Shout-out to Travis Knight, who's father is the CEO of Nike (yes THAT Nike, the shoe brand) using his immense inherited wealth to fund stop motion animation at a financial loss purely for the love of the art. Laika Studios my beloved <3
Jamie Smart@jamiesmart.bsky.social · 4w agoGetting a bit tired of very rich actors and directors saying ‘AI is here we have to learn how to use it’ instead of ‘I am wealthy enough to dedicate myself only to projects which employ talented human beings because anything else is an existential threat to human storytelling’
Found this pic of email being compressed by Trevor, Piglet and Database during intros lol
Sting’s 1998 Japanese Saturn release, Baroque, is a 3D, first-person perspective roguelike action game. Luckily, in 2023, Plissken was divinely inspired to bless our tormented souls with an English translation for this most unique of titles. #sega #saturn #segasaturn #retrogaming #BestOfSaturn
I've been working on this for over a year: I'm remaking all of Ocarina of Time's prerenders in 3D, trying to match the N64 style rather than the 3DS one. The provisional name is OoT unJPEG. It will be distributed as both a romhack that runs on real N64 hardware and a mod for Zelda 64 Recompiled.
I would like to see more companies admit this - being a public company no longer means running a successful, thriving business. It strictly means delivering growth to investors, every single quarter, who do not care at all about the product the company sells or the people who produce it.
Hannah 'Pichy' Stockmann@hpichystockmann.bsky.social · 2mo agoSavage.
You may not like it, but this is what peak localization looks like (Asterix: Mega Madness (PS1, 2001))
Turns out, Edo-period Japan had a fancy rodent hobby. People bred rats and mice for coat color and markings, sold them, and wrote how-to manuals about it. A thread on the known #rats books and illustrations.
Oberon 's name when he's being a terrible little bastard is "Obe-Ronald Reagan", but I did not call him that when we were snuggling last night. I did call him that when he tried to stash smoked salmon in the couch cushions later.
1/3 of the game industry has lost their job in the last two years. Ubisoft closed two more studios today. Everyone is out of work. To that end I'm starting a new bundle to benefit a layoffs hardship fund. Game devs: please consider submitting your PAID games to the bundle, which will launch in July.
Game industry hardship fund
A game jam from 2026-06-10 to 2026-06-24 hosted by Necrosoft Games. PREMISE: The game industry has a problem. Too many people are out of work (reports say 33% of the industry lost their jobs in the la...
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I’ll forevermore be chasing the dragon of showing King’s Tekken 6 ending with no context to someone completely unfamiliar with the series.
4Gamer 🔗https://www.4gamer.net/s/G099692.260408021 「アクアノートの休日」がPC/Switch向けに復刻。「ARTDINK GAME LOG：アクアノートの休日」，4月23日発売 魚たちとともに不思議に満ちた海底を潜水艦で探索する，フリーローミングゲームの先駆けともいえる作品だ
「アクアノートの休日」がPC/Switch向けに復刻。「ARTDINK GAME LOG：アクアノートの休日」，4月23日発売
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Me and the boys when we hear someone opening up one of those boxes of fudge covered oreos
BREAKING: We've freed Cookie. Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL. More info:
We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation
We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.
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Tfw you still have some edge cases to fix in your procedural locomotion system #gamedev
