Mitch M

RE Bluepoint:

Having a studio that is expert at remakes, working for a publisher with an insanely deep backlog of beloved classics, was always a recipe for printing money at a steady cadence.

Leave them alone and they print money forever, little or no opportunity cost. Come the fuck on

Okay so generally all I've REALLY been doing for the last 3 months is coding rollback AABB collisions from scratch for my platfighter and it took until TODAY to get proper collision & 1-way platforms working. Feeling pretty proud.

#platsky #godotengine

Union-Made Game Jam A game jam from 2026-02-16 to 2026-03-02 hosted by UVW-CWA. Union-Made Game Jam 2026 Hosted by United Videogame Workers-CWA · #UnionMadeJam Union-Made Game Jam is a week long game making event for mem...

Union-Made Game Jam is now open for sign-ups! Next week, UVW members and friends are making some bite-sized, union-themed games to show at our GDC booth! We hope you’ll join us! #UnionMadeJam

itch.io/jam/union-ma...

Value erosion gives you finer control over texture breakup and fades. With a softness parameter, erosion feels smoother and more organic while maintaining the overall shape #realtimeVFX #VFX #GameDev #UnrealEngine #UE5

ALTERNATIVELY

Take your big dream project and break it down into much smaller, self contained micro projects with reusable code.

I'm currently working on 2 racing games which share code but one can be released WAY earlier and can start brining income.
I also get to make mistakes earlier

‘Our industry has been strip-mined’: video game workers protest at The Game Awards Outside the lavish event, workers called out the ‘greed’ in the industry that has left games ‘being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money’

Before the Game Awards in LA last week, a US video game workers union turned up to protest. "Anyone who works in the games industry can identify that our art form is being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money." @alyssamerc.bsky.social reports

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/d...

A stained glass-style depiction of The Game Awards trophy, emerging from a bank safe with green bills pouring out the opening. Two large ominous hands hover around the trophy, one holding a scythe to its torso. The depiction is headlined with THE AVARICE AWARDS, with details below: PRESENTED BY UNITED VIDEOGAME WORKERS, A CODE-CWA UNION LIVE ON DEC. 10TH AT 7 PM PT AT HTTPS://TWITCH.TV/UVW_CWA

The Avarice Awards holds a mirror to the hollow glamour of The Game Awards, as workers continue to have their livelihoods upended by mass layoffs. We are speaking truth to the powers ruining the game industry with their greed!

Stream begins on December 10th at 7pm PT / 10pm ET on twitch.tv/UVW_CWA

Hey! Yeah so this Metroidvania grew out of a game jam we did a long while back. I was involved in just about every animated character you see in this game! EXTRA for enemies, I animated 100% of every enemy in the game, including the bosses!

Super hype to announce this!!✨

#Metroidvania #gamedev

We're releasing the game we've slowly been working on around our day jobs for free at the start of next year! ✨ My first time working on a game. I learned so much from the team and made so many mistakes. So grateful for their patience. 😆 But such a fun experience and looking forward to the next one!

Planet Jellham is home to a complex network of naturally forming hardened jelly tubes, used by the local fauna to get around.
Might as well catch a ride while you're exploring in our free, upcoming Metroidvania!

Presenting Planet Jellham, the movement focused Metroidvania I've been working on quietly in the background with my pals!

Explore a gooey alien planet and recruit the local jelly hamsters to unlock new powers. Coming early 2026, for the low, low price of free!

The final few @s5flare.bsky.social hours of #TheGIG!

Next Mission
'Virtual On'
SEGA Saturn

A screenshot from Animal Crossing: New Horizons showing a villager standing beneath a red UVW logo flag at city hall

The QR code for the UVW flag in case anyone would like to download it for their own island.

Want to bring a little union pride to your corner of paradise? One of our members made a UVW flag for your island in ACNH!

(Just, uh, maybe don't let Tom Nook see.)

Woah!

Ontario passed a law starting Jan 2026 that it is illegal for companies to ghost you.

If you have interviewed for a job they are legally required to inform you if they hire someone else or close the position.

The law also requires salary transparency on listings and disclosing use of AI

Meow

#gamedev

please. please when does it stop. when do i stop having dreams about finding out im scheduled for a class i completely forgot about and now its finals week. please i graduated almost a decade ago

A bit of progress on my slime project :D

🥳 Happy #VFXFriday, everyone! This time, we celebrate the #Flipbooktober2025 challenge, and what's a better way to do that than with a VFX Showcase?

#vfx #framebyframe #2dvfx #2dfx

It's that time of year again💥ExplosionTober💥

Any form of media is welcome! It can be 2D VFX, real-time, simulation! Whatever you want to use! If 31 days is too much, check out the 13-prompt reduced version!

Can't wait to see the results!
#ExplosionTober #ExplosionTober2025

Join this year’s #flipbooktober2025 challenge at VFX Apprentice 💜
Our yearly tradition continues: bring the suggested topics to life your way alongside like-minded, talented community members! 🤝
discord.com/channels/727...

#framebyframe #vfx #rtvfx

'Mulan' Characters 'Kingdom Hearts 2' PlayStation 2

'Mulan' Characters 'Kingdom Hearts 2' PlayStation 2

'Mulan' Characters 'Kingdom Hearts 2' PlayStation 2

'Mulan' Characters 'Kingdom Hearts 2' PlayStation 2

'Mulan' Characters
'Kingdom Hearts 2'
PlayStation 2

In all and complete honesty, GDC has not been for *developers* for a long time, and especially not for *workers*.

We need a Game Workers Conference. Unironically.

1. Lmao
2. Yeah, pretty much. It's a double edged sword

That'd be dope! From the shattered glass depicting different Gwen's on the poster, I get the impression that Gwen prime (or whatever she'll be called) might express the different versions of herself in some way throughout the show since they all share or access the same memories

#Swordtember2025

Swordnik 20: Vapor

Today's design is a spectral guardian knight that uses a incense burning Censer as its base.

Lots of fun VFX here! I do love making armor when I can.

#b3D

haha heyyy anyone want a 3D Environment Artist who can also do:
concept art, character design, UI art, recruitment, social media management, voice acting, opera singing (or any other style really), level design, provide cute dogs????
I know a girl... haha.....

The cover of the magazine Debug++. The cover has an illustration of a cityscape and the headline "What's at the Heart of the Machine?"

Finally getting a chance to start reading Debug++ from @debugmag.com. Between this, @gameinformer.com, and @apwot.bsky.social, I love reading mags again.

Are there others that people recommend that I'm missing?

Dang dude, I know people with Hashimoto's and will be needing your warnings. I'm happy for you that everything went well!

I've been experimenting making vfx using Unreal engine's curve atlas as a substitute for color map texture files
#RTVFX #VFX #UnrealEngine