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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Is it actually true that gaming is a "mature market"? Been wondering this while watching Xbox and Sony self-immolate these past two years. It feels like the market is still growing in plenty of places, but the *US* gaming market decided to inflate into a bubble during COVID... #gamedev

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

ICE has been in my town for the past week... the USA is a fascist state

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Remember back in 2016 when everyone agreed "this isn't normal," and now it's normal?

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Job-search horrors: Called a place I'm interested in applying to. Left a message. They texted me saying I should apply on Indeed. Fair enough. But then: by applying on Indeed, I will be automatically sent an email with details to apply for the job. I have to apply to apply for a $15/hr job...

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Adrian Campos @friendadev.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The game industry is so fucking back

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Hey uhh, just to put it out there... I'm a programmer, and I don't use AI to write any code. At this moment, we still exist. #gamedev

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

market conditions are finally primed for an OUYA 2... and I'm not kidding

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A gas station just advertised ChatGPT to me...

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Game I was hired on almost 2 years ago now just announced 2 new characters, The Quick Brown Fox, and The Big Bad Wolf. Also announced the price! $11.99, but discounted to $7.99 at launch) Means the world if folks check it out and wishlist on Steam! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk4v... #gamedev

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Ya' boi has officially overcome the largest hurdle in making a turn-based RPG in GameMaker Studio! #gamedev

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Why is Link's hair so wet? Nintendo-hire-this-man-ass art style

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Broke ground on a new game today with a collaborator I feel really confident in :) #gamedev

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

When I started to learn game programming, I had ambitions to open-source my work. I love collective knowledge. LLMs make me not want to open-source. I don't even touch LLMs, and they've managed to make a me a more suspicious, isolated person. I'm curious how many others feel like this? #gamedev

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

First time AI has ever been correct

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Dusklight is an unbelievably good port of Twilight Princess. The reason Nintendo hates this stuff is because it provides valid competition. I would absolutely pay money to play a port this good on Switch 2, but Nintendo doesn't want to have to spend the money to make one. #gamedev

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This Zelda: Twilight Princess PC port, Dusklight, is something else, man...

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Cory Doctorow ("enshittification" guy) has such a talent for simplifying bad things into something understandable while maintaining that they are in fact bad. pluralistic.net/2026/03/12/n...

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

If you check in online, you still have to check in in-person... this is the 'efficient' world tech oligarchs actually built...

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Backyard Birdwatching's basic systems are in, so it's time to make it a game. Starting with the basic unlock system, which undergirds the whole 'relaxing sense of discovery' we're going for. Birding is Pokemon for boomers (compliment), after all ❤️ #gamedev

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

#Gamedev friend of mine got laid off, so we're taking a few months to make a Midwestern Bird Feeding sim Light management that teaches you about native birds, how to attract them to your yard. Something to have open, check occasionally while you're at your desk Should be out in a couple months :)

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Met one of my heroes, @foldablehuman.bsky.social, and he was just a kind, cool dude. So, uhh, meet your heroes I guess? #PAXEast

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Resident Evil 9, like every other Resident Evil game, starts out really good, steadily gets repetitive, then you end up in a sewer and it's boring

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

if you don't spent a few minutes making nice little icons for your invisible manager objects, are you really living, #gamedev?

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Friend has an EV. An app is required to take the charger out at a public charging station. The app is currently not working, so the charging cable cannot be removed. This is what deregulation actually looks like...

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

32x MSAA is the killer feature of Mewgenics. Keep this in mind, #gamedev

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I think these are the only new games I spent significant time with this year... - Donkey Kong Bonanza - Hollow Knight Silksong - Claire Obscur Expedition 33 - Angeline Era - Fast fusion - Avowed - Skate Story - Metroid Prime 4 - Mario Kart World Silksong, Angeline Era, and Skate Story top 3 ig?

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

We talk about rage bait and 'rooting for games to fail' like it's this deep, moral failing. Video even claims, 'there's no obvious solution to this problem.' But this isn't some ~mystery~ This is the predictable result of engagement algorithms and an industry that's economically hostile.

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

"Games are meant to end" philosophy is undefeated

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Skate Story is game of the year 2025, easily. Also, fuck ICE

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

look-it alllllllllll those debug tools #gamedev Thank god GameMaker finally has vector support, even if it's still buggy

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Well this is a fun bug. Triangulating vertices (ear clipping) to draw primitives, and I think I forgot to cinch up the first and last vertex 😅 #gamedev

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Should grass on a slant stand straight and bend the same as grass on flat ground, or should I keep it turned sideways like this? #gamedev

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It is never going to stop being funny that Eric Adams had to drop out, even funnier that 6,000 schmucks still voted for the corrupt fucker

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Remember a couple years ago when we were all doing top 25s on topsters.org? Silksong done, I decided to redo and RIP BotW Top 10: 1. Shadow of the Colossus 2. Journey 3. Kentucky Route Zero 4. Spelunky 2 5. Disco Elysium 6. Dark Souls 7. Inside 8. Night in the Woods 9. Little Inferno 10. Ico

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I make nice, slidey camera like Super Mario World :D #gamedev

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Watching Ta-Nahisi Coates podcast appearances is so refreshing. He is the only liberal pundit to actually move left in the last 2 years, and now spends his interviews staring incredulously as his liberal pundit friends move *right* in response to Trump and Israel

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Pretty sure harassing mods into banning someone happens all the time on every platform, actually

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

It is 90° at the end of September. Fucking kill me

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Things Silksong succeeds at that people don't talk about: 1. Keys are rare and exciting 2. Gibberish voices with more personality/nuance than any other game 3. money is a resource that actually matters 4. Multiple diagetic fast travel systems 5. Hornet has a full Smash Bros. moveset ready to go

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

After the enlightened centrist boring parts, the Kimmel returns monologue is honestly pretty funny. Robert DeNiro still got it

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Even More News Maintenance Phase If Books Could Kill It Could Happen Here DF Direct Weekly Taken, btw 🥰

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

For the love of god, stop calling Hades 2 an indie game. I promise you that game has a budget in the 10s of millions

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I've got a quibble here or there, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is a genuinely remarkable achievement

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Barry Herbers @barryherbers.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Reminder from the Dark Souls subreddit that bullying people into not posting AI garbage still works:

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 14/09/2025

We don’t want AI slop. Stop sending us AI slop. Stop wasting our time with AI slop. It doesn’t sound good. It’s antithetical to our core values. You didn’t even make it. Knock it off.

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