currently freelancin' level design at Denkiworks 🦝. previously a Senior Level Designer on Rollerdrome at Roll7 🛼🔫. Sonic the Hedgehog fan 🦔. he/him 💀 🤮 jacobmills.co.uk ☕ https://ko-fi.com/jacobwmills
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If you want to see some concrete benefits of automation in games, check out my Develop 2023 talk on the Bafta-winning Rollerdrome and how we increased productivity on things like the character controller by introducing automation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ds...
Did u know that album art can just be some words on a square Or maybe take a picture of something with your phone Find some public domain art Draw a weird shitty little doodle Idk man there’s just zero excuse for us to use the plagiarism machine, you gotta do better than that
dorothy i ain't telling you where i live but thanks for reaching out
I've seen some vocally anti-AI people recently make an anti-AI post and be surprised there are still pro-AI people following them, and I can explain this; most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue! well, we do. so fuck off.
did Mark Zuckerberg write this
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Translation: "To create the next Balatro, we need to foster an environment that allows failure"
and you're in a ZONE, which as a kid i couldn't really conceive of anything more exciting than being able to visit a ZONE
said it before and i'll say it 10000 more times, andrew is a GOAT. he knows his stuff!! SERIOUSLY
yeah nah don't worry i'm not married to the thing. it's a nice club to be a part of, the asking price is a bit high.... but i've not thought too deep on it otherwise. case in point, didn't know that about the oscars, yikes!
bafta are the one set of game awards that pass the mum test as well. she doesn't have a clue what the game awards or whatever are, but she's thrilled that rollerdrome won a bafta. a BAFTA!!
the unflattering honest answer is a few years back i saw that [someone] was a bafta member and i thought "well if THEY are then surely _I_ can" and that's that. the mountains of games and free movie tickets are nice. it'd be nice to visit the hq someday. it's nice to contribute to prize discussion
yes well you see i pay a few hundred pounds a year for access to a buncha games on steam, and fancy events (exclusively in london on weeknights so i can't attend them), and an exclusive discord where i can argue with linkedin psychos about why AI is bad, actually very exclusive very prestigious 👍🏻👍🏻
like the overwatch and world of warcraft teams before them, over 450 diablo devs have voted to unionize. last year's mass microsoft layoffs convinced them to start organizing, but this year's kicked things into high gear
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
“Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.” walzr.com/IMG_0001 this is beautiful 🥲
been using this a fair bit lately so just reminding everyone it exists for free: news.ubisoft.com/en-us/articl... test your game!! find out where you’re relying on hue!! change it!!
I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂
hell yeah let's go
Kinksters, furries, artists: now's your last chance to voice your concerns. DEADLINE is August 28!
ah yeah just like you're sickened by the relentless demonisation of trans people, right? sure would make a lot of people feel more willing to buy into your party if they were outspokenly pro trans, right?
honestly about half and half. some of them i just throw money at because i think 'this is good' and never even bother looking at their patreon exclusive stuff, but with others i'll be chomping at the bit for their locked content
no. i subscribe to patreons of particular creators whose work i really like tho
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me when I hear anyone refer to a generative AI image as "art"
I'm *terrible* at the "do you have any questions for us" part of a #GameDev interview, but here are two to put on your list: "How much runway does the studio have?" "How long do you anticipate this role existing?"
rewatched Interstellar today and turns out the actual worst thing LLMs have done is make the viewer inherently distrustful of TARS, who before all this bs was easily the mvp of the whole dang film
Do the job best you can take pride in your work but soon as it hits end of workday put what energy you have into what you control and can take even more pride in no matter how small or basic you may consider it. It’s the only way last with this industry and the fickle nature it’s always been.
oh no
heh heh heh heh heh
i'm the guy who invented the spike traps that pop out of temple walls. i hate my job. every day my boss says "why haven't we killed any archeologists" and i say "they haven't invented that yet." they pay me in tomb juice. i hate tomb juice. honestly i might just start working on my big boulder idea
makes you wonder who the real (pocket) monsters are
you see i had to *sip* keep eating the broth *sip* while explaining it to people because *sip* if the spoon overflowed it was hot and *sip* it'd give you a zap but *sip* there's only so much broth one man can *sip* handle *sob*
had a dream that i followed a video tutorial to install a chicken broth tap in my home except you couldn't turn it off, the broth must flow was crying from being overstuffed with chicken broth also the spoon was built in and would administer electric shocks
"By far the biggest expense when making games is salaries." Whose salaries?
lmao who's saying that
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
get pebbled fool
"The next few years are going to be pretty massive for IWGB Game Workers Union." You can read about what the union for the games industry has been up to in this interview! Work in games in the UK? Want to see a better, fairer games industry? Join us today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...
