Alex Earle

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1 like = 1 prayer

VR Games Showcase is going to be our most robust show yet - XR Indies & Friends countdown, VRGS, and Developer Direct all in one - so please pray for me and my pc as I export 😤

Our game is good, the algorithm just ignores us
Our game is good, the algorithm just ignores us
Our game is good, the algorithm just ignores us
Our game is good, the algorithm just ignores us
Our game is good, the algorithm just ignores us
Our game is good, the algorithm just ignores us

The BBC have already done this with trans people.

✋ hiiii. i was affected by this

this is sad, and i'm sad, because this team was utterly stellar. i've learned SO much from these wonderful people, and i've never felt more able to be myself than at Bithell Games

because i'm me, i blogged about why Bithell Games means so much to me. see below!

Sad news today. Bithell Games, having been unable to secure a new larger scale project, is reducing in size. This means that eleven jobs are being made redundant. This constitutes the majority of our full-time staff. It became clear leading up to the release of our most recent game that we were not immune to the challenges faced by many game development teams seeking funding partners in 2024 and 2025. We’ve fortunately been able to communicate these challenges ahead of time, and work with affected staff to ease departures as much as possible via severance packages. It’s important to state that this was an incredible team of exceptionally talented people. If you’re a developer reading this, and you’re hiring; anyone among those affected would be a great addition to your studio, please reach out if we can help to put you in touch. This news will not impact the availability of our existing self published games and ongoing support for them. We are incredibly grateful for our audience, and hope that your interest in our work follows individual team members as they head into other roles. Bithell Games was always defined and elevated by our people. Today we are less. - Mike Bithell

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43 days til CRY OUT LOUD is out!

Coming September 16! After getting suspended from school, Nell is sent to live with her estranged relatives and finds out she's part of a deadly family tradition!
Preorder now or ask your local library to stock it for you! ✨💚

Alright, Hitler, you're in. But I'm watching you.

When we are rid of all the endless unsustainable growth people in the tech industry, the world will be a better place.

Mesh2Motion (@scottpetrovic.bsky.social) is an open-source alternative to Mixamo that allows you to rig humanoid and four-legged characters!

mesh2motion.org

Hello World! 🌊

We are (some of) Day Off Interactive. Founded in Ireland, we’re a remote game studio of industry veterans and life-long gamers. 🌞

We’ve been building unannounced simulation and strategy games with an emphasis on reactive in-game characters since July 2024.

More coming soon. 🤫

You can't call far-right protesters racist without someone getting offended. It's political incorrectness gone mad.

Alex on twitter writes: "Someone on Twitter writes: "You’re a menswear writer. You don’t know anything about manufacturing in America, or steel mills, or metallurgy, or CNC machining, or how anything is produced from raw material into a finished product in this country or anywhere. Stick to writing about “men’s fashion."" I reply: "i actually had a career in knifemaking before this. the reason why you can't avoid tariffs in knifemaking is because everyone relies on Gobelin machinery. are you aware of this?" Alex replies: "Gobelin machinery? What exactly are you referring to?" I reply: "you Gobelin DEEZ NUTS!"

"stick to menswear"

VPN apps are dominating the top 10 of the App Store in the UK at the moment. I wonder why 😉

This is incredible

Three guys sitting on thrones formed of their own gargantuan brains

a brain smoothed out and polished into a mirror-like surface

We’re just innocent men

This is full-fat fascism from a Labour minister. Legitimising the idea that people seeking asylum represent a danger when compared to any other UK citizen is legitimising the far-right. To say that the government 'hears the worries' is to give credence to fascist conspiracy theories.

Screengrab of a post on a Mastodon server, which is itself a screengrab of a post on (maybe) Threads, but which has been manipulated to read: "The uk is great because there are so many different meal deals you can buy but then there are also the horrors" The words "the uk", "meal deals" and "buy" are highlighted in grey indicating they have been changed from whatever the original was.

@soozuk.bsky.social
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There's absolutely no meaningful difference between this and Trump's notorious "very fine people" comment about Charlottesville.

I actually do this in the show.

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Pie chart. Title reads "2025. Game engines used to create 9724 GMTK Game Jam Games" Unity has 41%. Godot has 39%. Other has 11%. Game Maker has 5%. Unreal has 4%.

These are the engines used to make 9,724 games for the GMTK Game Jam in 2025!

1️⃣ Unity - 41%
2️⃣ Godot - 39%
3️⃣ Other / No Engine - 11%
4️⃣ Game Maker - 5%
5️⃣ Unreal Engine - 4%

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Just as the prophecy foretold

"I need ChatGPT to brainstorm" dear human person the whole point of brainstorming is to find new ways or angles when approaching a problem, the "let's regurgitate the complete stolen corpus of human achievement"-machine doesn't help you brainstorm - it stops you from brainstorming.

Do you need some cool Unity programmers and designers like me? 😎 @betajester.bsky.social has some availability across code, art, and design, so if you need a hand drop me a message and we can chat about how we can fit in 😁

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Do you have:
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We can bring 10 years of development experience to your ideas and projects! Check out: www.betajester.co.uk

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LinkedIn quietly removed references to deadnaming and misgendering from its hateful content policy LinkedIn quietly changed the language of its hateful conduct policy this week, removing a line that referenced a prohibition on misgendering and deadnaming of transgender individuals.

New from me: LinkedIn quietly removed references to deadnaming and misgendering from its hateful content policy this week. The company says it's underlying rules have not changed but advocates say it's part of a trend to loosen rules meant to protect vulnerable users.

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