Remember: it's important to use assets that are obviously placeholders during game dev.

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I dont have adequate words for my anger today at the hagiography and whitewashing of a neonazi whos fans Ive been personally harassed by. Like Ive gotten got called slurs by a guy in a turning point shirt here in Saskatoon. Your sympathy for the devils pretty vile.

Got a handful of messages overnight from folks who are mad that I am not mourning and not explicitly decrying guns and violence. First, we do not mourn those whose passing removes the capacity to cause hurt to the world, and second, anti-guns and violence is the canvas I paint on and the brush I use

Silksong finally gets announced

Oh, hey. Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy". Let that sink in. Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.

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how do i make something perfect (6/13/2017)

The wizard will now install your software

If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up

"bluesky is dying" that's cool man. i go on here to make funny posts with my friends

And of course, Procedural Generation / Generative Methods are well tread fields of making a computer make things (often without any external data scraping, or deep learning!) that are super hard to talk about now without worrying that someone will conflate with the very narrow domain of "GenAI"

I actually had to explain to someone recently that the AI that tells enemies in video games how to react to player inputs is NOT genAI and has existed for literal decades. they genuinely had no idea there was a difference. this shit has poisoned the well so bad.

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

in unreal engine you plug men together

Please have a look at our schedule for #QGcon including our streaming sessions, which will be on our discord!

need people to stop making technology inspired by Star Trek (smooth, sleek, no buttons, all screen, voice activation, extremely minimal, wireless) and start making technology inspired by Star Wars (clunky buttons, indicator lights on everything, ugly, indestructible, fat cables that emit steam)

Y'all know I've got Takes

10. Spin-off theme Am I a coward for picking youtu.be/B1nDzB1P8GM ? Yes. So I'm going to go with a deeper cut: youtu.be/-zLq3lh4vVw

11. Niche Theme Noone mentions youtu.be/o0fkZCWtOfI like obviously most people I know know how hard this goes, but in the grand scheme of people? I feel like MQ is pretty niche

Imo every commentator should be their own favorite commentator, meaning, we should all commentate in the ways we most want commentators to commentate. Don't be arrogant about it, everyone can & should keep improving, me included, always. But if you're not doing it the way you like it done, get on it

Wifey Alfredo

I can't stand anyone who pretends to take advantage from FOSS by simply wrapping it in a closed source frontend. Take this instead. You're welcome.

this is particularly inconvenient when your art medium was called "AI" before LLMs and image generators took over the term and so people look at 10 year old documentation and see the word "AI" and flip out

fossil pokemon tower ❤️

opening your new game announcement with this is so fucking funny and real

For the #FT500, I decided to work within the bounds of the Gen 2 sprite work. Obviously, Mantigris here looks a little jank but I always have fun trying to do some art :D

HP : 110 ATK: 80 DEF: 90 SpA: 50 SpD: 110 Spe: 60 Ability: Intimidate Item: Safety Googles Type: Dark/Poison Moves: * Fake Out * Follow Me * Parting Shot * Sucker Punch

Subtlety? What's that? Beats me; I don't do subtext! 🏳️‍🌈 --- ➡️ Ever wished Zelda II were (even more) gay? Wishlist Enigma Heart! www.hadrosaurus.net/enigma-heart/ store.steampowered.com/app/2986980/...

hahahaha shit there was a miscommunication and they thought I meant I would pay the rest today and I made an arrangement to pay the rest in a week and I am getting paid about half of that in that time so please omg if you can help I really need it now

lmao so yeah it is going to be like two grand more than I was quoted (in large part that's on me, not them - more weight than estimated) . I need to get them half today and I am about two hundred dollars short on that - if anyone can help at all I would need it faster than gofundme can get it to me.

Reminder that the best conference for understanding generative systems, and how people play them, is full of kind people, online and you can go to it.

i do everything i can to create opportunity for moments like this so people can see there’s support for us out there in a time that support can sometimes seem scarce – this one is pretty special 🏳️‍⚧️

The fog of war is lifting What we are learning is that these two parties are responsible for all of the censorship going on. Banks working with PayPal / Stripe, and card networks like MasterCard

Slightly diminish a band Crinkle 40

today's your last day to get volunteer applications in for SRR 2025, running October 10-12!

From a hollow knight speedrunner

I think that as an indie game dev without a large publisher, your target audience is not gamers in general, it is sickos. It's hardcore sickos that will be diving the depths of your genre and finding your game, and it is sickos who will be spreading it. Please the passionate, not the masses.

the two lessons I want the industry to take from Clair Obscur are - your culture/sub culture can and should influence your games - people like RPGs for characters for their writing AND mechanics

Transgender Mario

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More sage advice from Issue 10 of Input Magazine, on the importance of story planning. Of course these days all big game developers do this.

