James Zilberman

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Why We Don't Use AI | Yarn Spinner We get asked about AI a lot. Whether we’re going to add it to Yarn Spinner, whether we use it ourselves, what we think about it. Fair questions. Time to write it all down. Yarn Spinner doesn’t use the...

We're not subtle with all our sassy skeeting about it, but it's probably time for a persistent, official statement about our stance on AI.

TL;DR: we know what we're talking about. GenAI is harming creatives. There will be no AI features in Yarn Spinner. yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-...

If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke, so everyone has all the context. (Full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...)

It’s his quinceañera

I got jumped

Shameless plug for myself

Screencap from Taito NES video game Bubble Bobble. Text reads: "The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born! Now is the time of monsters! Good luck!"

Baby in a crib next to the words - GOODNIGHT UNIVERSE DEMO TIME! COMING OCT 2 STEAK NEXT FEST

🚨 DEMO ALERT 🚨

Goodnight Universe will be part of Steam Next Fest starting on October 2nd with a shiny new demo that you can actually play.

This is your chance to dive in and experience the beginning of this wild story. We can’t wait to hear your reactions!

Oct 2. Be there. 💫

Talk shit about GDC because you want it to be better, not because you want it to die.

I have many problems with GDC but it has done a lot of good. I want it to be better but I see some won't be happy until it dies which is weird

A cat perched on a bald man’s shoulders as he works at his PC

I do some of my best work like this. 10/10 would recommend
#cats #indiedev #gamedev

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

We're Backstab Industries, an indie studio created by recent graduates. It's been rough for everyone in the game industry, especially junior developers. We wanted to create a place for people to make games they're passionate about and show off what they can do

#gamedev #indiedev

A graph titled Scope of video games according to Hushcrasher Classification System. The Y axis shows Game Size (from 10 MB to 100GB), the X axis shows Credits count (sourced from Mobygames). The clustered dots on the graph represent 4 distinct scale categories of games - Kei, Midi, AA, AAA. The larger correlation between the size and the credits means larger category of a game.

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne:

hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...

Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

I'm making a #metroidvania game where you wake up safely in your bed instead of dying. Please consider a ❤️ or🔁 to help get the word out, or maybe even share this with someone you think will appreciate it 🙌
#indiegame #gamedev #littlenemo

Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2074630/...

After much fighting my Keurig has deemed me worthy of an actually drinkable cup of coffee

I’ve been informed that I’m just ignorant

So I usually buy regular Cheerios because I can add my own flavors to them (usually just honey) and today I’m trying it with real maple syrup

Gotta say I’m kinda shocked at how good it is and that it’s never been made before

Incredibly disheartening to see such a great team be downsized. They’ve made some really great games and some of the best licensed games I’ve seen in the last few years

Different dev than Super Kiwi. I believe it started as a recreation of the bird capture in Mario Odyssey and it just kept getting built out from there. There’s even a co-op mode

Been following this game for a while please check it out

Fox News is learning from “the blacks” and taking back the word nazis.

Why not? The white nationalist Elon musk openly celebrated Nazis culture and y’all were like - let’s post more on twitter to help normalize this.

It’s cool! So cool!

YouTube video by Grimaldi_Small_Engine_Perfomance They had character!!

I found my research statement in meme form. Just going to submit it.

youtube.com/shorts/YEPNW...

FromSoftware shared a series of images showing Stormveil Castle at various stages of development in a magazine, CGWorld issue 286, and when I look at it, I feel like I can understand why Dark Souls II is the way that it is. There are areas kind of at or around each of these stages of polish.

So to Speak is in the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase!

So to Speak is 10% off for the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social!

Why might you like this language deciphering game? 🧵

Headline - Nick Clegg: Artists’ demands over copyright are unworkable Strap - The former Meta executive claims that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train AI on copyrighted work would ‘kill’ the industry

“Then die”

Finally bought a big Lego set after years of not being able to afford them. I loved build the Deku tree as well as some little custom builds. I’m very happy to have it as my new bookends

I keep seeing more and more ads that are very clearly AI generated. I may have started being a robot hater as a bit but I’m increasingly vindicated in my hatred

Love Chloe. Very deserved

Acceptance email from Nexon welcoming one of my mentees, Chloe Evans, into the MapleStory Worlds Creators program! =D

One of my mentees, Chloe Evans, got into the MapleStory Worlds Creators program! I'm super duper excited for her to have fun making new friends and creating an awesome game with Nexon game dev folks and fellow peers guidance and to see her career grow even more! =D