Hmm.

I’m listening.

Always on the lookout for rad real-world science stuff to inspire in-game Discovery content 👀 🔬

How do you throw an interstellar kegger?

First you have to Comet to a date.

If I'm reading this right, these are like, Uranus/Neptune distance from the star? And ballparking that closest one has potentially a 40-60 Earth-year Year?

Planets everywhere!

Quite an endorsement! Congrats on the launch!

The galaxy designated MoM-z14 is currently the farthest galaxy ever detected, spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and confirmed spectroscopically with its NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument. Through Webb, we are seeing this galaxy as it appeared in the distant past, only 280 million years after the universe began in the big bang. Its light has traveled through space for more than 13 billion years to reach us. Like some other galaxies Webb has discovered in the early universe, MoM-z14 is brighter, more compact, and more chemically enriched than astronomers expected to find in this early era. While it may pass out of record books quickly as the farthest galaxy, MoM-z14 will still play a role in helping astronomers and theorists reach new understanding of the earliest chapters in the universe’s story.

News from the edge of the visible universe:

JWST has confirmed this galaxy, MoM-z14, as the most distant one yet studied. We're seeing it as it was 13.5 billion years ago, 98% of the way back to the beginning of time.

(MoM stands for "miracle or mirage.") 🧪🔭

science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

🤔

Adding this to the development backlog…

The game with the coolest mechanism to really utilize the PSX was Monster Rancher… had us all digging through old CD collections to find the rares 💿➡️👹

I nuked the login account and removed any UGC that might have been applied to in-game assets, but I can't exactly unwind planets a user has developed or disappear ships that other users have observed.

So I'm curious what others are doing!

We got our first GDPR "Forget Me" request this week…!

Question for other #indiegame developers with #MMO or shared game state: What are you doing with permanent mutations to world state Forgotten users effected before leaving?

Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025 - Ruby on Rails is a Game Engine by Jonathan Woodard YouTube video by Confreaks

Oh no, they recorded my @rmrubyconf.bsky.social talk about @galacticimpact.com and put it on YouTube 🫣 😅

I'm not ready to watch it myself yet, so I need all of you to tell me how I did:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HkS...

Any #GithubActions experts out there? I'm curious if it's possible to set up a workflow that pings a service to get info about the build. E.g. I want to block merges to `main` (and associated auto-deploys) while the @galacticimpact.com is busy resolving a turn update.

The Spaghetti Western 🔁 Samurai Film mutual inspiration spiral but for video games

Four plain lavender squares labeled "Arco", each with a full 'health' meter, with the horizon's edge of a planet in the background.

A blue button for building an Arcology, along with a small icon. Price is "150 Galactic Credits" and the subhead reads "House 15k Population"

Please note the uncanny yet legally distinct resemblance:

Until we can hire an illustrator for Galactic Impact, this is what you should be picturing when you click that “Build Arco” button because this is what I am picturing when I set the Structure’s data in the database.

Spoiler alert!

Galactic Impact's creator is going to be pulling back the curtain on all the #Ruby & #Rails trickery and hackery that bring the galaxy to life at the @rmrubyconf.bsky.social in October!

Screenshot of the console for Empire Ajaxamander indicating that the in-game Stardate is 1300.0

It's Stardate 1300.0, folks! That means the game has been online for ~39,000 hours!

To mark the occasion, we've released a whole stack of new features, check out the announcement here: mailchi.mp/85c11d7eaf5e...

Or just sign up to try it out! www.galacticimpact.com

Rules are rules!

A whitewashed pub wall, with mortar standing proud of the stones.

When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)

To everyone affected by the recent Microsoft (and other) layoffs, you didn’t deserve this. Let’s be clear: the state of the industry right now is not your fault. What we’re witnessing is the result of consistently bad leadership decisions, an industry that has exploited its workers for years, global instability we can’t control, and the crushing pressure of late-stage capitalism that values short-term gains over people. Your contributions mattered. Your work made a difference. And this layoff says nothing about your talent, your passion, or your worth.

Shared with permission from Osama.

The games industry is so fuckin cooked

You're not wrong, but also worth noting that they have now also instigated a Discourse™ 🙃😅

SEO probably?

"digital asbestos" is fantastic framing.

Looks like the galaxy is having some struggs!

The Turn Update resolver is downstream of this hosting provider issue: status.heroku.com/incidents/2822

Meanwhile the game is still open for signups and player input… just might be a little while before we see Stardate 1257.4 😰

Our global petition to save NASA science closes this Thursday, and we’re just shy of 15,000 signatures! Every name counts, this petition will be hand-delivered to members of Congress. Add yours today, Save NASA Science.
planet.ly/petition

Welcome to Ambrosia Sky, a immersive sim FPS-ish cleaning narrative exploration of an alien infestation on the colonies in the asteroid rings of Saturn.

Cleanse the contamination. Solve the mystery. Survive the crisis.

Play the demo now.

store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...

Hi #PitchYaGame 🚂

I just launched my first ever game (!!!) called Islands & Trains last week 🤯

- design your own tiny railway dioramas
- pet cute animals 🐑
- no rules, timers, or stress!
- just design, build, and enjoy ☀️

RTs & checking it out would mean the world to me 😁
s.team/a/1957760