Reposted by Barbara 👽Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 21/09/2026The only part of game development I don't care about is the shareholders 9945166
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Max and I will be showcasing our new zine + hypertext fiction game set in our worldbuilding project Diluvium at UGE! Come say hi! 🪶 061
Reposted by Barbara 👽adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026games have been huge success. thats why we're firing every one who makes games. also we are going to make it so players can no longer buy games 4182942498
Reposted by Barbara 👽Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026🔔 cool link alert 🚨 foxglove foxgloveapp.com “Foxglove protects your art before you post it. It strips tracking metadata that platforms use to profile you, embeds a hidden ownership watermark into the pixel data, and applies adversarial perturbation that corrupts AI training.”foxgloveapp.comFoxglove - Beautiful to humans. Poison for machines.Poison your art for AI before you post. Strip metadata, embed hidden messages, disrupt AI training. Everything runs on your device. 28237
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Are you ready for #ArtFight yet? It will be my first year participating! Feel free to share your usernames so we can follow each other :) My profile is artfight.net/~barbsart #ArtFight2026 #TeamTragedy 030
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Hello @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social I wanted to share that I created the Biologist and the Crawler in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream.. they are friends now! I’m in the process of building Area X but the lighthouse building takes a while to unlock! 020
Reposted by Barbara 👽Himbo Beefcake, PhD 🔞💪 @jendrawscomics.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Realistic "draw with me" YouTube video where the artist spends a good 15 minutes browsing their WIP folder, then reorganizes their layers, then real quick checks social media for 35 minutes before drawing a single circle with the eyeline cross on it, then afk for 45 minutes 321885572
Reposted by Barbara 👽Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026At this point, generative AI has to go the way of the dinosaur. It literally has to be rooted out and the companies associated with it driven out of business. The idea that it continue in its current form is intolerable and a complete disaster at a time when we have no margin for error as a species. 10951243
Reposted by Barbara 👽Game Workers Conference @gameworkerscon.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Do you work in the games industry? Join us for the first Game Workers Conference, online May 22nd & 23rd ❤️✊🏽 117499
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 30/03/2026I’m active on Mastodon at gamedev.lgbt/@barbs btw..gamedev.lgbtBarbara 👽 (@barbs@gamedev.lgbt)50 Posts, 110 Following, 88 Followers · ✩ (concept) artist | gamedev | writer ✩ MA Experimental Publishing @xpub@post.lurk.org ✩ ᴏᴘᴇɴ ᴛᴏ ᴡᴏʀᴋ ✩ loves visionary sci-fi & ecology 🚫 NO GenAI/NFT 000
Reposted by Barbara 👽Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17/03/2026There is a massive disconnect between the indie games community and the technoloy industry at large, Paul - the disconnect being that indies try to make games and a large part of the technology sector makes disposable startups to flip as much VC money as possible at the expense of everything. 18856134
Reposted by Barbara 👽Stevoisiak @stevoisiak.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S... 3122404911924
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 20/02/2026woman of tomorrow #supergirl #supergirlwomanoftomorrow #art #sketchbook #dccomics 071
Reposted by Barbara 👽Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/02/2026Godot's marketing strategy for 2026: let Unity exist.gamedeveloper.comUnity says its AI tech will soon eliminate the need for codingCompany CEO Matt Bromberg claims AI will empower non-coders and seasoned developers alike. 23726112
Reposted by Barbara 👽Natalia Zaitseva @nataliadraws.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Luckily, I've gotten much better at this lately! 5154821228
Reposted by Barbara 👽Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 05/02/2026economists ran the numbers and, uh, it's bad!404media.coVibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’ 927188
Reposted by Barbara 👽adelle k. @ RCCC I-46 @klimtsonian.bsky.social · 29/12/2025this was my heated rivalry etc etc 943345
Reposted by Barbara 👽rob pike @robpike.io · 25/12/2025Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry. 10081902203
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Over the weekend @bunkes.bsky.social and I participated in the B1T JAM! We were only allowed to use 2 colors for this game. In Webgardener, you are a gardener caring for your website. Plant links to explore the world wide web! dionpeek.itch.io/webgardenerdionpeek.itch.ioWebgardener by Dion Peek, Barbara MathijssenYou are a gardener caring for your website. Plant links to explore the world wide web! 010
Reposted by Barbara 👽Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Read this, on software, maintenance, political community, Ursula Le Guin, and the public good. You will be pleased that you did!wrecka.geSparks fly upOnce you’ve seized the tools of political life to build communal power, it’s hard to forget what a hammer feels like in your hand. 063
Reposted by Barbara 👽Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 11/11/2025I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...youtube.comThe Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6YouTube video by People Make Games 1620961058
Reposted by Barbara 👽Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 13/09/2025The Groyper Wars 8647312238
Reposted by Barbara 👽Dion Peek @bunkes.bsky.social · 11/09/2025One of the first sketches I ever made for Bloody Hell 2. This was also one of my first ever isometric sketches, and I quickly learned that overdrawing engine blockouts was way quicker than doing it all by hand :)) Check out @punintendedgames.bsky.social for more! #pixelart #gamedev #isometric 0135
Reposted by Barbara 👽Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2025We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. 0363150
Reposted by Barbara 👽Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Um... I may have gotten carried away in writing my review of Strange New Worlds season 3... 3246573
Reposted by Barbara 👽innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025still rattled by the sheer giddy glee with which some queers are coming for itch.io, one of the largest collections of queer games in existence. i know it's scary to accept, but we do actually have good things worth defending. we have things it would damage us to lose 3711148
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Movie you’ve watched more than 6x using a gif (no Disney, Star Wars, LOTR, or Star Trek)media.tenor.coma group of people standing in a field with their bodies made of plantsALT: a group of people standing in a field with their bodies made of plants 390
Reposted by Barbara 👽Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 18/06/2025hail life on the verges 1893
Reposted by Barbara 👽Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Seen this going around but I’m Reposting it with the full alt text bc everyone deserves to read this glorious reply from Boy George 1099543355
Reposted by Barbara 👽Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 29/04/2025To be clear about my viewpoint: GenAI is only inevitable if we let it be. The only way to fight against something that we are being told is inevitable is to not use it and disprove the theory. We don't need to find "ethical" ways to create GenAI. We need to blank it out and make it embarrassing. 734763
Reposted by Barbara 👽Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 10/06/2025This article is a perf exp of how folks are going to use any excuse then can to feel ok with watching Harry Potter because they care more about getting to watch their show then systemic harm against trans people that they can distance themselves from. And Nick Frost is actively helping that. 371979
Reposted by Barbara 👽10,000 Motivated Rats @bombsfall.bsky.social · 06/06/2025A solo dev the size of 10 devs 11701110
Barbara 👽 @barbsart.bsky.social · 06/06/2025The season unfolded for sure.. I have a lot of thoughts but I think I’ll write a blog post about it sometime. 020