If we were, hypothetically, to be at #GamescomAsia and @adventurex.bsky.social this year, would folks be keen to say hello, tell us of narrative games things, and so on?
Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison
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Game Dev? Producer? Writer? Historian? Programmer? Chihuahua butler? Co-founder @secretlab.games (Night in the Woods, I Feel Fine, Leonardo’s Moon Ship) + @yarnspinner.dev Pres @TasGameMakers.com @themartianlife.com’s husband. 📍lutruwita 🚫 no crypto/AI
If we were, hypothetically, to be at #GamescomAsia and @adventurex.bsky.social this year, would folks be keen to say hello, tell us of narrative games things, and so on?
The older I get the more I understand why cats just walk away mid conversation.
Our full suite of sample projects have now been replicated in Godot GDscript, we're unifying how command and function registration happens in Unity, we've added loads of utilities to the VSCode graph view, and more! 🎉🎉🎉 Also, a lil' something for those caught by the recent industry layoffs.
Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner.dev · 2d agoOur latest monthly update is out! See what we've been up to! Marvel at the photo of Tasmania! Off you go! lab.to/202607
really excited to purchase big walk tonight and then immediately go to bed
Our latest monthly update is out! See what we've been up to! Marvel at the photo of Tasmania! Off you go! lab.to/202607
Monthly Update: Jul '26 | Yarn Spinner
We rebuilt how Yarn Spinner understands commands and functions, finished porting samples to Godot, shipped a pile of editor features, and more...
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My endodontist office is playing the theme from The Godfather. Can’t tell if I should be worried.
ordered some RAM on eBay (at like 4-6x the price it should be). this is how it arrived. this is what AI has done to us.
sure we _must_ imagine Sisyphus happy, but it's a lot easier to imagine him tired
Harrison Ford, the actor behind loveable scoundrels Han Solo and Indiana Jones, started his career as an on-set carpenter. That makes him a roguelike deckbuilder.
We went up to Queenstown, a mining town on Tasmania’s west coast, to run a storytelling and space science workshop with the local school. Jon brought his drone to get aerial footage for it, and we got some pretty nice shots!
Strange New Worlds Season 4 has had two fantastic episodes back to back. Thrilled.
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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison@hey.paris · 7d agoSeeing a lot of discourse about the Sydney Games Festival. Wait until they see my plan for the New Sydney Games Festival, held at the pub, in Hobart.
Seeing a lot of discourse about the Sydney Games Festival. Wait until they see my plan for the New Sydney Games Festival, held at the pub, in Hobart.
I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
Spent a moment making sure Leonardo’s Moon Ship works with the Steam Controller! #LeonardosMoonShip
Someone, emailing me about our conference, "Oh I thought this was AI written." No, the AI writes like ME. I taught it, against my will. Damn this stupid timeline.
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
Money laundromat's stock fell due to "money laundering" concerns after reports that it may launder money
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · last wk.Nvidia’s stock fell due to “circular financing” concerns after reports that it may finance OpenAI’s purchase of $350B in Nvidia chips (vendor paying customer to buy its product) & may separately guarantee financing 4 the construction & lease of a new OpenAI data center that wld use Nvidia chips. 1/
I'm lazy and didn't want to learn any of the motion graphics apps, but Godot is good at it and can render out videos.
It's so weird seeing folks automate stuff that we've been able to easily, cheaply, efficiently automate for years by making an LLM do it.
