Karla Bat Zimonja
@eternal.observer
Indie games long-timer, good narrative collaborator, dramaturge. Currently on something unannounced. Previously on Dr. Katz, Home Movies, BioShock 2 & Minerva's Den, Gone Home, Tacoma, and Wanderstop. Invite me to play TTRPGs!🙇
Alright, here's the first 7 finished pages of my graphic novel adaptation of Moby-Dick, chapter 54: The Town-Ho's Story.
Just so everyone is aware, bookshop.org is having an “anti-Prime” sale today. Part of the proceeds of their sales go to help independent bookstores and you can buy ebooks! 💜
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The French Connection. LA & NY premieres this day in 1971. Directed by William Friedkin. Starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Fernando Rey. French re-release poster.
Game Dev friends that are looking for work! One of the lovely indie devs that shares an office space with us at SSV just opened up 2 roles! If you are a: - 3D Animator - 3D Artist you can apply on here! www.workwithindies.com/work-with/am...
Work With ambedo studios
Indie studio telling quietly human stories. Remaining Grace, an intimate non-linear ghost story.
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I'm getting a job at this UPS store just so I can stand behind the counter and point up at the sign, saying to customers "SEND it to STORE 209!" Then when they do, and the email arrives, I will have set the computer to play ED209's little threatening growl sfx
![Research [25] shows that people [26] enjoy the feeling of winning games [3,5,19]. Enjoying things can lead to longer life expectancy [2], higher economic productivity [9,22,33-40,302] and improve mental health [9]. Yet many games still include losing players [67,4]. A recent study showed that less than half of the players in a Chess [1] match win on average [42]. We have developed an LLM-driven co-creative [66], user-led [11], mixed-initiative [80] assistant for Chess [2], through which players can redefine the rules of Chess [3] using generative AI prompting such that they are the winner of Chess [4]. A study (n=3) showed that 100\% of people felt better, healthier and more self-actualised after using our tool, showing that this may be the way forward for games and human culture more broadly in the future.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h5kgtr755iczaqxomeh2pmh7/bafkreicu2p2o3is64z5k37n222hgahp67ssca6ro3nggbjtpwasig2zzbi)
Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · last wk.AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
RIP J. Todd Anderson The Coen brothers’ use of storyboards was integral to their creative process & the hugely talented Anderson brought their cinematic ideas to life since Raising Arizona.
Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.
Wesley Crusher and Love Interest Have a Picnic (plaster and coloring agent on an apartment building, 19XX)
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
