Aylex
@aylex-za.bsky.social
[She/Her] Game developer, birb lover, mosaic enthusiast, South African video game degen with hEDS & ADHD. Intermediate software dev at a technical game dev services studio and absolutely loving it. Ellison-funded and haunted by that.
We've been selected by Launch Good to participate in their one-week fundraising campaign for Palestine. Launch Good will match every $ we raise for Dreams on a Pillow. This will take Khadra one stop closer to her next destination Atilit! launchgood.com/1948
Digital Boarders against Palestinians
Dressmaker is a masterpiece.
Somehow I have a gut feeling that the Venn diagram of "people who say AI will customise a game to your exact liking" and "people clout chasing by rallying against difficulty settings, accessibility, and diversity" are somehow pretty much two concentric circles.
Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 22h agomaybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me
Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...
We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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the "adapt or die" people failed to consider the secret third option of forming a neoluddite community where I'm selling my latest video game on usb sticks in a little lemonade stand
Behind the Bastards is apparently eligible for a Golden Globe this year I can't imagine we'll win, given the number of podcasts by famous Hollywood people on the list. But it's nice to be considered eligible! goldenglobes.com/articles/bes...
Best Podcasts Eligible for the 84th Golden Globes® Revealed - Golden Globes
Best Podcasts Eligible for the 84th Golden Globes® Revealed The Golden Globes announced the 30 podcasts that are eligible to submit for consideration in the Best Podcast category for the 84th Golden G...
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Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.
We’re excited to launch No Games for Genocide’s blog, with our first post by yours truly, exploring Call of Duty’s role in the imperialist war machine. Read below - and remember to join us for our political education & action session on Saturday 10 October! 👇🏽 nogamesforgenocide.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty's Propaganda Machine
The role of militarism and propaganda in the video game industry
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Women couldn't be outlawed in 13th-century England because they were never put in law. Instead, women accused of crimes were ordered to be waived if they failed to appear at trial. The consequence of waivery was the same as outlawry's: execution (often immediately and without trial). 🧵1/4
ICYMI You can still pickup these recent tees from our official Unbeatable collection! 🎶 It looks like everybody's here so we can get this show on the road! ...hold on, waitaminute... theyetee.com/unbeatable
the average artist works really damn hard for generally pretty bad pay and/or bad working conditions but I think passionate people engaging in skillful work should be recognized and rewarded! this feels extremely obvious to me but maybe it's not anymore, in this productivity obsessed hellscape
I genuinely don't understand why so many people have an almost instinctual feeling that artists don't deserve success, or worse, that success is somehow necessarily antithetical to being a true artist it's like there's no way to win, except for total self-sacrifice and devaluing of your work
sometimes it feels like a lot of normal people conceptualize an "artist" as a superposition of both A. a super wealthy fine art elite who does low effort abstract art nobody understands B. someone magically born with the art talent gene even though A is 0.000001% of artists and B is not a thing
Smo - Screaming for vengeance@smomotion.tv · 7d agoOr when they crank the prices up. I got into a fight with someone on linkedin saying basically “animators have enjoyed their cushy existence for too long and now they are scared about ai” i was like ah yes the famously stable life of the illustrious animator
you should feel uncomfortable with frontier AI models not because the tools lack uses but because everyone who works in hyperscale AI wants to worship these machines and every algorithm that behaves unexpectedly is an enfant terrible they admire, love, and hope to have care for them in their dotage
a bunch of d-cell animation folx helped with this! and the song is obviously good. like statistically you've already heard it by now if you're following us
FLAVOR FOLEY@flavorfoley.bsky.social · 7d ago「Could it reach you too?」 Clover ft. Chis-A YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY0q... Streaming: ffm.to/flavorfoleyc...
I think this is a really good example of the problem with the word "artist", and where the creativity vs artistry/vision vs craftsmanship lens can be useful people who agree with the sentiment here (myself included) heavily value craftsmanship - skipping over the craft defeats the purpose but,
Richard Pace@rpace.bsky.social · 2mo agoYup
every game has a human story behind it. the architecture of a childhood home. the crazy new ideas that came into view in adolescence. the relationships they held close, or suffered through. uncovering these personal truths just makes me love games even more. Viktor was an artist. he gave us himself.
He will know what he did when he tries to eat his dinner 😤 (he won’t even notice)
In all of the "A.I. will kill us all" scenarios, by far the most likely and least discussed is "A.I. ignorantly tells us to kill everyone, and we do."
CNN@cnn.com · 3w agoExclusive: An AI-assisted intel report, circulated across the US military during the Iran war, nearly triggered an operation but was false, sources say. https://cnn.it/4y9MBJO
As an ally, I love when women are able to parry, block, reflect, or otherwise avoid damage in combat
We're pumped to announce @playtopia_fest as an official sponsor of OPG's Showcase on the 12th of November 🎮 Join us to watch a curated, fully produced livestream putting the best African-made games in front of a global audience 🌍 @thejesshinds @girlofpearl #OriginPointGames
Perfect opportunity to remind everyone
pixelframe.design@pixelframe.bsky.social · 3w agoSure the logo for the remake would have been easier, but I like to torture myself - the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time Logo & Font Generator is live now, based on the classic red stone version from the original release!