Anyway, as always, fuck the Atlantic

This was pre-AI but obviously with AI the problem is even worse and you need to be even more careful and knowledgeable

There's a cyangmou article I'm trying to find about this - he did an image search for "knight helmet" and labeled the results: replica, movie prop, movie prop, video game asset, modern painting, replica, hobby kit... only one or two on the first page was something an actual knight might have worn

Gertie and her creature companion must venture into dungeons & lush forests on a quest to fulfill a coven’s oath.

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A well-known meme image of cartoon Sonic saying "I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding"

The good news is we now know exactly how many words in a row games executives are capable of absorbing: exactly seven. They read exactly the first seven words of the meme

Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine) Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make games

I've been making video games in some form for 20 years, so I wrote an article about my process - and why I don't use an engine.

noelberry.ca/posts/making...

All those things are true, but I also remember my mother telling me how she watched police attack protestors in Grant Park in 1968, then watched news reports about how protestors had attacked the police. Or you can go even further back to Haymarket. It's a very old playbook.

every successful game has at least one fullscreen render buffer doing nothing that the render team completely forgot about until either right before or right after ship

I don't post that much, but hello!

my offer to america: we bring woke back

A screenshot of a Dear ImGui window in C#

I made a lightweight SDL3 + SDL GPU + ImGui + C# example:
github.com/NoelFB/ImGui...

this is adorable

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Also Sailor Moon’s mom is 36.

#GGST
#Bridget

I think if you’re a young person (or an older person frankly) considering some kind of creative project, the state of the world is more or less “fuck it we ball” like, you might as well

Opinion | How British Feminism Became Anti-Trans (Published 2019) A surprisingly mainstream movement of feminists known as TERFs oppose transgender rights as a symptom of “female erasure.”

This article from the 2019 NYT does a pretty good job of discussing the issues with the 2024 NYT! I think a big part of the frustration is seeing the paper adopt a rhetorical mode that it once looked askance on, at the same time the Republican Party ramped up attacks www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/o...

The private equity playbook - restructure the company so it has to increase revenue quickly or be shut down - isn’t great for any industry but it’s especially disastrous for games, where it may be literally impossible to increase revenue until your next project is ready to release

all of this for donald fucking trump of all people

they can put all the poor people to work building the 50-100 nuclear power plants this is going to require!

the people still out of work can get started on the couple hundred state-of-the-art silicon fabs that they will also need

I read a different article but about halfway through it said "this is a project on the scale of the US ramping up for WWII but I think it will happen"

I... have a different forecast here

God damn it this is not wrong

Very notable that this is just two years after the Justice Department formally sunsetted the Paramount Decree

Bonus and this one is 100%, if you’re playing a game and think “this cutscene is so cool, I wish it was gameplay” — I guarantee it originally was but something went wrong.

The answer to “why didn’t they” is pretty much always “we tried that, but”.

About 5% of the time it’s “it wasn’t obvious we needed to do that until we finished this version, and we hit the deadline.”