Quoting myself from a day ago - "The problem is thinking that the product of a programmer is code. It isn't, really, the code is just the final stage. The actual valuable thing the programmer produces is the underlying mental model. Without that, the code is just tech debt"

🗣️ 24 HOURS LEFT 🗣️ Submissions for the Origin Point Showcase close Friday, 4 September at 17:00. If your game's African-made - any genre, any engine, any country on the continent (or made by African people overseas) - this is your window. Submit at originpointgames.com

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3 minutes of Tim Curry holding back laughter while filming scenes for Red Alert 3

Would you like to see 18 minutes of SILENT HILL: Townfall gameplay footage? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNHP...

SILENT HILL: Townfall | Gameplay Trailer (4K: EN/ESRB) | KONAMI

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I got to play Silent Hill earlier this month and I’m REALLY excited for where this iconic franchise is headed. I Played Silent Hill: Townfall For 3 Hours — Here's My HONEST Reaction youtu.be/-lTniywr8SE

I Played Silent Hill: Townfall For 3 Hours — Here's My HONEST Reaction

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I would kill or die for Larry

A bargain at full price

Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 3mo ago

15. Hardspace: Shipbreaker Dismantle spaceships. Carefully. It's a fantastic work sim experience with a tremendously chill soundtrack, breaking down ships and stripping out component parts and sorting them into different destinations is so relaxing, until you make a mistake and suddenly it isn't.

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

It’s totally fine if you just tell everyone that their AI art looks and sounds like utter shit because I promise you computers don’t get offended.

I thought I knew how bad it was going to be, but I was wrong.

Chet Faliszek@chetsucks.com · 5mo ago

I just pissed myself... this is the movie he is mad that people are calling slop... I demand you watch with the sound on... it is so much worse than you think it is going to be...

In case you haven't heard, MIXTAPE is out now.

Just dropped out of a launch call with teams from Los Angeles to Joburg and Cape Town to Melbourne, to press the buttons and launch Mixtape. We laughed, we cried, we hurled. Working on this game has been one of the most amazing experiences of my entire life.

THIS IS THE GAME I'VE BEEN WORKING ON OSDFDJKLSHFGDJKL,FMBNSDRMG,FNFLKJBDHFGJKLBN

MIXTAPE by Beethoven & Dinosaur@mixtapegame.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Mixtape. OUT NOW. youtu.be/aQoEd5rnxiQ #mixtpe #mixtapegame #indiedev #music #gaming

We made the list!

MIXTAPE by Beethoven & Dinosaur@mixtapegame.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Important news about release times. These things are never perfect. Sorry in advance if your time sucks.

This is far out, but we made a SITE TO MAKE MIXTAPES! Make them! Customize them! Share them! Link below! Mixtape is out in 2 DAYS.

A game I've been working on for over a year launches on Thursday and I am so so so fucking hyped for everybody to play it. This is a special one. 💿

Sorry.

Rex Masters@mastersrex.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I went and saw Project Hail Mary. A guy came in with his service dog and the dog sat there the whole time just concentrating on the movie. Afterwards I told the guy I was amazed your dog watched the movie like that. He replied, me too especially because he hated the book.

A Mixtape dev diary! How did we find this music? #music #mixtapegame #indiedev

You’ve travelled back to 1989 to stop a man named Jeffrey Epstein from committing crimes in the future First reason for somebody to invent a time machine right here ⏳

Guys I just made this 80s beat using nothing but my ears, heart and soul. No AI was used, I can’t believe it, AI ‘musicians’ are cooked! #80s #synthwave #musician

It's 1983 and something weird is happening in your neighborhood #horror #80s #synthwave

Turn on. Tune it. Drop out. MIXTAPE debuts MAY 7, 2026. Coming to PC, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Switch 2.

A project I've been working on for over a year is launching soon and I am sooooo fucking hyped for people to play it.

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ALT: a white kitten is being held in a person 's hand and looking at the camera with its mouth open .

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One of my least favorite things around AI in video games is when these LLM idiots try to say that "AI has been in video games for decades," as if the routines that tell ghosts to chase Pac-Man are exactly the same as the chat bot claiming there are nine Rs in strawberry.

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.

The amount of times I sit in a call with a dreamer and their dream game is basically "everything from my favorite six games smashed together into perfect harmony and there was endless flawless content and it has graphics everyone likes" and I have to explain that making feet go on stairs is hard

vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor@ellaguro.bsky.social · 7mo ago

i think what a lot of people never seem to realize is that a lot of people's vision of an "epic dream game" isn't actually very deep and comes down to scale and/or having a lot of features, whereas by embracing limitations you can be pushed in a far more radical direction.