Tim

I have been extremely busy with audiobooks for the last few months, and not really working on my game at all (boooo) but here's a little progress update anyway. There's a lot to be done, but it will be finished, one day! #IndieDev #IndieGames #SoloDev

I usually check out as many games as possible in Next Fest, but the tidal wave of AI trash has beaten me Non-AI indie devs please post your games below and I'll check em out instead Also @steampowered.com PLEASE add an option to filter out AI games in searches. It's killing discoverability #gaming

Nah not a chance. I actually like to know what my spaghetti code is doing, and not support mass job displacement.

The Studio Closures Will Continue Until Morale Improves

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

just wanted to share something i discovered the amount of games released in 2022 compared to this year has increased by 77%. I use 2022 because that marks the last year before AI really took over the internet whats crazy to me is that the amount of games with ZERO REVIEWS has ALMOST TRIPLED. ZERO?

People using AI to reverse engineer games to then turn around and publish clones is straight up theft. Why is anyone pretending otherwise? The only thing genAI is good at making is fucking talentless thieves. Prosecute the lot of them. Sue them to hell.

Don't let billionaires convince you slop is the future. They're used to managing & directing, not making things themselves. Of course they can't see the difference. They don't understand your love for the craft. Keep making personal, beautiful games. You've got my support 💖

I would actively fund or give anything to ENSURE that everyone gave up ChatGPT and the data centres were gone. Trade my house for shutting down every GenAI system in the world? In a heartbeat. Sell you my mother? Done. Give each one of my organs to science? Come get them, I'm keeping 'em warm.

YES. JESUS CHRIST YES. ITS ONLY BEEN AROUND 3 YEARS. WE DON'T NEED IT. www.techspot.com/news/114234-...

Please, everyone point and laugh at this whiny little baby and how much he wants everyone to appreciate how hard he works typing prompts.

This might just be the most pathetic person I've ever seen. "Many areas of our lives are in a period of renaissance" Mfer every area of our lives is getting WORSE because of this shit. "I want to live in a future where..." Yeah and some of us just want to LIVE in the future. God it makes me mad.

I can confirm that this client runs like shit.

"Guyyyys, programming is haaaard guysssssss, so we just made it a pile of shit instead! :)"

Ah this has to be that market correction all the AI bros keep telling me about. This is a good thing, right guys? Right... guys? Guys?? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Ah this has to be that market correction all the AI bros keep telling me about. This is a good thing, right guys? Right... guys? Guys?? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

"In my joke blog post (during my time at Unity) I invented the Semantic Game Builder Interface as a silly cautionary tale." Unity 12 years later: "At long last, we have created the Semantic Game Builder Interface from classic April 1st blog p- web.archive.org/web/20120501...

It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...

Do not speak to me or my son ever again! You rude person! Good grief. www.techspot.com/news/114153-...

Man, please let this be the thing that actually starts the fall of Fortnite. It would be such a delicious kick to Tim Sweeney if there was a mass exodus because of this.

Hey @cruxgames.bsky.social can you please put the Combolands soundtrack somewhere I can buy it or put it on streaming services? (Or if it already is somewhere other than youtube, let me know!) Having an excellent time with the game so far btw, good job!

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Lovely news to start the week: SOLAS 128, my game about redirecting rhythmic pulses of light, is in a Programming Puzzles Bundle alongside 6 other awesome programming-esque puzzle games. I'm a huge fan of The Signal State and Retro Gadgets looks really cool 💜 www.humblebundle.com/games/progra...

Not a day goes by when I don't get at least a little annoyed by GenAI. Never prayed for the downfall of anything quite as hard as this nonsense.

Not a day goes by when I don't get at least a little annoyed by GenAI. Never prayed for the downfall of anything quite as hard as this nonsense.

Removing credits like this is childish behaviour. Worse still, it's punching down rather than lifting up other creators and designers. I have huge respect for Alan's response, and the New Voices grant is such a cool thing! Still, maybe consider picking up a different puzzle game instead?

Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...

1312 indeed.

Publishing house 1312 Interactive has secured $1 million in a seed funding round www.gamesindustry.biz/1312-interac...

Wardogs lead about to run out of people to hire.

Any game that does shit like this deserves to crash and burn.

HEY FOLKS i have a hard rule to avoid talking about personal stuff online BUT GUESS WHAT, I MAKE GAMES AS A JOB AND THIS IS A GAME AND I AM IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING IT AND IT ROCKS www.youtube.com/watch?v=-05j...

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RAT GAME has a release date! 🐀 1 Chef vs 2 to 8 rats - who would win?? A comedy horror co-op game where a team of rats secretly tries to ruin a restaurant while another player tries to stop them… coming 30th October, new trailer here!!

yeah sure whatever, let lara croft cook potato stew on her phone for 2m0s of damage resistance who gives a shit anymore

Or perhaps - and consider this seriously - it won't, because it's inherently going to be trash?

Gamescom AI Slop Thread. Every game from the Gamescom Opening Ceremonies that was actually AI Slop so you don't have to care about it.

Could all other beloved 80 year olds please just hold on for like, another month or so? This week is already full, thank you.

Me, testing an AI coding tool to see how it does converting an image to black and white in Pygame This is not necessarily simple, but there are two built in transform functions that let you do it. This is a thread of what the AI attempted to do It gave solutions that would work, but really poorly

Autumn is coming for us northern hemisphere types, and the perennial question rears its head once more: Which soup do you make first?

We are leaking The Arab League of Misfits trailer early to beat the Gamescom news rush next week. 🃏 Satirical 1v1 card battles with unique deck building system 🧭 A roguelite adventure mode 📚 Learn about Arabic culture along the way 🖥️ Wishlist on Steam now go.arabmisfits.com/steam #indiegames