Taylan K - Indie dev
@taylank.bsky.social
Solo indie dev making Eilands, a game about creating and exploring your own islands. https://store.steampowered.com/app/4410930/Eilands/ Likes to support fellow devs. Occasionally a music composer.
Boss, it's also the fact that all creative endeavours you cherished and staked your livelihood on are under assault by generative AI, leaving an apocalyptic wasteland where jobs used to be, with no sign of letting up and no room for a sliver of hope about the future.
Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James@adashtra.bsky.social · 13h agoEvergreen
Just casually plugging our game here 🌻 A big update is coming soon too with new themes (handcrafted by yours truly) #indiegame #pixelart #voxelart
Getting harder and harder to escape this conclusion about the industry and one's place in it as a creative.
Bill Paxton: Game Over, Man! (Aliens)
Alt: Bill Paxton: Game Over, Man! (Aliens)
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Is anyone keeping a list games that have been copied by AI sloppers? I’m wondering if there is a pattern to the kind of games they target.
There’s never been a better time to leave this industry and go become a trades person.
Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski@sosowski.bsky.social · 2w agoMy friend made a cool game on a game jam and within a month a slopclone of it is on Steam. This is happening every day for indie devs and I hate it.
The great thing about AI is that it’s a machine that can comprehend… that you’re swearing at it. Which is, as tech workers, all we ever wanted.
The state of the industry is such that they will still get tons of applications.
Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 2w agoWardogs lead says the studio won't hire people who decry crunch on social media
What they don’t tell you about the torment nexus is that your kids will say things like “all my friends are on the torment nexus, I feel left out! You’d let me on the torment nexus if you cared!”
IDF drone operator: "I asked to meet with the intelligence officer so I could enter targets into the computer, and he told me, ‘You have two million targets in Gaza.' The trigger was pulled extremely easily. People lost their humanity." www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazin...
מפעיל כטב"ם: "הבנתי שבעזה כל אחד יכול להרוג את מי שהוא רוצה"
ההרג השרירותי, שחיקת המוסר, היעדר החוקים: ניר הגיע למלחמת 7 באוקטובר קצין מנוסה ומוערך בחיל האוויר, ויצא ממנה פצוע מוסרית, מכור לסמים, מבודד מחבריו ליחידה – ויודע שנותר לגמרי לבד
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The kids wanted to watch the Terminator movie so I let them. They are upset with me now because it was too scary. I’m like, it’s called The Terminator, what did you think it was gonna be?
If I'm ever elected to public office, my first act will be to ban influencer reaction faces from all media.
Oh man, so many. Halo, Souls, Zelda, GTA, the list goes on
Kristin 🇨🇦🤓@faierius.bsky.social · 2mo agoNo hate, no dogpiling, just curious. For me, it's Skyrim. Don't know why, considering it should be exactly my kind of game, but it just didn't click for me.
In breaking news: A space game made by people who find space inherently boring fails to capture the imagination of people interested in space.
Lady Emily ☄️@ladyemily.nebula.tv · 2mo agoStarfield is almost three years old now and in that time I have yet to see a single piece of fanart or meme or anything about the contents of the game itself. The extent to which they spent years on that game only for it to be met with a resounding cultural disinterest is fascinating
I don't know who needs to hear this, but do not trust AI summaries of emails. I had my first case of Gemini summarizing my email messages to someone and presenting a 100% opposing idea of what I actually said. Now they are mad at me because of what the AI told them I said.
Man Rubbing Eyes in Frustration
Alt: Man Rubbing Eyes in Frustration
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Not an artist and don't have the money to hire one, so I came up with my own poorly drawn icons! haven't tested them in game yet, hope they don't look too awful.
Guys, guys! The Guardian got to the bottom of who’s responsible for climate change!
Anyone got interesting/funny #gamedev bugs to share today? Here's mine... I like that she's still making an effort to reach the handlebar.
In my mind, to this day, Blade has the best character intro of all time in any movie.
Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm 95% convinced the problem with making a new Blade movie is that they can't fit him into the wider MCU, they no longer just make superhero movies any more, it all has to be part of some bigger cinematic universe and continuity, so it can't be a story about Blade killing vampires with a sword.
“I fed the report to an LLM and it wrote this post for me. That’s not an accident. That’s policy.”
Crowsa Luxemburg@quendergeer.bsky.social · 2mo agochart for dinner
Back in high school we had a very religious phys-ed teacher who srsly told us that if boys hung out with girls they would become girly.
Jordan aka Jirdan@slclunk.com · 2mo agoOh wow they made the dick sucking factory
I might end up creating a Discord for this game. Have been adding a lot lately. Will need people to playtest with me!
People lamenting internet is dying because of AI. Buddy, the internet you know today is already the undead husk of the one that used to exist decades ago.
