You know what would be great? Not having to fight the tools you depend on to make a living. The AI crash can’t come soon enough.
Erik Odeldahl
@erikodeldahl.eurosky.social
Perpetually annoyed game designer, writer, mediocre musician. Chief Creative Officer at @fasttravelgames.bsky.social. Currently building Payday: Aces High with a great team. Be nice.
We’ve been using Miro for 7 years at FTG. This means I’ll probably recommend that we find some other tool for NextGame. I’m so tired of useful tools turning to shit :/ Motherfucker.
Robin-Yann Storm@rystorm.com · 12h agoMiro just got acquired, I wonder what the new company will do. "often increasing revenue and lowering expenses (including by reducing headcount). The company employs full-stack developers to rewrite acquired codebases using artificial intelligence" Ah ...ah.
#letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatch I can’t believe I allowed myself to be fooled to watch another marvel crap fest. I used to love their super hero stuff :(
The video game industry has always been volatile (I published Press Reset in 2021!) but the skeleton key to understanding the current state of things is this: Big games now cost 10x to make what they did 15 years ago but most do not generate even close to 10x the revenue. Simple as that
[big game company meeting room] Alls we gotta do is screw up less than the other guys. Easy
So it turns out the new Bloc Party is something if a masterpiece. Full of absolutely wonderful heartbreaking stuff. open.spotify.com/track/1dbbsM...
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🎙️ Call for voice actors! 🎭 We're looking for two lead voices for our next game. - One male and one female, vocal age 40 to 60 - Cornish / Welsh / South-West England accent If that's you, please send an acting sample to info@inklestudios.com, marked “casting call”. (Paid, ofc) <3 RTs!
Patrick Stewart's Witty 'Acting' Moment
ALT: Patrick Stewart's Witty 'Acting' Moment
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Rewatched God Told Me To tonight (yep, it’s still crazy good!), and I think Larry Cohen’s film making style is something every film maker and game maker should study. Budgets? Pfft. Watch this!
This is such a sensible and obvious way to look at games (or movies, or paintings, or poems, or other writing, or music, or, or, or, or etc) that it almost feels weird seeing it stated like this. Anyway, looking forward to reading this book!
![The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, “You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It’s phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it.” He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it. I said, “You are alone. There’s such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail.” And it is a failure, period.
It’s so standardized that AI can step in because there’s not real storytelling. It’s mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome AI to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it’s ad nauseam. When it’s ad nauseam, please, please, please let AI step in and do the job.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z7fbr42h7bkmzxaz4raoimg7/bafkreiczvo2h4tsn3da5wgy7avezozlcstrogwqo5lj6fynsh6ia7bup7m)
people are now playing the vibe coded clone and getting mad at me for it. the original game doesnt even have this issue, because there's no shoot button to spam in the first place
mors@mors.games · 7d agothis one is admittedly more coherent (the first one was completely unplayable) but it's still missing a ton of the small touches, and imo that takes the fun out of the game
Addendum because I forgot to include this yesterday: Q. So Reacher is called Reacher because he can reach things on high shelves, yes? A. Literally, yes! An old woman asked Lee Child (who is 6'4") to reach something in a supermarket and that is how he came up with the name. I am not kidding.
3 minutes of Tim Curry holding back laughter while filming scenes for Red Alert 3
Came home. My wife had bought oysters. Oh poor me.
“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
That is one gigantic box! (Kickstarter delivery)
yes!!!! ShipShaper is released into Early Access store.steampowered.com/app/4339280/... Do spend a 8.99 on the best boat builder ever!!! Also when does this horror of having to listen to my own voice end.!! Buy now so I can retreat into the shadows again!! #indiedev #indiegame
Mängden godtyckliga saker som L vill göra ”för min frihet” börjar bli svår att överblicka.
My work at home laptop is dying, so I just bought a new one and my wallet and me are weeping in harmony.
Remember how we spent DECADES not making a single video game anyone wanted to play, but we pushed past the universal public scorn, burning trillions of dollars in the process and then - purely by accident and with no precedent or inspiration - Half Life 2 was made and now people finally like games.
Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social · 2w ago"Somebody will make the Half-Life 2 of AI" - after the Rideshare controversy, Saber CCO says something will come along and "change people's minds" about gen-AI https://bit.ly/4xq6CuX
