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Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked Suspected China-state hackers used update infrastructure to deliver backdoored version.

In case you missed yesterday, Notepad++ auto-update mechanism was hacked and was delivering backdoored versions for a couple months. Tons of devs use this, uninstall completely what you have, search for the sus files mentioned in article and only download from official site

YouTube video by BBC Archive 1981: How COMPUTER GRAPHICS Will Change the World | Horizon | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

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More real time procedural #blender walking things

Cogito - Godot Asset Store Cogito is a fully-featured Immersive First Person Template Project for Godot 4

🎉 Happy to announce that #COGITO - our #Godot 4 first person template is now updated to 1.1.5 with lots of polishes, bug fixes and features like the spatial prompt UI and full localization.

💾 Godot Asset Store: store-beta.godotengine.org/asset/philip...

#MadeWithGodot #GodotEngine #MadeWithCogito

The final update of the Godot Shaders Bible is now live with 360 pages 🎉Huge thanks to everyone who supported this project! 🥳

If you don't have the book yet, use this coupon 5OFFGSBJAN26, available for 24 hours 🔗 jettelly.com/store/the-go...

#indiedev #gamedev #godotengine

Hey game devs - don’t forget to add your Bluesky link to your Steam pages.

UploadVR's Best of VR 2025 Awards – Game Of The Year, Hardware & Most Anticipated Of 2026 And finally, here are UploadVR's Best of VR 2025 Awards, featuring our picks for Game of the Year, New Hardware, and Most Anticipated. Find all of our winners here.

And finally, here are UploadVR's Best of VR 2025 Awards, featuring our picks for Game of the Year, New Hardware, and Most Anticipated.

Find all of our winners here:

www.uploadvr.com/best-of-vr-2...

Inverse Kinematics Returns to Godot 4.6 – Godot Engine Now Godot has Inverse Kinematics in 3D.

Inverse Kinematics returns to Godot 4.6! 🕺

After a long wait, IK is back with significant improvements. Tokage breaks down the new implementation:

Otto's Basketball Game, version 1.0.0, is now done :--) The game is freeware, and you can play it on (or download it from) Itchio.

ottoojala.itch.io/ottos-basket...

It's a simple one-button basketball game with lots of silly details and a good kind of homemade feel to it.

#godot #solodev #gamedev

YouTube video by LT Gaming Top 25 Indie Space Games to Wishlist For 2026!

Stumbling over your own game after clicking on a YouTube video about upcoming space games is extra wild, when lying in bed with a fever and thinking you are hallucinating.

Wheeeeeee <3

#indiegame #gamedev #godot #spacegame

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Godot 4.6 Beta - Best New Features – GameFromScratch.com Following EXTREMELY quickly after the Godot 4.6 Dev6 release, Godot 4.6 beta1 is now available. This is an important milestone in the development of Godot 4.6 as this represents the point of feature f...

Godot 4.6 Beta is here!

This is the feature freeze version, meaning what you see is what you get. We check out the best new #GodotEngine features in Godot 4.6 Beta1.

gamefromscratch.com/godot-4-6-be...

#gamedev #indiedev

📌 Three new papers at #aiide25 from me:

1. A 'vision' paper about why game design is like procedural design bsky.app/profile/mtrc...
2. A new system for generating mechanics called Pixie bsky.app/profile/mtrc...
3. A big group paper about speedrunning as an AI challenge bsky.app/profile/mtrc...

..it is great!

Netflix Just Quietly Released The Most Underrated Fantasy Adventure Of The Year Alex Woo left Pixar to found his own animation studio. Now, he’s directed his first movie, 'In Your Dreams,' and it’s a wildly imaginative ride.

this looks great
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'Pixels To Pages' Is A Remarkable New YouTube Documentary Covering The History Of Electronic Gaming Monthly Available now for free

'Pixels To Pages' Is A Remarkable New YouTube Documentary Covering The History Of Electronic Gaming Monthly.

Blender Computer Animation Bundle 4th Edition | eBook Bundle | Fanatical Our new Blender Computer Animation Bundle 4th Edition will...

good looking Packt bundle #godot #blender3d #b3d www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/bl...

YouTube video by Noclip How Games Are Made: SOUND DESIGN

How Games are Made: Sound Design

This is the first in a new series that dives into specific areas of game design.

This first episode is about SOUND, covering everything from recording foley, to assigning priority, how the engine and CPU deal with sound and more.

youtu.be/lbOghip5CPI

Watch Mehdi Hadi's New Sci-Fi Short Film "Memories" The latest short film to emerge from Motion Plus Design's Made With program in partnership with Maxon and Adobe, Memories finds director/CG artist Mehdi Hadi building an atmospheric post apocalypse an...

The latest short film to emerge from Motion Plus Design’s Made With program in partnership with Maxon and Adobe, Memories finds director/CG artist Mehdi Hadi building an atmospheric post apocalypse and its mechanical lifeforms.

Watch: www.stashmedia.tv/watch-mehdi-...

We have every issue of PCGames... we think. | The Video Game History Foundation Get more from The Video Game History Foundation on Patreon

New public post on our Patreon:

We THINK we have every issue of PCGames magazine. How do we know that other issues *don't* exist? Well, it's tricky...

How netcode works, and what makes 'good' netcode Arm yourself with what you need to know about netcode, from tick rates to dedicated servers and peer-to-peer systems.

..here's an introductory primer on programming for multiplayer games www.pcgamer.com/netcode-expl... #gaming #gamedesign #gamedev

YouTube video by Chris Wilson They're Hacking Your Packets (and How to Stop Them!)

A better way of structuring your netcode packets #gamedev #gamedesign www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4RN...

Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source Microsoft announced today that they're preserving a bit of history here - with Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III now officially and clearly open source.

Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source
#Zork #Microsoft #Retro #OpenSource #RetroGaming

Great Ormond Street Hospital is looking for a Gamer in Residence Role aims to improve patient care, minimise trauma, and ensure that every young person has someone to game with

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is looking to hire a Gamer in Residence to improve adolescent patient care and minimise trauma through gaming sessions

www.gamesindustry.biz/great-ormond...

screenshot of steam

Any UK gamedev folks know which of these apply to companies from the UK operating on Steam?

I think that's a good idea
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a screenshot of an article on chance and luck in games from Game Developer Magazine 2006

Chance and luck in video games:
Getting Lucky - The Magic: The Gathering Creator's Stance on Chance (Game Developer Magazine 2006) archive.org/details/GDM_... #gamedev #gamedesign #videogames

Glaser on Lewis Hyde "..artists provide that gift to the culture so that people have something in common"

An excellent look at the value of tedium in games.

The 2025 UK Video Games Industry Census is now live.

It is the most comprehensive survey of the UK games workforce, and it comes at a key moment for the sector.

It’s open to all UK games workers and completely anonymous.

Take part today: zurl.co/yfMwu