Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com · last mo.

Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

The World Cup is proof that if not for our leaders, the vast majority of the world's people would get along just fine.

"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.

GO PLAY OUR FUCKING DEMO RIGHT NOW AND MAKE SURE YOU DRIVE YOUR TRUCK DIRECTLY INTO THAT WISHLIST BUTTON

Strange Scaffold@strangescaffold.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's time to isekai everyone!! 🚚 💨 Play the demo for Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?! RIGHT NOW during #SteamNextFest store.steampowered.com/app/3642010/...

Yes, the cashier should be able to afford rent, groceries, and healthcare with their one paycheck. And the janitor. And the waitress. And the fry cook. And the teacher.

There's a desire for Black Coming of Age media and it's out there. We're just making it independently. The Three Tomes: An Indie Animation (Animatic) series. A Black witch must, face a mysterious foe and the two vampires after her heart. Pilot out now, Kickstarter for ep 2 coming soon in June.

Literally cannot get a job writing for a game dev company when all of them want 5 years worth of experience working on major published games. Buddy. How do you get the experience if no one will give you the chance to get the experience.

I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

“Nepo babies” are not the problem. It is completely normal and acceptable for people to pursue the same craft as their parents. The problem is that the creative industries have become inaccessible on a professional level to anyone who isn’t independently financially comfortable.

we need to somehow get genpop to realize that meaningful critique, the kind that should inform the work, is something that artists request from peers. criticism is something that the audience exchanges among itself to make sense of how they feel about the work, but it's not meant to inform it.

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

A problem with being The Only One in a profession is that you are placed under a kind of scrutiny that your colleagues are not, for reasons that are extremely clear but that no one will acknowledge. Time to bump the thread again.

I kinda want a time travel fix it game where the time travel fix it part is meant for the NG+

I have no words. Other than I am honored and humbled to be nominated alongside such meaningful stories. So proud of the team and the work we did 😭.

Compulsion Games@compulsiongames.bsky.social · 4mo ago

South of Midnight is honored to be named a #PeabodyNominee! The @peabodyawards.bsky.social represent the gold standard of #StoriesThatMatter, and we’re proud to be recognized alongside some of the very best in storytelling. #PeabodyAwards #Peabody86 #PeabodyNominee

“You’re alienating half of your audience by being political” Motherfucker, my “audience” is people who aren’t pieces of shit, who care about others. That’s who I make stuff for. There is no “other half”.

Parents Beware!!! Showing antipathy or hostility toward your child's interests when their young will ensure you never EVER hear about them again thus making your grown child alien to you in ways you will not understand.

Anyway waaayyy this post brought to you by the fact I'm going to see Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts which for me is the equivalent of seeing Beyoncé and Jesus at the same time

Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James@adashtra.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Parents Beware!!! Showing antipathy or hostility toward your child's interests when their young will ensure you never EVER hear about them again thus making your grown child alien to you in ways you will not understand.

Remember… im not flirting im just southern. 😭😭😭

Go science! Go art! #steam #stem

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

You 🫵🏿 have the solemn duty to be the lefty bleeding heart wokescold in your family group chat by urging everyone to call their reps. Find their representatives. Write scripts for them to make it easier to make the call. YOU ARE NOT POWERLESS.

Mayor’s Municipal Madness Championship voting is open. Vote to pick which repair I’ll handle myself. nyc.gov/madness

Here’s the thing. I don’t care about your religious beliefs or your moral and ethical codes until it interferes in the lives, and the rights of others. Just because you claim to take guidance from a 2000 year old book of fiction, you do not get to invalidate the existence of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Call me old fashioned, but when I was a girl we valued this thing called a sense of accomplishment. It means you put in the effort to do something, then you look at having done it & are proud of what you did. I feel accomplished when I have written because I went through the process to write.

"We noticed you're using an ad blocker." "Subscribe to continue reading." "An error occured. Enable ads to view site." I promise y'all that whatever I was trying to read is not worth that much trouble. I'll either get it elsewhere or just forget about trying to read it entirely.🤷🏾‍♂️

Seeing some arguing that no one's perfect and that many creators of classic works are flawed. That's like saying "the world is shit so why even try for better". Hundreds of books come out every year, many written by good people. I don't need to resign myself to supporting bigots and assholes.

So you're telling me that now, as game devs, we have to coddle players who refuse to read? Fuck that shit. Wall of text. Refuse to read it? Get fucked, the game is not for you. Read or die.