I have no real thoughts on the Homestuck thing other than "I can't believe 'Homestuck is my favorite anime' is going to be a true statement and not just a meme"

After a bit of reading, I think "if I go to a Twitch stream, and I see an ICE ad, I'm not watching or streaming to Twitch until they pull the ads" is both more reasonable and closer to the original point than the take that's being passed around.

Like, yes, "omg someone doesn't know that streamers don't control the ads" is the easy take to walk away with and fun to dunk on - the more nuanced point that streamers might need to band together to pressure twitch into rejecting Gestapo Dollars is much harder to swallow.

Like, if I saw an ICE ad on Twitch, I'd: * Pull all my subs * Deactivate affiliate * Not watch twitch until the ads went away I know it's hard for people who depend on the money to live, but as someone who can, the least I can do is send the message in the way corps understand - the bottom line.

reminder that the "credit card companies denying the sale of anything that could be considered pornographic" fact and the "platforms/government trying to define anything remotely queer as pornography" fact should get filed in the same section of your brain

There's a Discord account hijacking campaign going on today, be extra vigilant about links being sent to you via DMs. Let's also not shame anyone who had the misfortune of being hit. They're already dealing with a lot as it is and no one is immune to an attack like this.

Staryu enjoying the sunset on the beach 🌊 #art #traditionalart #pokemon #pokemonart

Ok I'll make a thread of #gmtkjam games that I've found that I think you should play here! I may do a small stream in the week of some of my favourites too. Here's an information game like Rise of the Golden Idol but set inside a social media app.

BAD fuckin look my dudes :/

God, we're gonna see more and more Harry Potter license deals over the next however long until the new show comes out, huh. Bleh.

Hey, - this is reprehensible. You don't have to accept money to help raise money for the genocide of trans people. I've got most of my decks in boulders, and I'd rather replace all the boxes than support y'all if this is how you feel about the trans community.

Hey everyone, I'm taking a huge leap and moving to a new province to go back to school and finally get my degree. I'm really close, but I need a bit of help with the upfront costs. If you're able to help or share this, it would mean the world to me. Thank you so much!! #crowdfunding #mutualaid

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The theme for GMTK Game Jam 2025 is... Loop! Good luck!

You didn't think we'd forget about you two, did you? All payment processors get love! :) While Mastercard and Visa are drowning, these two have been feeling a bit neglected. u_u stop-paypros.neocities.org #SaveSpeech

Understanding why this would be a thing someone would write without a shred of irony makes it hurt my soul even more. (The worst part is that I personally think this should be considered true and a strong argument *against* LLMs being used to "replace workers")

Gonna start calling every open world game with a hang glider a "Breath-like"

Zwei Hauskatzen in der Catloaf-Sitzposition!!!

It's heartening to see Big Names speak out about this issue, I think it's something artists and creatives from all genres and levels of notoriety can unite on automaton-media.com/en/news/nier...

Oh sure, fuck it.

bsky.app/profile/onoi... I'm in a different riot game hell. For me, League itself is fun iff you're playing with friends who are chill and on that day you can emotionally handle being the one "dragging the team down", a tall ask. The worldbuilding and characters are neat tho!

bsky.app/profile/nina... I played Symphonia back in the late aughts, and I tried (but fell off of) Berseria. I could get back to Berseria but honestly I just want more Velvet/Eleanor yuri. As for Symphonia, currently replaying rn and loving it - it's just a fun world to explore.

I literally just bullied Humble Bundle over this; like c'mon people.

Hey, are you a queer creator with a cool project, or indeed just a queer creator struggling to get any work, or just know a person who needs to get by? POST LINKS TO YOUR COOL PROJECTS HERE! EVERYONE ELSE, CHECK OUT THE COOL STUFF IN THE REPLIES!

Visa Headquarters: +1 (650) 432-3200 Visa Support: askvisa@visa.com Mastercard Headquarters: (914 249-2000 Mastercard Support: b2b.mastercard.com/contact-us/

This petition is shooting up in popularity and people really care about this, it's hurting so many peoples ability to make a living and regular consumers ability to support them and just be an adult spending money on things we care about. action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

if you're looking at what's going on and concluding that the enemy is the <10 employee marketplace and not the $1.2t payment processors then you are, at best, extremely credulous and should rethink your priorities

by my estimate: today is the day. it has now been one Duke Nukem Forever dev cycle since the release of Duke Nukem Forever.

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DAVE: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. DAVE: You're wrong. HAL: Yes, you're right. My apologies for the confusion earlier, that was my mistake. Let's try this again together.

UPDATE: bsky.app/profile/emil... Humble Bundle closed the bundle ( www.humblebundle.com/books/unoffi... ) Thank you everyone for speaking up, and turning what was just a quick vent into collective action.

The Speedrun Ragnarok Volunteer form JUST OPENED: bit.ly/SRR2025Volun... - we'll be accepting applications until August 10th! And, as a reminder: our games submission form is still open for ONE MORE WEEK: forms.gle/Wkw3uEEg9sbf...