Did I just peak? I got the new Cranko (cranknockout.com) and it has Comet on the cover and there’s such a nice and excited preview of the game inside! In a paper mag! 🥹 #playdate My recommended listen while reading the preview is this 2008 album by Sigur Rós www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_C... 🥰
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Role playing being a game dev www.mouflon.cloud
I'm happy to announce that Arco has surprised 100k copies sold! 🙈This is a huge milestone for us, and we are incredibly grateful for all the support we've had along the way 🥰THANK YOU
I check Facebook 1-2x a month for family stuff. Turns out a few days ago my dad made a long post begging for understanding about trans people by his fellow boomers. Last paragraphs are below. Dad doesn’t always get it 100% right. He doesn’t need to. He loves and defends me; that’s all that matters
Get EARTH MUST DIE super cheap alongside a whole bunch of other neat games in this amaaaazing Humble Bundle! Go! Go go go! Also share, pls.
Humble Games Bundle: No More Robots Indie Anthology ($12 for all) buff.ly/0hAb6HI #ad
(Still waking up, sorry I forgot to tag you personally!) I can only imagine lmao you answered them well nonetheless! Funny enough, I first heard that you did this interview from a colleague on Slack who sent this:
I was looking for a fix for bugged out wireless earbuds and followed these few easy steps. Not only did it fix the headphones, but now Aerith is alive again
That was a good e-mail to read today
Two pieces of Levelling The Playing Field news today! 1. Paid newsletter article on "being bad at shipping" in the monthly "Ask Rami" column. 3,000+ words thoughts and methodologies in response to an existential debut game question. Free article in two weeks. ltpf.ramiismail.com/ask-rami-shi...
If you're looking for a direct way to help laid-off devs, check this out https://kotaku.com/itchio-game-developer-hardship-bundle-necrosoft-games-layoffs-unionization-2000720782
Game Devs Put Together An Itch.io Bundle Of Over 100 Games With Proceeds Going To Help Laid-Off Colleagues - Kotaku
The Game Industry Hardship Fund bundle contains over 100 games and will be on sale for the next two weeks
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an update on our plans for /noclip decade two for our patrons www.patreon.com/noclip/posts...
/noclip's Brand New Direction... | /noclip
/noclip's Brand New Direction... by /noclip on Patreon. Join /noclip's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Indie devs, here's a FREE way to get eyeballs on your game! For the 1st week of August, put your game in a slideshow on all MinnMax videos. Upload 1 promotional image here - forms.gle/XFH2PKJKevTP... - 1280x920 - BIG, CLEAR TEXT - No AI art in promo image or game Any help sharing is appreciated!
With layoffs at Xbox, sources indicate accessibility efforts have also been affected. What was once a champion of accessibility is now a shell of its former self, unsure if accessibility even has a place at the new Xbox. Read my first report for @aftermath.site here: aftermath.site/xbox-layoffs...
Layoffs Leave The Future Of Xbox’s Award-Winning Accessibility Efforts In Doubt
Former workers say Xbox cuts leave less resources and experts to make sure games are developed, labelled, and tested with accessibility in mind
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he said this to me at the grocery earlier and I think he didn't get a sufficient laugh out of me so now he's trying it on all of you
I support women florists because I support women in STEM.
Months of work, a lifetime of learning, but the Levelling The Playing Field 101 Courses program launches right now. Eight €40 courses launching 10 days apart, I aim to make the critical less-spoken parts of indie gamedev accessible away from expensive visa-locked hotel bars. courses.ramiismail.com
Levelling the Playing Field - Courses by Rami Ismail
Practical, focused courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - by Rami Ismail.
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My oldest daughter has spent most of the past year asking if she could see The Backrooms when it came out. I went to see it in advance with my wife, and after some consideration, we decided to say yes. (Spoiler: She had a blast) www.crossplay.news/p/taking-a-k...
My Nine-Year-Old’s First R-Rated Movie
Yes, I took her to see The Backrooms.
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This was me in 2023, quoted in Nature. Now see how things are going. When will the academic community wake up collectively & notice what is done to our scientific eco system. Resits. Organize. Refuse to play along. Fight slop. Take principled stands. 🖋️ openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
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"LLMs are too ethically murky to include in scientific publishing. A main concern lies in the way LLMs work: by trawling Internet content without concern for bias, consent or copyright, says Iris van Rooij, a cognitive scientist at Radboud University …” www.nature.com/articles/d41... 1/2
I've noticed people have more or less stopped talking about Sektori. I'd prefer if we kept talking about Sektori, actually.
Today we have something special: a newly translated interview from July 1996 between Shigeru Miyamoto and Kenji Eno! Conducted just weeks after the launch of Mario 64, Eno takes Miyamoto to task (in a friendly way) with several fascinating critiques of its design. shmuplations.com/miyamotoxeno/
Shigeru Miyamoto x Kenji Eno (1996) - shmuplations.com
In July 1996, Kenji Eno visited Nintendo HQ to speak with Shigeru Miyamoto as the first of his "cross-talk" series.
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poured my whole being into this piece for the last week. feelin very lucky to have @mothership.blog as a platform and @midimyers.com as an editor www.mothership.blog/its-everywhe...
It's everywhere
Rape culture, Cyberpunk 2077, and would-be Senators
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Returned to a draft about my dreams and plans and it is perfect
A few Hypnospace Outlaw announcements here. Links below!
Hypnospace Outlaw News! (not Dreamsettler, sorry!)
YouTube video by Jay Tholen
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Well, this is a MAJOR blow to accessibility. Fortnite has nerfed the Visual Audio wheel, which was designed for deaf and hard-of-hearing players. It makes the game almost unplayable for those players. Plus it helped a ton of other disabled players, including myself www.linkedin.com/posts/cdspow...
Fortnite sound effects wheel visualizer removed for accessibility | Christopher Power posted on the topic | LinkedIn
After investigating what I thought was a Fortnite glitch, I have found that Epic have severely changed and made nearly useless for accessibility purposes the sound effects wheel visualizer. It is not...
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God, it looks like a LOT of Accessibility specialists were hit by today's layoffs at Xbox, inclusing some of their most senior accessibility folks. This feels like a REALLY bad sign for accessibility at Xbox going forward. A huge amount of skilled talent being thrown out as part of this "shake up".
Oh my god, it has actual audio descriptions of the narrative visuals for the minigames, like Bits and Bops! This is a huge moment for a first party Nintendo game!