Carmen Ito
@beemon.symbolicon.net
🏳️🌈 She/her. Full-stack developer by day, indie game artist and developer by night. Small budget, big dreams. Anti-MAGA, ICE and AI. These people are garbage, I don't talk to trash. Leave me alone.
My new #Godot project titled #Null-Space begins. Will start by importing the character model and animations from #Mixamo. Then build a claustrophobic map with CSG. Originally tried to use Cyclops Level Builder but decided to begin with as basic as possible.
13% over Unity 42% over Unreal Engine When Godot, a game engine that remains as a game engine while others Unity & Unreal Engine losing focus, becoming AI slop marketing tools instead.
Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%
Because they are not developers, they are shameless art thieves.
"I don't understand why generative AI is so widely accepted among developers. It's so surprising!" So, you've been hearing women and minorities denounce the toxicity and discrimination in those communities for years... decades, even, and you still thought those communities were morally acceptable?
Every game company CEO thinks AI is the answer to their game development headache, not them laying off all their developers. Proves AI is a scam specifically constructed for people with power and money because they are the only ones who believe AI is more qualified than actual artists and engineers.
This one's still the kicker for me Unreal Nanite? AnimBP? PCG? ControlRig? StateTree? Incredible tech, saved me so much time, I miss it a ton using Godot. Epic sucks! Massively? And I'm still saying this! If GenAI were truly a time savings? You'd have to beat indies off with a stick. And yet,
It's not my first time coding a raycast engine but it seems I,ve forgotten all the previous implementations and have to restart from scratch but it's fine since I was planning a very different kind of implementation anyway.
The Backrooms: Endless Empty Corridors
ALT: The Backrooms: Endless Empty Corridors
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I'm taking a long nap. When I wake up. I will start a new #Playdate project, one I couldn't imagine doing a few weeks ago but I have changed, times have changed. I don't want to create a game anymore, I want to create an experience.
Fired all the developers, hired an AI guy. Found out AI couldn't replace the workload of hundreds of developers they laid off. So how to solve this problem? Fire more developers tomorrow. I can see the death of consoles arriving very soon.
The drama continues.
If there's no way we will make a way, a non-AI mind has unlimited depths and layers of creativity that does not depend on what existed before but what can exist from nothing.
After playing Elite on the NES, I always say where there's a will, there's a way.
Companies are firing everyone with a talent so you can no longer compare AI slop because there is nothing to compare to, and then claim AI makes the best art because art doesn't exist anymore because there is no one to make them.
This is the first time I've seen a company trying so hard to be the most hated company in the world. This is no longer the Don't Be Evil era, this is the How Evil Can I Be era. They are so eager to burn in hell.
They didn't spend their money light lavish lifestyles but create animal sanctuaries to care for unwanted animals in need.
The good men. Ironman and Mr Bean.
World cup is over. Time for Trump to deport all the foreign players or get ICE to kill them all. Not a good look for FIFA to put a racist mass murderer on stage with the world cup champions.
Trump photo bombing the world cup trophy celebration is one of the most narcissistic things ever. They even tried to usher him off like an old confused grandpa.
Democrats dumped a sexual predator, republicans made a sexual predator president. If you are wondering how the parties differ.
Our News Media needs to get it together….
The man is iron but the heart is gold.
Sanctuary 🐈⬛🐈 🐄🐖🐓🐐🐄🐐 🐈 Robert Downey Jr. maintains an animal sanctuary on his Malibu property where he rescued and cares for alpacas, goats, pigs, chickens, cows, and cats. 🐈 Robert Downey Jr. Kindness to animals. #caturday #sanctuary
Nature is always beautiful. AI will always be ugly slop.
Two waterfalls, one narrow gorge. Last weekend, I hiked to Twin Falls near North Bend, Washington. I like how the water drops from one fall into the next, framed by steep rock walls and tall forest. It is easy to see how Twin Falls got its name. #PNWPhotography
Just bought Vertex Studio. 👍
Vertex Studio is live! My #godot plugin for editing, managing and painting vertex colors and vertex normals of 3D meshes inside Godot. It has a FREE version with all the basic and essential tools and a PRO, paid version with all features. 50% off until the end of the month. #godotengine #gamedev
The 2026 Godot Community Poll is here: Takes about ten minutes to complete, and it's one of the more direct ways to influence where things head next. We want to hear from you! 📝 godotengine.org/article/godo...
Godot Community Poll 2026 – Godot Engine
We want to learn more about the Godot community, understand who the users of the engine are, and find out how we can better support you.
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Maybe I will try this. When I have free time, built a small enclosure with bath and seeds outside my window and see if birds will stop by. A simple thing I can give back to nature. My cat would also probably enjoy seeing them thru the window glass as well.
Just built a very simple/small bird bath (because it's crazy hot) and saw my first visitors. Both birds sipped water and splashed their bodies! Fill a shallow container with clean stones, a couple big clean rocks (so critters can walk in/out), put in shady area with rocks and leaves/moss around it.
Trading life for data centers. How AI tech bros murder the earth and unshamedfully proud of it. Shame on you.
It’s like reading the 2026 version of the fucking Lorax.
You can go to hell Microsoft. You are an evil corporation. I will piss on your grave before I give you a single cent.
"They didn't even wait to see if the product is successful before they got rid of the team," "[...] There are no benefits to being owned by Microsoft. In fact, they have destroyed immense amounts of value that I don't even think that they're aware of." www.gamedeveloper.com/production/-...
It’s so important to remind people that we can do good smart things that help and don’t hurt.
Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans
I have walked with the dinosaurs, now I will walk with gods. But I will not walk with thieves. Keep your AI away from me and my precious world.
AI doesn't lower production cost but it makes it easier to steal games so developers have to spend more time to ensure their games are unique, harder to steal or copy, increasing production time and cost. Imagine also having to proof your game is the original not the copy stolen by AI.
Massive counter point to anyone claiming that AI will help the video game market by lowering development time and cost. Add to this the already gargantuan challenge of discovery, the assumingly soon massive increase in the number of games being released daily, and matured demand... it's... bad!
May all the dinosaurs line up at the pearly gates for your arrival. R.I.P Sam.
Disgusted at seeing AI baby otters being posted when real baby Tanuki footage exists? I got you. Feast your eyes on these natural cuties! No AI 100% real.