It is in fact finally the year of Linux on the desktop. Rarely seen a running gag die but here we are.
Jms Dnns@jmsdnns.bsky.social · yesterdaymaybe copilot knows why www.techspot.com/news/113326-...
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🔥 making playful things 🐦⬛ he/him 🀄️ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/Sparrow_Warfare/
Jms Dnns@jmsdnns.bsky.social · yesterday
@martinpi.bsky.social & I had the absolute best time at ChinaJoy - just got home last night and we miss China already!
Really on-point article by @gibiz.bsky.social . We've all been saying this for years — often in meetings with platform holders! Over and over! 😔 There ARE answers; but the peeps with the power don't seem to want to do anything. #gamedev #indiegames #gaming www.gamesindustry.biz/the-industry...
The industry makes great games, but nobody can find them
Algorithms built to surface content are increasingly rewarding volume, familiarity, and short-term engagement over quality or originality
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Just to be clear on this article, the position I took isn't "developers need to be more brave" but "funding needs to be more brave". Developers make all the cool stuff, just because they want to - the funding side hits it with market research and fear and growth targets and shareholders.
GamesRadar+@gamesradarplus.bsky.social · 2w agoWe need games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Balatro, and Peak as a cure for the "fear" in the industry, say experts www.gamesradar.com/games/we-nee...
They are selling Italian brain rot themed ice cream in China now. It’s over
As the only person on this website who liked the design back then I feel vindicated. This car was always for the Chinese market that is way, way ahead of everyone else in terms of EVs.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last wk.Ferrari hits 2026 sales target for controversial Luce EV within two months ft.trib.al/MmUbGTt
Oh great. He’s giving a sneak peek of our Friday talk at ChinaJoy.
VGC@videogameschronicle.com · 2w agoShigeru Miyamoto says the games that resonate most with players all around the world aren’t those deliberately designed for global appeal, but those based on a developer’s personal interests. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/miyamot...
Now film Headley’s Beowulf, bro! warmdayswillnevercease.wordpress.com/2021/03/17/b...
Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley – Mini Review and Discussion
Title: Beowulf Author / Translator: Maria Dahvana Headley Publisher: Scribe UK Date: 2020 This isn’t going to be like my typical reviews or mini-reviews! I am going to give my reaction to the…
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Red Durkin@daedsider.bsky.social · 2w agoThe success of Emily Wilson's translation had nothing to do with Christopher Nolan. The hardcover edition came out 9 years ago and was a huge success. The paperback has been in steady demand since 2018. My store has sold 75 copies (a lot for 1 book for us) and 66 of those were before January.
Love the bird designs and could only tell 4/6 of the famous faces on the others (2 of the lads are a challenge).
James Kelleher@jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 2w agoYou can see all the new options for the Euro banknote designs here (and you can flip them over too) www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot...
I think the Dragons in Dungeons and Dragons should be spelled Dreagons (like "dread", not like "dream") for consistency.
Now would be a good moment to liberate the birds from the evil storyteller and his minions. (Not that there ever is a moment where that's not the right thing to do).
NEON AURELIUS@neonaurelius.bsky.social · 2w agoNew demo update alert! This time mostly stability and bug fixing but also the game runs much better on Steam Deck now, fonts are more readable, and loading times have been greatly improved. store.steampowered.com/news/app/347...
Sometimes you add content to a game and sometimes you just make everything run better. This week's demo update is in the latter department. Game feels much more juicy thanks to smoother animations, better loading and caching, and chunkier UI elements.
I wonder if there isn't a bit of a silver lining in the fact that AI always clings to the middle of the road. It will force artists to venture into unknown territories, stake their claim where the domesticated Silicon Valley machines would never dare to go. Not that we needed that kind of pressure.
violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social · 3w agoI feel like a lot of discourse about AI fiction submissions seems to want there to be a perfect way to distinguish AI fiction that never discourages or excludes real writers. And it's like, I don't know what to tell you. That's impossible.
There are some good observations in this blog post. I don't use agentic coding myself so I don't know enough to judge but this critique seems very on point.
