Nate Horsfall

@lightningarts.bsky.social

Animator and Artist. 20ish years of Game dev. VGM album art, Live videos, logos, illustration. AI is trash. Last game: Soundfall Currently: Available for work http://www.lightningarts.com/

People are more than numbers. Games are made by teams. Id has been decimated, and they're just the latest in thousands of others. Remember when MS bought Activision and lied to the FTC that they wouldn't do this kind of thing? We need actual consequences for the ones who caused that damage.

OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union@bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 2d ago

When Microsoft lays off veteran developers like Johnmichael, it's the decimation of a studio itself. This cycle of acquiring and discarding studios will continue unless we speak up. #SaveGameWorkers and tell Microsoft to end these unnecessary layoffs NOW: shorturl.at/5ruBE

Bungie with huge layoffs today. The tragedy of the game industry continues. You'd think given the volume of layoffs for the past few years, that people just don't play games anymore. Thats simply not true. Execs just demand more unreasonable amounts of profit.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · last mo.

Bungie is laying off a significant number of people today. Exact number isn't clear yet, but employees are being informed this morning.

Love to see these quotes being said on live television. A lot of us have been saying it, but here it is on a major network. Extra bonus that it comes from the currently most successful horror movie debut director: Kane Parsons, with Backrooms.

Genel Jumalon 🍉@geneljumalon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

CBS MORNINGS ON YOUTUBE (JUNE 4, 2026)

Interviewer: I read that you do not want to embrace Al.

Kane: Absolutely not.

For me the whole point of doing what I'm doing-art is a way of processing life. I don't see the value in outsourcing any element of that.

When I'm looking at someone else's project, if I see an element of the environment [where] they use generative fill or whatever to change something about the scene, it just shuts off the part of my brain that wants to know more about that world. Because I would assume if they're willing to make an arbitrary choice there, they could make an arbitrary choice with literally anything.

A few weeks ago I got hit with a similar hack to all these. Screenshot attached. It was from a dev discord account I interviewed with 4 years ago. As I just got a ton of devs now following me (thanks!) this is your warning: DO NOT download any demo unless you speak to the person directly to confirm.

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Bmaster4114@bmaster4114.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I WANT TO STRESS this is NOT the only game they have 'made' they use HUNDREDS of stolen assets from real games and even AI generated assets for these scams! SO don't just be warry of the FOX be warry about ALL games sent in discord servers and DMs! Virus Scanners are also NOT RELIABLE!

If you have a Creative Cloud subscription, they created "Creative Cloud Pro" for AI usage- more expensive than standard- and added you automatically. check your subscriptions immediately. And even after you catch it, it's massively obscured on how to fix it. So I made a guide. Should be illegal

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Hack update: -Discord accounts and affected servers all frozen (pending recovery) -gmail account frozen, google refusing to return the email because the hacker changed my birthday to reflect "child" status" even though they have determined the email was hacked. -computer reformatted. back to it.

As a follow-up from yesterday: if anyone here knows somebody at @discord.com , I need to speak to an actual human. The help bot will not provide any help, and multiple people have now been compromised with multiple servers having to go down because of it. Long shot, but worth a try!

ATTENTION: my discord was hacked (they were posing as an indie Dev and had an entire fake website full of fake videos, go figure). If we're friends on there, please don't accept any links from my name asking you to help test a game. As if I needed more reasons to hate AI.

Grip XR's demo is now out, you can check it out for free! store.steampowered.com/app/4475750/... Kickstarter in a few weeks, but this is what they made *without* that. It's already on it's way. Share it with anyone who wants some old school arcade intense racing with a brand new creative twist!

GRIP XR on Steam

GRIP XR is a blazingly fast futuristic combat racing game with rocket-powered, flippable vehicles. Use unique movement tech and powerful weapons and abilities to beat your opponents. Sequel to GRIP, a...

store.steampowered.com

It may feel futile but you should contact any republican offices today and demand they do something to stop Trump and his genocidal threats against Iran. Phones should be going non stop. Offices should have thousands of people in front of them. If ever there was a time to be loud, it's now.