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atmospheric vfx? or is that too cinematic

An online survey form that asks "What considerations or values guide your decisions about if, when, or how to use generative AI in your work?" My answer: "Our standing rule is, if one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell."

FWIW, it's me. I made that quote.

Screenshot as proof.

Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI' The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

Disney Captain Hook

I am gonna make it through this year if it kills Smee

Announcing the IFTF x GDC Scholarship Program. We have a small number of passes to distribute amongst our community, so if you are interested, please visit this thread on IntFiction.org for details: intfiction.org/t/iftf-x-gdc...

NarraScope 2026 | Blog | Welcome to Albany NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.

We are delighted to announce that #NarraScope 2026 will take place this year from June 12th-14th at the University at Albany! We'll be collaborating w/ the @albany.edu #UAlbany Game Center, and its Director @jcorace.bsky.social 🎉

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We’re very excited to announce Thinky Dailies! 🎉 Follow our thinky friend on an adventure through handcrafted daily puzzles!

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So look man if we're just gonna be online here watching all these big studios come out and lay down on the tracks about Gen AI going "I have to do this for some reason." then I think it's more important than ever to celebrate games from based devs who are out here openly posting "Nuh uh, fuck that."

We are still recruiting game makers who had games posted to Steam or itch.io in July 2025 for a survey on the impacts of NSFW policy changes. More info on the project website. You can also always email me (via the website or through the email on the USask website) for info or with questions.

The only acceptable amount of genAI usage is zero, IMO.

NarraScope 2026 | A Hybrid Conference on Interactive Narrative NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.

The 2026 Narrascope website is live!
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An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired"

Get more from Meg Syv on Patreon creating Stories and Comics

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If you have any experience in RenPy or programming visual novels and would like to help me with a demo, please send me an email. :)

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Conventions that platform gen AI are willingly alienating real artists and creators, who are the actual core of these events. Those conventions shouldn’t be surprised when artists and attendees begin to avoid them in favor of better curated shows.

Tired of Wordle and Connections? Try these 6 fun daily puzzle games that will get you thinking · Thinky Games The Mastermind-deduction-word-game Wordle inspired a tidal wave of similar designs following its stripped-down, simple approach to making a daily, sharable puzzle that you could solve in a few minutes a day while competing with friends. Here are a few of our favorite Wordle-likes.

If you’ve run out of New York Times puzzles to play…here are some other fun daily puzzle games you can try out!
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You mean NarraScope?

A colorful illustration of a bunch of tomatoes on the vine surrounded by tomato plants and flowers. Each tomato has a different goofy little face on it.

The tomatoes are starting to come up in the garden!! 🍅

Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with 'nsfw', 'adult', or 'erotic' so they don't show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

Save 10% on A Solitaire Mystery on Steam A collection of mysterious solitaires. The solitaires included vary from fairly standard cardgames to funky reimplementations of other games in solitaire form.

Hey, would you look at that, A Solitaire Mystery is out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3743220/...
#gamedev

Whoops sorry, just did!

Np! You can DM me for help later if you’d like. What you’re making clearly looks important

Does the Layoff Data sheet have a column for the year of each wave? You can add that to the countifs formula like (Layoff Data!A:A, $A3, Layoff Data!X:X, V$2) with X being the year column and V$2 as the different years

Same!! I recently blocked like a dozen obvious bots. How the hell did they even find my account??

Play visual novels. I promise you, they won’t bite.

Today is your 💥 last chance 💥 to purchase online tickets to NarraScope 2025! Join us on Discord for a fully hybrid conference experience. The ticket portal closes at 11:59 ET: www.eventbrite.com/e/narrascope...

City of Voices on Steam A short Golden Idol-like deduction game about a young girl who is catapulted from her suburban life into the mysterious world of the ancient Maya. Investigate a series of moments frozen in time. Exami...

The City of Voices demo is OUT NOW, as part of the @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social! Really hope you enjoy our Golden Idol-like :)

Huge thanks, too, to Thinky Direct, for including our new trailer in their live show just now!
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