Okay, this is crazy
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✨BOOKS OPENING FOR NEXT MONTH✨

I’ve had some small contracts wrap and am currently looking to fill some gaps for next month and ongoing! If you are after an arty game dev who has done it all or someone who enjoys the admin and associate production tasks, shoot me an email💌💖

What local game developers really think about using GenAI artworks as 'placeholders' | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games Video game development is increasingly under scrutiny, as some developers begin integrating GenAI as 'placeholder' for tone and idea generation.

GenAI isn't a useful placeholder when making video games. It doesn't save time, and it actively stifles the creative process.

Here's what local devs think: @untitledlucegame.bsky.social @mickey.ghoulish.com.au @madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social @theboyofcheese.bsky.social @tdogextreme.bsky.social + more.

Can't believe my legally distinct fish man warning you about a potential trap got published. Thank you for eternalising him (and great article @legenette.bsky.social !)

The fish bowl devs were some of the nicest, friendliest people at SXSW 2024. Congratulations on the release!!!

Candles. Who's lighting all these candles?

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive Jack Karlson’s rallying cry of ‘democracy manifest’ added to national collection of sound recordings that hold historical, cultural and aesthetic significance * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Thirty-five years ago, when Jack Karlson was hauled into a police car outside a Chinese restaurant in Queensland, he couldn’t have known his bombastic speech would be watched by millions around the world, become a meme and now, be preserved for ever in Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive. Karlson’s declaration – “Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest! … What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?” – is one of nine pieces of audio that have been added to the NFSA’s Sounds of Australia collection this year, along with a pedestrian crossing signal and Missy Higgins’ 2004 hit Scar. Continue reading...

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

I have never seen this!! Clearly I missed out wtf

seeing Sora getting shut down is a good reminder that while genAI boosters will insist the genie can’t go back in the bottle, it does appears possible for the genie to crawl back up Sam Altman’s butthole if the genie ever stops being supplied with infinite money

Hell yeah!!!! So excited for you!!! 💖💖💖💖

I used the entire capacity of my brain to draw him

Oh my god I forgot about the goldfish. If you still have the file you are welcome to post it 😂

I don’t know man it just sounds like you’re super bad with money

I would love to be able to google space information without being signed up for a week of Google News notifications like "STADIUM SIZE ASTEROID might be ON COLLISION COURSE WITH EARTH in 2 million years"

📣 create ABSOLUTE CINEMA in “ACTING OUT”, a game about making movies with your friends!
WISHLIST NOW! link below 🎥🎭🏆🎬

The Southern Fisheries Penal Colony is looking for new Expatriates!

🦀Crabmeat is Out Now on Steam 🦀
store.steampowered.com/app/3671850/...

❄️Explore, Get big hauls, Defend your ship from attackers
🧪Blend of First Person and Point and Click gameplay
🕑Short 2-3 hour experience

Amongst many other reasons why both are important, in a lot of places around the world AAA studios sponsor the events Indies use to market their games, connect with devs, and find publishers.

Save 10% on Key Fairy on Steam A hand-drawn, pacifist, folkloric, bullet-hell. Grapple and dance around monsters to collect their shattered stars, weave your way through twisting paths, encounter strange folk, uncover ancient magic...

Key Fairy is officially released!

Buy it, lest ye be slain!

store.steampowered.com/app/2878580/...

Remember: When you playtest a game, never take players’ feedback/suggestions at face value. Figure out what emotion is underneath what they’re telling you, and then figure out what in the game is causing that emotion

free level design advice for creating an FPS arena that people will call the best multiplayer map ever made for generations.

sorry for being cringe I'm trying to enjoy being alive

It’s finally time to…

Unleash the ✦⁺₊✩GIRL POWER✩⁺₊✦

Don’t Stop, Girlypop! is officially OUT NOW!!!!

You better be ready, because this sh❤t is serious 👇

https://bit.ly/45CRvme

it's out now!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3811020/... #BLASTERMANCER

Pie chart for "Game Development Time Allotment". 5% of the time is "Working on new features." 95% of the time is "Trying to figure out why a feature that worked perfectly fine for months inexplicably stopped working."

Have you ever wondered how time is spent in game development? I've made a handy pie chart to illustrate it.

Interview: The secret identities that birthed Freeplay We spoke with Katharine Neil in commemoration of Freeplay festival’s 20th anniversary

I interviewed Freeplay's co-founder Katharine Neil a couple of years ago about its origins & legacy. There was SO much fascinating stuff that I couldn't publish but I'm still really proud of the piece & feel as if documenting this stuff holds a tiny bit of importance too.

Right!

This needs to be louder: "Of the 81 arts organisations supported by Creative Enterprises in the 2026-2029 funding round, none are games/interactive arts organisations."

Freeplay is hugely important, we have to find a way to keep it alive 🙏

Phasmophobia developer launches Kinetic Publishing to "support and champion creativity within the indie space" Daniel Knight and Asim Tanvir explain their plan to fund two to three indie projects a year up to budgets of £1 million

Kinetic Games, the developer behind Phasmophobia, has announced the launch of Kinetic Publishing to "support and champion creativity within the indie space". The publisher will fund two to three indie projects a year up to budgets of £1 million.

www.gamesindustry.biz/phasmophobia...

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Hey isn't this that Counterstrike map