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DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · 2d

#Dragon has been cancelled

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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🍄 Catell-Ruz 🍂 @catellruz.bsky.social · 5d

Latest video of Kurzgesagt is a must see.

AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · 5d

I was seeing it for a while in my feed and dared not watch in case them too fell into the AI trap... But thanks for recommending ❤️ Will broadcast in my own spheres!!

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 9d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 9d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · 22d

I'll refer to this article a lot from now on, for folks who asks me "but how do you do it?". Feels natural to some of us, others need convincing...

TLDR: You're not developing in a vacuum. Think of your users more!! We're not researchers, we're game devs 🥹
rystorm.com/blog/waterme...

The Dangerous Watermelons 🍉 in your Software — Robin-Yann Storm, Product & UX Designer for Tools

What are watermelons, and what are they doing in your software?

rystorm.com

DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · Sep 15

If Fae Farm got saved by Gambit Digital... could this mean #ProjectDragon #Everhaven could be saved too? @everhavenworld.bsky.social

www.cgmagonline.com/news/fae-far...

Fae Farm Takes Wing Again With New Publishing Collective

When Phoenix Labs announced they were slashing their development team, the future for Fae Farm looked bleak. However, the game has acquired a second chance,

www.cgmagonline.com

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DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · Sep 11

Yup, it's that simple. On any engine.
Btw, did you know there are ways to instrument Godot with Tracy? It's amazing!

Ari Arnbjörnsson @flassari.bsky.social · Sep 11

Profile.

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DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · Sep 9

Because you shouldn't have to think about "coin" or "Bernoulli gate" to find a metasound node that triggers with a chance...
Renamed the Trigger Filter node to be Trigger Chance and rephrased tooltips to make it clearer. Coming in UE5.7!
It's the little things... :)
github.com/EpicGames/Un...

github.com

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DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · Sep 8

I want one of these hanging from my game room ceiling 🥹

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DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our Drafts Collides is so good it should be illegal.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxfR...

#clairobscur #expedition33

Our Drafts Collides

YouTube video by Lorien Testard - Topic

www.youtube.com

DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · Aug 17

Great stuff, thanks for sharing!

DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · Aug 12

#MusicBee makes it so simple to play "all my music library in shuffle, but without any OST music". This is peak UX - right click Music, expand Filters, Manage... create a "Non-OST" filter based on the Genre metadata, poof. All in under 3min, and no loading. Damn, it's so good when tech just works!!!

DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · Aug 7

Wooooooooo congrats on the launch!! What platform should we buy it from so that you get the most pennies out of it? :)

DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · Aug 5

#OldAndNew #TinyGlade #DailyTheme

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Matt Yang @debaser1215.bsky.social · Aug 4

Well this is a first: Someone made a wiki for a game I worked on that was cancelled. Really makes me happy to see Everhaven live on in some form ❤️ everhaven.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

#bringbackprojectdragon #gamedev

Everhaven Wiki

everhaven.miraheze.org

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DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · Aug 4

Despite the sad state of the world, there are still beautiful things. Thanks #TinyGlade 🥲❣️

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DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · Jul 30

Forgot I did this, but damn this game looks good 🙏
Heroes V Haven faction's town in #TinyGlade 💖
@pouncelight.bsky.social

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DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · Jul 28

How did you have the patience for those trees... It looks awesome, all of it! Nice job all of you :D

DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · Jul 24

My cat is meowing like crazy when I sing "Une vie à t'aimer" from Clair-Obscur while working. She even bites my face if I do as if she wasn't there.

Is my cat the only cat that does that? Or is it because I sing so bad? xD

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kMb...

Une vie à t'aimer

YouTube video by Lorien Testard - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · Jul 16

A lot of people come into the games industry and pretty soon develop a cynical attitude that the industry is largely run by business guys who don't know a thing about video games. It's only after a few years and some seniority that you realize that those guys don't know shit about business either.

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DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · Jul 6

Can somebody tell me why tf AI is so revolutionary for tech and already changes coders lives, while we can still not have Google AI predict the weather for the current day without enormous errors? I can look at the sky and have a better preditciton.
AI is the future... yeah sure

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DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · Jun 29

So yeah. Really, really happy to have kept going on after the first few hours. This one is clearly one I'll replay shortly after finishing it, and one I'll remember :) Congrats to the team @sandfallgames.bsky.social - Montrez-leur! Allez les bleus!!! (et ça vient d'un belge... c'est dire! :D)

DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · Jun 29

they even put a ref to a meme xD And a breakdancing dude... really, all in all, best AA game I've probably ever played. Sure, animation could be better polished and less mocappy, we reach uncanny valley here and there, but the monster design and environment art is more than compensating for that 4/5

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DavidT @damevashj.bsky.social · Jun 29

are so beautiful, I can't swap them for any other attire. Even though they don't shy away from comedy, with "cool" bathing suits and the _Baguette_ clothing line :'D To me, they could get Game of the Year JUST with the Gestral Village. I had so much fun discovering all the little interactions... 3/N

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