This.
05.03.2026 04:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@xerginmakesgames.bsky.social
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This.
05.03.2026 04:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Gotta be Taniks again
03.03.2026 20:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I swear to god @bungie.net has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
03.03.2026 09:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The secretive company filling video game sites with gambling and AI
aftermath.site/gameshub-click...
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 π 1300 π 196 π¬ 17 π 6thought 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 π 103 π 6 π¬ 11 π 0Code 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 π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 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
Naseer is 100% right
22.02.2026 16:26 β π 206 π 21 π¬ 4 π 0Meme 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 π 7243 π 2324 π¬ 31 π 31The 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 π 7138 π 2588 π¬ 40 π 45omg omg omg
19.02.2026 04:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0correct! 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 π 1234 π 345 π¬ 1 π 0the "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 π 78 π 13 π¬ 2 π 0this is a great read on why doing development and talking about development are fundamentally different things
13.02.2026 16:38 β π 145 π 24 π¬ 2 π 2cortana not now
13.02.2026 01:33 β π 61 π 10 π¬ 0 π 0βour stories are good enough for TV but the writers arenβt?β ππ»ππ»ππ»
06.02.2026 23:54 β π 1576 π 262 π¬ 5 π 1
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-...
yess
05.02.2026 05:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This spell lets you always bring knives to them gunfights
#GameDev #GameDevelopment #UnrealEngine5 #UE5 #IndieDev #SoloDev
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 π 11555 π 2792 π¬ 89 π 73Damn son. Looking good!
03.02.2026 09:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My 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 π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Today, 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 π 350 π 32 π¬ 17 π 3First person shooters
01.02.2026 21:18 β π 3857 π 1092 π¬ 38 π 18[Halo3] #301 Floodgate (14)
31.01.2026 02:24 β π 205 π 29 π¬ 0 π 0I simply love how the most incompetent, uneducated-on-the-topic, ignorant, buzz word-chasing people are in charge
31.01.2026 04:27 β π 97 π 6 π¬ 4 π 0Bloomberg headline: "Nvidia Halts Plan to Invest $100 Billion in OpenAI, WSJ says"
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Update: Dr Disrespect faked being invited to the Highguard press event? For some reason?
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