Louder for people in the back, "Art has throughput and quality bars. Engineering has velocity, defect rates, build health. QA has coverage and escape rates. Production has burndowns and forecasts... The decision layer has status updates." www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-see...

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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ranked the week after a new rushdown character drops always feels like some 28 days later shit. these people are foaming at the mouth. they're flinging themselves at me with wild abandon

cool wikipedia stuff: looks like all those $3 donations that the wikimedia foundation wheedled out of folks are now going to hiring a union-avoidance law firm meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

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looking at the pieces in that encritification event about cheesing and it's really interesting how many of them are actually just about dark souls. i love souls games with all my heart but maybe it's worth interrogating why it's specifically them where the idea of "cheesing" becomes so prominent.

i would really like to see this!

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ok, throwing this out there, but if anyone needs a freelancer to review Marvel Tokon I'd love to give it a shot I've wrote a couple of different essays on fighting games, and also ran a podcast about fighting games and what we love about them: www.abnormalmapping.com/handtohand

combo💢punished💢disrupted💢 PUNISHED💢DEFEATED💢bonk #gamedev #indiedev #unrealengine5 #anime

a little bit of personal lore: my culture writing career began with a cranky blog about spider-man. for Fansplaining, I imagine the end of that career, with another blog about spider-man fansplaining.com/what-spider-...

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In which our hero contemplates a career writing about superheroes and pop culture—and imagines an ending.

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Maybe it's just me but I feel like you shouldn't even be launching your game on Xbox due to BDS, and a bunch of indies aren't getting called out on this at all.

Hey folks, just want to let you know that the launch sale ends in 24 hours. The game is $6 rn, which I hear is basically $5, but it'll go up to $8 tomorrow which I hear is basically $10. So really when you think about it if you buy today you're getting the game for 50% off. What a deal

Catbird Soft@catbirdsoft.net · 2w ago

Jenny the Witch is OUT NOW on Steam and Itch. We're so excited to have this thing in your hands. If you pick the game up, please leave a review! store.steampowered.com/app/4180990/...

im joining the myst war on the side of dirty boy

i would like it if somebody released a fighting game where less Shit happened

If Kentucky Route Zero is the Great American Novel of video games, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is the Great American Short Story Collection

the longer @plasmasword has their account suspended, everyone on bluesky should be asking, where is @plasmasword??? @safety.bsky.app

Jenny the Witch is OUT NOW on Steam and Itch. We're so excited to have this thing in your hands. If you pick the game up, please leave a review! store.steampowered.com/app/4180990/...

i think you should be reading Flash Gordon by Dan Schkade. i think you should be doing it right now, actually

despite everything, i am experiencing some sympathy for chartfuckers tonight because with 34.5 hours to go until launch i am engaging in a little anxious chartfucking of my own.

the real problem with chartfuckers is that yeah, examining hard data can be a good way to understand a scenario. but you have to actually understand the parameters of the scenario before you can collect the relevant data. you can't just pick one chart to fuck regardless of context.

Timothee Chalamet Announces MCU Debut - "After playing Marty Supreme, I thought I'd play the real supreme Marty - Martin Blank, the Gibbon."

marvel fans are SHOCKED AND DISMAYED by the new doomsday trailer. across the message boards and forums they cry out in one voice: "where is the plunderer? where is our dear sweet boy parnival?"

Hey folks, wanna give a little shoutout to Jenny The Witch, because I found a copy of the game in my inbox today, and I don't know if I'll be able to get around to it, but there is a pretty cool demo to try, so maybe give it a look? It's releasing in a couple of days!

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Something evil is brewing deep below New York City and Genevieve Marconi has been hired to uncover it. Shoot and slash your way through an army of robots in this standalone story set in the Steel Carn...

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Here it is: the Jenny the Witch launch trailer. The game goes live on July 22. That's less than 70 hours from now! store.steampowered.com/app/4180990/...

what i'm trying to say is "play unbeatable"

There's a call for boycott. The video interview done by Democracy Now! gets into it better than I could. There's campaigns about this for over a calendar year now and there are allegations of ethnic cleansing and cultural erasure levied at the current government.

Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” Faces Boycott Calls over Filming in Occupied Western Sahara

Hollywood’s blockbuster adaptation of the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey premieres around the world today amid growing calls for a boycott. Human rights campaigners are criticizing director Christophe...

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headfallsoff@headfallsoff.com · 3w ago

abhorrent and disgusting. far more important an issue than the completely fake discourse about woke casting or whatever.

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seven days until launch. this weekend, we went old school with our marketing and put up posters around NYC. check out the game here: store.steampowered.com/app/4180990/...

next time i release a game i'm calling out of my day job for launch week. this shit sux man

LOVELY LISERAN LOATHSOME LILAC Chapter: Lavender A vivisection of a failed relationship between a spoiled princess and her knight, played out over the course of a single mech battle. Time and space swirl as psychosexual obsession leads the pair towards inevitable calamity. #toxicyurivnjam

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"I have excised you from my heart, Violet, I cannot still need you."

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guys it is NOT FUNNY that Lindsey Graham caught the diarrhea parasite and shit himself so hard that he propelled himself around the room ricocheting off the walls making pinball machine noises and then after he finally splashed back down a completely unrelated 200 pound anvil fell on his head