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Douglas
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Game design professor, math and science geek.
Did spreadsheety stuff for Splinter Cell Blacklist, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, and Far Cry 6. Moderator on gamedev.stackexchange.com
Formerly @D_M_Gregory on Twitter (he/him/his)
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This is good. This is really good. Explains, but doesn't excuse. Reognizes hurt that was caused, but doesn't demand forgiveness.

Aspires to make amends.

It's a long way from getting back to level, but holy heck, this is a masterclass of a good start.
Ye, fka Kanye West, takes out a full-page in the Wall Street Journal to apologize to the Black community, and for antisemitism:

“I lost touch with reality”
January 26, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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3/ We see clearly the proposition put into practice that the right sees the law as protecting them, but not binding them. While it binds their enemies without protecting them.

And yet, many are calling (understandably) for the arrest, prosecution, and incarceration of these right-wing leaders
January 26, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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5/ The carceral system is designed to uphold current power, racial, and class differentials. Such a system will not undo itself. "The master's tools can never be used to tear down his house."

We must instead reenvision what justice looks like. This is an incredibly challenging task in this moment.
January 26, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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We're celebrating our studios as we prepare for Cohort 6!

★ Polyvale Studios won big at Global Game Jam: Citizens Assembly, with coverage in Global News (globalnews.ca/news/11530997/kingston-area-studio-wins-global-award-for-democracy-themed-video-game/) and The Whig!
Kingston-area studio wins global award for democracy-themed video game - Kingston | Globalnews.ca
Kingston-based Polyvale Studios has won an international game design contest for its democracy-themed game Diem, earning the grand prize and a best aesthetics award.
globalnews.ca
January 26, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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Is everything in our game drawn by hand? 🧑‍🎨

#gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #indiegames
January 26, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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New Exhibit:Play Curation!

Field Recording 🎤
Curated by @farfama.bsky.social

These games use field recording as a key gameplay mechanic. Explore the list of games featuring childhood summers, ghosts, the end of the world, frogs, and more.

exhibitplay.com/field-record...
Field Recording Games | Exhibit:Play
A list of games where field recording is a key gameplay mechanic.
exhibitplay.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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The update is interesting but I *beg* store fronts to be consistent, it makes it harder for players and devs alike to understand what the tags mean...
Last week Steam updated their accessibility tags. One name changed to improve clarity, but adopting the name from its Accessible Games Initiative counterpart would be more helpful.

Three new tags should be helpful for players to find games they can play.

caniplaythat.com/2026/01/26/s...
Steam updates accessibility tags - Can I Play That?
Last week Steam has updated their accessibility tags, to improve clarity of one and adding three new ones.
caniplaythat.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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Its wild how the TikTok algorithm changes reveal to Western people how heavy Western censorship and propaganda really is. Access to continuous Israeli war crimes in Palestine, "law enforcement" abuses, global Western imperialism - all gone or deprioritized by the billionaire oligarchs. And this:
January 26, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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Working on visualizing the procgen via leaflet to render my district polygons and then fill them with districts which contain a grid of chunks that get procedurally mixed based on a bunch of rulesets. The colored lines are the road networks, based on real OSM and GIS data!
January 26, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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ive literally never had a chatbot including claude ever give me a non mid answer to a question to anything I know even the smallest amount about. more than anything else they're weaponized dunning kreuger machines
January 26, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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A thorough Little Big Adventure retrospective/review, which also serves as a reminder that fascism wont just go away on its own.

Watch it here: youtu.be/C-J9AH-GPTs?...
January 26, 2026 at 7:45 AM
This is one of those things that makes me think we need malpractice law for software development. 😱
January 26, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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(Settings -> Accessibility -> Require alt text before posting ✅)
January 26, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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The imperial boomerang hitting back is giving me mixed feelings because the people who enjoyed the zone of interest until now are still not making the connection between what they were complicit in to maintain their comfort and what is happening at "home" now.
January 25, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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This is technically about a specific happenstance, but also, this is a reminder to both myself and others online:

It's okay if people don't know specific terminology experts in a field use. It's okay if people in pain and panicking aren't getting everything right. (4/5)
January 25, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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“even through the tear gas, we could taste a softer, gentler future to come. These federal murderers know it, too. We will bury them beneath the new world in our hearts”
Minneapolis Responds to the Murder of Alex Pretti
On Saturday, January 24, an ICE agent murdered Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. In response, people drove ICE and Minneapolis police out of the neighborhood.
crimethinc.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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The mashup I never knew I needed. Fantastic
People keep saying the codenames in Metal Gear Solid sound like Megaman X bosses, so I decided to give them actual designs. Matches the scale of my other X mockups.

Something I've been sitting on for several years that I finally decided to wrap up tonight.
#megaman #pixelart #ドット絵
January 25, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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ooooooh the c-wiz (CIWS whatever) BRRRRRRRRRR on the machine gun at the end is so damn good

I mean the rest of this is also fantastic, outflying a teleporting mech is great, but stay for the brrrrrrrrrrr too
If you fly hard enough you can outmaneuver a teleporting mech. Devlog in comments

(wishlist the game in pinned)
#gamedev #indiedev #DeliveryMustComplete
January 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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NDI integration with OBS is a powerful tool for video routing as part of UX Tests

It can let you have video in an observation room and treat it like any other OBS source for things like mutliviews

However, NDI does use up significant bandwidth and need to make sure your network can handle it!
DistroAV - Network Audio/Video in OBS-Studio using NDI® technology
This plugin adds simple audio/video input and output over IP using NDI® technology. Three integrations are currently available: - NDI Source: add NDI Sources into OBS like any traditional source - ND...
obsproject.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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🎶 People in the United States have been getting treated this way the whole time 🎶

It’s not a boomerang, it‘s an expansion
tfw when the imperialism is boomeranging
January 25, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead
January 25, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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I don't use Facebook much but posted this there Friday night, before they murdered Alex Pretti
January 25, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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The right wing is so fully astroturfed that they genuinely cannot comprehend organic behavior
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”

Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM