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Mark LaCroix 💾

@marklacroix.bsky.social

An artist on a bike in Minneapolis. Games at @noblerobot.bsky.social Co-host Nice Games Club. 📺 Blippo+ [IGF 2026 Grand Prize/Nuovo nominee] 🗣️ Glom 🟨 Noble Engine 🧦 Widget Satchel 🏬 [THINGS UPCOMING] https://noblerobot.com https://nicegames.club

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Mark LaCroix 💾@marklacroix.bsky.social · 6d ago

Modern RPGs have developed a nasty habit of explaining fairy tale logic by running it though a sociopolitical lens, which rarely ends well because fantasy premises have many unspoken implications that would horrify the moral sensibilities of most players if they read about it in the New York Times.

Hendrik is writing an ashcan about nuns@napel.itch.io · 6d ago

We shouldn't be too down on a game like Dungeons & Kittens winning an Ennie even though it lacks imagination or innovation. We should be down on it because the game re-introduce the civilized-savage dichotomy into a setting about talking adventure cats on the first page of its introduction.

Humans have disappeared from the planet, leaving only a few remains dotted throughout the newly lush vegitation. [...] However, humans did leave something for animals: the gifts of speech and imagination, the ability to anticipate and predict, the power to invent. But not all creatures accepted those gifts. There are animals who speak, walk, and use objects and tools; and there are beasts, who remain speechless and fierce, and kept their original nature.
Mark LaCroix 💾@marklacroix.bsky.social · last wk.

"Unlike some of Nolan’s other films, The Odyssey is not boring, thanks to the source material" "There are more female characters than in most Nolan movies, thanks to the source material" "There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible." Ha, get 'em. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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gabby@fullmoon.id · 2w ago

I thought this was a pretty interesting take from Codeberg's announcement of their anti-LLM policy They argue that many developers using LLMs are essentially heaven-banning themselves where they don't realize they're developing for a nonexistent community

# The development team of none Using LLMs to work with your code gives you a kick of adrenaline. You can develop at a rapid pace, build things as if you had a large team. Only that you have none. In fact, you are (often) alone, working with a statistical machine that turns energy into code. It seems like many ‘vibe coders’ don't realize that they don't actually have a community around them. They build projects as if they had, and spend resources accordingly. We see projects having a lot of code activity, heavy CI/CD testing, frequent and large release binaries. Sometimes, it feels like the amount of supported platforms exceeds the amount of actual users. To us, it seems ridiculous to see projects with a single developer and virtually no users consuming as much or even more resources than some of the largest community projects on Codeberg, which operate frugal with CI/CD and storage resources. We do not believe it is reasonable for Codeberg to invest our precious donation money into hosting of large ghost projects.
Eternal Skies TCG RPG@eternalskies.neocities.org · 2w ago

Isn't it fun how indie game dev involves investing all of your free time and any spare money you have for like five years to make a unique and creative interactive experience, and then people get mad if you charge more than half the cost of a pizza? Surely we will save the games industry this way.

Mark LaCroix 💾@marklacroix.bsky.social · 2w ago

"What is your favorite movie released the year you turned 18?" I saw this in the tiny upper screening room of an old cinema that split its original massive house into a top half and a bottom half. It was an almost too-perfect introduction to Wes Anderson. It's still perhaps my favorite film.

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Neven Mrgan@mrgan.com · 3w ago

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie released the year you turned 18? (Pretty obvious, I guess. And hehe, no one will ever be able to guess my age now……)

Mark LaCroix 💾@marklacroix.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm begging the next film director or TV writer who gets asked this question to go "Our bad, systemic bias got the better of us, but our thing is good, please still watch it" instead of trying to twist their mistake into an affirmative creative choice, which aligns them with out-and-out racists.

Bianca Michelle Parker@bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 3w ago

Feels bad that a director of a major studio film is perfectly comfortable saying that casting non-white actors is just something you do to look woke and otherwise isn't remotely necessary

Dan Johnson will design games for food@coil.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ladies and gentlethems, I am proud to announce the winners of the first Didn't Name Their Studio After Their Past Industry Trauma Award. Well done. 👏👏

North Mist Studios@northmiststudios.bsky.social · 3w ago

North Mist Studios is a collection of former BioWare video game developers, including senior narrative team members behind the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series. Now, we're working on a brand new title: The Concierge, a story of Canadian Assassins in a Spy-Thriller Office Drama.