Serena Howard (UK Env Artist LFW!)

America's first ever esports champion was Rebecca Heineman, a trans woman. She went on to found some of your favorite video game studios and worked on your favorite video games. Next time you see somebody rail about 'woke' and 'DEI'
Remember that.
Remember her.

As Ascend is inspired by so many ps2 games and mechanics we HAD to do this! #indiegame #gamedev #ps2

🐺 Forgotten Knight 🗝️

Riverbank | Little Ruin

#indiedev #indiegames #isometric #sliceoflife

This story is infinitely more important than GTA getting delayed. Don't let me catch you moaning about waiting longer for a video game if you're not mad about why it happened.

I always think "surely there's no way these posts will ever work for me" but what the hell, why not.
I've had a rough past few months and could use some good luck.

But the audience doesn't want products. The audience wants meaningful and significant experiences.

I dunno. It's depressing, the way these people have wrecked so many studios -- and so many lives -- and are now picking the carcass apart, eternally questing for their profits.

If I'd only known that the six-month paid Upwork gig I got within a few months of graduating uni would be the best I'd ever have it for the next 8 YEARS...
Well, there's a mountain-sized pile of things I'd have done differently. Starting with not bothering to get a degree in the first place. Sigh.

Netease just went straight to my folio to copy/paste elements of my personal work to create their official concept art for their Wakanda map.

I tried to get answers for a while but no replies from them so here we are.

You can check one of them Dm'ing me on X.

the next time one of your friends or family or acquaintances brings up ANY of these, now you have the facts to show them it’s all only about hating us for being different

CALL THEM ON IT

Almost 200 pages of game dev resources including:

🧑‍🏫 pitch decks
📢 marketing
🎨 art assets
🖥️ programming tools
🗣️ conference talks
🔎 job searching/careers
💰funds and more! 👾

🕷️Hornet Fanart - WIP

Based on @nicholaskole.bsky.social 's concept with a few small adjustments so it matches the Hollow Knight model I made back 2020 >_o (And yeah the arms are just in T-Pose, they don't pierce through the cloth xD)

#silksongfanart #silksongart #silksong

"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

Trying to find a job in video games right now is like crawling through hell:

aftermath.site/video-game-rec...

Hey! A game I had a lil hand in making is out NOW!

I made a few env assets in early-game puzzles, and speaking of puzzles, if you're into:

- cosmos-themed puzzle-solving
- whimisical stylized worlds
- stylish POC lead w fabulous hair
- cute pettable wildlife!

then you'll prob love Ascend! 🌙✨🪐

Hey! A game I had a lil hand in making is out NOW!

I made a few env assets in early-game puzzles, and speaking of puzzles, if you're into:

- cosmos-themed puzzle-solving
- whimisical stylized worlds
- stylish POC lead w fabulous hair
- cute pettable wildlife!

then you'll prob love Ascend! 🌙✨🪐

Since this post did surprisingly good numbers compared to my usual bsky nonsense:

pls enjoy a v silly TBW gif I made of our fav anxious wreck Zan!

The game is full of witty details like this, my friend and I cracked up laughing when we spotted it in the background of a big serious exposition scene

Tactical Breach Wizards mention!
Played it earlier this year, had a blast. 10/10 story, characters, gameplay, none of the classic XCOM frustration. If you love tactics games, it's a must buy.

And 20/10 writing! Traffic Warlock Steve might be the hardest I've laughed at a game in years, iykyk.

I'm lucky I have a roof over my head and food thanks to my mom. But it's been two years out of work except for the occasional freelance. If you're looking for a concept artist or illustrator for your project, please feel free to reach out! From the bottom of my heart, thanks for the support/sharing

Autumn's usually my favourite time of year, but this Sept has been a tough one.
Caught covid, followed by joblessness, followed by grief due to death of a family member all within 3 weeks.

I'm so ready for this month to be over.
Here's hoping I'll find some joy and healing in spooky season 🍂🎃👻

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

So much activity, so much enthusiasm, so little return. Why? In collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, our research team at BetterUp Labs has identified one possible reason: Employees are using Al tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers. On social media, which is increasingly clogged with low-quality AI-generated posts, this content is often referred to as "AI slop." In the context of work, we refer to this phenomenon as "workslop." We define workslop as Al generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.

10/10, no notes hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

Why biometric AI holds the key for the UK’s Online Safety Act | The AI Journal The next phase of the UK’s Online Safety Act, which prescribes how content platforms can serve children, has finally come into force following years of

For-profit age-verification providers are now pushing for "continuous biometric monitoring" — AI scans of your face, your voice, your behavior — while you're online to protect children.

Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.

RESPECTABLE AA STUDIO is hiring 25 different LEAD EXECUTIVE SENIOR C-SUITE DEVELOPERS for EXCITING NEW GAME THAT’S BEEN GETTING LOTS OF BUZZ Requirements: -At least two PhDs in game development -Shipped at least 25 AAA titles as a lead developer -400 years of experience with Unreal Engine -Expert in C#, Python, C++, Ruby, Swift, Rust, HTML, CSS, PHP, Perl, SQL, MATLAB, R, QBASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, Assembly, punch cards, and operating Babbage’s difference engine -No, we are not fishing for one specific person who coincidentally just left their job at another studio. Why would you think that?

THAT FAMOUS GAME STUDIO is hiring a developer for THAT BELOVED GAME FRANCHISE THAT WAS FORMATIVE TO YOU BECOMING A DEV! Benefits: -$150,000/year plus insurance, dental, a retirement plan, and a puppy -Hang with those famous game devs you saw at that GDC talk -We have a ball pit! Requirements: -A positive attitude 😊 -Passionate about our game! -Willing to learn -Some basic game dev experience a plus but not required -Onsite only on Pitcairn Island

A 14-YEAR-OLD WHO DOWNLOADED UNITY YESTERDAY is hiring a developer for I DECIDED TO TURN MY DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS CAMPAIGN INTO A GAME -so im making this game and i have this rly rly good idea but i never made a game b4 so i need u to do all the engine stuff and the programming and fix the mechanics and do the sound and lighting and shaders and backgrounds, i drew my characters on the back of homework but can u turn them into pixel art for me, i cant pay u but we can do rev share and when this game is a big hit youll make millions of dollars

The three types of game dev job listings

Me and the game industry

a cartoon character with a hat and a cane is holding a magnifying glass . ALT: a cartoon character with a hat and a cane is holding a magnifying glass .

Finally booted up Silksong for the first time after a hard day at work, it's exactly what I needed!
Just over 1hr in, it's magical so far, such a delight to be back in this world playing a game w this feeling again after so long!

Thank you Team Cherry for restoring my faith in the games industry✨

Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent

This story better not get buried, because it's absolutely appalling. UK grown food is apparently being sprayed with toxic landfill juice, and no one realised until now 🤢🤢

I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.

At which point all I can think is:

'If a person calls for physical harm to be enacted on others, purely due to them sharing a protected characteristic, I think they should face legal repercussions'.

You are allowed to hold hateful, vile, views; but you can't encourage violence.