Zachary Pope

networking is an incredibly important part of maintaining a professional presence in your creative industry, but it can be daunting. have you tried being completely fucking ridiculous online

GB Patch Games is hiring a Background Artist GB Patch Games is looking for another background artist for our upcoming commercial visual novel project, Our Life: Now & Forever.

GB Patch Games is looking for a Background Artist to help bring cozy fall vibes to their LGBTQ+ visual novel, Our Life: Now & Forever.

🛰️ Remote, Freelance
📚 Examples of your previous work required

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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

“Why is literacy important?”

Socioeconomic Politics Nerd: *rambles on about civic engagement, material enrichment, individual well-being, etc*

Joyce Carol Oates: If you are literate, you can drive a billionaire into a mental breakdown!

AI generated content disclosure via Arc Raider's Steam page: The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this: During the development process, we may use procedural- and AI-based tools to assist with content creation. In all such cases, the final product reflects the creativity and expression of our own development team.

Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice.

They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.

So in terms of actionable advice here, if you're constructing a quest for a game and it's not really feeling like anything, ask yourself if it's just a chain of straightforward "therefore..." cause and effect. You're probably missing a "but!" somewhere in there.

Being a fantasy writer is typing "they extended an olive branch" and then going "shit, do they even have olives in this world?"

81monkeys is hiring a Producer As a Producer at 81monkeys, you will work alongside the CEO/Game Director, funding partners, and work-for-hire clients to ensure the overall vision of the studio’s flagship project is achieved.

81monkeys is hiring a Producer to champion "Joy at Work" and lead their team to new heights!

📍On-site, Full-time (Port Moody, BC)
🤝 Exceptional written and verbal skills
💵 Starting salary: $85k - $100k/yr

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In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. Introducing: Warhammer Survivors, coming 2026.

The endless night closes around you in the universes of Warhammer. Pick a champion and eviscerate endless swarms of enemies ⚔️

Watch the trailer 👇

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

I've been working on a little game in the background for a month or so now.... It's basically going to be snake + guns rogue like type thing. Here's where me and the team are at so far!

#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #unity3d

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Check out the awesome new game by my wonderful and talented friends at Spooky Doorway!

My hot take of the day: RPG designs that fall into the "sad notes on index cards" category are ALSO about fantasy. They are about the fantasy of being able to express oneself fully and honestly in a world that accepts that.

Fantasy A: I get to help.
Fantasy B: I get to cry.

Narrative Designer Job Opening: Narrative Designer at CCP Games in Reykjavík.

OPPORTUNITY- Narrative Designer - CCP - Reykjavík

Not affiliated. Shared welcome.

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@voidinteractive.bsky.social have added new positions to join their team working on Ready Or Not:

💻 Director of Engineering & Technology
💻 Technical Director
💻 IT Sysmte Specialist (Remote Ireland)

🎨 Lighting Artist
🎨 Art Director

🧪 QA Lead
📝 Narrative Writer
🎬 Senior Producer

🌐 REMOTE

I need to mention something that happened yesterday. I had a negative review of my game & an irate player in my Discord, talking about bugs they claimed were longstanding, mentioned all over Steam and Reddit, and never fixed. After some probing they admitted they had been asking ChatGPT for hints.

Hunter: The Reckoning — A Time of Monsters Topple the vampires from the streets below! Will you unite the homeless, the gangs, and the secret hunter societies to defy vampiric rule?

New Hunter: The Reckoning game coming from Paul Wang! If you liked Night Road or Book of Hungry Names you'll want to wishlist A Time of Monsters.

Please wishlist anything from Choice of Games you might want to get; to most algorithms, CoG is "shaped like" bottom-tier choiceslop of the "save cheating boyfriend/push him into the mud" variety, but each game is hand-crafted, written and coded by a single author.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist): the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much. you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

🎃 The kobolds are back for Scarecase 2025 — this Friday & Saturday (Oct 10–11)!👻

Two days of monster reveals, art battles, cozy game streams, and sneak peeks at future Kobold Press releases.

Catch it all live on Twitch & YouTube — and bring your spooky energy.

👉 koboldpress.com/scarecase-2025

We're officially hosting this weeks #TurnBasedThursday!

🕹️ #indiedev: Reply with your game & don't forget the hashtag
🎮 #players: ❤️Like 💬Comment & 🔄Repost

If you don't, we have a spot reserved for you in our haunted domain 👀🎃!

⚡️ NEW: Blackbird is looking for a remote UE5 expert! 🎮

💼 Lead Gameplay Software Engineer
🏢 Blackbird Interactive
🇨🇦 Vancouver, BC or Remote Canada
📃 Full Time
🎚 Senior
🏷 #GameDev, #UnrealEngine, #RemoteJob
💵 CAD 135,000–165,000 a year

Link to apply below 👇

NEW OUTERSLOTH RELEASE 🔥🦥

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❤️ Uncover the lives of 50+ fully-voiced characters
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BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW‼️

Adventure through the stars with the found family of the Zephyr and uncover the secrets of the mysterious Relic suits. Play the Battle Chef Brigade team’s new heartfelt, dynamic card-battling narrative RPG NOW on PC, PS5 and Switch!
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If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.