"The indie game scene isn't suffering the bloodbath of AAA gami-" You have to understand almost every successful indie studio was bought out by Microsoft or Tencent and the people that remain are either wildly successful and secure or it's Willow, who's coding a passion project at 2 a.m. after work

That escalated quickly.

Mmmm yes, animation API design hard. Eh I'll figure it out soon. I hope. :D

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

so I just discovered that new Marvel fighting game doesn't work on Linux. My guess is Sony have arcsys in a chokehold over this because blazblue and guilty gear strive work fine. AAA is so cool, right? :)

so I've been away for a few days due to illness. That's a lot of notifications. So anyway I'll get back to NovelRT-related stuff this week. Probably.

I am once again here to complain about macOS and how nothing is ever easy. Why can't Apple just be reasonable?

Well, good news, we got macOS app bundling and such working again, so NovelRT can actually run on mac now! Naturally this means since it's friday I am going to continue to melt in this heat and play more blazblue. I'm bad but at least I am having fun.

getting laid off right after you launch a game is so incredibly painful that I still haven't found the proper words to describe that pain 11 months + a new job later.

My CPU coolant has officially hit 50 C today. Naturally this means I also have my mac studio turned on because I'm aiding in debugging our macOS problems in the NovelRT Engine. I am also playing BlazBlue for fun I guess. You know, instead of turning stuff off. Reasonable decisions. Promise!

"i'm a solo dev i need to use ai because i cant afford to do anything else and release in a decent time frame!" cave story was solo developed over the course of 4 years in 2004 i'm certain it's more than possible to make solo games without genAI

My CPU coolant is approaching 50C. I hate the heat. That's it that's the entire post this is a cry for help help me please before I evaporate into gas form-

I love watching MSFT lay off over 3,200 people at xbox! So cool! I love AAA #gamedev right now! I totally want to work there! /sarcasm I really hope those folks can find more work. It's been nothing but heartbreak for a good couple years now. Hope these CEOs have their beds replaced with LEGO. :)

The autistic agony of being completely out of spoons for socialising "normally" so your skull feels like someone is rubbing sandpaper very harshly on the inside of your head. I am exhausted. :(

The NovelRT maintainer team and I just got done wrapping up our very first fix version for the NovelRT engine! This release addresses multiple key bugs such as Intel Iris Xe crashes, and lack of audio. The full release info can be found here: github.com/novelrt/Nove... #gamedev #indiedev #FOSS

Release NovelRT Reimu (2026.0.1) · novelrt/NovelRT

What's New? Reintroduce Audio into ECS by @capnkenny in #681 Remove validation layers from end-user binaries by @RubyNova in #684 Fix rendering and concurrency issues in Lua by @RubyNova in #687 P...

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Kitsune Tails is 35% off on Steam and itch and very queer! kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails Or help our queer studio survive into the future by getting all four of our games as a bundle for $17.99 on itch (itch.io/s/192877/sum...) or $18.75 on Steam (store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673...)

who could've possible seen this coming

Lauri Donahue@lauridonahue.bsky.social · last mo.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Just another reminder that rockstar games have been evil slimeballs for decades and you shouldn't buy their products. I still remember the awful horror stories that ex-rockstar QA members would share with me on the daily at one of my older workplaces. Evil evil evil company.

Frances Foster Jerkin@vitalxs.bsky.social · last mo.

Games can just look like this.

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Started playing BlazBlue Entropy Effect tonight, will be probably posting thoughts as I play.

I stare at the NVIDIA RTX 5090 in my friend's computer. It stares back at me. It cracks under the pressure of being an expensive paperweight that struggles to render a triangle. :)

New Vulkan specifications be like: "Here are all the cool new rendering features that you'll probably never get to use because none of the big corps are updating anything! :D" It really is just like looking at a tasty cake that you're banned from eating.

when AI companies go bankrupt

The NovelRT maintainer team and I just got done wrapping up our very first fix version for the NovelRT engine! This release addresses multiple key bugs such as Intel Iris Xe crashes, and lack of audio. The full release info can be found here: github.com/novelrt/Nove... #gamedev #indiedev #FOSS

Release NovelRT Reimu (2026.0.1) · novelrt/NovelRT

What's New? Reintroduce Audio into ECS by @capnkenny in #681 Remove validation layers from end-user binaries by @RubyNova in #684 Fix rendering and concurrency issues in Lua by @RubyNova in #687 P...

github.com

A massive thank you to everyone who tuned in to our Pride Week streams and donated to our Mermaids fundraiser! We're chuffed to share that, together, all of our teams have raised £22,731.17 for an incredible, important cause. Thank you so much again - and Happy Pride!

You know, it would be just my luck to find massive problems with the macOS builds of NovelRT. To be fair, we don't really have anyone dedicated to macOS - and macOS is kind of confusing. :( I learned the horrors of rpaths today!

Very excited to be taking part in this itch bundle, keep an eye out for when it drops, there some really cool creators submitting work! 👀👀👀

⚠️ eve g ⚠️@evegwood.com · last mo.

The Scottish Comics Itch Bundle goes live on July 6th! 30 indie comics from a small selection of the talented creators who call Scotland home. Stay tuned!

openletter.earth/open-letter-... Link to open letter to Andy Burnham asking him to ditch Labour’s stance on AI👆