This is a great directory of artists and I've been helping vet them to make sure no AI user slips in! If you're in need of artists to commission be sure to take a look!

Aimee Cozza Illustration@aimeecozza.com · last wk.

It's here, it's here! 🌟 V2 of Hire Human Artists is now live. We make it easier than ever to find artists who have pledged not to use generative AI in their workflow. HireHumanArtists.com Use the directory to find artists for your project type, that do a certain style, and more! Now with images!

Status Update: v4.0 Beta Soon! v4.0 is extremely close to being beta-ready, but to ensure that it's not rushed (and also for the sake of my stress levels) I'm going to be moving that beta ETA back a little bit to the first half of August. shatteredpixel.com/blog/status-... #gamedev #roguelike

Status Update: v4.0 Beta Soon!

v4.0 is extremely close to being beta-ready, but to ensure it’s not rushed I’m going to move the beta ETA back a little bit to the first half of August.

shatteredpixel.com

At least I slam my head against understanding vectors and torturously drag myself through Godot tutorials, very slowly building my understanding of game development and making what I want to make piece by piece. It ain't fast, but what comes out on the other end will be 100% unequivocally Fredrik.

Annie💀@anniemay.bsky.social · last wk.

the amount of guys on this app that call themselves a dev and what they actually mean is they ask the computer to make the code for them and then pretend they did something is way too high they should feel uncomfortable to be here

Finally caught both of them in @abioticfactor.com

The north american inland trout creates elaborate burrows in the loamy banks of the Great Lakes. These burrows can extend up to 10 miles outward from the shores. Native american tribes of the region have been known to dig wells or even tunnels to reach these burrows and the fish within.

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

daily wisdom from professor pika

Wanted a fleshy texture, with more or less realistic-looking blood vessels. Ended up writing a GIMP plugin to procedurally generate veins. Never wrote GIMP plugins before, it was quite an uphill battle, and it's still rather inefficient. The algorithm itself on the other hand is super simple.

@duckaislop.bsky.social found these slop games in the current steam train games event. Too much to fit into a bsky message pastebin.com/EB5FwEzN

To celebrate some big milestones in the first few days of the graphic novel's ks campaign, @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social shared chapter 1!! 🌻🌞 The rest of this chapter is here! patreon.com/worldsbeyondnumber/posts/official-graphic-161398582

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@gruene.de erklärt mir bitte wie die Verwendung von KI slop mit Klimaschutz vereinbar ist...

The thing that depresses me the most is seeing people who I spent years working with, who were frickin' excellent software engineers, who I *know* understand what good design and implementation are just completely buy in to the bullshit.

Work continues on Shattered Pixel Dungeon's next quest! I'm working on the final boss currently: the Greater Elemental can swap forms, each one has weaknesses and attacks! Here's probably the simplest attack, a wave of fire with a convenient gap: #gamedev #roguelike #pixelart #screenshotsaturday

This is the "Reality Switch Mechanic" of my horror puzzle game. you can travel to an alternate timeline and explore different versions of the same area, which is necessary to solve puzzles! #gametok #gamedev #solodev #indiegame #pixelart

Since so many people committed to muddy the waters: - NPC AI, the way it has been used for decades, is not genAI. - Spellcheckers are not any kind of AI. - Physics engines are not any kind of AI. - And most importantly, Procedural Generation is not any kind of AI, least of all genAI! FFS...

"I used AI to-" Then you aren't an artist. "I used AI to-" Then you aren't a writer. "I used AI to-" Then you aren't a coder. "I used AI to-" Then you aren't a game dev. "I used AI to-" Then you aren't a poet. "I used AI to-" Then you aren't a filmmaker. "I used AI to-" Then you aren't a teacher.

I say no to all gen-ai in games, including if it's "just code" Coding IS an artform, it may not be as directly visible as artwork but it's no less deserving of respect for being responsible for the functionality of every game out there without solid coding all your fave games would be dogshit

so in case you're wondering why this is showing up out of nowhere this is twitch using the same tech as the AI stream summary to monitor your stream for you saying this since most people turned off the AI stream summary you can turn this off too by going to Settings -> Stream in your dashboard

I'm Kara! I make a whole series of trans-centric magical girl novels about a magical girl rock band in Portland. Two are out now, and I'm working on the third. Zero AI - just me, my editor, my human artist, and my trans voice actor audiobook narrator. They're fun, heartfelt, and gay! magicariot.com

Magica Riot - Portland's Queer Magical Girl Rock Band - The Official Site

Novels about Portland's hard-rocking queer magical girls, Magica Riot.

magicariot.com

Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers

He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...

Author Terry Pratchett was an unflinching trans ally, say the trans fans who met him

Claims that the late, great Sir Terry Pratchett would've been anti-trans have prompted a flood of transgender fans to share their happy memories of

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Micah@rincewind.run · 12mo ago

there are people who claim that Terry Pratchett would have been a TERF if he was still alive to them I say two things: 1. are you fucking serious 2. go fuck yourselves

Don't forget to try the free demo of Dark Spawn: Infestation on Steam! #pixelart #indiegame #rpgmaker #horrorgame #gamedev

Alright well I guess Keychron can just go straight to hell then

The corporate dream is a product made by nobody for no money, sold to nobody for eternally increasing amounts of money. AI represents a crudely made facsimile of this, with generated material getting generated views from generated accounts. For delusional corpos, the Dead Internet is a goldmine.

Steam used real human artists for the Summer Sale art, then credited them by name W Steam. #gaming #indiegames #gamedev

DeviantArt website in 2005

The Microsoft Global Device Identifier (GDID) spys on your every move. discuss.privacyguides.net/t/microsoft-...

Reclamation is coming. Announcing The Veti's Wrath, the long-awaited full-campaign expansion to Tempest Rising, deploying later this year! store.steampowered.com/news/app/148...

Sora: dead Atlas: dead "adult mode": dead Abilene expansion: dead OpenAI IPO: dead Tell me again about "inevitability"

The ChatGPT browser is already dead

ChatGPT Atlas didn’t even last a year.

theverge.com

Due to recent developments in the games industry, we're exploring the possibility of releasing Forever Skies on physical media 💿 Retail and Collector's Editions across multiple platforms. We believe players should truly own the games they buy. More news soon.