I mean, I never picked up or used any of those "technologies", so life would keep ticking over for me the way it always had. Except I'd be free from having to see generated slop or to hear people boost up fucking CLAUDE for so much shit.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 23h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

This is a quick thread which is worth reading & understanding about the flow on effects from what is happening to games & their creators in AAA. Even if things improve for game workers, the inertia means we're going to see stuff not be so great for a while yet… Sadly.

Alanna Smith@alannamode.bsky.social · 3d ago

Already noticed some AAA games from the last few years slipping in quality due to the attack on labourers by the wealthy class and uh... I think gamers need to know it's gonna keep deteriorating in small ways, not a big bang Games will still drop for a while, but they'll be quietly worse

Feels nice this morning to have put together a test harness for testing new tracks without having to modify the game, or mess about with config stuff. Especially handy now I’m slowly working away on progression systems.

LOOK AT THIS IT IS FUCKING GLORIOUS 🦬🦬🦬🦬🦬 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=158132

Because of course. Though, considering some streams, maybe it'll be good for polluting the training data. (And if the training data gets polluted, maybe then they'll be useless. I can only hope…)

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d ago

Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.

There's something which saddens me at some really deep level to see people happily become sloperators when it comes to crafting code, music, art or anything really. There is something inspiring about the act of creation - even if it's naff, it's YOURS, and that's a fundamental part of humanity.

Ring of Fates is a frustrating bundle of ~almosts~. Ambitious combat - Monster Hunter-like clambering is encouraged - is dragged down by dull dungeons and idiotic AI. The story is about twins, yet only one of them's allowed to speak/act: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/07/31/f...

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Ring of Fates: Circling back around

I loathed this game on principle from the moment it existed. My beloved Crystal Chronicles, reduced to this… thing. Some primarily single player RPG revolving around a pre-made cast of characters. …

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 6d ago

Something a little different this week; instead of writing about someone else's game, I've made one of my own! Head this way to play my coffee-break sized interactive fiction, Terror of the Alien Mindmasters directly in your browser (phone browser, too)! ko-fi.com/post/Out-of-...

Something a little different this week; instead of writing about someone else's game, I've made one of my own! Head this way to play my coffee-break sized interactive fiction, Terror of the Alien Mindmasters directly in your browser (phone browser, too)! ko-fi.com/post/Out-of-...

The cool kids avoid M O D R E T R O like the plague. You wanna be a cool kid right?

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 6d ago

Blogged it. Happy Hater Week. aftermath.site/war-crime-n6...

That thing as winding down for bed and jerkbrain just has to remind you of crappy things. In positives - managed to finish up an important bit of work on the game (a feature for tiers of challenge), also started work on logo stuff (which I need for a thing) too. Smol victories are victories. 🖤

Here's my review of Truxton Extreme, a return to the vital and influential shoot 'em up playstyle of Toaplan, contained within a game that's worthy of both the original Truxton and player expectations in 2026. This one feels both familiar and fresh; it's got the juice.

Past meets present: Truxton Extreme

Truxton is back courtesy its original designer and composer, with an entry worthy of the name.

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this week's Arcade Archives title: 1983's ultra-wide, triple-monitor F1 racing game TX-1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSHNzQAcSis this is particularly noteworthy for being the first ACA reissue (and first reissue in general, if memory serves) from the catalogue of Tatsumi

Arcade Archives TX-1 - YouTube

"TX-1" is a racing game released by TATSUMI in 1983.Enjoy a powerf...

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New No-Nostalgia Retro Gaming video uploaded and ready to watch! youtu.be/_MlZfl3GDkI

The Legendary Axe - NNRG Week 110

YouTube video by Pixelmusement

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"The Famicom shouldn’t be able to display this many sprites at once. Over Obj does it anyway." kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2023/12/05/o...

Over Obj: Fill yer boots with bullets

[A quick apology/warning before I begin: The screenshots for this one are literally shots of a screen because 1) I don’t have any way of capturing footage directly from real hardware 2) Even …

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Well if that ain't a great demonstration of what happens when you piss off your userbase, then I dunno what is. Classic fuck around, find out behaviour from Unity. (Still, I lament that it happened though. It was a great engine, but the corpo bullshit, and the way it stagnated was horrible…)

Game Maker's Toolkit@gamemakerstoolkit.com · last wk.

Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%

We need more Keyboard Overlays. There’s something kind of special about having one over your computer keyboard. A shame that we don’t have such things for modern games. But I guess controllers took care of that…

It’s funny - my phone didn’t go off (unless it did, and being on silent muted it), but someone else’s phone did, and my goodness it was LOUD. (‘cause I heard it clearly from the other side of the house)

I can control the volume of my music. I cannot control the volume of the background noise of my surroundings.

Introvert Problems@introvertproblems.bsky.social · last wk.

Any other introverts hate loud noises, but love loud music?

It's fucked up that an arms dealer is selling retro N64 consoles and a whole bunch of YouTubers are covering the product without discussing Palmer Luckey, claiming it's not relevant. If you're lining the pockets of a war profiteer that's murdering people, gamers should know what they're financing.

Anduril reportedly in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, more than 3x last year's mark | TechCrunch

Anduril is said to be raising a new round of funding that may push its valuation up to about $100 billion, per Reuters.

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Nothing kicks the wind of my sails as a creative person than seeing shit like this. The "you should give us money to plug your shit" thing is tiring. Especially when it's a platforms job to show it. Won't lie, but it does make me wonder whether I should throw the towel in sometimes.

For those who want to sign it, the petition mentioned in this story is here: www.parliament.vic.gov.au/get-involved...

Fully assess planning decision for a proposed Victorian AI Hub - Petitions - Parliament of Victoria

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Tim Baxter@timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 2w ago

For those who don't know Melbourne's south east, this is a data centre that is six times larger than the largest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere (and worst in the world).

For those who don't know Melbourne's south east, this is a data centre that is six times larger than the largest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere (and worst in the world).

Mega datacentre planned for outer Melbourne will be six times bigger than a large shopping centre

More than 3,600 people sign petition for careful assessment of proposed AI hub, now a flashpoint for national debate on datacentre boom

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For #RandomGameSaturday, I pulled out Fort Apocalypse in its original Atari 8-bit release (as published by US Gold in the UK). Fly into caverns, rescue the hostages and avoid all the nasty traps. It may not be the first chopper-based hostage rescue game you think of, but it’s still a classic!

Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 2w ago

Went rambling through my Wii games this morning for #RandomGameSaturday and pulled out… The best remake Silent Hill’s ever had!

New Ancient DOS Games Pro video uploaded and ready to watch! youtu.be/AsY5liS7bfo

Damage & HP - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - ADG Pro 37

YouTube video by Pixelmusement

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That's true I did! Extremely stoked that it's now in the world, like many others I wish it was in theatres

David Smith@rhunwords.com · 2w ago

Hey if you watch the new Avatar The Last Airbender movie today (legally and non-leaked at last) and enjoy yourself, send a shoutout to @jesszam.bsky.social who worked really hard on it!

Back in October, Rockstar Games fired 34 employees for alleged gross misconduct. The severity of these firings could have spelled the end for a burgeoning union effort that was underway, but it didn't. In fact, the union is now *bigger* than it's ever been before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym4z...

Rockstar Fired 34 People, but the Union Is Bigger than Ever

YouTube video by People Make Games

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This is the kind of shit that people who truly give a shit about look at when it comes to emulating (whether hardware or software or whatever) old games. It's a large commitment, and how many slop core creators will be here for the long haul? Friends don't let friends use slop cores.

downchasm@downchasm.bsky.social · 2w ago

a usual refrain I hear in defense of the vibe coded MiSTer cores porting MAME code is: ”it runs, okay! just be happy it exists!” but let’s talk about Bubble Bobble:

I feel like these new MiSTer "devs" don't actually understand the meaning of the term 'cycle accurate', and what the goal of the project is. You don't get cycle accuracy by vibe coding your way through mame files without a regard for how a game is supposed to run. Be it for arcade boards or similar.

Imagine having this franchise in your catalog and thinking any of those others would make for a better movie.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2w ago

Atari Makes Universal Movie Deal For 10 Iconic Game Properties -Asteroids -Adventure -Berzerk -Breakout -Centipede -Crystal Castles -Millipede -Missile Command -Pong -Yars’ Revenge deadline.com/2026/07/atar...

It's pretty rad to see the first Dragon Slayer available on EGGCONSOLE. Especially because it's a foundational title for a lot of action RPG goodness from the 80s (which is connected to modern day stuff - and not just from Falcom's library). I look forward to letting it kick my butt as I try it!

christa lee@ohpoorpup.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dragon Slayer has released for Switch. It is one of the earliest examples of the action RPG and is the game that put Nihon Falcom on the map. This release contains an updated version with a range of QoL features to make the game more accessible to modern players www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...