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Imagine being a person who just adopts AI without worrying about all the externalities. Not your problem right?

we've created a no AI notice to reassure people seeing our trailers and games with hand drawn lettering and a relaxing cute fox, and it's also up on itch in multiple formats* for anyone to use: eniko.itch.io/cute-fox-no-... *with/without fox, transparent/opaque, in 4k, 2160p, 1440p, 1080p, and 720p

got the made by humans no AI splash screen from @rally.luckyraven.cc and i'll be putting it up on itch under creative commons license later so everyone can use it

[EDITORS NOTE] it me. TINK is a great arcade in the Yokohama area! Alongside the VSAV Night upstairs, there was a 3S Night downstairs too. These kinds of small & independent, but lively arcades are the lifeblood of the 関東/East VSAV scene alongside the larger, more well-known ones in 東京/Tokyo.

Capcom reports large-scale data breach affecting approximately 11.77 million “Capcom ID” accounts. No credit card information…

presenting the deep library tileset in its finished state, full of books and gossiping demons and paper lanterns and all manner of assorted things #addlemoth music by @heavyviper.bsky.social

It's been the dream of publishers that you're only buying a ticket to experience a thing despite selling you a physical thing you can use over and over again for a higher price. Sony and others are going to lose this fight just as Nintendo did during the rental era.

📢 LOOKING FOR VOICE ACTORS 8 Roles Open for Indie Fighting Game - Audition with 3 voice lines/character by Nov 22 - You may apply for multiple roles - Paid contract, see role for details

New followers (👋) so little introduction; for the past 10+ years I've been releasing public domain game assets to support indies & students. You can donate, but it's totally optional. I hope to continue supporting our industry for many more years to come, thanks for your follow/support! kenney.nl

The dogura thread on that Tekken 6 recomp is a funny read. The Japanese players are *very* angry, but not because they used AI and taking away opportunities from real devs. No they are mad because it wasn't official!

Repost if $30k would change your life right now

It's fall sale 2: electric boogaloo and Kitsune Tails is 35% off! kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails Or help our queer studio survive by getting four games bundled for $17.99 on itch (itch.io/s/204320/kit...) or $18.75 on Steam (store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673...) Bundle contents in the reply 👇

i can confirm #addlemoth will have no genai at any point in the project, in code or in art or in anything, because the entire point of this from the very start was improving my own skillset i could not draw for beans when i began. terrible programmer art. clearly, i have improved _a bit._

An example of giving a few bad options so they pick the one you actually want bsky.app/profile/unse...

Beakman's world continues to be peak.

Attention "Game Devs" using AI, Your homework this week is to watch the episode of Beakman's World about video games. Maybe you need a refresher on specific things.

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

What are game studios going to do when they adopt genai just to have their games still take 5 years to make and cost even more?

Check out this steal of a deal from @humblebundle.com ! I sure would love to make another Divekick someday; but you can't beat the price for the original if you don't own it yet. And the other games slap, too. www.humblebundle.com/games/indie-...

as one of the people who did rollback netcode back when it was new (shakes cane) it is _not_ a thing you want as code that cannot be maintained. It's extremely fragile and prone towards a million subtle problems.

Maybe you don't want thousands of iterations of the same thing but slightly different just because it can be made automatically. Maybe we want making things to be filtered by the difficulty in making those things real, because those who actually care will do it and those who don't won't.

EG fell for it too. :( The Capcom presentation contains a slide with "AI世代のゲームエンジンへ" - the article omits the "へ", for one, but the issue is that while 世代 means 'generation', it's in the 'console generation' sense, not like GenAI. Without へ, translation software gets it totally wrong.

There are, theoretically, beneficial use cases for a far more optimized version of this technology years down the road once it has been laboratory-proven to actually do anything in a reliable capacity. It's nowhere close to that now and every application in its current state causes massive harm.

In conclusion, "maybe Claude isn't bad actually if it gets us USF4 rollback" is the hardest folding I've ever seen in my life, good goddamn.

Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...

While our funding source waits to make up their mind... anyone happen to need a gameplay programmer for contract work?

When you design games to be executionally easier, with very clear cut uses for moves, with characters with much more well rounded kits, OBVIOUSLY things will get more solved. Why would you expect it not to happen? That's not even necessarily a bad trade off, but it is what it is!

To help folks watching #JMD9 at home, I've made an info sheet for this year's event! It lists out the pool Blocks, Teams & Players, & has some more info regarding the event as well. Hope it helps folks enjoy some #BeautifulVSAV! 956pro.com/jmd9info #ヴァンパイアセイヴァー3on #VSAV

Please support his family's GoFundMe, which will be used for a charitable donation to honor his name. www.gofundme.com/f/in-loving-...

Who's going to be at TGS today/tomorrow?

SweetXJam was one of my best friends from the GG community for 10 years. He was just a great dude to everyone. Him passing in an accident so suddenly feels so unreal. I'm just devastated right now. I want to do something at Frosty to honor his memory. He absolutely deserves it. This fucking hurts.

I don't know if anyone else has posted this yet, but sweetxjam passed away this weekend. If y'all could give something to the gfm for his family that would be great. www.gofundme.com/f/in-loving-...

Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

"What makes a fighting game deep (and why it matters)" Been working on this one for a while! It's about the different kinds of skill checks in fighting games yield depth, and how the combinations of those skill checks attract or alienate different players. www.patreon.com/pattheflip/p...

I hate the part of programming where I think too far into the cascading side effects of any code change and then just become paralyzed by anxiety.

"On opiates" I have been thinking a lot over the years about the unhealthy roles games play in people's lives, and the last week got me to finally put together this post on the kind of work I am doing (and not doing) going forward. I am here to heal and strengthen. www.patreon.com/pattheflip/p...

Capcom is on a generational run. But this is no renaissance: the company has never been greater. I reported on the secret of its success, from "Crapcom" in the early 2010s to its one-banger-after-another present, speaking to many of its most illustrious producers. www.theringer.com/2026/09/03/v...

I'm never eating sea snails again. Seafood sick is a special kind of sick

Shellfish sick sucks

Interview with the lead developer on HnK (who happened to be my boss on GBVS) www.famitsu.com/article/2026...

Tōkon Warriors! We’ve got a patch update incoming this Friday PT for all our players, bringing a range of fixes and improvements to online play, stability, and the overall gameplay experience. Here’s a look at what’s included: ⬇️