Over 150k and still 8 days to go. 🙏 Thank you everyone who has purchased the bundle. Your generosity helps us support laid off game workers who are facing eviction, have put off important medical care/treatment due to losing insurance, and the like. Your solidarity means the world.

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Missed the first closed playtest for Fangtopia? We’re re-opening the crypt doors and welcoming in some new blood. (🧛 mmm tasty) Whether you want to join us for the relaxing pace of Fangtopia, or if your competitive streak is yearning for a new challenge – apply now. https://bit.ly/4wzmR8Q

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Love the reframing of work as stewardship; cultivating a garden

Leena 🌵@leena.reuben.games · last wk.

I blogged about how creative and many-stranded lives might be better approached as living systems we can tend to and cultivate instead of giving in to the productivity-maxxing hustle grindset of the enemy: yeahrighto.substack.com/p/the-garden...

Took a little time to clip up Craig Mazin giving a shout-out to Trapped in the Network, a report from VGIM supported by @outmakinggames.bsky.social, about censorship of LGBTQ+ game content across the world. Listen below 👇

Doing it this way has (hopefully) meant viewers have had the chance to understand this story in real-time and it's given workers the opportunity to share their own experiences outside of just the final ruling. Stories like Will's, for example, from our latest video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym4z...

If Rockstar Meant to Kill This Union, It Didn't Work

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This!! Everybody else is chasing trends for money and short term gains. Building your foundations on a good strong vision and growing steadily and organically is much more sustainable imo

Jason@envinyon.bsky.social · 2w ago

Goddamn

Implemented the ability to layer an extra sound that changes depending on the card rarity when opening a pack. Haven't made the sound yet so just pulled from some dev sounds I recorded of me counting. No need for gen AI, obviously a placeholder. Anyone else got examples of their placeholders?

Women after several years in the video game industry:

Quack 🦆

It's Britney bitch

Finally got Tiny Glade 😌

I think I just saw the epitome of a straight man at a comedy club. Guy only makes “jokes” about gay sex and then bullies an audience member for the whole show & being sexually aggressive towards him. Ends with the comedian stripping down to his underwear, rubbing his body towards the audience member

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

It's a common myth that "lights in computer games consume real electricity." This is technically true, but unlike real lights, they only do this when you are looking at them.

The way that reactionary players assume that sensitivity consulting agencies are something that come into a project like an invader and demand changes to some pure artistic vision, instead of being something that the developers planned for and deliberately invited in to get their feedback.

"The game engine is why the game is bad" is a myth that won't seem to go away. I'll have you know I can make a bad game in any engine.

The myth that it is possible to make a game. In truth no one has ever successfully made a game

sorry to be crass, but the notion that female devs sleep their way into a job. buddy i have news for you (that doesn't happen)

- asset reuse == lazy - that DLC comes from taking content already planned for the base game and cutting it out for a quick cash grab - perf problems are because the programmers didn’t “optimize,” whatever players think that means - that studios can freely release the code and assets to older games

Most bugs you experience are known but there just wasn't time. Some bugs you experience already have a fix that just couldn't be tested in time to roll out. Rushing things risks causing more issues than it fixes. Also unless you are a programmer, you don't really know what a "game engine" is.

everybody thinks programming is real but actually there’s a real tiny guy moving around trapped inside the computer

That the devs are lazy. The devs may be idiots, ignorant, naive, or hopelessly optimistic. That totally happens. But it's very rare that something that ships in a game is bad because nobody cared to make it good.

game devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?

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I'll be going to Develop Brighton this year again, looking forward to seeing all your game dev faces!!

Do you think the people who post no-commentary playthrough footage of video games on youtube realize how much they're load-bearing infrastructure for everyone doing UI/UX (and adjacent) game design work