Chris 🍂 DevPods.gg gamedev community
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I help people make games (DevPods.gg). GameDev since 97. Worked on Topple, Boom Blox, Medal of Honor. Formerly IGDA LA, IndieCade, Extra Credits. 4 GDC talks. 400k udemy students, 10M YouTube views/100k subs, 170k podcast DL. Vegan 23yr. Mask😷 he/him
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btw if you or someone you know is a beginner/intermediate gamedev having trouble finding friendly teammates we connect people in a flexible process to finish long-term projects together, freeware jam vibes but 2-6 month schedules. no genAI art etc, the whole purpose is for people to learn and collab
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I've spent 20 years helping new engineers start careers, tip from a top recruiter: there's never any shortage of people who can write code that works (or do the art needed, etc), her challenge is finding people who can do that AND anyone wants to work with, friendly, communicate, take feedback
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November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I've spent 20 years helping new engineers start careers, tip from a top recruiter: there's never any shortage of people who can write code that works (or do the art needed, etc), her challenge is finding people who can do that AND anyone wants to work with, friendly, communicate, take feedback
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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 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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
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My latest AI feature dives into a nebulous movement of people sharing esoteric codes, manifestos, glyphs, diagrams, and poetry generated with chatbots, all of it based around theories of AI sentience and mysterious metaphors about spirals.
This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.
www.rollingstone.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
My latest AI feature dives into a nebulous movement of people sharing esoteric codes, manifestos, glyphs, diagrams, and poetry generated with chatbots, all of it based around theories of AI sentience and mysterious metaphors about spirals.
I've spent 20 years helping new engineers start careers, tip from a top recruiter: there's never any shortage of people who can write code that works (or do the art needed, etc), her challenge is finding people who can do that AND anyone wants to work with, friendly, communicate, take feedback
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November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I've spent 20 years helping new engineers start careers, tip from a top recruiter: there's never any shortage of people who can write code that works (or do the art needed, etc), her challenge is finding people who can do that AND anyone wants to work with, friendly, communicate, take feedback
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gen AI speaks to people who overestimate their role in the success of games they've been part of because they underestimate how specialist expertise has filtered, corrected or made great their requests in the details by why things look, sound, work how they do, protecting players from their nonsense
It's purely managers wanting to live in a world where ideas guys write a prompt and a fully-formed game comes out of the machine (and people buy that slop because their ideas are soooo goooood of course). I don't ascribe it serious motives. It's coming from a place of hating creatives, period.
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
gen AI speaks to people who overestimate their role in the success of games they've been part of because they underestimate how specialist expertise has filtered, corrected or made great their requests in the details by why things look, sound, work how they do, protecting players from their nonsense
in this new system you get to do any 1 crime completely free so choose it well
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
in this new system you get to do any 1 crime completely free so choose it well
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
things trump says are always tricky to talk about - every serious person knows he's rambling nonsense - but if family bring it up over thanksgiving the 50 year mortgage idea (at current prices/interest) saves only $300/mo, trapped for 2 more decades, and sends the bank an extra half million dollars.
$400,000 loan at 6.5 percent:
• 30 year. Payment $2,528. Total interest about $510,000.
• 50 year. Payment $2,255. Total interest about $953,000.
You save about $273 per month, but pay about $443,000 more interest over the life of the loan. 28 years to start paying more principle than interest.
• 30 year. Payment $2,528. Total interest about $510,000.
• 50 year. Payment $2,255. Total interest about $953,000.
You save about $273 per month, but pay about $443,000 more interest over the life of the loan. 28 years to start paying more principle than interest.
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
things trump says are always tricky to talk about - every serious person knows he's rambling nonsense - but if family bring it up over thanksgiving the 50 year mortgage idea (at current prices/interest) saves only $300/mo, trapped for 2 more decades, and sends the bank an extra half million dollars.
