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During the brazilian elections we learned one obvious but important tactic to defeat the far right on the Internet and I think everyone should know it: IGNORE THEM! DON'T ENGAGE WITH THEIR CONTENT! DON'T MAKE CONTENT REACTING TO THEM! DON'T HATE QRT! LET THEM ALONE IN THEIR BUBBLE!

Like if I were a major shareholder I would be livid. This is wonton destruction of these publishers’ most precious assets. It’s like literally setting fire to millions of dollars of property and equipment. It’s wildly irresponsible and self-sabotaging.

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/

It's not every day that the designer of BioShock's Fort Frolic and The Cradle in Thief Deadly Shadows comes out with a new game. You should buy it!

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

i want to say a lot of things but what i will instead say is: if any studio exhibits "a kind of magic" that magic is a mixture of obsession, creatives clicking together in a collaborative way, and visionholders that trust their talent and are trusted by them.

The old games industry is dying. The new games industry is struggling to be born. Now is the time of absolutely batshit corporate decision-making.

Agreed and excellent work to the entire narrative team. I'm having the best time and love (or love to hate) all the characters.

Game development

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

bringing this back around

Huh. This seems to be an extremely good, broad study too?

yeah i'm a game writer, you might know me from hits like: INVENTORY FULL AMMO HERE CHECK THIS OUT I'M UNDER ATTACK!

if youre wondering how i spent my evening it was sculpting 20 new creatures so they could sing over the garden wall

Theres a 'type of guy'(TM) in the games industry who really just wants to make a movie, and OMG please do everyone a favour including yourself, just go make a movie.

steam: this game you've had installed for two years but never played has an update. we'll download it next week me: no you'll download it right now motherfucker. and i will sit here and watch it download. steam: so you're gonna play it? me: fuck you

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

I thought this was just beautiful. Kurt Vonnegut takes a walk to mail a letter:

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

i've had so many of these working on imsims. my first was the guards in my stealth game who could hear each other's footsteps and if they didn't already know roughly where the other guy was they would investigate each other and be surprised to see each other. in first person this looks like nothing

it's time to go home #BigWalk

if you’re a games company that wants to survive it has been proven over and over again you need to do whatever it takes to stay away from being publicly traded. you’ll be turned into wood chips the moment it’s convenient.

Starting my day making some art.

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind

Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!

An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?

If you are currently not sick, please take a moment and appreciate how you are not currently sick

THIS IS SUCH A GOOD GAME and this is another excuse to grab it

Our self-indulgently adorable dress-up visual novel Goldie's Boutique is out now! 💖 And it's completely free! 💸 👚 100+ clothing options! 🐾 Cute animal customers! 🎨 Creative mode to play around in! #indiegame #visualnovel #vn #dressup #browsergame youtu.be/TRtr1pXAQg4?...

Brilliant thread on the damage potential of LLM interactions. Shit is toxic all the way down.

working on a theory that there is an inverse relationship between the quality of a fantasy game's writing and how heavily it features generic "bandits" whose only motivation is yum yum love evil and robbing

the thing about indie games is that if someone designs one single game I love, I’ll get whatever they make for the rest of their lives and pretty much always have a good time. people are so attached to ip but imo you really gotta know the creators.

Big Walk 👍👍👍

You do not need AI to protoype anything in video games. You do not need AI for placeholders in video games. This is a flat lie.

Listen, if you’re not happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship either, happiness comes from picking a new hobby and then buying all the things to start that hobby then finding the perfect little storage container for those things and then putting that storage container in the spare room

producer: the engineering team's all busy, so we slated your feature request for work in 17 years. or you could ask Gorg designer: who? producer: he's that guy who has no job description. lives in a pond. eats entrails. he will implement your feature immediately. you didn't hear it from me, though

I'm not good at eating fruit regularly even though it's delicious and good for me, so I'm starting up this new thing where I'll cut up some fruit to eat while I play games. I call this my "gamer fruit." you too can enjoy some "gamer fruit," it's nice and I would recommend it