What is happening is not that AI-generated cultural goods are replacing human-made cultural goods; what is happening is that capital is flowing out of the production of cultural goods *entirely,* making us all poorer for it.
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Gamedev, Animator at Evening Star. Was Animation Lead on Wanderstop, Dungeons of Dredmor. Demo reel is here: https://auratriolo.com/ Also find me on mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@MOOMANiBE
It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.
Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 17h agoHollywood has suffered the most in the AI era—with the movie & TV industry losing more than 100k jobs, nearly one-third of the sector’s total employment, over the last four years. Total employment in video production is approaching the fthe lowest levels in 30 years
yes, *I LIVE IN A BUBBLE* ever since I was assaulted by these two individuals, so SORRY if I don't hear every song on the radio my family is still seeking justice on my behalf
You can’t even comprehend how important Eien ni Hen’s work is to the fan translation community. Romancing SaGa, Fire Emblem, Sakura Wars, Tear Ring Saga, Glory of Heracles, Dragon Force II, Dark Half, Beyond Oasis, Psi-O-Blade, Arabian Nights, and so much more. What a loss. Rest in peace.
Romhack.ing@romhack.ing · 2d agoIn memory of the translator, Eien ni Hen. May she rest in peace.
thinking about this again today, and not even in the context of procgen. The thing about systems design is that it's so easy to get excited about making little sandboxes for yourself that you forget the player needs insight into it, lest it simply appear the same as complete randomness.
Aura/Moom@moomanibe.bsky.social · 6mo agothere's a great interview with a developer on Civ where they said, paraphrased, "a feature should never be the computer having fun instead of the player" and I think about this every time I'm working on procgen. It's often a strong argument to expose more of what you're doing.
The Delinquent and the Transfer Student volume 2 is out now! I adore this series, and lettering it was a huge challenge. I'm incredibly proud of the results, and wake to display some comparisons of the Japanese and English lettering. Here are some, with more in the thread below!
Is that... A new Truth Scrapper trailer?!? Yes it is! 😲😍🥰 youtu.be/T3RJNdNTE_o
here's a new Truth Scrapper trailer please wishlist
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Anyways maybe visit the other spots on the croissant crawl if you were excited about it, this has put a damper on the whole thing for me
The Vancouver croissant crawl is on and one of the participants (Mon Paris Patisserie) has an ai image, which I criticized firmly and politely and offered other options of what they could have done instead and now the owners husband is writing essays attacking me on LinkedIn! It’s super weird!
has any game development issue taken up more tech artist time than "where are these additional transforms coming from"
I don't mean to spam (post more than once a day) but I just keep finding cool shit I didn't know about. Today's is the Famicom StudyBox, a peripheral for loading NES edutainment games via cassettes. There's one where a talking (on NES!) dog named Johnny teaches you English. buyee.jp/mercari/item...
not sure why the iced coffee job interview thing is blowing up bc I saw that "news" days ago but uh. here. sure. the takes: * this is social media scraping in lieu of reporting, the worst form of modern journalism * generation war shit is tedious * recruiters have the worst opinions in existence
Perfect Tides: Station to Station has been nominated for a Golden Joystick award in the "Best Indie Game - Self Published" category! You can vote for it along with all the other categories here: www.gamesradar.com/goldenjoysti...
someone flipped the "fall weather" switch on vancouver and it instantly went from "pleasant and just a little cool" to "cold and wet, constantly"
Today is the one-year anniversary of the release of Unfair Flips!!! The game is not on sale today because I forgot. But also it's $1.99 anyways so a sale is mostly in the mind store.steampowered.com/app/3925760/...
Unfair Flips on Steam
A non-idle clicker game about flipping a coin that hates you. Starting with just a 20% chance of getting heads, can you get ten heads in a row?
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anatomy of a roblox game: 1. take a popular fad genre. survival horror multiplayer, life sim. whatever. 2. Take between 1 and 10 game mechanics from any games that have sold over 100,000 copies on steam in the last 5 years. Reproduce them but worse. 3. Festoon with real money transactions Done!
Good smile?????
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 3d agoDAWNGAZER (action RPG) announced from IGNISPHERE Studio, led by Vanillaware veteran Takafumi Noma. The first game based on the IGNISPHERE universe. Coming 2028 for Steam/PS5/Switch 2, published by Good Smile Company automaton-media.com/en/news/unic...
oh no, lol, was the majority of the game packaged as a single giant file before decompression or something
Remedy Entertainment@remedygames.com · 4d agoWe recently released a hotfix intended to improve the gameplay experience of CONTROL Resonant. Unfortunately, this triggered certain platform mechanisms on PC, forcing players who had already downloaded the game to download it again, thereby causing you unnecessary inconvenience.
Every other week an AI company pays some news portals to write how their product gone rogue
Isles of Sea and Sky has a new bundle on Steam with Isle of Reveries and Draco and the Seven Scales! @desertcucco.bsky.social @xythas.bsky.social Check these awesome games out! store.steampowered.com/bundle/89545... #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart
Save 3% on Isle of Reveries + Draco and the Seven Scales + Isles of Sea and Sky on Steam
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I saw this screenshot going around, found this detail charming, looked more into the game (I've never played a Silent Hill) & decided to buy it. Btw these are the "unimportant" background assets AI idiots think AI should be used for
I guess that's the final bullet in the head of the Armed Fantasia/Penny Blood double kickstarter. One of those "I probably should have known this was too good to be true, but..." moments.
NESbot@nesbot.bsky.social · 4d agoDigital Bros/505 Games has decided to discontinue development on Armed Fantasia (Wild Arms spiritual successor by former Wild Arms devs) www.resetera.com/threads/16...