum.

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

When the arts are gone there will be nothing left

was once again reminded today how much Verklärte Nacht fucks www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DR3...

I've written and deleted multiple borderline pretentious replies to @tomnullpointer.bsky.social's post, but in ghostly (and still pretentious summary) I think atmospheric sound is probably the most direct line to the subconscious available in any medium.

Grumpy today because everyone now seems to think that ambience, or atmospheric sound effects for RPG games just means putting a drone synth from ableton through a reverb.. The lost art of foley huh :(

Managed to hunt down two photos of the kitbashed model built by Jim Bowers as reference for the original WipEout game, sometime around 1993 or 1994. You can see the logos on it are harvested from other kits- Toyota and Buick logos, USAF roundels, and more that I'm sure someone else could ID

The rain, the neon, the crackling fire 😙🤌 Oof it warms an old Detectives heart to see such beauty 🥹 #ShadowsofDoubt #ImSim #Voxel #IndieGame #IndieDev

🚨🚨🚨 MURDER TETRIS 🚨🚨🚨 my entry for #fallingblockjam is complete! if you are excited like our detective you can play it here: verbante.itch.io/murder-tetris #pico8 #gamedev

In case you missed it earlier, I've got a new book out! Sort of! It was new four months ago! It is perfectly normal not to know that you've got a book out until four months later!

The ones closest to AI have the most cognitive decline.

Pretty sure the UK TV industry could save itself from oblivion just by getting rid of the constant pizzicato strings.

Some really salient points in this article.

Why I don't accept genAI "music" submissions for mastering. If you are a human let's work together: www.jordanfehr.com #noAI #mastering #musicmastering #masteringengineer #musicproduction

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

Just as meta glasses have been collectively renamed as something that actually describes what they do, can we all call SUVs 'child-killing machines'?

@gilduran.com In case you haven't seen it, heads-up that Marc Maron waxes lyrical about The Nerd Reich in this podcast (50min mark). Fair warning, he momentarily forgets your name but finds it so that he can name drop you 😅: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMh5... 'grats on the launch.

Stop what you’re doing and download this right now.

Google search results don't return AI suggestions for questions pertaining to regex expressions 😂

Enjoying Anytype as a Notion replacement. A comparatively steep learning curve but decentralisation is a small step towards a non-neofeudal future. anytype.io

"we're reaching the limits of how much the same four companies can shuffle money between themselves to stay afloat - time to start leeching funds from taxpayers"

Re-up on this LG story because it deserves it: www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

"Perhaps more concerningly, the TVs were capable of recording microphone audio when in standby; this continued even after the TV was disconnected from the internet, with audio files stored offline and uploaded once a connection was restored."

Shout-out to Fuse Audio for putting out a no AI statement recently for their plugins (via newsletter and instagram). Some of the best in the game and the absolute opposite of the vibecoded toilet water that we're up to our waists in now. fuseaudiolabs.de#/pages/plugins

13 years?! 'kinell. Single-input control was a super-interesting design limitation to work with. I'd love to go back to it and evolve more systems around that.

A #gamedev moment. 😍

I fit a small wave sim into less than 1024 bytes for the PICO-1K jam! Have fun going splish splash! thelxinoe5.itch.io/1k-wave-sim #pico1k #picotron