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🌈 | πŸ‡΅πŸ‡­ | Filipino Game Developer | Musings on games and the state of the video gaming industry from the POV of a Southeast Asian developer | Lead Dev and Creator of Project Xandata

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Regretting the decision to give the enemies all black suits now. Spot the enemy:

#GameDev #GameDevelopment #IndieDev #UnrealEngine5 #UE5

09.03.2026 16:48 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mask-off corporate bootlicking that causes these fucks to junk the most vulnerable members of their audience at the first sign of resistance aside:

08.03.2026 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3941    πŸ” 1114    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 17

It sucks to see a fellow dev get ripped off like this, but at least the revenge story is very satisfying. Got 'em!

Oh and their game DESOLUS has a demo and you can wishlist it to help them out:

store.steampowered.com/app/1003460/... #screenshotsaturday

07.03.2026 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When Unity started collapsing I made a quick "how do I get going in Unreal" website many folks found helpful. that website has now MOVED and is a DIFFERENT COLOUR. If you want Unreal demystification, tips and scoops, this is a place

www.ughiguessiwanttomovefromunitytounreal.com

07.03.2026 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 225    πŸ” 85    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

This.

05.03.2026 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Gotta be Taniks again

03.03.2026 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I swear to god @bungie.net has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

03.03.2026 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The secretive company filling video game sites with gambling and AI
aftermath.site/gameshub-click...

02.03.2026 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 802    πŸ” 302    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 72

Just a hot tip but if you see anyone in games talking about unpaid internships it's worth noting that in most countries, having an intern do the work a full employee would usually do for no pay is in fact extremely illegal

24.02.2026 07:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1300    πŸ” 196    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 6

thought this was serious for a second. amazing satire on the types of people who "offer" unpaid internships. never let anyone do you like this

24.02.2026 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 103    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0

Code switching my brain from Programmer to Artist is taking a lot out of me. Dreading the switch from Artist to Biz after. #solodevthings

22.02.2026 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I lived through publishers telling me constantly that NFTs and Crypto games were the future and I needed to get on the train and design them or I'd be left behind.

I said NO.

I'll outlast "AI generated games" too. That's an oath.

#gamedev #games

21.02.2026 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1356    πŸ” 148    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 3

Naseer is 100% right

22.02.2026 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 206    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
22.02.2026 05:19 β€” πŸ‘ 251    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
Meme image of Sonic saying "I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding". The text has been blanked out so it reads "I want games with gay people who are woke and I'm not kidding".

Meme image of Sonic saying "I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding". The text has been blanked out so it reads "I want games with gay people who are woke and I'm not kidding".

18.02.2026 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 7243    πŸ” 2323    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 31

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

16.02.2026 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7139    πŸ” 2583    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 45

omg omg omg

19.02.2026 04:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

correct! every post about fixing a broken games industry that involves [specific games industry tweaks] and not [destroying a speculation-mad executive class and using their bones for compost] is just wasting everyone's time

16.02.2026 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1234    πŸ” 345    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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the "Isla de Muerta" pattern of UI design: functionality that cannot be found save by those who already know where it is

14.02.2026 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

this is a great read on why doing development and talking about development are fundamentally different things

13.02.2026 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 145    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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cortana not now

13.02.2026 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œour stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?” πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ»

06.02.2026 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1575    πŸ” 262    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue β€˜If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’

Vibe coding is working as expected: it'll kill the open-source, secure, and ideologically maintained alternatives to make sure you have to pay the oligarchs to do anything at all, and they can control what you're allowed to make.

www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...

05.02.2026 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 982    πŸ” 364    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 27

yess

05.02.2026 05:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This spell lets you always bring knives to them gunfights

#GameDev #GameDevelopment #UnrealEngine5 #UE5 #IndieDev #SoloDev

03.02.2026 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

remember back when we all doodled the current thing for warmups? we could bring that back, maybe, that was fun

03.02.2026 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 11553    πŸ” 2794    πŸ’¬ 89    πŸ“Œ 73

Damn son. Looking good!

03.02.2026 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My desire to be healthy and strong by waking up early to work out and eat right will forever be at odds with my programming powers being fuelled by sugary caffeine drinks and get 200% boost during ungodly hours past midnight

02.02.2026 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Today, judging the games at the Groningen Global Game Jam location, one of the developers said "Oh, and you can press `F` to call your mom" and so I pressed it but I was a tiny green alien so then mom alien appeared on in-game voice chat and obliterated the enemies around me with an orbital cannon

02.02.2026 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 350    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 3
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First person shooters

01.02.2026 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3858    πŸ” 1092    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 18