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I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow

AI is optimising the cheapest part of production

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Hey Italians is this real pizza

I had established a casual and bantering familiarity with the hotel’s concierge, a West-continental known only as M. Jean, who struck one as being, at once, both lazy and really quite accommodating.

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AI code leads to a 45% increase in the maintenance burden on human coders

𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭? 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝: 🎯Across 182 open source projects, we tracked >30K commits from… | Courtney Miller

𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭? 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝: 🎯Across 182 open source projects, we tracked >30K commits from agentic coding tools to measure the true cost of adoption. 𝐖...

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To celebrate the rerelease I'm going to post some videos from early development! This is the earliest recorded footage with just the controls / movement idea for mobile

POINPY IS BACK! 🎉 And now it's FREE! No ads, no paid unlocks, just the full game. There's a tip option if you feel like it 😉 Available NOW on iOS and Android!

BREAKING: POINPY HAS RETURNED

I saw a tiger sleeping in the woods!

Localisation is far more difficult than the public realises. It requires art, design, engineering, translation, and production logistics have to all align in the right way to ship something good. It is not something you can slap in at the end.

Cara Ellison@caraellison.bsky.social · 4w ago

game devs: what are the myths that a lot of players of games think are true about making games that are completely untrue? If you could snap your fingers and they suddenly all knew the truth about it what would it be?

me at the club hoping my dancing looks normal

Turtle Chips give me strength in these dark times

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

Big storm tonight. God clearly unhappy with my choice of dinner.

Guadalindie can get a little ULTRABUGS, as a treat

Guadalindie@guadalindie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Game: Ultrabugs Studio: Vlambeer Vlambeer's ULTRABUGS is a fast-paced high-score game in which you fight endless space bugs that split up into MORE space bugs as you fight and defeat them. Will have a stand on #Guadalindie26! 😎

16px control prompts 100% free for commercial use in your games! chequered.ink/16px-control... #GameDev #PixelArt

16px Control Prompts

Retro pixel art control prompts for use in your games and other projects. There are a total of 626 sprites in this pack.

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Psst hey.. Wanna play Poinpy on your phone? Come here... (closed beta test!) forms.gle/nbgekuqApQ6w...

POINPY closed beta test

Hello! My latest game Poinpy is coming to iOS and Android soon, and I'd love your help making sure it runs smoothly before launch. There's no new content, so if you've played Poinpy before don't expec...

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I am so fucking sick of my website getting scraped. Millions of requests per minute, somehow designed to bypass all my security rules, choking the site until it completely stops loading. If I were paying for bandwidth, it would cost me a fortune. How is this legal?

Thanks for checking out the game at @summergamefest.bsky.social @dayofthedevs.org @shinycaseyd.bsky.social www.ign.com/articles/blo...

Blood Dungeon is Nidhogg Developer's Frenetic Take on a Vampire Survivors x Spelunky Roguelite | IGN Preview

As a rabid consumer of roguelikes and having just recently beat Vampire Crawlers, I’m always on the look out for my next “number go up” fix. Blood Dungeon, from Messhof, is described as a survival pla...

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Try the demo for Blood Dungeon, our newest game coming later this summer to Steam, PS5, and Xbox X|S! store.steampowered.com/app/4666390/...

Other font websites are crammed full of AI, subscriptions and eye-wateringly expensive licenses that allow you to do the bare minimum. Our font pack gives you 1200+ fonts in a variety of styles, full commercial use, no subscription. It's a no-brainer right? ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack

If you don't always give your delivery guy 5 stars you're not a good person

"I avoid ___ like the plague" has a somewhat different impact these days, having lived through a plague.

Hello! If you're looking for a voxel artist, I'm available for work! I've got 10+ years of experience, working across multiple engines, game genres and styles. Most recently worked on Vampire Crawlers, Survivors VR, Teardown and Moonglow Bay. 📧 zachary.soares@zsinked.com 🎨 Voxels.ca

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user del...

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I think about this all the time.

Stymphalian birds are underrepresented in modern literature

Yet more game developer layoffs

AUTOMATON WEST@automatonwest.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Japanese fire sergeant suspended after creating 10 different DIY board games and forcing colleagues to play with him while on duty automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...

Managing my email folders one by one because nobody knows how to make anything any more