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@dmgregory.ca

Game design professor, math and science geek. Did spreadsheety stuff for Splinter Cell Blacklist, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, and Far Cry 6. Moderator on gamedev.stackexchange.com Formerly @D_M_Gregory on Twitter (he/him/his)

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Hungryproton@hungryproton.bsky.social · 13h ago

You can! (check this comment and the one below: github.com/godotengine/... ) Since the editor is a Godot game, you can run it in editor and put breakpoints in tool scripts. (It might not help with that specific weird issue though, I hope you managed to find a fix! )

Improve tool script debugging · Issue #5983 · godotengine/godot

I am currently developping a GDScript editor plugin, and just like developping a game, I make mistakes and am getting countless errors, yay! But the problem here is that I only get the error and th...

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Chris DeLeon Ⓥ make your own games@chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 7h ago

part of why the AI market is pushing "everybody is using it, it's inevitable" narrative: I've seen with people in my life the more you lean on it (and a lil bit slippery slopes towards more) it will make you worse at what you're doing until your output is as mediocre as anyone only using AI to do it

Customers are rejecting gen AI art, music, articles, games, scripts, etc if they still can find enough human- made alternatives. AI industry benefits if skilled people lose their advantage and stop providing alternatives. If you have experience doing a skill it will dull your ability until your work might as well be done by an untrained 20 year old asking AI. Like how the auto industry fights bike lanes, public transit, sidewalks. smaller text at bottom - overflowed post-length (note: same words are in alt text. alt text is important ❤️)
Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 18h ago

The specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...

Douglas@dmgregory.ca · 8h ago

"Good satire is rooted in the understanding and interrogation of systems, of the root causes of its satirical target. This can’t be achieved through [quips] … which have the sole aim of making you laugh but don’t bother to make you think. Political satire cannot stand up if it doesn’t have a spine."

RogerEbert.com@ebertvoices.bsky.social · 10h ago

"If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation." @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social from her zero star review of ONE NIGHT ONLY:

Dave Proctor@positivelaser.bsky.social · 12h ago

Guy reached out to me asking for a job and one of his sentences said "The fit I see: this company working in Toronto in game dev aligns well with [GUYS NAME]'s skillset." If you're gonna get the robot to write shit for you, read it first.

Fachewachewa@fachewachewa.itch.io · 18h ago

It's baffling that any game could launch in 2026 with only one general volume slider. I'll blame the console brain and people who are scared of settings for this. But there's no way ONE overall slider is enough for Big Walk, a game that's all about voice, where you can play with up to 12 players...

Alexander King@literallyaking.com · yesterday

Finished up Derelict Star recently, really enjoyed it despite not being much of a 'precision platformer' player. From the rave reviews I went in expecting good level design and an expressive moveset, but I was still surprised by the sprawling size, existential mood, and awesome soundtrack.

Terminal text from the game reads "You're aware of the danger of self-fulfilling prophecies but figure it must not apply to your situation - all your predictions just make you feel even more empty inside"
Max!@littlepolygon.bsky.social · yesterday

This is a good complaint that everyone should loudly echo, but I take umbrage with dismissing physical media as already a lost cause. That's not true! Game-key carts/discs have to marked on packaging. This is not-yet lost territory - don't cede it! birchtree.me/blog/xbox-go...

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc.

Jay Peters: Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’t just caused issues for people trying to play digital games — it blocked people from ...

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𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦@lucasrizoli.com · yesterday

"As horrific as this summer has been, it is not some 'new normal' — the misleading catchphrase in so many dispatches that attempt some climate change context. It is, in fact, 'just the beginning…'"

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · yesterday

One of the clearest descriptions of climate dynamics for laypeople that you’ll ever hear: “It will inevitably get worse. It will get worse and worse and worse.”

BancyCo@bancy.co · 2d ago

Really on-point article by @gibiz.bsky.social . We've all been saying this for years — often in meetings with platform holders! Over and over! 😔 There ARE answers; but the peeps with the power don't seem to want to do anything. #gamedev #indiegames #gaming www.gamesindustry.biz/the-industry...

The industry makes great games, but nobody can find them

Algorithms built to surface content are increasingly rewarding volume, familiarity, and short-term engagement over quality or originality

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Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d ago

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

Chart showing solar panel exports from China (the main solar panel maker by a long shot) growing steadily & mightily from 2018 through 2026, then spiking by almost 2x in March 2026.
Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d ago

This Film often has the piss taken out of it for being a rather sedentary piece about 2 people just talking a lot — BUT — it has one of the most brilliantly prescient monologues in the history of Movies imho. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981) Have a listen.

Chris DeLeon Ⓥ make your own games@chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 3d ago

not disagreeing (it's the one example I know--true almost no others did--may not count "popular") but using the opportunity to encourage people to watch superstore. solid show, didn't get enough attention. when covid happened in a late season they incorporated it the way I wish other shows would've.

workers in department store masked from show superstore. manager carrying boxes.3 standing around talking in blue masks, style used for early covid era.two main characters standing around talking next to potter flowers in superstore show. behind them is greeting card section I think and a masked customer.
John Smith@johnsmithrlperson.bsky.social · 3d ago

that's another powerfully weird thing about how media handled COVID, almost no popular TV series acknowledged it even happened, even hospital drama shows, they just very deliberately never mention it I think even Grey's Anatomy only had one special episode about a COVID case

Celia Hodent@celiahodent.com · 3d ago

I’m really glad to see raising awareness about ethical design, both for users and workers. Now let’s do video games! 🤓 👉🏼 ethicalgames.org #ethics #gamedev #ux

Home - Ethical Games

Code of Ethics for the Game Industry (Note: this code of ethics is still in development. Draft updated on March 10, 2026) Read the draft Join our newsletter Check out our 1st Ethical Games Conference!...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3d ago

When Uber Eats and DoorDash hid the tip button, delivery workers paid the price. Tips fell by 79%. In January, we changed that. Since then, more than $104 million has gone back into the pockets of the delivery workers who keep New York City fed.

Title: Deceptive design. A graphic meant to look like a color-blindness test obscures the number of”550” Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons on their apps. As a result, delivery workers saw reduced income of almost $550 million
Chris DeLeon Ⓥ make your own games@chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d ago

there's a screenshot of a graph going around today of rising temperatures, some people are pointing out it's for just London, or asking about the source here's the London one higher resolution, China, USA, and world. University of Reading scientist aggregated 8 sources: showyourstripes.info/c/globe

temperature change in London 1960 to present relative to average temperature over that range left of 1990. it's mostly blue lines hanging below the bar with occasional red spikes. nearly everything to the right of 1990 is red above bar and rising steadily.The same graph, but for China is actually even more exaggerated with fewer red spikes before 1990 and much taller spikes in recent years.usa graph has just several red spikes left of 1990 and almost no blue spikes to the right of 1990, meaning that they're all dangling below the line left of 1990 and increasingly above the line to the right of that point in time.same graph but for the global temperature change and here it's even more Stark with basically no red lines left of 1980 as they all dip below. there's a clear line trajectory increasing straight up into red above the line growing steadily higher especially post 2000 to present.
Chris DeLeon Ⓥ make your own games@chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'd be all "I don't mean to alarm anybody" but kinda thinking we may be well past that into the territory now of all "I actually DO mean to alarm everybody" 📢 +adding alt