Mario Zechner@mariozechner.at · 3w agorecommended reading
I've just spent my lunch break updating my Ephemeral Writing tool because Tracery export was broken. Now you can export JSON again and use it to make bots or whatever you like. martinpi.github.io/EphemeralWri...
Ephemeral Writing
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This is the near-term future we're facing in games. And it's only going to get easier to roll your own clone. I don't think that acts as competition for eccentric indie game makers like us – we "just" have to go even wilder – but it's going to be a huge challenge for shovelware-producers.
Sergey Ovchinnikov@sokrypton.org · 4w ago🍹Long weekend Project: Since Claude Fable is banned for Science, I thought it might be fun to see if it can be used for something less scientific. 😎 Introducing Age of Epochs! ⚔️ An attempted reproduction of Age of Empires II in Javascript. ageofepochs.com (1/4)
Am I overly cautious or is this a normal ratio between internal and external builds? I'll push 0.4.66 live on Monday if our testers don't find any red flags over the weekend.
Maybe putting an office software and consulting specialist in charge of video games wasn't a great idea in the first place. I wouldn't trust IBM or KPMG to act as stalwarts of gaming either.
I've watched Tenet on the biggest screen in Scandinavia, mask on, with @alphachar.bsky.social and 3 other people during a short break of the pandemic. We had the best of times because a) we were in the cinema during the end of the world and b) it is a blast of a movie. Temporal pincer manoeuvre!
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 4w agoTenet is Christopher Nolan's best film: aftermath.site/tenet-christop...
Wild that the amino acids that make up our DNA exist in outer space. Maybe the real aliens are all the friends we ever made and including yourself along the way. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu - Nature Astronomy
Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases (A, G, C, T and U). Their presence in Ryugu and Bennu supports the hypothesis that carbonaceous asteroids contributed to...
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Really excited by responses along the lines of "my bank's SQL database is no piece of art" when I never intended to say that the painter who did the facade of your house should have his work hung in the louvre. Learn to read and take your straw men elsewhere, people.
martin pichlmair@martinpi.bsky.social · 4w agoThose are some interesting results and a part of me thinks it's sad that coding is not regarded as a creative endeavour by players of games.
Those are some interesting results and a part of me thinks it's sad that coding is not regarded as a creative endeavour by players of games.
Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie@greyalien.bsky.social · 4w agoSimon Carless did a pretty big AI survey of Steam users. Interesting results: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/what-do-st... In summary: People DO care and you will lose sales if you declare it. People are less bothered about AI for code. To be clear: We do not use it for anything.
The run for the Generative AI Roblox is picking up speed. And just like mobile phone cameras did not replace the visual arts, this will become a distinct medium to video games, if anything. It is still competing for the same resource, of course – attention and time. techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/m...
Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket | TechCrunch
Meta has quietly launched Pocket, an experimental AI app that lets users generate and share interactive mini games using text prompts.
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I think a lot of what we're seeing in the moment in the games industry, but also outside it, is a move away from packaged products. This development is not new but it's gaining speed. Generative AI is, among other things, a continuation of that trend.
Really made my day to see our little game mentioned on @kotaku.com: kotaku.com/indie-penanc...
It's Indie-Penance Day! Have 10 Incredible Indie Games To Wishlist
Video games are amazing! Here's a lot of proof
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Whenever people are angry at evil “shareholders” dictating business decisions I’d like to remind them that they are most likely talking about themselves (through pensions & insurances).
Absolutely the best end to a Friday of work that I can think of!! HOW DELIGHTFUL! Thank you so much to @botherer.bsky.social for showcasing Sparrow Warfare today 🙌
John Walker - Industry Analcyst@botherer.bsky.social · last mo.First batch is up! Ten fantastic-looking new or upcoming indie games you'll very probably want to stick on your Wishlist asap: kotaku.com/indie-penanc... Please repost this to get these games as much attention as possible. Especially *you*, person with a squillion followers.
Fun story: I went to school with the son of the then director of this company. All Austrians know someone who knows someone because our country is tiny. Goodbye DADC.
Sean Hollister@seanhollister.bsky.social · last mo.Sony's PlayStation disc factory is already being repurposed. And Thalgau isn't just one plant. It was *the* remaining Sony disc factory, after Sony shut down manufacturing in the US. www.theverge.com/games/961203...