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Tim?! from BlueKeyGames!🙃

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We make games! (: Low poly model commissions are open! Flexible rates depending upon your budget! If you are an eccentric multimillionaire, you should give me $150,000 on Ko-fi so I can make a cool game. https://ko-fi.com/bluekeygames

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Tim?! from BlueKeyGames!🙃 @bluekeygames.bsky.social · Aug 10

Hey #gamedev gang, I could use some work! I'm open for #lowpoly model + animation commissions. I try to have flexible rates and quick turnarounds while also maintaining the aesthetic your project is already using.

Reach out via DM or to rhapsodyingeek on Discord if you need some lo-poly work done!

Screenshot of a character wearing a vintage-looking dive suit in the Godot Engine.

HWK-290 from Star Wars Dark Forces and Jedi Knight.

Ithagnal, Volkerh, and Goroth stare down the diminuitive by comparison Ranger, in the style of the original Quake.

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Tim?! from BlueKeyGames!🙃 @bluekeygames.bsky.social · 1d

Chuck Schumer still doesn't believe they really mean what they're actively doing.

Tim?! from BlueKeyGames!🙃 @bluekeygames.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are literal Nazis. We already knew this, but they keep doing their best to erase any doubt for the "bipartisan" and "centrist" holdouts.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigra...

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Tim?! from BlueKeyGames!🙃 @bluekeygames.bsky.social · 1d

Josh Sawyer tweet claiming, "I will never complain about treasure behind a waterfall even if there is treasure behind every waterfall. That's the Josh Sawyer promise." But is it true?

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groove @wefeelgroove.bsky.social · 2d

tech so good and reliable that you have to sneak it in because everyone will hate you when they find out

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Tim?! from BlueKeyGames!🙃 @bluekeygames.bsky.social · 1d

Literally was just talking about this on the func_godot discord. Gotta say, I don't use GZDoom and it even got me pretty "Yikes" reading the discussion.

github.com/ZDoom/gzdoom...

gotta scroll down a bit, it's a thread on the comment // This is what ChatGPT told me for detecting dark mode on Linux

tweaked launcher window theme. · ZDoom/gzdoom@584af50

* autodetection of dark mode. The Linux solution was provided by ChatGPT and needs to be reviewed before being deployed. * default to system preset instead of light theme. * dark theme is mostly th...

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Tim?! from BlueKeyGames!🙃 @bluekeygames.bsky.social · 1d

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 4d

25 years in, we are NOT allowing genAI music onto OC ReMix, full stop.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

ocremix.org/remix/OCR04918
youtube.com/watch?v=fUsg...

Recent comment: "This A.I. music is as fake as 🏈 🦇."

In this case, this is human-made. (3 of our judges panel are also involved as collaborators on it: jnWake, pixelseph, and paradiddlesjosh.)

We explicitly do NOT accept any music made with generative A.I. There are tools out there that help identify genAI music. If music involving genAI is ever unknowingly let on, it will be removed if it's discovered.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 7d

just spotted that cyberpunk does doom-style sprites for distant cars and characters... amazing

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 2d

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

designroom.site

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Yuri @yurisizov.bsky.social · 3d

If you use GitHub Copilot, or any LLM agent for that matter, you are vulnerable.

There is no solution or protection. It's just how they work.

www.legitsecurity.com/blog/camolea...

CamoLeak: Critical GitHub Copilot Vulnerability Leaks Private Source Code

Get details on our discovery of a critical vulnerability in GitHub Copilot Chat.

www.legitsecurity.com

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Tim?! from BlueKeyGames!🙃 @bluekeygames.bsky.social · 2d

It's Fox Mulder's birthday today! Time for my annual #XFiles Fight the Future rewatch!

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Nexxtic (Selaco Lead Dev) @selaco.bsky.social · 15d

Embrace your shitty MS Paint skills and stop using AI for your placeholders.

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Tim?! from BlueKeyGames!🙃 @bluekeygames.bsky.social · 3d

Okay but this kinda slaps?

Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 3d

By changing only a single byte in the code of Mario Paint, the music composer will not stop at the end of the song and instead continue to play the entire contents of the console's memory as music.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 4d

I will say that nothing is more baffling to me than the industry standard that we teach developers about publishing by having them listen to talks and panels by publishers. It's like fiscal responsibility taught by a loan shark, privacy taught by Google, or human rights taught by Israel.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Nexxtic (Selaco Lead Dev) @selaco.bsky.social · 5d

Is this an accepted take?

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Tim?! from BlueKeyGames!🙃 @bluekeygames.bsky.social · 5d

It's been awhile since I tested out some things in They Came From Dimension X and I forgot just how cute the marsfrog's behavior is. It waddle runs away when it sees you until it reaches a certain distance, then it turns around and watches you.

I should get some video of it soon.

Test level from the sci-fi horror FPS They Came From Dimension X. A little creature, the marsfrog, stares at the player.

Tim?! from BlueKeyGames!🙃 @bluekeygames.bsky.social · 6d

Every story I’ve tried to write

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 6d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Jasozz @jasozzgames.bsky.social · 7d

Going live! Gonna be playing all the way through CULTIC to test out the automap and the new Unity version upgrade!

www.twitch.tv/jasozz

Jasozz - Twitch

Jasozz streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.

www.twitch.tv

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 7d

In Super Smash Bros., the skeletons visible when characters are hurt by electric attacks are not tied to specific animations, and instead are a form that can be toggled on and off at any time, including in cutscenes. Below are excerpts of the game's intro, with skeletons.

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Tim?! from BlueKeyGames!🙃 @bluekeygames.bsky.social · 13d

Just wrote up a new Dev Log about the shaders I've been working on for They Came From Dimension X! You can check it out on Patreon or Ko-Fi!

Patreon
www.patreon.com/posts/materi...

Ko-Fi
ko-fi.com/post/Materia...

Materially Speaking | Blue Key Games

Get more from Blue Key Games on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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⛧Vikintor⛧ 🇧🇷 @vikintor.bsky.social · 9d

#Val'tyFPS hub area feels so relaxing with the music from @elektrobear.bsky.social (from the 80 Songs Pack, which I highly recommend)

About the city, I know it's looks like the city of the "farting aliens" from MDK, but I'll change it more after I add more details.

#retrofps #fps #gamedev

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Tim?! from BlueKeyGames!🙃 @bluekeygames.bsky.social · 9d

Okay hear me out

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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 10d

[David Lynch looking awesome in sunglasses] i hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favorite projects

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 10d

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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