Ditched Duolingo the moment they said they were considering AI & have not missed it. For anyone learning #Japanese who wants a good web & app resource, I HIGHLY recommend renshuu.org . It has done more to help me brush up on an maintain my Japanese ability than Duolingo could ever dream. 😎👍🏼
psa if your websites cookie options are "accept all this shite or reject and pay" then i will simply never visit your website again cheers
peek the HUD reveal 👀 and also maybe some ... multi-track drifting!? 😮😮😮
awww yeaaa It's Batting Time 🦇🦇🦇
this is denshattack erasure
Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts. The protest encampment started today, and it’s the biggest escalation of the protests at Microsoft so far www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
georf keighley walks onto the stage "we are proud to announce the hit new open world roguelike action shooter from you won't wanna miss this :)" unremarkable trailer players audience: *mild applause* georf: and THAT'S NOT ALL!!!!!!!
i would
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We just announced at the Gamescom ONL preshow! Denshattack! was my first project since going freelance and I couldn't have asked for a kinder team or sicker game 💛 Check out the game (don't judge it by my cake please) and congrats to all the talented folks involved!! 🚄⭐
yes please
so fukken sick
yeah they relisted it but don't worry the time spent delisted was well used. they changed a logo. very important.
happy butch appreciation day to the butch bunch, the stud squad, and the masc masses out there 🫡
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so?
"they're just making these up!" "all words are made up, mum"
that she didn't already know about skibidi toilet? yeah i know, embarassing
she is NOT impressed by this
see without the joys of remote work i never would have been able to say the sentence "sorry mum i can't talk to you about skibidi toilet any more i'm going back to work"
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no we watch it with the same solemn silent seriousness as we would a david attenborough nature documentary
👍🏻👍🏻 Cool!!
Gamedev heads-up. People (especially non English speakers) are skipping tutorials and then asking LLMs how to play your game. An LLM told a Maia player a core mechanic (repairing your base's life support) was purely cosmetic. And with Trash Goblin it made up game mechanics and items.
that'd be private division, the publisher. Roll7, the studio, did something else.
i'm sorryyyyyy i don't know how to properly express my emotionnnnnnnnnnnnssssssssss
just please let us use websites
nothing'd make me hit F12 faster, OR just to extract it there's text extractor in windows powertoys or on android you can grab text from the app preview when switching between apps
pathetic losers lmao
wow, can't wait to see what that studio cooks up next!!
oh yeah the universe makes it happen like this. unavoidable. still recovering and the move was a whole month ago. good luck!!
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Brian, Dom, Letty, Mia, Vince, Roman, Tej, Sean, Han, Twinkie, Rico, Tego, Elena, Gisele, Hobbs, Shaw, Mr Nobody, Ramsey, Cipher, Little Nobody, Hattie, Jakob, Tess
I’d appreciate if you all used this form to ask for the things we asked for in the open letter regarding Palestinians on here
nono thank YOU 💖
siiiiiiiiiiick
I left little critiques on lots of game trailers so here's a thread with the most common issues (and additional reading) 🧵 1. Don't put logos at the start. It's just dead air that could be gameplay, which is 100000000X more interesting. www.derek-lieu.com/blog/2021/3/...
📌 what a thread 👑👑👑
Imagine waking up in there after a big night out
I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
oh no
kinda sick that they're putting so much focus on the OG project shadow logo but idk i feel @mamonoworld.bsky.social do everything best
This type of post is so funny to me. Look out world! The purchaser is here
Several years of my life.. now available to wishlist on Steam! 🌠
If you worked on a game, you should be in the credits. If you work in game dev, you should be in a union. Join our union today at: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...
siiiiick
i am begging please just let me use my comptuer
looking forward to seeing him achieve director level at a big studio within 2-3 years
zero doubt in my mind that lobster guy is a real guy
video games right now: half the people I know are out of work and the other half are in DMs with me telling me things like "yeah so Lobster Guy (guy at my studio who does no work and puts a live lobster into other people's cars as a prank) was moved to another project so HR can avoid firing him"
we use to be a real country
Scooby-Doo describing a Frube
I think everyone should be paying attention to what payment processors are doing to independent game developers right now. Games have been the testbed for a lot of the shittiest ideas going right now and you better believe this effort will broaden its goals quickly
The uk are age gated sites to protect kids with eating disorders but they are welcome ai companies with open arms and getting them into schools. Cant use Wikipedia cos its not safe while the chat bots can lead people to do this.
play house of the dead 2 until you run out of coins of course
📌 sure. yes. yep. yeah. this IS the world we live in now. yep. yes. thank you. i love this for us.