thatjoshoverthere
@thatjoshoverthere.bsky.social
Josh!
He/Him
Creator of Pluto: Cave Mission Prologue
Game dev, artist, animator
NFT and "AI" users will be kicked into the sun
https://joshmusto.weebly.com/
He/Him
Creator of Pluto: Cave Mission Prologue
Game dev, artist, animator
NFT and "AI" users will be kicked into the sun
https://joshmusto.weebly.com/
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My first ever video game, Pluto: Cave Mission Prologue is available RIGHT NOW! Enjoy a short and fun metroidvania entirely for free.
Link: thatjoshoverthere.itch.io/pluto-cmp
#indiegame #indiedev #metroidvania
Link: thatjoshoverthere.itch.io/pluto-cmp
#indiegame #indiedev #metroidvania
I love Ribals information days
patrick star from spongebob squarepants is smiling with his hands folded
Alt: patrick star from spongebob squarepants is smiling with his hands folded
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December 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I love Ribals information days
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Once I stayed up all night drawing actual illustrations for a spot that ran nationally on short notice and I would like to tell the people who “hardly slept” because they were “writing prompts” that they are soft pathetic babies who can go to baby hell.
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
December 9, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Once I stayed up all night drawing actual illustrations for a spot that ran nationally on short notice and I would like to tell the people who “hardly slept” because they were “writing prompts” that they are soft pathetic babies who can go to baby hell.
Considering how few multiplayer games I play, I'm honestly pretty proud of this
December 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Considering how few multiplayer games I play, I'm honestly pretty proud of this
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Tapping the sign (@boocanan.bsky.social)
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Tapping the sign (@boocanan.bsky.social)
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Nintendo doesn't need AI because the people who do the homework that AI copies are under their roof
If you're a new hire working on Zelda, you can either chat the person who invented Z Targeting or you can pull up their notes. The person who designed the platform you're coding for is down the hall
If you're a new hire working on Zelda, you can either chat the person who invented Z Targeting or you can pull up their notes. The person who designed the platform you're coding for is down the hall
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Nintendo doesn't need AI because the people who do the homework that AI copies are under their roof
If you're a new hire working on Zelda, you can either chat the person who invented Z Targeting or you can pull up their notes. The person who designed the platform you're coding for is down the hall
If you're a new hire working on Zelda, you can either chat the person who invented Z Targeting or you can pull up their notes. The person who designed the platform you're coding for is down the hall
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"Oh sure, let me instantly generate every storefront image at once" is something no game developer ever said... until I added this feature to Kenney Game Assets All-in-1! 🎉
(Coming later this month!)
(Coming later this month!)
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Oh sure, let me instantly generate every storefront image at once" is something no game developer ever said... until I added this feature to Kenney Game Assets All-in-1! 🎉
(Coming later this month!)
(Coming later this month!)
Honestly what brings me a lot of joy about this is that, for the company they hired to help optimize, this was the easiest job of their life. It feels like they opened the proverbial front door, immediately saw the problem, and breathed a sigh of relief
Not me still crashing out about how Helldivers 2 duplicated the entire ~14G asset library TEN TIMES on hard drives because they thought (hilariously, incorrectly) that it would [waving hands] SOMEHOW speed up load times, and then apparently never tested their 140+G of bloat theory 🤦
December 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Honestly what brings me a lot of joy about this is that, for the company they hired to help optimize, this was the easiest job of their life. It feels like they opened the proverbial front door, immediately saw the problem, and breathed a sigh of relief
Please... Marbel Ribals... Please take notes...
Helldivers 2 on PC has reduced installation size from 154GB to 23GB thanks to support from Nixxes buff.ly/YvXQnW6
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Please... Marbel Ribals... Please take notes...
Had a dream last night that Marbel Ribals added a new PvE mode that was a copy/paste of Binding of Isaac
November 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Had a dream last night that Marbel Ribals added a new PvE mode that was a copy/paste of Binding of Isaac
I ended up taking a risk and getting Air Riders even though the demo didn't 100% click. Full game totally clicks with me. Road Trip is especially nice. I've only had Transform Star for a few days but if anything ever happened to it I would--
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I ended up taking a risk and getting Air Riders even though the demo didn't 100% click. Full game totally clicks with me. Road Trip is especially nice. I've only had Transform Star for a few days but if anything ever happened to it I would--
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Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
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*several alarms, bells and sirens sound off all at once*
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
*several alarms, bells and sirens sound off all at once*
Guess who got chosen to be part of the Marvel Tokon beta 😎
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Guess who got chosen to be part of the Marvel Tokon beta 😎
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oh shit happy 20th birthday blaze the cat
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
oh shit happy 20th birthday blaze the cat
Prime 4 looks awesome! I've seen people worried about NPC dialogue, and especially how some of it breaks the fourth wall with game instruction, and all I can say is GOOD. I MISS WHEN CHARACTERS TOLD YOU WHAT BUTTONS DO IN A TUTORIAL.
