all I see are those meme photos of tired ben affleck
Nick Carver@nickcarver.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe should all be talking about Viscachas a lot more.
Nick Carver
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Artist & developer making a cool thing with cool people. Prev: Riot, Blizzard, Epic, Heart Machine, Phoenix Labs, Wildlife, FRD. Inventor of the Crumpwich.
Nick Carver@nickcarver.bsky.social · 4mo ago
Officially announcing my very first WATERFUL playtest on Steam! 🎮✨🥳 The playtest will run all throughout the Wholesome Games Celebration august 6-13 🌱 You can sign up already to be the first to play!
DF is losing some really amazing people today. They are some of the smartest kindest people you can ever work with. Please be on the look out for them as they search for what's next!
TIL the director of The Sheep Detectives also animated the intro to Day of the Tentacle.
Now You Know The More You Know PSA
ALT: Now You Know The More You Know PSA
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Hi everyone, today me and 22 others at Double Fine were hit by layoffs today. All the people who lost their jobs today care so much about the games they make and the people they work with. If anyone is looking for a tools SE with 7 years of experience and who brings baked goods on Mondays lmk.
TIL prediction markets were originally termed 'Terror Casinos'!🤣
The main way in which AI has negatively impacted games industry jobs is not through actual automation of those jobs or even untrue claims about automation. It's by making capital unavailable because it's tied up in AI investments while also destroying the consumer base for video game hardware.
It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.
rushed chroma corps in the last hour so not really happy with the presentation, but it is what it is. #chromacorps
Polished up the sounds + fx for the Dreadhorse, a minigun-wielding centaur creature. Clay model in the comments. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday
older games often have a display centric approach to real-time rendering, like, painting lighting into object textures was very common, or straight up using photographs as textures this lets you take very direct control over the look! modern rendering is different (short thread)
Osaka@osaka.zone · 4w agoKelly Slater's Pro Surfer (2002) how the did they get the water to look like that, this is incredible I don't mean the reflections, look at the shape of the wave as it moves, the lighting, the glow.. This and the game loop are **amazing** and needs to be studied This is lost technology oh my god
secret plan of making various items so i can crunch them up after
Calling it the "productivity and jobs task force" reminds me of how the military department in 1984 responsible for the state's perpetual war was known as 'The Ministry of Peace'.
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 4w agoAsha Sharma assigned to Federal Reserve's "productivity and jobs" task force the same week she oversaw 1,600 layoffs (with another 1,600 to come) aftermath.site/xbox-asha-shar...
Exhibit N°128482016492 that UBI works and _makes money back_ For those in the back: UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME HAS ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE BETTER RETURN ON INVESTMENT THAN ARTIFICIAL INTELIGENCE
paulseesequasis@pseesequasis.bsky.social · 3mo agoFrom ‘Outstanding’ and a good reminder that investing in the arts is a win-win, not a lose-lose, proposition.
Today launches the game I've been working on: Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced It's been an incredible experience working with such hardworking,talented & amazing people and we are very glad that players are loving it Unfortunately my whole team is being laid off so we can't fully celebrate it
Late to the party, but Widow's Bay is so bloomin' good isn't it?
So we've decided to replace making video games with just giving like four or five guys a hundred million dollars a year apiece to oversee not making video games
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 4w agoMicrosoft layoffs hit Bethesda, Obsidian, and id Software hard as workers brace for more aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...
NOTE THE LAUNDRY MAN IS GOING TO CALL ON YOU ON THURS
