I’m going to spam this under every pro AI post from now

Just recorded and edited THREE episodes of the show in one day with my new microphone and I even feel like doing more. Boy the difference the right equipment makes!

I get tons of requests to be on The Indie Diarist every month, so let me be very clear about one thing: I appreciate solo devs are doing their best, I really do. But if you use generative AI in any way for your game, I can't in good conscience promote your story on The Indie Diarist. #GameDev

A short tale from my GMTK Jam 2026 experience that shows why I could never trust generative AI to make games from scratch:

HEY YOU! 🫵 Do you make games? Do you like game jams? Do you think you'll have some spare time in late August? 👀 I'm hosting The Indie Diarist's very first Meaningful Games Jam 2026 next month, starting on 23 August! The aim is to make a game that "means something to you". Link in the comments!

Join Anthony from @theindiediarist.bsky.social and me at 20:00 CEST today while we play the latest build of Imprinted and chat about it. The stream will be available on his official channels. discord.com/invite/J84aP...

Amazon you have to be joking me

An accurate representation of my brain learning shaders

Just a thread with all the predatory, shameful and/or anti-consumer updates we've been blessed to see in the game industry for the past few weeks. I may update this with new stories as even more 💩 hits the fan, I guess

Welp, guess it's finally time to have my family ship me my entire PS1/2/3 game collection all the way from Sicily

Absolutely love the look of this upcoming Indie game 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗼. The Egyptian carvings are actually the playable environment 🤩

Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).

2D is good but we could just have 3D games that aren't trying to be movies all the time

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 3mo ago

As storage and RAM prices skyrocket and make powerful PCs and consoles feel increasingly out of reach, there's only one real option: Everyone go back to 2D

People hated on me and told me I was a hater when I said Bungie was in trouble for Marathon’s debut numbers, that leadership would start removing staff and such Well well

I’m seeing loads of reports that the Steam Next Fest was full of AI slop this time around. Disappointing, but hardly surprising. 🫠 I’m curious though - if you had a (non-AI) game in the Next Fest, do you feel this affected your metrics at all?

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If anyone here is planning to support this soulless cash grab slop, please let me know so we can no longer be friends 🙏

these prices tell me the steam machine absolutely would have been set at something at least semi-affordable if AI wasn't fucking up absolutely everything. cool cool cool

It’s heartbreaking to think that the non-AI era price of the Steam Machine would have (probably) absolutely made sense

#GodotEngine 4.7 is here! 🎉 Like a cult classic movie, Godot 4 has only gotten better with age; the 4.7 Director's Cut offers colors of never-before-reached intensity, helming a bevy of new features to eliminate any remaining friction between you and your vision! godotengine.org/releases/4.7/

Godot 4.7 Release: Lights, Camera, Action!

Like a cult classic movie, Godot 4 has only gotten better with age. This brings us to Godot 4.7. With 3 years under its belt, the 4.7 _Director’s Cut_ offers colors of never-before-reached intensity.

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Sure Epic tell me more about how your slop engine plans to remove the only features people cared about (but add gen AI)

I think right now the AAA industry may be the only place where you lose no matter what you do. Make a bad game? Layoffs. Don't make a game at all? Layoffs. Make a good game but didn't meet targets? Better brace for layoffs! How the hell is this sustainable? 🤦‍♀️ #GameDev

So much good stuff in this release!

Godot Engine@godotengine.org · 3mo ago

#GodotEngine 4.7 is here! 🎉 Like a cult classic movie, Godot 4 has only gotten better with age; the 4.7 Director's Cut offers colors of never-before-reached intensity, helming a bevy of new features to eliminate any remaining friction between you and your vision! godotengine.org/releases/4.7/

In case you’re still on the fence about using generative AI in your games. Brilliant set of interviews from Austin. The fact he couldn’t find devs who are openly in favour of AI at a place like GDC says a lot about this hellish technology.

Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...

me joining 20 discords, but never participating

Looking for PoC game devs experienced with Godot! (I am not experienced with Godot, and I want to make friends lol) Please share/reply/tag folks in!

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I imagine that Xbox knew of these layoffs months ago The weird fanboy nonsense they’ve pulled these last 100 days is because they knew the brand would not survive another Tango Gameworks-level disaster Trick a couple Youtubers into saying “I’m feeling good about XBOX!” and then shut down 4 studios

Cartridge Games@cartridgegames.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It’s been weird seeing Xbox lean into parasocial relationships these last hundred days Promising fans “the return of Xbox” and exclusives Only for them to be clearly sunsetting the brand Bizarre and unnecessary cruelty, even for a corporation

Microsoft is doing WHAT to Ninja Theory and Double Fine???