Excellent article that I came across on Mastodon: "I've never seen a game fail because the artists were too slow"

I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow

AI is optimising the cheapest part of production

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I've landed the last change needed to enable #WebGPU by default on Samsung devices with an Xclipse GPU (mobile RDNA)! Should be available in Chrome 153, which will be stable in September. These GPUs are most common in Europe, but there are some in other markets (like the Galaxy S25 FE in the US).

Had three hours to kill in a waiting room today, and to my delight that turned out to be *exactly* enough time to read through the first Murderbot Diaries book. I get why everyone likes these books now. This is quite possibly the most autistically-coded character of all time.

THEY TALKED TO THE COMPUTER IN STAR TREK BEACUSE ITS A *TV SHOW* AND YOU CANT HEAR WHAT SOMEONE IS TYPING NOT BEACUSE IT IS GOOD UX

Jay Tholen@jaytholen.net · 2w ago

one of those things that was cool in star trek but absolutely sucks now that it's real

If I had a nickel for every time a villain from a Disney-adjacent movie plotted to build a freeway through the habitat of a group of non-humans, only to be revealed to be a member of that group in a human suit at the end of the movie, I'd have two nickels. But it's weird that it happened twice.

Hello? Yes, a moment of your time, if you please. I'm the Vampire Crawlers boss you've been fighting, and I'm not sure if you're aware of the fact that I've been dead for the last 10 minutes. Could you kindly wrap up this hand so I can explode in a shower of coins? It would be most appreciated.

For several months now TypeScript v6/v7 has had an incomplete version of the WebGPU types in their "dom" library, which caused errors in WebGPU apps. The last of the missing symbols was added 2 weeks ago, so you can now follow the instructions here to fix it:

GitHub - gpuweb/types: TypeScript type definitions for WebGPU https://gpuweb.github.io/types/

TypeScript type definitions for WebGPU https://gpuweb.github.io/types/ - gpuweb/types

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When Jurassic Park came out I was Tim's age. I was obsessed. It was my favorite movie by a long shot, and Alan Grant was a superhero in my eyes. Now I'm Alan Grant's age, the movie is still one of my favorites, and I'm very sad that my childhood hero is gone. Thanks for the memories, Sam!

Serious question: Can we get an American equivalent to Count Binface to highlight how absurd some of our politicians are? And if you just asked "Who?" Oh boy are you about to fall down a delightful rabbit hole!

Nigel Farage vs Count Binface: The Clacton By-Election Explained

YouTube video by TLDR News

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I think if you needed any more evidence that the cuts are shortsighted and focused on cutting as deep and as fast as possible with little regard for the future, this is pretty definitive. That engine felt like magic in some spots. A colossal waste of talent and resources.

Sami(14 days til 🎂)@samitron.bsky.social · 4w ago

THIS STUDIO MADE THE FAMOUS IDTECH ENGINE AND YOU'RE FORCING THEM TO USE FUCKING **UNREAL**??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? FUCK YOU

Got 15/20 right on this quiz. Interestingly the majority of the AI ones I misidentified as real we're from Gemini. Gotta adjust my expectations of what to look for in AI images.

Janna Sophia 🏔️@jannaphia.bsky.social · last mo.

Please help me finish my thesis so I can finally be free of academia 🫶✨ aidetectionsurvey.carrd.co

Just drove past a big friendly sign saying "We're temporarily closed!" In front of the rubble that was once a McDonald's. Not sure what this is a metaphor for, but it's a good one.

Oh, hey! @erincatto.bsky.social (of Box2d fame) has released a 3D version! You will *never* guess what it's called...

GitHub - erincatto/box3d: Box3D is a 3D physics engine for games

Box3D is a 3D physics engine for games. Contribute to erincatto/box3d development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Do you like shaders? Do you hate shaders? Do you use shaders frequently? Khronos wants your tasty shader feedback. www.surveymonkey.com/r/LKWFQ3M

2026 Shader Ecosystem Survey

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Renting a Mazda this week. It has Android Auto, but when the car is moving the touchscreen is unresponsive and you're forced to use a dial/joystick... thing in the center console to navigate. W. T. F??

Just saw the Steam Machine prices and... Oof. To be clear, I don't think they have much of a choice. That's just where the world is at. Still, the discourse around it is going to be painful.

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Beat Mina the Hollower, but the game went pretty out of its way to let me know I got a "bad" ending. I have an idea of what it would take to get a good ending, but I'm pretty sure it would require a whole new playthrough and no thanks. It was fun, but I'm not itching for an immediate replay.

This is me! We're focusing on a few areas next month and I'm leading the "Paper cuts" area. So spam me with your bugs, please - and please file them yourselves first so I can triage them internally 😁

Barry Pollard@tunetheweb.com · 2mo ago

The Chrome DevTools team are doing a "papercuts" sprint where they try to address lots of small, irritating bugs and annoyances. Reply with crbug.com links (no bug, no fix—that's the deal!) and will see what we can do. No promises though as some may be features/too big/unclear how to solve.

See if you can spot the points in this video where management swoops in and says "Looks great, but how can we work in AI for buzzword-addicted investors?" And then leaves the artist cursing and spending the rest of their afternoon fixing the mess AI made.

Adriaan@adriaan.games · 2mo ago

epic’s concept art process video about their genAI integration is so HILARIOUSLY damning: youtu.be/ZR2xbcf3Xyw genAI keeps removing interesting details after every usage and at every step the VO says they need to ’add the details they want back in’ hahaha jfc

Look, I *like* strongly typed languages. But a days worth of scrubbing -Wsign-compare and -Wsign-conversion issues from a large codebase is quickly radicalizing me. Especially when there are major public APIs that are like: int get_foo(); void set_foo(size_t value); 🤬

"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"

Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · 2mo 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...

Here's something fun: I think my iPhone may have the world record Speedometer score for any iOS device? www.linkedin.com/pulse/test-d...

Test Drive: Blink on iOS

The Edge web platform team has been contributing changes to Chromium to help build a prototype exploring what an iOS browser using Blink (via BrowserEngineKit) can achieve. Blink is the same open-sour...

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glTF 2.1 is in the works with a whole slew of great features: - Composing files into large scenes - Unique IDs for cross-file references - Embedded thumbnails! - Bounding volume hierarchies - .glb files larger than 4Gb And more!

Introducing glTF 2.1 with Complex Scenes

Since the release of glTF™ 2.0 in 2017, the format has matured into a rich ecosystem spanning mesh compression, texture optimization, 3D Gaussian splats, and more. Today, the Khronos® 3D Formats Worki...

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@raccoon.pizza needs to know about this immediately!

Brant Reeves@bireeves95.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is Fantastic and I Did Not Know this…

Khronos will host a WebGL+WebGPU BOF at SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 22 at 9:00 AM. (Full schedule coming soon.) Do you have a product or demo based on these APIs that you would like to share? If so, please email events@khronosgroup.org and we'll get you on the agenda.

Mina the Hollower has a deep love of flying enemies that its art style simply can't support. 😫

Beat Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. It's a fun game, and also one of the buggiest I've ever played. Difficulty curve felt all over the map. Plus the silly Ubisoft account requirements make it hard to recommend.

Behold my stupidest home automation to date. I am "gently encouraging" my children to be more aware of how much time they are spending in the bathroom by having a door sensor fire an IR blaster to start a sports timer when the door is closed, and stop it when the door opens again. 🤦