Brii Mawler

Weirdos who don't even work in games will go "industry too woke/diverse" and it's like... my brother in christ I have seen 2 other Black people on my work calls the whole year 🤦🏾‍♀️

Photoshop layers, one of them named chat gpt

Seen on Reddit: Game dev commissions an artist for assets, but quickly grow suspicious they're using AI. The guy reassures it's not AI by sharing a "hand sketch progress picture". Forgot to rename the layers:

2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:

Cows smell better than pigs, but that bar is so low that it is underground.

Added a few more UI fixes tonight, updated Threli's spritesheet (still a placeholder, but I'm pretty happy with her silhouette at least), and finally changed the icon for pings when a player tries to build somewhere that blocks the path. #labyrinths #madewithgodot

A development screenshot of a forest overlaid with a hexagon-tile maze with a purple line running through it.

A development screenshot of Labyrinths of Elfhame with updated information menus.

A blender workspace screenshot of a dwarf character carrying a backpack laden with pots, pans, and kettles. They have a staff holding a gear shaped lantern.

Progress on my co-op tower defense about building mazes is continuing. Recently I've been more focused on the single player content and finding more ways to make better tutorials so the game teaches itself and mechanics more effectively. #labyrinths #labyrinthsofelfhame

It's fascinating that payment processors are claiming facilitating payments for NSFW materials affects their brand.

Man, It would be so bad for their brand if they also facilitated purchases of:
- Guns
- Products made by slaves
- Snake Oil "Medicine" THAT KILLS PEOPLE
- Literal Scams

3.5k signatures away from 100k, i think we can get there

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An eepy Fleet

i am twenty-six years old and as best as i can tell my country has not been in some kind of generation-defining crisis for maybe 5 of those

public comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit & strip care from DACA recipients ends at 23:59pm EDT tonite

if you haven't commented, it won't take long & is worth doing. context & guidance in-thread ⬇️

if you have commented, thank you💜🏳️‍⚧️

Street Fighter II is as old today as the Civil Rights Act was when Street Fighter II debuted.

You're welcome.

I share this alongside what is my timeless classic to the world.

I get that highlighting that 75% of the men sent to El Salvador have no criminal record can be used to highlight that the idea he is targeting criminals is bullshit HOWEVER doing that to criminals is still illegal & wrong so you need to be careful with that framing and I worry a lot of people aren’t

Welcome to the Melee players moving over from Twitter. Hopefully we can continue to amass more activity on here.

I'm browsing it far more than Twitter these days.

The Hax memorial profile page is live. I hope it honors his legacy well.

Huge thanks to Alexandre Misson for the assets. They really make it feel more special.

And thanks to Aklo and foxygrandpa for their input in making sure we got things right.

View it here:
slippi.gg/user/xx-02

This is the reason I bought Metal Bringer recently. I'm not sure how I feel a couple hours in, but getting new mech parts and trying them out is honestly most of the fun.

congratulations @rivals2.com on your successful direct

THEY PUT MAKOTO IN A PLATFORM FIGHTER

"beloved children's institution funded by taxpayer dollars whose rights and distribution had been scooped up by a private company announcing layoffs once staff begins to organize" is a little too on the nose for 2025 america

I genuinely thought it was a meme so this is my sign it's actually getting released and not a prolonged april fool's joke.

YouTube video by Ramble [SSBU] I Broke Mii Swordfighter.

I know that competitive #smash ultimate has a larger footprint on twitter, but I still think the competitive meta for the game is fascinating. Allegedly (I haven't tested it personally) #MiiSwordfighter has a true 0 to death on every character in the game www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNua...

📰 The #EU consumer commission has started a push against predatory microtransactions in #videogames, suggesting a ban or regulatations on practices that are harmful to the consumer.
#gaming #gamedev

Full report:
www.forbrukerradet.no/report-on-vi...

Guidelines:
commission.europa.eu/document/dow...

A 3d rendered scene of a table with a screen labeled "sector map" listing several locations, such as "Delphinus Gamma, marsh world" and "Asteroid Cluster Scutum Beta". A hologram of a planet composed of glowing dots floats to one side. The table has streaks of colored energy.

Now we're getting somewhere! #gamedev #ttrpg #godot #scifi

Have you seen the trailer for my game yet? It has a star wipe. Everyone loves star wipes, right? #indiegamedev #scifi

Game dev is simple

Game designer: I addressed that edge case you pointed out on that design. it's now a completely different design.

Narrative designer: but what's the STORY behind these darkness shards that can be exchanged for malfeasance fragments?

Artist: [crying while drawing 53 hats]