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Prime 4 looks awesome! I've seen people worried about NPC dialogue, and especially how some of it breaks the fourth wall with game instruction, and all I can say is GOOD. I MISS WHEN CHARACTERS TOLD YOU WHAT BUTTONS DO IN A TUTORIAL.
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There's a VERY real reason I stopped co-streaming the TGAs, even though they were always my most popular streams overall.
Shit like this is a blight on the industry, and needs to be chopped off like the profitized growth it is. They ain't perfect either but pls watch @indiegameawards.gg instead.
Shit like this is a blight on the industry, and needs to be chopped off like the profitized growth it is. They ain't perfect either but pls watch @indiegameawards.gg instead.
perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
There's a VERY real reason I stopped co-streaming the TGAs, even though they were always my most popular streams overall.
Shit like this is a blight on the industry, and needs to be chopped off like the profitized growth it is. They ain't perfect either but pls watch @indiegameawards.gg instead.
Shit like this is a blight on the industry, and needs to be chopped off like the profitized growth it is. They ain't perfect either but pls watch @indiegameawards.gg instead.
I don't really talk about it, but as a Marvel Rivals player since launch: I me stoked for S5. S4 kinda felt draining to me, and the battlepass didn't help, but S5 and the anniversary are looking fantastic to me.
November 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I don't really talk about it, but as a Marvel Rivals player since launch: I me stoked for S5. S4 kinda felt draining to me, and the battlepass didn't help, but S5 and the anniversary are looking fantastic to me.
New Steam hardware looks sick! A tiny computer that lets me easily play my games on any tv I want? Glorious. A new controller with two actual joysticks this time? Perfect. A VR headset? Exists
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
New Steam hardware looks sick! A tiny computer that lets me easily play my games on any tv I want? Glorious. A new controller with two actual joysticks this time? Perfect. A VR headset? Exists
It's snowing!!!
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It's snowing!!!
So, as it turns out, I am very not good at Kirby Air Riders
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 AM
So, as it turns out, I am very not good at Kirby Air Riders
Is anyone else having an issue where every time you go to YouTube's home page it adds an official Microsoft Copilot ad video to your history? It's annoying as hell and I refuse to believe that it isn't an intentional thing
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Is anyone else having an issue where every time you go to YouTube's home page it adds an official Microsoft Copilot ad video to your history? It's annoying as hell and I refuse to believe that it isn't an intentional thing
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The Winner of the Mini Collab vote is...
APPLIN!!!!! 🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏
This month we'll be drawing the Applin family for a harvest themed Mini collab!
More info and how to join: t.co/wsu8IkoN1s
APPLIN!!!!! 🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏
This month we'll be drawing the Applin family for a harvest themed Mini collab!
More info and how to join: t.co/wsu8IkoN1s
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The Winner of the Mini Collab vote is...
APPLIN!!!!! 🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏
This month we'll be drawing the Applin family for a harvest themed Mini collab!
More info and how to join: t.co/wsu8IkoN1s
APPLIN!!!!! 🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏
This month we'll be drawing the Applin family for a harvest themed Mini collab!
More info and how to join: t.co/wsu8IkoN1s
Damn, now I miss my Chimecho from Brilliant Diamond
Serebii Update: Official render for Mega Chimecho has been released. It is Psychic/Steel-type
www.serebii.net
www.serebii.net
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Damn, now I miss my Chimecho from Brilliant Diamond
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This goes into that “deprofessionalization” of the game industry article that went around a few months ago. People who don’t understand the work or care about the value of the people doing the work or honestly even care about quality at all. They just want to not have to pay workers.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-...
I imagined trying to get through bug reports written by an LLM and immediately got an honest to god headache. What do you mean I can’t even go back to the person who wrote it and ask for more details because there isn’t one, but it can still make shit up?
I imagined trying to get through bug reports written by an LLM and immediately got an honest to god headache. What do you mean I can’t even go back to the person who wrote it and ask for more details because there isn’t one, but it can still make shit up?
Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 | VGC
The publisher is researching “Game QA Automation Technology” with the University of Tokyo…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This goes into that “deprofessionalization” of the game industry article that went around a few months ago. People who don’t understand the work or care about the value of the people doing the work or honestly even care about quality at all. They just want to not have to pay workers.