videogames are *so* art most people think of the same few ultra valuable famous ones instead of the rich variety of things people make to express themselves with niche audiences, most of which won't earn a lot but were worth creating for other reasons
(not disagreeing or arguing, "yes and" thought)
(not disagreeing or arguing, "yes and" thought)
videogames are *so* art they have attained the cultural position of being primarily an instrument of financial speculation for the already-wealthy
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
videogames are *so* art most people think of the same few ultra valuable famous ones instead of the rich variety of things people make to express themselves with niche audiences, most of which won't earn a lot but were worth creating for other reasons
(not disagreeing or arguing, "yes and" thought)
(not disagreeing or arguing, "yes and" thought)
a year later a giant part of the US economy is built on this notion most people don't care to know how to do basic things, want to be lazy, unprepared and incapable, phoning it all in. part of my doubt about a future for mainstream AI is I reject that premise. most people really are better than that
Apple's brand marketing history, Our Users Are
-Revolutionary visionaries (80s)
-Like Picasso, Einstein "think different" (late 90s)
-Cool creatives (iMac/iPod)
-Successful, high status (iPhone to iWatch)
-Unprepared bad workers, office loser, can't read/write one line emails (Apple Intelligence/AI)
-Revolutionary visionaries (80s)
-Like Picasso, Einstein "think different" (late 90s)
-Cool creatives (iMac/iPod)
-Successful, high status (iPhone to iWatch)
-Unprepared bad workers, office loser, can't read/write one line emails (Apple Intelligence/AI)
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
a year later a giant part of the US economy is built on this notion most people don't care to know how to do basic things, want to be lazy, unprepared and incapable, phoning it all in. part of my doubt about a future for mainstream AI is I reject that premise. most people really are better than that
literally me every time I learn something new about Roblox and I don't think it's an overreaction but just correct and if anything most people are under reacting
read this whole thread
read this whole thread
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
literally me every time I learn something new about Roblox and I don't think it's an overreaction but just correct and if anything most people are under reacting
read this whole thread
read this whole thread
whether it's Tim Sweeney, CEO of EA etc:
remember when Uber pretended it was half about helping drivers find work? the day self-driving is reliable they'll charge the same, never pay another driver
CEO's dream is no game developer needs pay again, people pay him for AI slop his platform spotlights
remember when Uber pretended it was half about helping drivers find work? the day self-driving is reliable they'll charge the same, never pay another driver
CEO's dream is no game developer needs pay again, people pay him for AI slop his platform spotlights
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has defended AI following Eurogamer's 2/5 Arc Raiders review, which criticised the game's use use of AI voice generation. "AI dialog generation + human personality and tuning could totally transform gaming," Sweeney said.
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
Epic's Tim Sweeney wades into the Arc Raiders AI row
"This technology increases human productivity in some areas by integer multiples"
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
whether it's Tim Sweeney, CEO of EA etc:
remember when Uber pretended it was half about helping drivers find work? the day self-driving is reliable they'll charge the same, never pay another driver
CEO's dream is no game developer needs pay again, people pay him for AI slop his platform spotlights
remember when Uber pretended it was half about helping drivers find work? the day self-driving is reliable they'll charge the same, never pay another driver
CEO's dream is no game developer needs pay again, people pay him for AI slop his platform spotlights
as part of quitting spotify when I'm not listening to local mp3s in webamp I use YouTube like I used to. autoplay led to music over short genAI videos of RDJ and Pratt in jurassic park / iron man-ish (?) yikes
I don't usually post AI images, never advocate for it, but heads up on the state of trash
I don't usually post AI images, never advocate for it, but heads up on the state of trash
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
as part of quitting spotify when I'm not listening to local mp3s in webamp I use YouTube like I used to. autoplay led to music over short genAI videos of RDJ and Pratt in jurassic park / iron man-ish (?) yikes
I don't usually post AI images, never advocate for it, but heads up on the state of trash
I don't usually post AI images, never advocate for it, but heads up on the state of trash
look I think we can all agree the important thing is as long as most money on earth consistently keeps flowing to about fifty people who are all friends and they don't have to do anything because it's earned by profiting off everyone else's work then whatever happens to anyone else is irrelevant
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has defended AI following Eurogamer's 2/5 Arc Raiders review, which criticised the game's use use of AI voice generation. "AI dialog generation + human personality and tuning could totally transform gaming," Sweeney said.
