Justin Smith

Frenchfries bopping Frosty in the afternoon light

Camry (left) and Frosty (right) having a play day. Like they do every day.

"Murphy" because he was so unlucky at 5(?)weeks old when we found him, abandoned/dumped by a neighbor on his (eventual) forever home's front porch. Beat up by the other cats, a bump/scrape on his head, URI, ear mites and gunk. Got him socialized with my cats. Now he lives the life of Riley.

This is Simon, another orange kitty I found on the street, took him to TNR + vax + chip. He is now in his forever home and has adopted a 13y/o girl who loves him very much.

Hey. I rehomed 3 kittens today. Someone found'em in an old logging/railroad homeless camp. Sent them to the way station rescuer who gave them a flea bath and comb.

Mine is people saying "OK" in pre-1800s settings.

I feel like a pedant for noticing when books, shows, films, video games, etc. use wildly anachronistic speech or phrasing. "They wouldn't say clap cheeks in 1947!" 😮‍💨 Exception: A Knight's Tale

Christian Death - "Down In The Park (Live 1989)" youtu.be/tGCdaWMxcps?...

Irem mentioned! bsky.app/profile/litt...

finally finished the collection. Super amped up to do something crazy like try to play all of them to completion in a row

during the 2023 WGA strike. a real one.

CarthageaDev released Strata, a free open-source terrain painter for making HD-2D games in Unity 6. 🌲 More: www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/co... Interested in building your own Unity tools? This might help: jettelly.com/bundles/unit... #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev

#MacroMonday with my new love ! This creature is a leaf tailed gecko from #BirminghamWildlifeConservationPark He uses the frilly edges that run right round it's body to suction to glass in this case and leaves/trees in the wild, he was around 8 inches nose to tail! Beautiful! @macrohour.bsky.social

SAG-AFTRA remembers Eric Bauza, the Emmy-winning voice actor behind Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety and Porky Pig. Our condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. #SagAftraMember https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/looney-tunes-voice-actor-eric-bauza-dies/3960621/

YES! Such a good game - the main issue with it was the hardware and control response. Body Harvest next please.

ziptie nodes v0

Super Cauldron | Amiga (1993)

something i don’t see discussed much is that even if it wasn’t stained with bigotry, harry potter is something you probably should’ve just like… grown out of at some point, rather than integrating it into your adult identity

Today's Popeye at @comicskingdom.bsky.social : comicskingdom.com/popeye/2026-...

making games so you can hopefully afford to make more games is literally a different industry from grinding up people so number goes up and it is harmful to pretend otherwise regardless of whether or not we share a platform or a binary format

"One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight". Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.

It's always someone else's idea, quickly and cheaply cloned. I'm sick to my eyeballs of endless AI anomaly hunt games. If AI is enabling something fresh, enabling new concepts and ideas, then I haven't seen it because that tiny spark of creativity is being drowned out by an endless ocean of slop.

The current AAA Publisher practice of disbanding studios, even if they ship a game successfully, is so counterintuitive to their own financial future it boggles my mind.

NEW OPPORTUNITY: Short fiction writer? Love the world of Heaven's Vault? ... then come play in the waters. We're looking to commission 20 short stories set in the Nebula for a new anthology. Paid, obvs. Full details and a link to the form on the blog: www.inklestudios.com/2026/10/24/t...

carthagea.itch.io/strata here! It is free and open-source! it has simple edge detection and best effort logic based on neighbour pixels to ensure it looks crisp, even the terrain painter uses a block/tile-ish system and respects the pixel density/grid! #unity3d #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

Interesting public domain assets: "The Universal Animation Library 2 - a kit of 130+ animations, created using a universal humanoid rig, which is compatible with Unreal Engine, Godot and Unity" quaternius.com/packs/univer... #gamedev #gameart #indiedev #publicdomain #cc0 #unity3d #godotengine

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Sir, You Are Being Hunted is missing out on the Halloween sale for some baffling Steam reason, so pick up the greatest survival game ever made or even imagined for FIFTY PERCENT OFF this weekend! Do it now! Go! Please! I love you! store.steampowered.com/app/242880/S...

You might have seen the original "no genAI seal" by @kanaratron.bsky.social. I've made the icon into a set of assets in both PNG and vector formats that can be more widely used in different contexts. You can find them here: www.joramwolters.com/no-gen-ai-ico/

🚨🚨NEW VIDEO🚨🚨 My Pokemon HeartGold SoulSilver Retrospective Review is now LIVE for EVERYONE on YouTube youtu.be/kJ7EWs8kAbU

Play #videogames your entire life and you may understand game development LESS than a stranger off the street. Why? Familiarity breeds a false sense of expertise and ownership over something you love. Trust me, no matter how many you play, you have NO fucking idea how hard they are to make.

RT if you don't use AI for coding

You know it. Why would I choose to use a technology which enriches horrible oligarchs. That contributes to wrecking the economy. One which is built off stolen labour, and causes environmental distress and works to destroy folks' cognitive functions.

I only practice vibe coding when others pay for it and say I have to use it at work... but that's not game dev, and > 90% of my work is still manually coded/designed/implemented because I'm actually competent.

Haha, cute. The day after Deadman Danny was added to Deadlock, people started talking about how good a Spamton voice he makes. Just a couple weeks later... Stuttering sentence-mashed voicework and all.

being a dirtbag indie game dev means my finances are in shambles but on the bright side I haven't had to touch JIRA in years

The forecast is fish, followed by a breakdown in friendships. Knuckle Creek arrives 29 October. Stick it on your Steam wishlist.🐟🐟🐟🐟👇 store.steampowered.com/app/4652930/...

yeah I miss Bioware. I also miss Westwood, I miss Origin, I miss LucasArts, I miss Sierra, I miss Looking Glass, I miss SSI, I miss Interplay, I miss Bullfrog, I miss Sensible, just mergers and buyouts and then stripping the fucking copper from the walls and throwing our history in the garbage.

Andrew Wilson specifically called out how successful Battlefield 6 has been. Labor has rarely been able to directly share in the success of video games, and almost never at the largest scale. Now? The people who make these wildly successful games can't even keep their jobs.

as individual services i don't think these are unfair and the larger problem is the difficulty of paying for all of them at once. i think the solution is to just finish reinventing cable: bring back pilot season with free weeks so people can know what they want to watch for the next 4-6 months

Going to give my own takeaway on the demise of Bioware, which still makes me very sad. The TLDR: Bioware was not killed suddenly by a private equity acquisition. It was slowly strangled by idiots who didn't understand what made Bioware great - some at EA but also some inside of Bioware leadership

please stop replying to game devs saying things like "well look on the bright side those laid off devs can start their own indie studios now" because eventually one of us is going to snap and "WITH WHAT FUCKING MONEY" would be a shitty last thing to hear before you die