Why didn't anyone tell me that Godot has a built-in Solarized Dark editor theme

It is genuinely exciting to see an open source engine achieving popularity here.

Game Maker's Toolkit@gamemakerstoolkit.com · 2w ago

Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%

Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%

BTE Trigger! #AEWRedemption ➡️ allelitewrestling.com/aewonppv

The only things keeping my windows partition alive are anticheat and very specific portions of gamedev.

I genuinely could name basically any game or franchise from before 2010 and I think it'd be valid but I think the big stunner for me has ALWAYS been Simcity

headfallsoff@headfallsoff.com · 2w ago

what's everyone else's fab examples of once massively popular and influential landmark titles in especially western games from back in the day that have just been forgotten and abandoned completely now. mine is black and white

Genuinely can't wait to see what fucked up aesthetic wave the omnipresent Shitty GenAI Poster era causes GenAI squats the slot normies read as Highly Polished Art, so do we get an era of sketchy oddity? Design skills-heavy shapes / balance? Literal scribbles? What creates enough aesthetic distance?

Fighting games, I'm begging you, give me a way to indicate someone GGs before leaving a set.

This has been a really great talk and covers a bunch of pitfalls (plus many more) that I've fallen into: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU_n...

Keynote: Benchmarking - It's About Time - Matt Godbolt - C++Now 2026

YouTube video by CppNow

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I feel like game devs are a unique combination of all of “doing some of the hardest software engineering”, “wild west cowboy bullshit”, and “hitting themselves in the head with hammers for no reason”

Finished up I am your Beast today and what a game. The soundtrack is going into my work music rotation.

shadowrun era

netspooky@vacci.ne · 3w ago

This paper is pretty interesting, creating harmonic distortions via GPU workloads to attack data center power infra Bit2Watt: A Cyber-Physical Vulnerability Exploiting GPU Workloads Across Power and Computing Infrastructures arxiv.org/abs/2607.05993

Gosh I love GDQ so much. The talent, the charity, the TRANS RIGHTS!!

When I decided I wanted to make videogames as a career, I didn't realize how much not making videogames was involved.

Treasure coming back and announcing a sequel to this:

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · last mo.

Name your dream videogame announcement.

Proud to announce the next game Vampirium: 1997 Dracula is king of the United British Empire. Kill his enemies and find your own path through a minimalist immersive sim sandbox. Wishlists and retweets massively appreciated (and, you know, massively helpful) store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...

Vampirium: 1997 on Steam

1997. Dracula is King of England. At his command, master your dark gifts to assassinate his enemies and secure his vampiric empire. Infiltrate locked-down locations, adapt and survive in living enviro...

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It's a great day to type many messages and never send them.

The first public build for my 1000 player space game is out now. www.patreon.com/SpaceGameLLC... It's early days still, but please give it a go, and let us know what you think!

First public build | Space Game LLC

Hey folks, here is the latest build. New features: Client side prediction works! World size increased one billion times! Basic ship sounds a

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Me watching the Crypt of the Necrodancer run while my entire timeline loses their mind over the World Cup game #SGDQ2026

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ALT: Brooklyn Nine Nine Brooklyn99

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GIVE IT UP TO @bluekandy.bsky.social FOR BEATING THE KIRBY AIR RIDERS ALL TRACKS (NO DUPES) WORLD RECORD 👏👏👏

I liked Wax Heads and managed to put some thoughts together on it

Spinning LPs for NPCs in Wax Heads

YouTube video by Errant Signal

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At my first job, the boot flow had 3 functions "Start," "ReallyStartNow," and "StartForReals." I remember thinking "it's horrible, I'll never do that." In SquidGame: Unleashed, I needed asset loading for a task and addressables weren't online yet. Guess who shipped a load-bearing "DummyAssetLoader"

very honored to have my 3 kaizo SMW hacks all now in the SMWCentral Hall of Fame: Masterpiece in 2025, Sure Shot in 2022, and Super 'Sonic Saves the World' World in 2021. There's so many wonderful games, ideas, and people in the SMW hacking community, & I am so grateful I can be a part of it

Strong 2010 vibes

Anna 🌿👁️@annacwebs.bsky.social · last mo.

The old games industry is dying. The new games industry is struggling to be born. Now is the time of absolutely batshit corporate decision-making.

dreamcast forever 🌀

I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for games. Read more here: box2d.org/posts/2026/0...

We're finally bringing our powerful and user friendly CPU profiler to Linux! The beta version is now publically available, and it's free for 60 days during the open beta, so there's really no excuse not to try it out! Just download, extract, optimize. superluminal.eu/applications...

Superluminal For Linux | Fast Profiling Without The Challenges

No pages of installation guides. No Gigabytes to download and install. Just unzip, run and focus on performance issues. It Just Works™.

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