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
Epic's Tim Sweeney wades into the Arc Raiders AI row
"This technology increases human productivity in some areas by integer multiples"
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
look I think we can all agree the important thing is as long as most money on earth consistently keeps flowing to about fifty people who are all friends and they don't have to do anything because it's earned by profiting off everyone else's work then whatever happens to anyone else is irrelevant
veterans day / end of ww1 anniversary note, a century isn't as long ago as it seems
randomly saw this brief clip of the TV show Cheers recently, they asked him what war he's a veteran from and he said world war 1, I thought the math couldn't possibly work out but checked and the episode was made in 1982, not only does the math work, that actor Ian Wolfe was literally a medic in WW1
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
veterans day / end of ww1 anniversary note, a century isn't as long ago as it seems
related, in case anybody missed this 17+ years ago (I don't think this was the original upload, might have even seen it a bit before YouTube was available)
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
related, in case anybody missed this 17+ years ago (I don't think this was the original upload, might have even seen it a bit before YouTube was available)
No one thinks everything Connery did was known to Craig, or that Brosnan and Moore played the same guy. Nobody's lost when we recast the same name for Batman, Superman or Spider-Man, conflicting origin stories. It's a character. Is the audience assumed less able to grasp it than superhero movie fans
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
No one thinks everything Connery did was known to Craig, or that Brosnan and Moore played the same guy. Nobody's lost when we recast the same name for Batman, Superman or Spider-Man, conflicting origin stories. It's a character. Is the audience assumed less able to grasp it than superhero movie fans
reposting purely for the illustration, hell yeah
First thing when you Google her💙 lithub.com/elon-musk-ge...
Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates.
Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…
lithub.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 AM
reposting purely for the illustration, hell yeah
stop throwing away ceramic plates after each meal! that's incredibly wasteful. if you run water over them they can be used several more times
a sign that says we are all in this together with a picture of the earth
Alt: text that says we are all in this together with a drawing of the earth spinning.
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 AM
stop throwing away ceramic plates after each meal! that's incredibly wasteful. if you run water over them they can be used several more times
Atari Warlords for local multiplayer, ideally with proper dial ("paddle") controllers
first time I taught middle school kids I brought in old consoles, none of the once popular games they seemed to care for beyond recognizing characters they still see. but they played warlords until they had to go
first time I taught middle school kids I brought in old consoles, none of the once popular games they seemed to care for beyond recognizing characters they still see. but they played warlords until they had to go
Is there a video game you loved as a kid that you think gamers should try today?
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Atari Warlords for local multiplayer, ideally with proper dial ("paddle") controllers
first time I taught middle school kids I brought in old consoles, none of the once popular games they seemed to care for beyond recognizing characters they still see. but they played warlords until they had to go
first time I taught middle school kids I brought in old consoles, none of the once popular games they seemed to care for beyond recognizing characters they still see. but they played warlords until they had to go
remember when until recently federal agent was the go to career on TV shows to signal somebody was extra professional and qualified as opposed to being untrained criminals who can barely pass a middle school level of fitness or basic competence exam rushed out to kidnap people and provoke a response
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
remember when until recently federal agent was the go to career on TV shows to signal somebody was extra professional and qualified as opposed to being untrained criminals who can barely pass a middle school level of fitness or basic competence exam rushed out to kidnap people and provoke a response
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anyway you should try my twine games. they are exclusively dialogue choices nessathewriter.itch.io
Nessa Cannon
nessathewriter.itch.io
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
anyway you should try my twine games. they are exclusively dialogue choices nessathewriter.itch.io
friend shared this, TLDR if you're fortunate enough to have any retirement invested and it's in a previously not crazy index fund, a lot of your investment is now in the AI tech bubble. I just reallocated to options less tied up in it
p.s. this is not investment advice, I'm not a certified anything
p.s. this is not investment advice, I'm not a certified anything
How The S&P 500 Quietly Became An AI Fund
YouTube video by CNBC
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
friend shared this, TLDR if you're fortunate enough to have any retirement invested and it's in a previously not crazy index fund, a lot of your investment is now in the AI tech bubble. I just reallocated to options less tied up in it
p.s. this is not investment advice, I'm not a certified anything
p.s. this is not investment advice, I'm not a certified anything
suspect appears to be going to town on spaghetti in a monstrous fashion
IOP Police officers use AI tool to draft reports from body camera video #chsnews
IOP Police officers use AI tool to draft reports from body camera video
The Isle of Palms Police Department is the first city-level police department in the state to try out an artificial intelligence tool that helps them draft incident reports.
www.live5news.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
suspect appears to be going to town on spaghetti in a monstrous fashion