There's lots of really good people in game dev. Some real scumbags too, but mostly good.
Megan
@megahbite.bsky.social
Gameplay programmer at Ubisoft Düsseldorf Originally from New Zealand. Ich spreche nur ein bisschen Deutsch (A1-A2) All opinions my own
I did a little internal interview at work today and it reminded me that @openra.net is about to turn 20 soon. We started the first work on it towards the end of 2006. I haven’t been involved in 15 years but my old friend Paul is still holding down the fort. Shout out to the team keeping it alive.
I hope y'all are ready for the coolest fucking indie booth at gamescom next week (Hall 10.2, Booth E051g)
The results are out, and for the first time, you can download all the responses as a .csv file if you want to dig deeper into the data. Thank you everyone for participating! godotengine.org/article/godo...
Godot Engine@godotengine.org · last mo.The 2026 Godot Community Poll is here: Takes about ten minutes to complete, and it's one of the more direct ways to influence where things head next. We want to hear from you! 📝 godotengine.org/article/godo...
Delirious heat related thoughts: what if we cracked the heat dome with a giant Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher
I grow increasingly suspicious that there's a concerted effort to manipulate public perception of programmers. There's increasingly this narrative that we're all using LLMs even if we're not "vibe coding" and seeing significant productivity gains from them. Not my experience at all.
It took me way too long to realise that the closed off steps leading underground in many places here are old air-raid shelters/Luftschutzräume
You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))
I've got a new-ish e-bike for cheap which is fantastic. What isn't fantastic is taking it up and down the stairs from the basement lol.
Gamescom ticket for trade day secured. Time to haunt the indie section again.
Watching this update from @chrisbratt.bsky.social on Rockstar this evening, and William's story is horrifying. Thank you PMG for sharing game worker's stories www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym4z...
If Rockstar Meant to Kill the Union, It Didn't Work
YouTube video by People Make Games
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Out of these proposed new Euro designs, I’m overwhelmingly favouring the bird ones, and not just because I love the birds on the NZ dollar notes. www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot...
Future banknotes
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...
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I had to laugh a little today. There was a thread about „English words/phrases that Germans made up“ on the /r/Germany subreddit and a bunch of them are just normal non-US English terms.
Well that's a rough start to the week. Rest in peace Sam Neill.
One of the most galling things about the renewed reporting going around about my Barcelona colleagues being laid off, is the people claiming (without evidence) that they're "just" contractors being laid off with the end of a project, or just unneeded second-class devs.
Rest in peace Bonnie Tyler, here's a metal af version of her singing "Holding out for a Hero" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhrb...
Bonnie Tyler-I need a hero live DVDrip
YouTube video by PioMod3
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Oh boy, I almost screamed "yes" out loud in the office reading this. There's a persistent belief in the lack of craft in games programming, and that has even been internalised by a lot of game programmers. I'm so vocally stubborn about not being a "wedge" that it's causing friction.
Lia@liasae.bsky.social · last mo.I even used the word "wedge", hah lia-sae.net/articles/202...
I've tried to describe my job in German before and the literal translation of "gameplay" does not work at all. Spielspiel. It's the way the Spiel spielt.
One way you can show Microsoft your concern is here through the XBOX Player Voice feedback platform: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...
Games Done Quick is one of the few points of positivity in the games industry at the moment. I appreciate it a lot.
For me one of the saddest things as a game dev about the death of physical copies of games (apart from the erosion of consumer rights of course) is that I won't have anything tangible at the end of a project anymore.
It would be a nightmare if they did this at work, not because I don't play our games, but there's no way I retain all the details of multiple 100+ hour open-worlds automaton-media.com/en/news/leve...
Level-5 gives employees “significant” pay raises for acing quizzes about its own games, according to CEO - AUTOMATON WEST
Akihiro Hino recently revealed that Level-5 has its employees take knowledge quizzes about the company's content, awarding high scorers with raises.
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I wonder - if Xbox and Sony are going digital-only, will that put them in the sights of the EU DMA regulators? Seems like it could backfire for them if so.
I really try not to get depressed about the state of things in tech but I just discovered a phenomenon where someone is producing LLM-generated spam web pages for successful open-source projects. They'll look official (if a little out of place for random CLI tools) but every link is spam.
I saw The Backrooms on the weekend in order to escape the heat and I’d say it had some high highs, and low lows. The worst thing about it was that it was incredibly afraid of you missing any of its themes, so it beat you over the head with them. Immaculate tension at times though.
40€ for a replacement lightning cable is such a grift. This is definitely my last iPhone.