Luke Dicken

Legit 60% of why I didn't bother watching

We've done a new game! If you like one or more of:
* Tower defence
* Scottish Space Dwarves
* Retro vibes
You should check this out right now!

YouTube video by Wales Interactive Into the Slimy Mines - Official Reveal Trailer

We're reuniting with @ant-workshop.com to bring you Into the Slimy Mines, a tower defense roguelike with a card twist!

You can expect...

⚒️Intergalactic Mining Dwarves
🦠Hundreds and thousands of Slimes
⚒️Did we mention the Intergalactic Mining DWARVES?

youtu.be/9MPBCESan6Q

Ooooooft. He was such a good guy about supporting the Scottish dev community when I was running IGDA Scotland 😭

You'll be missed mate ❤️

I'd sign up for a premium LinkedIn account in a second if they added a "oh fuck off you insufferable cunt" button

Oh I have stories. It's a UK org that used to go by Women in Game Jobs that was set up and run by an old white guy recruiter for many many years. They did some ok stuff but it really was born of this guy trying to exploit the niche for his recruiting firm and did a lot of not great stuff too

These are genuinely making me sad that my program gave me precisely 0 electives :(

Wait so some megarich twat took one of his idiot toys and put it in the same box as one of his other idiot toys and that's news?

Then after you do that, you get to go away for 3 hours while it says it's doing the thing again. And then you come back and it's still broken. More gunk, more wrist deep, more swearing.

Then you wait 3 hours.

but eventually, you fix the thing and it's truly awesome!

That's super fair

That's so good! I've got a creality "stardust green" that's similar but I'm definitely getting a bit down on all the plastic reels I'm going through using them

3D printing with resin is fantastic cos it's toxic as hell, but it's ALSO incredibly unreliable. And the greatest part is that when it fails - which it will - you get to spend a half hour wrist deep in the toxic gunk trying to sort it out.

I don't think I get enough credit for how much I haven't externalized my true feelings about this Genie shit

I mean largely cos if I did I'd be arrested for "conspiracy to..." But y'know

Going over the GDC agenda and there sure are a lot of AI talks, the majority of which have that tell tale "(Presented by...)" tag.

genie is gonna make stadia look like a good idea

I'm so fucking tired.

Imagine choosing this hill to die on - especially when it's completely unrelated to your org

I've dedicated my life to innovation for games. Nobody WANTS this kind of thing to work more than me. But I want to actually innovate, not just get headlines for innovation.

In my morality, substance matters. Unsubstantiated fluff doesn't. It's a shame our capitalist hellscape only rewards fluff

Like. This GenAI crap has been overhyped and completely underdelivered. And now we get Grift 2.0 where the snake oil fuckers move the goal posts, invent some new terminology and go for round two of fucking everything up.

In a just world these people would be tarred and feathered

I got one of those market research interview requests about world models. I don't do these cos of the potential CoI but when I got one about WMs I actually responded and said the only ethical advice I could give them was to light a pile of money on fire now and move on as it would at least save time

NONE OF THIS SHIT WORKS. AT ALL.

There's a whole slew of work in this space with @danctheduck.bsky.social being one of the largest proponents of whats generally called "pro-social" design. I believe there's been Horseshoe/Polaris white papers on the topic

🎉🎉Earth Must Die is out NOW!!🎉🎉

- Fully animated, fully voice-acted adventure game
- Mega rude, mega cheap
- 8-10 hours long
- Contains a train heist and an alien orgy

store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

Fully orthogonal to your point but this has sent me down a rabbit hole of reading about how Morse code works for non-latin alphabets

a young boy in a blue shirt is talking into a microphone while a woman looks on . ALT: a young boy in a blue shirt is talking into a microphone while a woman looks on .

Thanks - yeah the last couple of years have been a very long lifetime

basically anything that was Playstation/Nintendo. I was a computer kid from the get-go so Final Fantasy, Zelda, Street Fighter all passed me by. Now when I try to get into them I don't have the nostalgia touch point and lose interest fast

It can be both