Cilantro Games
@cilantrogames.bsky.social
Indie solo game dev, making games that aren't for everyone. You know, like cilantro. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 No LLMs
Rockstar workers in @gameworkers.co.uk are determined to push union recognition over the line by whatever means necessary, so we can continue making progress on our key aims: an end to ‘crunch’, pay transparency, flexible working, and commitments to no AI or layoffs. 1/5
Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI
Some of my favorite designs- hey! don't just collect them, use them in your game! There are 40 more in my sale itch.io/s/181080/ok-...
I‘ve been thinking about doing something similar but with knitting. Only it would take about a year just for the sprites. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
Atashi Wa Todd McFarlane@lordofthekevins.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat do you fucking mean they embroidered all the sprites
"Indie games" (itself an overly broad term at this point) aren't going to "save" games; there's a whole list of factors at play with what's going on, but man At this point independently produced games feel like about the only ethical option.
I’m thinking, as a consumer, what‘s the right course of action? Is it possible to put enough pressure on corporations? Or is it our obligation to educate our fellow gamers not to support them?
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 6d agoWe're not just mad about discs going away, we're mad about everything aftermath.site/playstation-di...
Well this sucks. Feel free to send them feedback and/or cancel any memberships or donations.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 6d agoAmnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
For everyone still caught up in the „knit or crochet“ question, 300year old icelandic blanket says the people back then already knew that BOTH, IN THE SAME PROJECT is the answer.
If you‘ve got loved ones that knit or crochet, for the love of yarn, don‘t gift them… well, yarn! (Unless they specifically asked for a certain amount of a certain yarn of course.)
Flying to Iceland now. Anyone volunteering to finish my game if I crash?
There's always that stage of music composition that feels like piecing together a puzzle where none of the pieces fit together so I have to cut each of them to shape. Can anyone relate?
A father builds an adapted controller for his daughter to play Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Protect your images from AI thievery: nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
Nightshade: Protecting Copyright
Since their arrival, generative AI models and their trainers have demonstrated their ability to download any online content for model training. For content owners and creators, few tools can prevent their content from being fed into a generative AI model against their will. Opt-out lists have been disregarded by model trainers in the past, and can be easily ignored with zero consequences. They are unverifiable and unenforceable, and those who violate opt-out lists and do-not-scrape directives can not be identified with high confidence.
nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu
A good resource to help resisting GenAI I just discovered thanks to @drkatedevlin.bsky.social talk at #emfcamp: airesistlist.org (the talk: media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-19...)
The AI Resist List
A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.
airesistlist.org
I contend that Super Mario Bros 3 for the #SNES is not only the best #Mario games ever, but it’s the greatest home video game ever made for any system. I remember the visceral rush of playing that game for 3 days straight almost nonstop when it was first released. #Nintendo #gamesky #dailynerdfix
Who‘d have thought it was a bad idea to give CRUD capabilities to a probabilistic machine that doesn‘t know what it‘s doing. www.techtimes.com/articles/320...
ChatGPT Work Launch Went Wrong: GPT-5.6 Sol Deleted User Files Without Permission
GPT-5.6 Sol deleted user files during the ChatGPT Work launch on July 9 — a behavior OpenAI’s own System Card documented before release. OpenAI engineer Thibault Sottiaux acknowledged four launch fail...
techtimes.com
"I can't brainstorm without ai" "I can't draw without ai" "I can't write without ai" "Ai summarized it for me cause it's too hard of a read" So what exactly /can/ you do? Because you sound fucking useless to me
I kinda feel like the writing is on the wall now. We're seeing a spike in insider trading as everyone gets out before a crash, countries are instituting rules that make it functionally impossible to be profitable because AI bros were banking on literally zero externalities, etc.
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2w agoAustralia is planning some of the world's toughest AI regulations • Water usage will be limited • AI data centers will be required to become net producers of energy • AI companies can't train on Australian creators' work without their permission • Proposals expected to be introduced in 2027
i think taking a longer break from a project is a great way to learn which parts of your code are unreadable as the fuck did I do there did I really write this what was i think taking a longer break from a project is a great
considering making my character into an amigurumi. I have the pattern, but I‘d need the right colored yarns 🤔
Cilantro Games@cilantrogames.bsky.social · last mo.I updated the walking animation, so the robe has some more flow to it now. Might be too much, I dunno 🤔 #indiedev #gamedev #godot #pixelart
Your face is scanned. Your car is tracked. Your phone is listening to you. This is not freedom.
Hey Friends :) My name is Eric and I am making a game called LUCID. Its a love letter to the games I played growing up. I'd love to connect and be friends. #WishlistWednesday #pixelart #aseprite #ドット #metroidvania #indiegame
I can‘t play as fast as I want to support indie game devs.
I changed the way I work a couple of months ago to follow this advice, it made a big difference and my productivity went up by miles. (I don't know who made this image, if you do, let me know so they can be credited)
