Reposted by æonRhiannon 🇵🇸 @rhithewitch.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hello! Would really appreciate some eyes on this to support our reporting <3 www.thegamer.com/inside-rocks...thegamer.comInside Rockstar's Union Busting TrialWe speak with one of the 34 Rockstar workers who lost their job last year, in the midst of a high-profile employment tribunal. 4395255
Reposted by æonDown Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026AI sentience skeptics may mean well but they havent grappled with Mortimer 4.2.7's use of a thesaurus when nobody explicitly told it to use the thesaurus, only that the thesaurus was available and useful for the query it was given. 11106
Reposted by æonAlan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026df_game_data v1.0.0 released! github.com/Atrix256/df_... An editor and data compiler for read only game data in C++. Describe schemas using C style stucts, edit data in the editor, compile data to make a .bin file and a generated .h, use the .h to load the .bin in your code, make your game. 26215
Reposted by æoncannibal princess @yyakamo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Do you like cool spreads and readable pages? HIRE ME TO DO YOUR LAYOUT. Shoot me a DM on here or anywhere else 16834
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026oh yeah absolutely and it's a huge disaster all round. that whole ecosystem is just gigafraud atp 020
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026also you'd have to play cat-and-mouse preventing spammers and other adversarial users of the system from stealing money from readers or publishers or the platform, which is extremely not trivial because there's a huge incentive to find exploits 110
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026if you send each little payment through a payment processor immediately it gets swallowed up in fees, but if you hold them and batch them you may now be considered a payment processor/money transfer service, which immediately drags you into the regulation nightmare zone 210
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I don't have professional experience with this but I have seen people try to implement related ideas and it seems like there are severe complications getting this stuff to work, yeah 120
Reposted by æonThomas Welsh - game narrative writer @calmdowntom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026IT'S OUT. It's been a hell of a... 5 years! Really proud of Nivalis Nights. One million wishlists! I hope you love the city of Nivalis and all the weird and interesting people we created for you to meet. Welcome to Nivalis! store.steampowered.com/app/1488490/...store.steampowered.comNivalis Nights on SteamGrow your business, manage restaurants and nightclubs, make friends and enemies, buy and decorate apartments, go fishing and maybe even find love in a cyberpunk city that stretches from the ocean to t... 5279
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026sickos.jpg. _ENV is foundational imo, you can do all kinds of good stuff with it if you don't mind it looking a little bit like you're doing crime 010
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don't think it's likely that they actually try to create a steam alternative but I don't know if anyone who has the resources is really inclined to, especially after epic megagames did such a spectacularly poor job right in front of everyone 110
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026right, the only reason I'm thinking of them is because they have the money to do it, and if they really wanted to be a challenger they'd have to create a sub-brand or something (see "guilded", which they bought, briefly tried to make into a discord competitor, then shut down when they got bored) 110
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026sorry I misremembered, they're just making them exportable as standalone binaries (which would presumably mean a lot of them end up on steam)pcgamer.comRoblox games are escaping Roblox: Creators will soon be able to export standalone apps for PC, console, and mobileThe new Roblox Everywhere initiative will make Roblox games available outside of the Roblox platform, on PC, consoles, and mobile. 210
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026roblox doing it would be even worse probably but I think if they were gonna try they'd have done it by now (maybe their otherwise-baffling move to put roblox games on steam is part of a path to this somehow idk) 100
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026that could maybe happen but it's hard to think of who could do this convincingly given the costs and long-term commitment involved, and the current rapid acceleration of large sections of the videogame business away from the business of videogames 100
Reposted by æonSasha's Retrobytes 🏳️⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Heads-up for fellow CRPG dungeon crawler fans as one to avoid: this one is made by ban-evading neo-nazis. 2420531310
Reposted by æonæon @aeon.bsky.social · 10/02/2026it's on root. it's literally on zulip. it's on stoat (formerly revolt). it's on fluxer with plutonium. dude it's on tuwunel. you can probably find it on mattermost. it's on pumble. you can go to pumble and look at it. log into pumble right now. pumble has it for you. pumble has it for you 161
Reposted by æonChris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...youtube.comInside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the PressYouTube video by People Make Games 221993924
Reposted by æonKyle Tam is Climbing Mt Moriah @percypropa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Please support the Indiepocalypse pledge drive! This is money that goes to HUNDREDS of creators who’ve contributed to every single issue of Indiepocalypse! Including me! Wow! That’s WILD!!! 052
Reposted by æonPOLYGON BIRD Games @polygonbird.games · 23/09/2026Take control of the HALCYON 🗡️ Defeat the RADON Daughters 🦅 Destroy the WORLD-EGG 🥚 BIRDCAGE is out now on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation & XBOX consoles! www.eastasiasoft.com/games/BIRDCAGE 112955
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026yeah the TRPG concept of 'metagaming' might be unique to the medium honestly? (aside from very closely related forms like larps or narrative wargames) I can't think of anything comparable in videogame design at all; "meta" as commonly understood is a very different thing 010
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026this must be multiple orders of magnitude more expensive than traditional spam. very unwise if you ask me 010
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026yeah I mean the OG rat blog was literally called "Overcoming Bias"; obviously a thing both normal to want and possible to achieve 110
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026when this also doesn't work they'll shift to sports betting or something idk 161
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026imo the new meta for (post-)AAA is to hoard IP and push all the actual development work out to co-dev. employees are expensive, pivot to owning things 2158
Reposted by æonRichard Cobbett @richardcobbett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Nighthawks! It's out! Please buy and like it! That is the best marketing slogan my tired brain can come up with right now! store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...store.steampowered.comSave 10% on Nighthawks on SteamThe secret is out. Vampires have been exposed to the world… and you’re one of them. Seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, ... 1621094
Reposted by æonApex Mango - WISHLIST 🍎💀 ~FRUITBEARER~ 🍎💀 @apexmangostudio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026FINALLY!!! 😍 Fruitbearer is OUT NOW! Please go give some love and write a review on steam. For small indie devs like us it helps us a lot 😭💖 Our first attempt to make this into a full time career🥹 Hope you enjoy! 🥰💖 store.steampowered.com/app/4300180/... #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart #art 1017072
Reposted by æon𝙑𝙀𝙀𝙏𝙍𝙄 : Blast Processed 🥑 @parametricavocado.bsky.social · 20/09/2026As usual, it's all just artisanal, carefully sorted multiple passes of alpha/additive layers, their opacities smoothly modulated per vertex. 210229
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026you could run that fuckin claude machine for a thousand years and it'd never come up with a trick half this good 160
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026at least GNS was a serious attempt to create a universal classification, just a very misguided and ill-intentioned one. 6COP is a throwaway post complaining about the internet that broke containment and cemented a collection of personal anecdotes as important structural insights 031
æon @aeon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I do think we gotta delete "six cultures of play" from the internet though tbh 150
Reposted by æonblackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I just wrote a paranormal story in the form of a fictional forum thread! A young woman discovers a video captured from inside a recurring dream. Read here: suricrasia.online/unfiction/sp... 771176560
Reposted by æonChris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Last year, Rockstar was accused of firing over 30 workers for engaging in trade union activity. The studio said they were let go for leaking confidential information. The tribunal between the two parties begins today. I'll be attending and will do my best to provide updates over the coming weeks. 2747190
