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YouTube video by Retro For The First Time First AAA game developer to be Ai centered announced.

I remember hearing about this a few months ago. So much has happened this year. I'm glad someone reminded me! #videogames #gaming #AI youtube.com/shorts/zTRNm...

YouTube video by Alberta Tech Meet the AI taking your job 🥲

I remember seeing billboard for this around town. I thought it was super weird too. youtube.com/shorts/7Zcel...

I mean... when I watched my play testers, they would just jump in the air as they ran just because? and they will have to jump to navigate the platforms. Hmm... maybe I'm just okay with this "homogenization" and don't see it as an issue?

But it's not an initial frustration, it's an ongoing annoyance that builds over time, and I don't think it's more work to make.
I'm also not a Mega Man fan, and this is one of the big reasons why. Not being able to shoot diagonally feels totally arbitrary and every time it kills me, it feels cheap.

YouTube video by Charlie Berens How AI data centers were invented #shorts

People gotta show up to their local counsel meetings. Big corporations can get away with all kinds of BS when people aren't watching. youtube.com/shorts/ILAh2...

Just homogenizes things too much. If you limit shooting directions that will naturally incentivize using movement to compensate for the player's limits (getting on the same floor for hori, getting above/below for verticals), whereas with diagonals u need to work x10 harder to incentivize mvmnt

Also, thinking about it, whenever I've made a run & gun, I've never actually thought about incentivizing the player to jump in this way? Like players well jump to avoid shots/enemies, to navigate platforms in the level... maybe it's because I always prefer more platform like run & guns? 🤔

Hey, thanks for the explanation. Though I have to disagree. 1st I think most mechanics have their place if your willing to put the work in. 2nd, not being able to shoot diagonally is supremely frustrating. Specially if your enemies can! Also, I can't see why it would be 10x harder to develop for.

Legendary musician & activist Peter Gabriel celebrates the Internet Archive hitting 1 trillion pages & reflects on its role in preserving humanity’s memory.

More ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/10/v...

#Wayback1T @itspetergabriel.bsky.social

As predicted, they’re going after the entire childhood vaccination schedule (second slide, from WaPo).

Julia is so skilled 💜💜💜💜

Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'

“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”

My girlfriend Maria wanted to be a shopkeeper in qfg2 #art #pixelart

Game boy resolution, EGA 16 colours

A gender-reversed quest for glory.

#gamedev #pixelart

....Why?

graphic in the mamdani font/colors saying: CALL YOUR SENATORS and TELL THEM NO SHUTDOWN DEAL WITHOUT ACA FUNDING 202-224-3121

Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121

Any of these fuckers betraying us needs to be ousted. It starts with you running as their challenger.

Play BLUEPRINT / TIC-80 build and solve levels

Yosh, you can now play Blueprint in your browser: tic80.com/play?cart=4234 #tic80 #gamedev #solodev

Based on feedback I've received on Blueprint's first public build, I've now added 4 very brief tutorial levels before the main game begins. #tic80 #gamedev #solodev

Hocus Pocus editor

Jazz Jackrabbit level editor

Going down the rabbit hole of DOS game modding.

Discoveries:
* Many of the custom tools have been made recently
* Commander Keen has an active modding community
* Jill of the Jungle has a hidden level editor
* There's exactly one (1) Bio Menace mod ever made: pckf.com/viewtopic.ph...

Cosmo's dialog demo with code example

I've finished reading through cosmodoc.org, which is not only an *extensive* resource for modding Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, but also contains general topics for those who want to learn about DOS era programming.

Armed with all this new knowledge, I can surely make the mod of my dreams!

It took me a while to get this 😅

Level 2 of Cosmo's Computer Adventure is more of a traditional Cosmo platforming level, albeit with previously-unseen dialogue bits with enemy characters.

screenshot from my custom-made level editor #solodev

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

small european car vs normal (?) US SUV

(explaining an american car to a european) yeah so imagine if you were sitting in the back seat while driving,

Nice! Is this an actual NES game or NES inspired.

I'm happy to reveal that WARP ZONES will be in Super Sunny World 🌞 (my upcoming NES platformer).

They are hard to find, but easy to reach again once you know where they are (similar to Mario Bros). This should make the limited-lives style of gameplay more enjoyable.

#nesdev

Indie Retro News: Zezito in the Glittering Caves for the C64 is fun for all the family www.indieretronews.com/2025/11/zezi... #retrogaming #c64 #commodore64

Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim's trial is this Sunday. He is a 16-year-old Palestinian-American citizen who is unjustly imprisoned.

He has lost 1/4 of his body weight in prison.

The Israeli government must release him immediately.

YouTube video by Stephanie Sterling Fear & Fury: How The Rockstar Sausage Is Made (The Jimquisition)

I would just like to remind everyone of a very telling and substantial report of Rockstar's abuse and disregard for workers that came out...... 6 YEARS AGO youtu.be/4xTDVlNGKng?...

'All you had to do was follow the damn law, Rockstar!': Workers are protesting outside Take-Two after GTA 6 dev's alleged 'brazen' union-busting "They can get used to seeing us on their doorstep."

"Rockstar, Rockstar, you're disgusting, we charge you with union busting," the protesters declared.