i think the games industry should have studios that exist

We're looking for a graphic designer/illustrator to join the Hello Sunshine team for a few months, starting ASAP. There are a lot of artists here looking for new opportunities so I'd be super grateful if y'all could share this call with your followers! www.redthreadgames.com/graphic-desi...

yes i will start coding any moment, I just need to find the perfect folder structure first.

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the games have been fantastic this year.

The Interactive Fiction Competition@ifcomp.org · 6d ago

Last weekend to judge #IFComp games!

this is also why you can’t trust what you see on any platform as representative of broader thought or consensus. you are being shown what they want you to see, and now more than ever, that conforms to exactly one worldview

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 6d ago

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

does anyone else feel like Blender 4 runs significantly better than Blender 5? or is this one of those things where my esoteric laptop setup makes me the edge case again?

Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.

Not now mysterious omen!

ianthemouthofmadness.fenrisgames@fenrisgames.com · last wk.

new Messenger from the Underworld just dropped

NEW: Democratic Congress member Ritchie Torres is introducing legislation in Congress to regulate digital video game ownership. "A game that can be taken away the moment a company pulls the plug is not a purchase. It is a rental disguised as a sale."

Rep. Ritchie Torres Announces Congressional Legislation To Protect Video Game Ownership: 'If You Pay For It, You Own It'

The Power To The Players Act would put an end to digital game licenses

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if AI makes something easy that used to be hard, then anything you do with it is not notable, because anyone could do it. I did the dishes well this morning, but I'm not writing a press release or charging admission to watch me next time because anyone could do it just as well. It's not notable.

so Epic, a company that's only notable because they had a team that was exceptionally good at programming, announced that they're decided not to try to be good at it anymore because it's too hard. If they're not a team of people who are good at a hard thing, what purpose do they serve in the world?

i just found something dumb i'd been doing that not doing got me a 10% performance gain in every frame of labRats!! i really should not have to do anything else this week after that.

the fallen fell beast falls mainly on The Falls

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

incredibly lukewarm take: Da Vinci's Demons is basically just TV-MA Doctor Who.

my cat in a box of cassettes, in case you needed that, which you did.

There could be zero new media made for the rest of my life and I STILL wouldn't be able to read every book, watch every movie, listen to every song, watch every youtube video, and play every game that I'd want to. So why in the world would I ever need to engage with AI content?

Deep Space 9 (sang to the tune of Copacabana) His name was Sisko, A Starfleet commander. Stationed with his son named Jake, on a station in outer space. Orbiting Bajor, The Federation, Was trying to nurse them back to health, After they had been through hell.

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I have never known a cat who was good at the marshmallow experiment before. But Commodore Welcome is fascinatingly patient when she thinks there's a reward coming. And then obviously you have to reward it because it's adorable. So both of us are trained here and it's fine.

Of all of my cat's behaviors that are endearing, the thing in the morning when she sits patiently next to me while I finish my coffee (sometimes for an hour), poised to pounce the second I stand, to entice me to play with her is the most endearing.

You will never finish all the work.

The problem with using “good game design” to back up your personal taste is that it tends to rely on the idea that good game design is somehow singular, which is more wrong than I can fit on the screen.

I can't stop thinking about how there's a bunch of full grown people so obsessed with the idea that their computer program has a soul that they lobbied the church to validate it, and these are people our society takes seriously on any subject at all.

this is a really fantastic piece of writing that hits at something kind of deep about class and culture "How much are CEO memes impacting our lives? Did we get forced to return to the office because they heard a little story about productivity being better at a dinner party?"

Alexander Everett@alexandereverett.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trying out doing some writing. Really nice writing something that’s not code for a change alexandereverett.substack.com/p/three-ceos...

actually the funniest part about this feeble attempt to rename "AI" to "SI" is that the entire reason it's called "AI" is to create a false link to fictional depictions of AI and the term "SI" doesn't mean anything to anyone

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It's really distressing to consider that I'll probably never make any work of art as completely engrossing as an oscilloscope view of a chiptune. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kgz...

C64 Jeroen Tel's "Cybernoid I and II" Oscilloscope view

YouTube video by Rolf R Bakke

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a little 4 color pixel art light and shadow study i just finished of a hand rising up from quicksand. i'm not sure what this is for, but i like it!