Scott Anderson
@impossible.bsky.social
Game developer at @unity.com. Prev: Facebook Horizon, Oculus, Funomena , Call of Duty, ShadowPhysics
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Let's get an indie ttrpg HYPE TRAIN going and recommend some cool games for people to buy/gift.
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Let's get an indie ttrpg HYPE TRAIN going and recommend some cool games for people to buy/gift.
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
If you're a small #ttrpg creator (or there's an indie game you really love) drop a quick pitch and a link below.
🚅🎲🎲🎲🌟🌟
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This PR (on the OCaml github repo) has been going around as an example of LLM bros actively attacking software development as a practice, but I think the obvious systemic flaw you can see on this thread is wasting time debating/reviewing slop
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...
DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml
DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler
This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB.
What's Impleme...
github.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This PR (on the OCaml github repo) has been going around as an example of LLM bros actively attacking software development as a practice, but I think the obvious systemic flaw you can see on this thread is wasting time debating/reviewing slop
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...
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Floppy Disk Mix #1
Floppy Disk Mix #1
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 AM
bytes.zed.cafe/WQXDd754
Floppy Disk Mix #1
Floppy Disk Mix #1
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I can only beat this drum so many times:
If you're an indie game dev and you want to make a profit, marketing and analysis should be an integral part of your process as early as possible. If you're working in a team, you should be as serious about finding a marketer as you are about a programmer.
If you're an indie game dev and you want to make a profit, marketing and analysis should be an integral part of your process as early as possible. If you're working in a team, you should be as serious about finding a marketer as you are about a programmer.
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I can only beat this drum so many times:
If you're an indie game dev and you want to make a profit, marketing and analysis should be an integral part of your process as early as possible. If you're working in a team, you should be as serious about finding a marketer as you are about a programmer.
If you're an indie game dev and you want to make a profit, marketing and analysis should be an integral part of your process as early as possible. If you're working in a team, you should be as serious about finding a marketer as you are about a programmer.
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One of my fav podcast episodes we’ve ever done.
I believe this is the first time the team has publicly spoken in such depth about the Qud ending.
Big thanks to @ectafoole.bsky.social @jfg.land @unormal.bsky.social for their time, and for making one of my fav games ever.
bsky.app/profile/robd...
I believe this is the first time the team has publicly spoken in such depth about the Qud ending.
Big thanks to @ectafoole.bsky.social @jfg.land @unormal.bsky.social for their time, and for making one of my fav games ever.
bsky.app/profile/robd...
our CAVES OF QUD series finale featuring @jfg.land, @unormal.bsky.social, and @ectafoole.bsky.social is now live and free for everyone. it is four hours long. covers almost every major endgame spoiler. look, you already know if this is for you. if it is, get in here secretlives.games/into-the-dep...
The Secret Lives of Games: Into the Depths: Caves of Qud Finale
We’re proud to present the final installment of our over-a-year-long Into the Depths series on , as well as our last episode with our recently retired Eggplant branding. Caves of Qud is a massive open...
secretlives.games
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
One of my fav podcast episodes we’ve ever done.
I believe this is the first time the team has publicly spoken in such depth about the Qud ending.
Big thanks to @ectafoole.bsky.social @jfg.land @unormal.bsky.social for their time, and for making one of my fav games ever.
bsky.app/profile/robd...
I believe this is the first time the team has publicly spoken in such depth about the Qud ending.
Big thanks to @ectafoole.bsky.social @jfg.land @unormal.bsky.social for their time, and for making one of my fav games ever.
bsky.app/profile/robd...
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Looking for work. I did all the visuals on this game. Concept art, animations, UX design and UI art. I've 20 years of experience. I'm ex Minecraft. Use me!
July 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Looking for work. I did all the visuals on this game. Concept art, animations, UX design and UI art. I've 20 years of experience. I'm ex Minecraft. Use me!
I worked on a AAA game that allocated a fixed sized memory budget for credit strings. We ran out of memory and couldn't (or didn't want to) increase the buffer size, so we were looking for people to remove from the credits
Credits are basically a free space. Players will watch them or not. Those who do will come to understand how each person participated. We also credit everyone who ever touched the game in any way. This means for a relatively small team our credits are long. But who cares? Why be stingy with it?
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I worked on a AAA game that allocated a fixed sized memory budget for credit strings. We ran out of memory and couldn't (or didn't want to) increase the buffer size, so we were looking for people to remove from the credits
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I tested a machine learning model designed to detect NSFW content. It marked this image as unsafe, because of Tim Allen's breasts (marked in blue) and my hand-penis (marked in green)
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I tested a machine learning model designed to detect NSFW content. It marked this image as unsafe, because of Tim Allen's breasts (marked in blue) and my hand-penis (marked in green)
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a whole crew of us was there for the finale
The epic, nearly four-hour finale of our Into the Depths series on Caves of Qud just posted early to our Patreon. Linking that here in case you've been thinking of supporting TSLOG, since these funds allow us to pay @dylliebar.bsky.social to edit our four-hour convos: www.patreon.com/posts/into-d...
