Shout out to all the freaks out there who like UV mapping, but only for personal projects. You are not alone

An excellent video by @jasonschreier.bsky.social about the economics of indie development - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKND... The lack of single-payer healthcare and media grants in the US makes solo dev impossible unless you are living in a parent's house or married someone who can keep you afloat.

Making Indie Games Is Like Buying A Lottery Ticket

YouTube video by Jason Schreier

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As part of the backrooms gold rush, I'm glad that Kane won the "canonized" version. Feeling melancholy about ditching my original Anemoiapolis chapter 2 game (Hi fans). But also... is Backrooms a critique of AI? Because it hits the bullseye. If so, Parsons is up there with Ari Aster or Villeneuve.

The great thing about hosting is that you can serve something that would be incredibly rude to bring to someone else's party

Next week I will be joining the race with my manual-drive 2006 Nissan Maxima

CNN@cnn.com · 4mo ago

Lightning, a running robot developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor, finished a 21-kilometer (13 mile) run in Beijing in a stunning 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by more than six minutes. https://cnn.it/4mLRxQ8

Slow but steady progress on my school architect game. You'll get grants to add random rooms and have to figure out where to put them. Points will be scored based on what rooms are nearby, failure is based on arbitrary metrics because its the american way 🦅🎆🚁

Paul Rudd using Claude Coworker (2010)

Really enjoying the recent surge of Krazam skits on youtube this year

One of many reasons why I'm not focusing on high-fidelity immersive games like I used to. When friends or family wanted to buy it for their Mac or switch, just had to shrug and say oopsie Also, cohesive realistic 3d is insanely time consuming

Xalavier Nelson Jr.@writnelson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is going to happen... a lot. Not just because things like the Steam Deck encourage a minimum viable hardware spec, but because a growing portion of our players cannot and will not be able to access major leaps in hardware. RAM and GPU prices are making the cutting-edge player more rare!

I'm a simple man. I see procedural building and I smile

Protopop@protopop.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Procedural buildings are for #GrimShiver, but I think I'll also add them as toys in the #Wilderless games. This is my first test at using gizmos to change a house - just the width/length/height for now, and thinking which other variables to expose. NimianLegends.com

Okay I think I've figured out Godot enough. I've always wanted to make tycoon games, now its time to make a powerful modular system that I can re-use for multiple tycoon games in a row. A tycoon tycoon, if you will

I'm worried my pc is bottlenecked can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Specs: -Raspberry pi 5 -RTX 5090

Are you making an indie game and in need of a place to show it off? Are you able and willing to get to Grand Rapids, Michigan? If you answered yes to both of those questions, you should sign up for the JAFAX 2026 Indie Game Space! forms.gle/dyX8gcvtVGrH...

Found a music software that works like PBR node graphs. Nobody told me music can actually be fun?? Anyways, here's my submission to Juilliard

Imagine a teenage Wicked 2 fan sitting down to watch Grave of the Fireflies, thinking it's a whimsical musical 😭

Really enjoying the new hades so far

I still have mine from the last election, closest thing we have to an electoral lottery here.

Dresden Erikson@dresdenerikson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This "I Voted" sticker is unironically one of my favorite things since moving to Michigan last year.

Spooky Halloween fact #1: We don't actually know if the zombie deer prion affects humans after 30 years of infection. This is because it became prevalent about 25 years ago. Spooky fact #2: if you have ever eaten food grown near deer (most US food), you probably have the zombie deer prion.

Not kidding, watch the first 10 minutes of this birdwatching documentary (even if you don't know or like birdwatching) Then watch the rest because it is great youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?...

LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

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gonna release a video game featuring copyrighted materials i don’t have a license for BUT the original license holders can opt out afterwards if they don’t wanna be chill about it that would go fine, right

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 10mo ago

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

Testing rendering/staging in #godot with @polyhaven.com assets, starting to get the hang of it.

Happy September 21st to those who celebrate youtube.com/playlist?lis...

9/21 - YouTube

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Last night I invited some unsuspecting friends to a backyard projector screening of old goosebumps episodes. What they didn't know was that I had spliced in all of the commercial breaks. The ads get progressively more bizarre, and the last break goes completely off the rails. It was well received.

This is a real skittles commercial

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

Okay. How come nobody told me they made a movie of exit 8???

The Verge@theverge.com · 11mo ago

Exit 8’s director was inspired by watching people play the game

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

Unfinished game I made in college. The whole city is procedurally generated (including building shapes, road networks, color pallets, etc). One of these days I should try making it again in #godot

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Throwback to the last time I tried doing leg IK in #Godot engine. Results were flawed, but fabulous. Also, I think this was the first character I modeled and rigged from scratch using #blender - I'm usually more of a hard surface modeler.