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I just released the Museum of All Things version 1.0!!! You can find it at mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-al...

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Museum of All Things is an almost-infinite interactive game that lets you explore the entirety of Wikipedia like an art gallery. (Download it for free on itchio)

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Very important distinction. Machine learning on a small, specific dataset: good. LLMs: grift.

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In general, I think we'll look back on from the 2005-2025 era and realize they worked to deskill everyone--from casual users down to actual coders--in anything related to computers. I'm often teaching undergrads things like "how to save a file as PDF" even. AI really accelerates this trend though.

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you mean to tell me that a brand new french studio is publishing a very pretty platformer starring an octopus and it's being published by.... konami? that konami? blog.playstation.com/2025/02/12/d...

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The dirtbag MAHJONG demo is out now!! Lie, cheat, and throw tiles at your “friends”! The demo has a story chapter, limited dirtbag free play, regular riichi mahjong, and an interactive tutorial for beginners. Check it out for free on Steam right now: bit.ly/3CUgczw #indiedev #mahjong #pixelart

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2025 is already kinda wild for games. Been waiting on Skin Deep for yeaaaars. Die Hard-inspired immersive sim by the Quadrilateral Cowboy/Gravity Bone crew.

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hootin and hollerin blendo is back

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SKIN DEEP is finally nearly out! I've played it it's gonna be great! Finally a game with levels by the excellent @binarypartitioned.space! And the other folks are all rad too! This is most exciting www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SvX...

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Every creative field has communities like this and anyone who is actually excited about making stuff avoids them because they're devoid of anyone actually talking about making the art...

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i often think about how eons before cookie monster was conceived, or indeed before there were minds capable of conceiving, cookie monster was already there, waiting

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This is a really fun site if you are interested in the production design of Star Trek. It's a catalog of identifiable commercial products used to make things look "futuristic". star-trek.design

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unity's quarterly results yall. oh my god ("Create" is the unity engine, "Grow" is their mobile advertising platform) mobilegamer.biz/unity-to-int...

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avowed is a good game

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

Smoothing all the things!

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Saturday is @romchip.bsky.social's fundraiser stream, and I'm bringing out the big stupid. I'll be playing with the WONDER TOOLS CRUISER, a Fisher-Price controller for Windows 95 that, as far as I can tell, there is zero current video of anyone playing. You will not want to miss this

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Wohoo, wrote a wireframe mesh generator with thick lines (that are uniform thickness on-screen). Hadn't touched a vertex shader in far too long - very satisfying! (guts of Godot code here for shader/mesh-generator, in case anyone wants: gist.github.com/increpare/a5... )

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Got a scammer trying to impersonate Youtube, tried to report it for impersonation, Youtube claims there is no channel on Youtube called Youtube, even though one does in fact exist.

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Iwata's book keep coming back to mind, just in the beginning of it it shines what is wrong with a lot in our industry:

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It's an absurd number and worse when you remember that they absolutely devoured the entire field of VR development six years ago. If you were in VR at that time, you were getting bought out by Meta. Developers told me they made themselves the only game in town

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it’s really depressing how common this is. basically every genre has more exciting and interesting releases hitting on steam now than they did in whatever golden age people are nostalgic for if you just adjust your expectations for scope and budget (and bloat!)

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Spanish experimental sound artist and sculptor Bichopalo

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New blog post: february snaps melon.zone/blog/blog/fu...

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Remember how I was saying how Blender has serious inefficiencies with game dev workflows and that Blender Studio should take on a game or real-time engine project to get someone in-company familiar with the problems? Well, someone there had the same idea... #Blender #BlenderStudio #GameDev

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Video game union @stjv.fr organised a cross border strke in France and Spain over job cuts and working conditions . #solidarity uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/french-...

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this is something i actually somehow Didn't get in trouble for. when I was 14 i noticed that there was a "Students All" e-mail address, so i made a crude looping flash cartoon about a frog and sent it to everyone. for some reason, this message was not deletable, and attempting to delete it would -

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Some perfect little wheeled things for your timeline

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It's annoying to browse for materials in Unreal, especially when doing level design, because the content browser shows the textures applied to spheres, so I just made a texture browser widget that works like you'd want. Searchable too, and you can change the thumbnail size. Who wants it

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Scientists have created an actual treatment for prions, the cause of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans, chronic wasting disease in deer, & mad cow disease. "Brainwide silencing of prion protein by AAV-mediated delivery of an engineered compact epigenetic editor". #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Indie devs, sometimes devs will ask in my DMs if I can share their newly-announced, newly-released, or other recent beat for their game, and I almost always do. About half of the indies I post is from devs specifically asked me to! Always feel free to reach out to people (incl. me!)

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#MadeWithGodot: jw-otto made an arcade machine where the player draws their character on paper and then it appears within the game! 🎮 How cool is that?! www.reddit.com/r/godot/comm... #gaming #godotengine #gamedev #3DPrinting #arcade #indiedev

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Ben thinking about this off and on over the year since I posted it. Another topic that has come up in game dev discourse: The idea that games can have more in common with theater than with movies. I think "games as theater" and "jank = good, or at least co-occurs with good" are closely related

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Shoutout to that one time I modded in egg in Half-Life: Alyx.

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I hear the Miniature Counterfeiters' Guild is accepting new applicants, if you're looking to make a little coin

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Made some VR chalk tech. 🐧✍️ #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

submitted 21 days ago • 51 comments

yall gotta see this. check the image links, they're comparison images.

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Oh hey, my favorite intrusive thought: "a drop shadow is just reverb for your eyeballs"

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steam Now Playing notifications are a constant source of joy. i'm always glad to know that Doctor Slopbotnik is playing balatro. happy to hear that Instant Balls is playing pacific drive. who's that playing caves of qud? why, it's spongiform crucible residue of course

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heres another behind the scenes peek these images are all optically composited, in-camera. there is no photoshop or post processing

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𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝖎𝖘 𝖎𝖓 𝖒𝖞 𝖛𝖊𝖎𝖓𝖘 Film: EXR Cinefilm ( #ECN2 process) Camera: Canon AE-1, 35mm 1.2 #art #photography #miniature #kitbash #canon #film

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some excerpts from the hint poems I wrote zandra for this first La-Mulana 2 Oannes stream we found pretty early on in la-mulana 1 that she enjoyed it when I made a fun puzzle out of hints rather than just being told what to do, and it's become a tradition for me with her let's plays of the series

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distracting myself from the horrors and making more quake textures. these are castle machicolations, and were surprisingly tough to make work as a texture that wasn't abjectly miserable to use. I think I found a good balance

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