One of my absolute favorite demos!

Conspiracy@conspiracy.hu · 11h ago

Chaos Theory turns 20 years old today! 🎂 To know that even to this day we get people from all walks of life telling us how fond they're of it is honestly incredible to us. Got good memories about the intro? Where did you see it first? Let us know! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfk5...

I guess PE can squeeze the last drop out of EA now. I don't mind the company going *poof* eventually, but it will be a sad day for all the online-only/-required games. www.polygon.com/ea-owned-sau...

‘Madden’ and ‘Apex Legends’ Publisher Is Now Officially Owned by Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Arabian government's investment fund just acquired EA, the publisher behind many of the biggest games.

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Stacked PRs, now on GitHub. Go forth and stack 🥞

We have good news and bad news! The good news is that we just started production on Thimbleweed Park 2, due out in early 2028. store.steampowered.com/app/4932120/... Now the bad news... there is no bad news, it’s all good news! P.S. Thimbleweed Park 1 is on sale on Steam, Switch, iOS and Google.

Because the world needs some good news sometimes... Thimbleweed Park is back in 2028! With the original team! 🥳🥸🤡 www.grumpygamer.com/twp2_announce/ Wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/4932120/...

Thimbleweed Park 2

Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry

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It bums me out that I have to ask instead of letting things grow naturally through my articles, posts and activity on this account, but the end of the month is shaping up to be tough. When you sign up for an annual subscription, you know there are about fifty nerdy articles waiting for you.

Long-form Spaceshipper: Welcome to my Spaceport! | The Spaceshipper

Long-form Spaceshipper: Welcome to my Spaceport! by The Spaceshipper on Patreon. Join The Spaceshipper's community for exclusive content and updates.

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We just pushed a new version of esoterica to github. This is the culmination of around 2 years of work. Massive improvements across the board but most notably a brand new and modern DX12 based renderer. If you want to build your own engine, it's a great starting point! github.com/BobbyAnguelo...

formats evolve over decades, apps over months, intelligence is evolving every day in terms of pace layers "file over app" defines priorities: invest deeply in proven formats, and don't expect anything at the intelligence layer to last very long

Good news everyone! 🎉 The new version 3.0 of graph-tool is just out with major improvements! See below. graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N

this is what it feels like to make a game

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I wrote a manifesto for making games, and (not) selling them, for #manifestojam illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-go...

NO-ONE IS GOING TO BUY YOUR GAME by ill omens

A Manifesto For Making Games

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"Expanding a boundary is the wrong phrase or framing. This is more like cooking or gardening. We do new things and experiment to find what we care about, to find new things to share with other people, and to remind ourselves that nothing is static and that we can define the future for ourselves."

Mike Cook@mtrc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wrote a manifesto for making games, and (not) selling them, for #manifestojam illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-go...

One of the first MMO's that I enjoyed mass player activities was in Firefall, Devils Tusk was once such event. Planetside 2 with 2,000 players on one map doesn't really count as its a MMO FPS RPG, Even though I had played Anarchy Online, I still felt like a third wheel. #Firefall #MMO #GameDev

In a galaxy far far, no wait, this was on an alternative Earth timeline, their was the melding, an environment that ate up the earth, with pockets of humanity, protected by a repulsion field, that game was Firefall. #Firefall #Oldgames #VirtualPhotography

More pictures of a game you can't play anymore.. The melding is encroaching on the liveable land, It made for some amazing skies, you could venture inside the purple, but you'd die very quickly. #Firefall #VirtualPhotography

Fireworks where a deployable, you'd be able to see them across the map, but they where fleeting, just like the game.... #Firefall #VirtualPhotography

You can always spot the new player in any game... #Firefall #VirtualPhotography

Occasionally I have dreams about #Firefall being back in development, and I'm there with the crew. 😭 That was my first job out of school, and the experience was an adventure unlike any other. The game and the team will always hold a special place in my heart.

Proposal: Open Source Maintenance Fee for Verify github.com/orgs/VerifyT... Any feedback is appreciated #dotnet

Proposal: Open Source Maintenance Fee for Verify · VerifyTests · Discussion #1731

The Verify project is considering adopting the Open Source Maintenance Fee (OSMF), and we'd like to open it up for discussion before committing to anything. Verify has been freely available since 2...

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Leaked image of new Apple EV.

@sive.rs Looks like all the updates led to a unscheduled down time of your site 😉 At least I got the email 🙂

Wrapped up a consulting job on UE5 with no prior engine experience outside hobby interest. Within hours I had significant performance improvements and found architectural design flaws. Job ads making hard requirements on specific engines show deep misunderstanding of software engineering.

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Lisa Schaeffer@silversober.bsky.social · 6mo ago

✨ Hi everyone - I am looking for a Community and Social Media role! I have experience with live games, mobile, Steam, communication strategy, answering difficult questions, and knowing way too many memes for my age. Thanks for reaching out and sharing! 🌼 www.linkedin.com/in/lisaschae...

Looking to talk to a writer/cultural sensitivity reader from Mexico or with a Mexican background on how to construct an alternate-history cyberpunk Mexico that's interesting and complex without stepping on half a dozen rakes. Paid.

You won't believe fact number 5 - even I, as a Swiss citizen, just learned something new!

David Stark - Zarkonnen@zarkonnen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For edutainment purposes, here is a thread of 33 absolutely true facts about #Switzerland 🇨🇭. Read along and learn! Switzerland is composed of 17 cantons, 3 double-cantons, one four-fifths canton and the federal district of Schwyz.

If you're migrating code from SFML 3.0 to 3.1 or want to learn what new things have been added to SFML, check out the migration guide: www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/3....

SFML 3.1 has just been released! 🥳🎉 It's a minor release, but brings major new features! - Revamped text rendering with complex text layouts - Supporting TLS, HTTPS, SFTP, and IPv6 - Better Unicode support - Many Android and iOS improvements github.com/SFML/SFML/re...

Release SFML 3.1.0 · SFML/SFML

SFML 3.1 is finally out! 🥳 While "only" a minor version, it brings major updates feature wise. The highlights are: Complete revamped text rendering engine using the power of HarfBuzz, cpp-unicodel...

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Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!