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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I would use my powers only for good and make amazing, uplifting games for everyone. Take that, monkey's paw! :-P

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And this is not only relevant to AI. It's relevant to wanting to be good at almost anything.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stop recommending games based mainly on tags. It's horrible for players who like lots of different genres and horrible for devs whose games don't neatly fit a popular tag.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I don't know about YouTube, but on Instagram the incoming traffic is based on how well the content is doing, so it can get quite complicated working out what happened.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It could be this. Or is it that... people like games?

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Connie Willis's excellent Oxford Time Travel series doesn't like to talk about time machines. (Although I claim most SF is closer to futuristic fantasy, which amounts to a kind of genre-wide not caring about tech.)

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And in the process, does it impart infinite kinetic energy to a bunch of other stuff, smashing everything in the level to bits?

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh, should I not be capitalising larp? Why not? Is it no longer considered an acronym?

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Is this clip a perfect loop? You monster! I could have been stuck watching this all morning!

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I do like a good level editing tool... Maybe too good? Is it just me who'd rather play the game in this view? :-P www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3I0...

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He Who Watches | Behind-The-Scenes: Level Design Tools

YouTube video by Draknek & Friends

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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

To celebrate the launch of He Who Watches and 13 years of Draknek & Friends, we've got a massive publisher sale event on Steam! All of our games are currently discounted, so have at 'em! Also, please check out He Who Watches! OUT NOW! store.steampowered.com/developer/dr...

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

That's exactly the kind of smart genre evolution I want. Instant buy!

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ooh, nice! I've wanted something like this for so many small projects before.

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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

He Who Watches by Danga Games is OUT NOW! 👁️🏹 To celebrate the release, we have a brand new trailer featuring solo developer Bobby Vanden explaining what the game is and why it's special. Watch below! Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1070500/... itch: draknek.itch.io/he-who-watches

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm surprised you don't now, because it's not exactly complicated: punishments are applied for opposing the interests of the one doing the punishing. They can't have kids fighting, so they punish all kids involved and never mind justice. If they arbitrate disputes then that's extra work.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Carmack's post is a misunderstanding of where Scratch sits. It's very good at what it does. My son made his first program with it before he could read by learning it purely visually from his sister's code. (She is now a professional programmer, having started with it.)

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You posted the wrong pic, this is just some grass.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

By way of proving your point, every time I encountered in your text some turn of phrase or point of view which would provoke even the mildest disapproval in any of the bubbles I inhabit, I mentally deducted a point from my (undisclosed) review score for your article.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

You have to feel a bit sorry for the bad guys here, they're going to have a really tough time imitating your writing style and even if they managed, the actual scam would have to be something like "Do you want to buy three dozen trained platypodes?" in order to not seem out of place.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Ooh, congratulations! That's so cool!

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If you'd asked me to complete the sentence "Mounting discontent with _" in a games context I would have gone with "AI", just saying. :-P

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Love the auto-flowers! <3

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Bad strategy. If you burn them down that means the insurance pays out. Insurance payouts come from ordinary people in the end as the cost is spread. The real battle with all this AI stuff is to prevent the investors from socialising the costs of their bad bets.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thing I'm really interested in but will never find out: How many highly successful commercial games secretly have trash tier implementations of most subsystems?

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm (I didn't peek at my keyboard, but I did look up an image of a keyboard and then get the whole sequence based on being able to find Q without looking, because it's next to Tab, which is non-square.)

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Why is it that oat milk in tea is really nice but making a latte with oat milk results in horrible, cursed swamp drink that I can't even finish? :-(

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Are the rates in that document actually paid by any games company anywhere? I've never heard of a writer making anything like that much.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

But it's very important to not name them, since then they might cease to be commodities and require salaries above the "competitive remuneration" offered.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Whereas is another ten years you can reword it to "it wasn't always like this". :-(

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The lieutenants and tyrants stuff sounds fun! Difficulty levels I'm always a bit lukewarm on, but there will certainly be players for whom that's a critical feature.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/07/2026

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Looking at this on Steam without having played it yet, I'm strongly reminded of the classic boardgame Diamant. If so, I'm excited to see what they've done with it.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It would be more dramatic if it wasn't pretty much the exact same play Anthropic made with the whole "Mythos is too dangerous to release" thing. Not since "my Godzilla is even bigger" in the school playground has a contest escalated so predictably.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The thing I'm apparently failing to express here is: you seem to be surprised at the manner of appearance of these works and I'm trying to get a sense of what a non-casual arrival might have looked like. Is it the choice of Tumblr itself which gives this impression?

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

So what are the expectations, exactly? Almost all the non-commercial content I've seen online has arrived entirely without fanfare. Likes/comments/reshares and so on are proportional to existing audience. What are we measuring?

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"so casually" = "without a marketing budget"?

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I think we should be cautious in assessing what people think. With trillions invested in what appears to be a reckless manner, vast advertising spends have been deployed to instruct people to use AI and celebrate it. We cannot expect unbiassed perspectives.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If we're going to talk about that I think we really need to call out Apple specifically as being a problem in this respect. They have for a long time taken the view that they can break anything they like and devs have to fix their apps. That's super not OK.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Well, mathematically you're sure how to look "hyper-up" (I think "ana" is the conventional name for that direction?). The question here is what a sky volume at a fixed ana offset would look like after projection into 3D space and then how to visualise that in a 2D video. (I have no idea!)

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

And, perhaps more to the point, is flavoured with bergamot. Milk and citrus are not traditionally friends. Thing is, my bergamot milkshake may not bring all the boys to the yard, but I don't really want boys in my yard while I'm trying to program stuff.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Earl grey with an unfashionable amount of milk in it, and a custard cream.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

True, I suppose. But at the same time, I can unilaterally keep people out of my own threads and unilaterally prevent myself from ever being shown their threads... so in that sense I am a moderator here and I think that's why it works.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

So bad because the "law" is vague and therefore impossible to follow even if you want to, leading to unfair treatment. Makes sense. (I ask because my previous experience of unmoderated public spaces has been awful, so I find it hard to see value in them.)

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Is your perspective here that moderation is intrinsically bad, or that something about the way Reddit in particular does moderation is bad?

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