Elbi
@elbi.bsky.social
"Michael" · game dev since '12 · June's Journey, SelfCare, Ghost Detective, others · freelance design/code · 💜 purple, boardgames, cats · @derElbi elsewhere
he/him or they/them
Berlin 🇩🇪 & Vienna 🇦🇹
he/him or they/them
Berlin 🇩🇪 & Vienna 🇦🇹
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“The number one thing that we’re here to defend as artists is humanity… We’re here not to think about makes human life easy, what makes it convenient, but what it’s like to actually live.”
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“The number one thing that we’re here to defend as artists is humanity… We’re here not to think about makes human life easy, what makes it convenient, but what it’s like to actually live.”
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We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games!
Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI.
You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:-
www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal
Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI.
You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:-
www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal
February 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games!
Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI.
You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:-
www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal
Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI.
You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:-
www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal
When I moved to Berlin in '12, I thought "yes! all bands stop here!"... then mostly stopped going to concerts.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
* The Cure (opener 65daysofstatic, deserve their own entry)
* Einstürzende Neubauten
* Moi dix Mois
* Blind Guardian
* FF: Distant Worlds
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
* The Cure (opener 65daysofstatic, deserve their own entry)
* Einstürzende Neubauten
* Moi dix Mois
* Blind Guardian
* FF: Distant Worlds
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Electric Brixton and Royal Albert Hall
Ugly - Village Underground
Alan Sparhawk - Horseshoe Tavern
Beth Gibbons - Massey Hall
Tropical Fuck Storm - Lee's Palace
Technically six. 2025 has been big for me.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Electric Brixton and Royal Albert Hall
Ugly - Village Underground
Alan Sparhawk - Horseshoe Tavern
Beth Gibbons - Massey Hall
Tropical Fuck Storm - Lee's Palace
Technically six. 2025 has been big for me.
Top 5 is hard after hundred and hundreds of gigs over the decades, but I won't be held accountable so let's go:
1. Portishead - Heineken music hall Amsterdam. Glorious
2. Nine Inch Nails - Brixton Academy (with VIP backstage shenanigans).
3. Bruce Springsteen - Olympiastadion Berlin
1. Portishead - Heineken music hall Amsterdam. Glorious
2. Nine Inch Nails - Brixton Academy (with VIP backstage shenanigans).
3. Bruce Springsteen - Olympiastadion Berlin
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
When I moved to Berlin in '12, I thought "yes! all bands stop here!"... then mostly stopped going to concerts.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
* The Cure (opener 65daysofstatic, deserve their own entry)
* Einstürzende Neubauten
* Moi dix Mois
* Blind Guardian
* FF: Distant Worlds
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
* The Cure (opener 65daysofstatic, deserve their own entry)
* Einstürzende Neubauten
* Moi dix Mois
* Blind Guardian
* FF: Distant Worlds
Using Berlin public transit means buying a ticket, watching your train change from "arriving in 2 min" to "actually not, objects on the track, find a replacement", walking half a mile to a tram, waiting as the display shows "in 4 minutes" for 8 despite being on a standalone track. 💛 BVG & DB
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Using Berlin public transit means buying a ticket, watching your train change from "arriving in 2 min" to "actually not, objects on the track, find a replacement", walking half a mile to a tram, waiting as the display shows "in 4 minutes" for 8 despite being on a standalone track. 💛 BVG & DB
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Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
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We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
Game devs! Stop identifiably posting things that will get you fired in spaces where people who want to fire you (your CEOs right before bonuses, but also that underperforming colleague whose promotion "you stole" or who just doesn't like you) can see!
Please, please, please learn some basic opsec 😭
Please, please, please learn some basic opsec 😭
EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Game devs! Stop identifiably posting things that will get you fired in spaces where people who want to fire you (your CEOs right before bonuses, but also that underperforming colleague whose promotion "you stole" or who just doesn't like you) can see!
Please, please, please learn some basic opsec 😭
Please, please, please learn some basic opsec 😭
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I might not be smiling but trust me im very happy
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I might not be smiling but trust me im very happy
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well good because it's way better than anything they've ever made www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
Disney Spent More On ‘Andor’ Than Any Of Its ‘Star Wars’ Movies
Disney has revealed it spent $60.5 million on Star Wars streaming series Andor in 2024, giving the show a total cost of $705.5 million - far higher than the spending on any of the movies in the saga.
www.forbes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
well good because it's way better than anything they've ever made www.forbes.com/sites/caroli...
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Dad worked construction, saw how it physically wrecked him, wanted to work an office job. Studied IT project mgmt, uni started a game coder masters just as I realized I'd go insane within a few years working fintech/logistics/payroll software. Thought game devs seem a fun bunch, might as well?
November 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Dad worked construction, saw how it physically wrecked him, wanted to work an office job. Studied IT project mgmt, uni started a game coder masters just as I realized I'd go insane within a few years working fintech/logistics/payroll software. Thought game devs seem a fun bunch, might as well?
Dad worked construction, saw how it physically wrecked him, wanted to work an office job. Studied IT project mgmt, uni started a game coder masters just as I realized I'd go insane within a few years working fintech/logistics/payroll software. Thought game devs seem a fun bunch, might as well?
November 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Dad worked construction, saw how it physically wrecked him, wanted to work an office job. Studied IT project mgmt, uni started a game coder masters just as I realized I'd go insane within a few years working fintech/logistics/payroll software. Thought game devs seem a fun bunch, might as well?
Good thread to wake up to. All the things fucked with Roblox from a safety pov. Also read the replies at the end of the first thread to the original... questioneer re: how to make sure your kid talks about you when they encounter this stuff. Nightmare fuel. Just never even start with Roblox 🫠
Oh, God, this is one of those "where do I even start" things, because Roblox is, like, *fractally* fucked. They are terrible at content moderation. A lot of the games are rated incorrectly, so kids can encounter graphic content (sex or violence) out of nowhere --
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Good thread to wake up to. All the things fucked with Roblox from a safety pov. Also read the replies at the end of the first thread to the original... questioneer re: how to make sure your kid talks about you when they encounter this stuff. Nightmare fuel. Just never even start with Roblox 🫠
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We were invited to screen Still Playing at Amiens Jail in France as part of the cultural activity
They asked me to take off my Kufiya claming its religious symbol
I explained it’s part of my culture worn by people regardless of their religion
I refused to take it off & the screening was cancelled
They asked me to take off my Kufiya claming its religious symbol
I explained it’s part of my culture worn by people regardless of their religion
I refused to take it off & the screening was cancelled
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We were invited to screen Still Playing at Amiens Jail in France as part of the cultural activity
They asked me to take off my Kufiya claming its religious symbol
I explained it’s part of my culture worn by people regardless of their religion
I refused to take it off & the screening was cancelled
They asked me to take off my Kufiya claming its religious symbol
I explained it’s part of my culture worn by people regardless of their religion
I refused to take it off & the screening was cancelled
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For the past year I've been building up an astrophotography rig.
Clear nights are few and far between here, but I managed to get a full session in last night for the first time and had a first go a processing the images.
This is the Pacman Nebula (NGC 281), in the Hubble palette.
Clear nights are few and far between here, but I managed to get a full session in last night for the first time and had a first go a processing the images.
This is the Pacman Nebula (NGC 281), in the Hubble palette.
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
For the past year I've been building up an astrophotography rig.
Clear nights are few and far between here, but I managed to get a full session in last night for the first time and had a first go a processing the images.
This is the Pacman Nebula (NGC 281), in the Hubble palette.
Clear nights are few and far between here, but I managed to get a full session in last night for the first time and had a first go a processing the images.
This is the Pacman Nebula (NGC 281), in the Hubble palette.
I didn't think I could love a car but today I walked past a Fiat Topolino, and in a world of SUVs, I wanna be this little guy:
November 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I didn't think I could love a car but today I walked past a Fiat Topolino, and in a world of SUVs, I wanna be this little guy:
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
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International Criminal Court judge, "sanctioned" by the USA for doing his job, blocked from using internet services worldwide, credit cards, banking... And nobody cares...
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
International Criminal Court judge, "sanctioned" by the USA for doing his job, blocked from using internet services worldwide, credit cards, banking... And nobody cares...
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Turning off smart features in gmail settings because of gemini scraping crap which then disables sorting so that promotions etc go into your primary inbox is a new kind of diabolical.
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Turning off smart features in gmail settings because of gemini scraping crap which then disables sorting so that promotions etc go into your primary inbox is a new kind of diabolical.
Hell yes this is the good stuff!
(Hopefully. I haven't given this a spin yet, but the meta narrative is already *chefs kiss*)
(Hopefully. I haven't given this a spin yet, but the meta narrative is already *chefs kiss*)
Today is the day to tell a strange story.
The long version we'll tell later, but the short version is this. In an attic, in his late great-uncle's house, @jon.inkle.co found a locked trunk. It took twenty years to open. Last summer he did.
Inside was a wiring diagram, and a stack of books.
The long version we'll tell later, but the short version is this. In an attic, in his late great-uncle's house, @jon.inkle.co found a locked trunk. It took twenty years to open. Last summer he did.
Inside was a wiring diagram, and a stack of books.
November 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Hell yes this is the good stuff!
(Hopefully. I haven't given this a spin yet, but the meta narrative is already *chefs kiss*)
(Hopefully. I haven't given this a spin yet, but the meta narrative is already *chefs kiss*)
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Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
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Wednesdays is ✨ free ✨ for World Children's Day in order to raise awareness about child sexual abuse.
Grab it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/...
or Itch: artefrance.itch.io/wednesdays
before November 21th 9PM CET!
Grab it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/...
or Itch: artefrance.itch.io/wednesdays
before November 21th 9PM CET!
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Wednesdays is ✨ free ✨ for World Children's Day in order to raise awareness about child sexual abuse.
Grab it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/...
or Itch: artefrance.itch.io/wednesdays
before November 21th 9PM CET!
Grab it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/...
or Itch: artefrance.itch.io/wednesdays
before November 21th 9PM CET!
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Withdrawing your game from TGA nominations for what effectively boils down to "TGA didn't do their research, lol", sure is a funny move. Well done, Vedinad!
Megabonk dev withdraws from The Game Awards over 'unqualified' nomination
Megabonk dev withdraws from The Game Awards over 'unqualified' nomination
Developer Vedinad rejects the 'Best Debut Indie Game' nomination, saying he's already made games in the past under different studio names.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Withdrawing your game from TGA nominations for what effectively boils down to "TGA didn't do their research, lol", sure is a funny move. Well done, Vedinad!