Into the Depths: Caves of Qud Finale (Early Access) | The Secret Lives of Games
Get more from The Secret Lives of Games on Patreon
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November 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
a whole crew of us was there for the finale
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WE JUST ANNOUNCED ⏱️EROSION⏱️
Every death costs a decade in our new time-looping open world roguelike
⌚️ Choose the fate of a sci-fi western open world
🧊 Break everything in a custom voxel system
🪦 Save your daughter before her time erodes
Releasing next Spring!
Every death costs a decade in our new time-looping open world roguelike
⌚️ Choose the fate of a sci-fi western open world
🧊 Break everything in a custom voxel system
🪦 Save your daughter before her time erodes
Releasing next Spring!
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
WE JUST ANNOUNCED ⏱️EROSION⏱️
Every death costs a decade in our new time-looping open world roguelike
⌚️ Choose the fate of a sci-fi western open world
🧊 Break everything in a custom voxel system
🪦 Save your daughter before her time erodes
Releasing next Spring!
Every death costs a decade in our new time-looping open world roguelike
⌚️ Choose the fate of a sci-fi western open world
🧊 Break everything in a custom voxel system
🪦 Save your daughter before her time erodes
Releasing next Spring!
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somebody made a web playable version of a game boy style port of this
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
somebody made a web playable version of a game boy style port of this
This is all but admitting he's really DaniDev, right?
Vedinad, developer of Megabonk, has withdrawn his game from The Game Awards following its nomination for Best Debut Indie Game, saying it doesn't qualify for the category. https://bit.ly/3JJODMJ
November 19, 2025 at 5:37 AM
This is all but admitting he's really DaniDev, right?
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
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do you know renpy? do you live in ontario? do you wanna help me with my game. pleas
Do you know Ren'Py? Would you like to help out on @truthscrapper.bsky.social? We're looking for a Ren'Py programmer based in Ontario, CA (remote) we can periodically contract for hourly paid work to solve problems and program certain items! More details here:
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#gamedev
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#gamedev
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
do you know renpy? do you live in ontario? do you wanna help me with my game. pleas
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looked into unity's new-ish autolod system yesterday,it seems very solid! however, if you're making a game with a fixed distance camera and just need different quality level models,this editor tool to export the different lod models as standalones might come in very handy: github.com/staggartcrea...
GitHub - staggartcreations/MeshLOD2Fbx: An editor utility for exporting the LODs, generated by Unity 6.2+'s MeshLOD system, and exporting them to an FBX file.
An editor utility for exporting the LODs, generated by Unity 6.2+'s MeshLOD system, and exporting them to an FBX file. - staggartcreations/MeshLOD2Fbx
github.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
looked into unity's new-ish autolod system yesterday,it seems very solid! however, if you're making a game with a fixed distance camera and just need different quality level models,this editor tool to export the different lod models as standalones might come in very handy: github.com/staggartcrea...
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How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack - Fabien Sanglard
fabiensanglard.net/quake_chunne...
fabiensanglard.net/quake_chunne...
November 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack - Fabien Sanglard
fabiensanglard.net/quake_chunne...
fabiensanglard.net/quake_chunne...
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Can't wait for GTA6 to sweep the indie awards next year
November 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Can't wait for GTA6 to sweep the indie awards next year
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My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Fuck cancer.
Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
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With the passing of Rebecca Heineman today, I wanted to share some images from her last, now forever unfinished project. She was working on amazing stuff right up until the end.
It was Dragon Wars remastered.
Jennell Jaquays was art directing.
It was Dragon Wars remastered.
Jennell Jaquays was art directing.
November 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
With the passing of Rebecca Heineman today, I wanted to share some images from her last, now forever unfinished project. She was working on amazing stuff right up until the end.
It was Dragon Wars remastered.
Jennell Jaquays was art directing.
It was Dragon Wars remastered.
Jennell Jaquays was art directing.
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial
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Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays.
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
How Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 1: Pre-Jaquays Dungeons
(This is a slightly cleaned up version of my two Bluesky threads on Jennell Jaquays, preserved in a hopefully easier to read format. Thank Amanda P for reminding me that having these things stored …
pathikablog.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays.
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.
@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
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Working in the game industry
November 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Working in the game industry
Corporate executives often use "I built" instead of "I lead" or "I hired". This language isn't always completely wrong, building an organization (hiring, allocating funds, planning, etc.) is real work, but these executives are usually not directly involved in making the final product
business person: there should be a game where you can shoot zombies with shotgun people might buy that
*experienced specialist team makes a hundred thousand decisions expertly about how to develop something compelling that fits those 2 criteria*
business person: I did it everyone look what I made
*experienced specialist team makes a hundred thousand decisions expertly about how to develop something compelling that fits those 2 criteria*
business person: I did it everyone look what I made
something I'm surprised gen AI discourse didn't hit yet is the attitude "I asked for it to be done, so I made it" has always been how rich people view using workers who have trained skills and do the technical side. they see themselves as creators for having an idea, we were just a means to that end
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Corporate executives often use "I built" instead of "I lead" or "I hired". This language isn't always completely wrong, building an organization (hiring, allocating funds, planning, etc.) is real work, but these executives are usually not directly involved in making the final product