Pat Holleman

anyway here's a track I had recorded by musicians all over the country to a click track :P (video coming soon!!!)

Bill Gates says AI will make the next 20 years "as turbulent as any period in history." So when the horse archers kill 90% of your city & then take you off to slavery in a frozen steppe, you know why. Oh! Then the plague halves world population. Or maybe Bill Gates just doesn't know much history.

One time I was hired to work for a game analytics firm and then less than 3 months later they closed that whole department, having only just finished training me. That was weird.

It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

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Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up until its closure yesterday www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

Big companies should just stop making games. Simple as that. It's not profitable enough for them! Once a year you get COD. Every 6 years you get one GTA/RDR. There are a few MMOs. Everything else is either made by Nintendo or indies.

Oooooooph.

From a decompilation of FFVII. All those wait(0.5)s. IYKYK.

Every time you download a Kenney asset pack and use it in an open-source engine, a billionaire cries

Faintly Glowing Exodus Evangelion

I find it amateurish when fantasy stories tell you how the magic works before you see it happen. Why? The explanation is plodding and irrelevant until you see how it affects the stakes. But it's so common these days.

"Amazing game, loved every part of it. Except there's a minor sound effect that plays twice and it bothered me. Thumbs down." [861 users found this review useful]

One thing I notice that first-time story writers have in common--especially in videogames--is that nearly every character is meeting every OTHER character for the first time, in the story. Preexisting relationships are the spark-plugs of narrative. You can convey so much through those convos.

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i rebooted minesweeper as a AAA shooter. loot boxes coming soon minesweeper.mikelacher.com

If we get a Rays/Brewers World Series, MLB might just start the lockout halfway through game 1.

Would you buy a Switch port of Cthulhu Saves the World with some QoL improvements? Price would be around $5 USD.

the thing about gen-ai in general is that if it was really useful, they'd keep it for themselves and not try to shove it down out throats all the time.

I was today years old when I realized that Obi-Wan chopping off the guy's arm in the cantina is foreshadowing.

Galatians 6 just goes *ripping* through illustrative metaphors and appositions in the way only an ancient document can.

Many teachers and researchers have noticed the effect AI has on the minds of young students. The most enthusiastic adopters, however, are business managers/executives. I do wonder if that whole class will become effectively mentally incapacitated.

The return of British Bake Off reaffirms the essential goodness of God's creation.

when are we gonna see the dark souls of bejeweled

Here's my 2026 GOTY contenders list: Loop Hero Pokopia Gran Turismo 7 Tomodachi Life Dragon Quest Swords Batomon Showdown FE: Fortune's Weave Megabonk Grandia 2 Quartet Splatoon Raiders Look Outside Pokemon Alpha Sapphire Potential upcoming: Ace Combat 8 Switch Sports Resort Danchi Days

"Make a *!^)@ decision and stick with it," he says. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1cB...

Part 2 of The Rise and Fall of DODO clunked quite a bit at the start.

It's gotten to the point where I think basically *anything* anyone says on social media is either false, unrepresentative of the population, or both.

Idea for a proximity-chat-based co-op cooking game. I'm calling it Big Wok.

Plan out the key elements of your narrative in advance

This morning's asset release: world map mountains and forest tileset for #indiedev #rpgmaker #pixelart

Very much this: youtube.com/shorts/FExOz...

Teams should just start announcing that they plan to not finish their love letter JRPG. "We expect to stop releasing updates by August 2028, and we should suddenly cancel the game sometime in November or December."

IDK if I'll play this game, but I *love* the fact that they're referencing the extremely obscure superhero-psychological horror film Freaks. Deep cut.

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

Until players succeed in your game, they won't trust it. Until they fail, they won't have a goal.