Alan Lawrey

EA and Stability AI partner to empower artists, designers, and developers The partnership will help unlock faster iteration, accelerate workflows, and expand creative possibilities.

EA Partnering with Stability AI is not only an insult to the creative industries but an insult to every single person they've laid off in recent years.

Games are nothing without the people who make them. Disgusting.

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Very much looking forward to playing this soon!

I can't believe my boy Johnson is finally back. Once Upon a Katamari is peak. My review:

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Frosty is ready for summer 😎 We're excited to reveal the new look for our December show!

Frosty Mini will be a shorter showcase (compared to Frosty Games Fest in June), but it will still be packed with some of the coolest games made in Australia & Aotearoa, and a chocka-block Steam event to boot 🎮

Good luck Ben! You’ve got this!

I can't prove this, but in my opinion whatever the original prompt is always worth (relatively) more than what the gen AI creates. At least in the areas you're talking about with the mass market uses.

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I've seen this screenshot doing the rounds but....I am actually kind of interested to see if the error can be reproduced.

Does anyone have access to Copilot in Excel? Willing to try reproducing this?

Amazing and makes sense. I've attempted to create interiors for much smaller space ships and it was a lot of work even for something the size of a bus. I've only really used collections for handling entire objects, not many different individual pieces of a single object. I'll keep that in mind.

That's very cool! Are you using any addons to make this work easier? Or is it vanilla Blender features?

🚨 Just one day left to submit for Frosty's Dec event! 🚨

Last chance to submit your upcoming or recently released game made in Australia & Aotearoa for consideration. Dev submissions close TOMORROW, Sep 30! ⤵️

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YouTube video by Charalanahzard 5 Secret Ways to Use ChatGPT Like an AI Pro (2025 easy prompt guide!)

It’s time to wake up — if you aren’t using ChatGPT to optimize your work (and your life!) you’re getting left behind. Watch this for 5 simple, lesser-known ChatGPT prompts that geniuses use!

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YouTube video by Alan Lawrey Ray-marching SDFs in WebGL and Godot

Finally got around to wrapping up some small learning projects about ray-marched SDFs. As usual it feels right to make a video about them because they look better in motion, but here are the GitHub links as well:

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github.com/astrellon/ga...

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Frosty is back to celebrate the coolest upcoming and recently released games made in Australia & Aotearoa, this December 🍦🥳

We’ll be featuring exclusive reveals, announcements, and updates. Developers can submit their games now until Sep 30! ⤵️

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Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

Thank you! I never played Chaos Engine, but I like the look of it. Yea it’s still got an issue on desktop where it can (but not always) take a weirdly long time to compile the shader that only happens in the web version.

My wishful thinking is that for 3rd party licenses it would force them to have to create offline/end-of-life versions. Making it that it's unsustainable for those 3rd parties to not have way to handle EOL, otherwise devs aren't going to be able to use them.

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel

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Yea, I think the fact that it is rendering at 480x270 limits how badly it can run. And the raymarched planets are only 148x148, which helps a lot.

Thank you! That’s really nice to hear!

Importantly in the GitHub link there are the credits and reference used.

Also they can be found in the interactive version by clicking on the signature in the bottom right.

I've spent the last month just making something for fun. Combining SDFs, wireframes, vector graphics and pixel art into an interactive galaxy map. This isn't tied to a larger project.

Source is included and it's made in Godot 4

alanlawrey.me/galaxy-map
github.com/astrellon/ga...

#pixelart #godot

YouTube video by Charalanahzard The Censorship "Hit Squad" attacking Video Games.

Here’s my feature on Collective Shout, and their attempts to take down Steam and itch.io. I found a conversation where they spoke about exactly how they did it, and detailed their plans going forward, which sounds… very unrelenting.

youtu.be/rKD4fYc8xV4

Breaking news. Snake oil salesman insists all ailments will be cured with snake oil. 🙄

Frosty Keynote complete!! Thank you Freeplay for having us, thank you to the audience for your excellent questions. 💙💙💙

For women, the increase of AI use in the workplace may affect their careers: Harvard study Women are using AI significantly less then men and it’s going to have a major impact on their careers, according to extensive research on the topic.

Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."

Illustration of a hedgehog. Text above reads Hedgehog Anatomy. Head is marked with a word “hed”, and the rest of the animal is marked with “gehog”.

My perspective as someone who is seeing your game for the first time, I think larger trees would be worth trying out. The campsite and wall look correct compared to the person, but the smaller trees appear to be person sized. I don’t think every tree needs to be very tall though.

I’ve stopped using reddit on mobile with their API changes, which has dramatically reduced my reddit use.

old.reddit is the only reason I keep using it. It’s one of few big sites with a simple and functional UI. And it can be used in contrast with their new UI, which is just much harder to read

A screenshot of the announcement on the godot’s official twitter account that they’re partnering with some weird AI platform

This is a very bad look. A very negative signal from the project leadership to the community #godot #godotengine #indiegames

Delighted to announce that Frosty is joining the official Summer Game Fest showcase lineup! ☀️🍦

Mark your calendars for a jam packed weekend of games 🗓️