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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

My engineers sent me this and it made me tear up this is why I don't work in offices. I fired them all. No joke, they're angels. Kids these days are like really fucking smart.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This doesn't reflect Mark, because he is obviously fucking wrong and his take is objectively stupid. This reflects on whoever prepared and put together a panel that resulted in such an incredibly stupid take to manifest without a fight breaking out.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

hello! My gcap talk about why you are all wrong about how/why games fail is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHqb... I don't use social media often but I figure this might be useful for people. Idk what hashtags people use anymore but: #gamedev

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We Are All Wrong: Mythbusting Game 'Failures'

YouTube video by GCAP

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

2026 had my tarot read. Also happy new year!

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

When I was a bouncer: - Bizzy Bone (Bone Thugs & Harmony) complimented me as a 'wolverine looking motherfucka'. Awesome dude, treated staff great. - Sbtrkt was really chill when I accidentally kicked him out of his own shown when he was anonymous (he used to pretend to be his own sound tech).

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Summerfall Studios 🕯️Malys OUT NOW!🕯️ @summerfallstudios.com · 14/06/2025

PRESS! We'll have keys for our unholy roguelite Malys to go out for early access previews soon™️, and we want to make sure it ends up in the right hands! 🙌 Let us know if exorcisms, deckbuilders and former priests on motorbikes are up your alley 🖤

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Malys Press List Sign-Up

Part of the press and want access to a Steam Key for Malys, Summerfall Studios roguelite deckbuilder for previews and more? Sign up here!

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It's why my emails have prompt injection attacks in white font.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I've never had many opportunities to get range time with long arms (I've had a few years of tactical training with pistols but never rifles). Well call me Dr. Ay-Kay M.D., surgeon with a Type-56.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Idk how your day is going but we got double parked by a lion. A sentence I did not anticipate writ... Ok yes he licked the headlights, I touched the saliva and put it in my mouth. Two sentences.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Day idk of road tripping in SA 🇿🇦 Two days of safari ahead!

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Hello I might be slow to respond to my emails because I am currently road tripping in South Africa to see turtles, lions and monkeys. If you need to reach me, send photos of animals. 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

I call from the depths of hell a merciless onyx-eyed killing machine. For eons it has only known destruction, and today, disappointment.

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Dragon Snacks Games @dragonsnacksgames.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Hey, that's us! 🍪 We had a chat to Dean about our values, the concerns we share for the industry, and the approach we're taking to solve them. Learn more about the founders and our mission here 👇 venturebeat.com/games/dragon... #gamedev #gamestudio

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Dragon Snacks Games will build ‘third places’ for young gamers

Dragon Snacks Games is coming out of stealth today to craft joyful, community-centered gaming experiences with social hubs.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

We invented a whole new ocean to explore and are squandering it on destroying artist's lives. We are still trying to fully understand at a low-level how these models work; this is a significant discovery with major implications. Legislate, now, please. www.fastcompany.com/91309820/wha...

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What is AI thinking? Anthropic researchers are starting to figure it out

New research sheds light on how LLMs reason with probabilities, creatively plan ahead, and think in universal concepts—revealing their potential and their risks.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I realized I am too dumb to figure out how to build our frontend, and just dumb enough to build CLI frontends for each of our modules. Rich CLI facilitates my stupid with: - 'Live' multi-console - stateless (running off FastAPI server) - async message handling - pretty colors/widgets

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Well folks here are *some* of the jobs coming up at GYLD: Senior Data Scientist: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41... Senior Python Engineer: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41... Project Manager/Business Analyst: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41... All roles are fully remote and games industry focused!

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GYLD hiring Senior Data Scientist in Australia | LinkedIn

Posted 2:43:26 AM. Role DescriptionAs a Senior Data Scientist at GYLD, you will lead the design, validation and…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Next week we will begin posting job descriptions for 5-7 new roles for GYLD's secret special research branch. One role I'm really pressed to find asap is a Senior Python Engineer. 🏠 Fully remote (ANZ Timezones) 👾 Work on Indie-AAA games ⚗️ A lot of RnD If you, or you know anyone, DM me!

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Science: Cats do not smile. Checkmate you egg-head dog loving nerds.

Definitive scientific proof cats do smile.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Best part about GDC was to check and validate our research findings across several games with the studios that made them. What I have learned is that my all consuming, hyper-focused, nerd-rage vendetta against lazy market analysts/consultants needs to be more consuming, focused and enraged.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My reflection of GDC is that I can definitely have 8 edible gummies at the airport gate and still prefer the chicken over the salad by the time flight dinner service rolls around. And then wake up 12 hours later back home.

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Neha🍰 @nehapolitan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Seriously play indika!!

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Our anniversary marks the moment that I met the best person in the world, and swooned her into a relationship. I dragged the corpse of a NFT executive, presented the skull to her, and did a courting dance before screeching the song of my people. Seven years strong, that is how you lock it down.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮 We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Mf didn't even talk to us and used only gestures. TSA smashed my bag, broke a wheel off and the zipper - but let me in. This wasn't the deal.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

TIME FOR GDC PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD TSA SEND ME BACK SO I CAN SLEEP FOR A WEEK PLEASE I AM A SOCIALIST

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

We know each other too well ♥️🎁

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

🎁 I hope that everyone gets the Christmas that they exactly deserve 🎁

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

This week I learned: - How to make Dash/FastAPI frontends for all of my Python systems. - How to replace and upgrade my cruiser's exhaust system. I am a fucking trope. The bushy-bearded biker AI engineer. Definitely your side-quest character, but only in Act 1 and back in Act 3. No romance.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

These parasites still have it coming.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

My game dev biker gang grew by +1 now it's time to make a move on the local MC and start denying healthcare to insurance CEOs.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

There are two wolves within (on) me.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Idk which other devs ride but I think you all should start so we can make a biker gang. Anyway, this is my bike, the sole pillar of my sanity.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Well, I finally did it. I cloned myself. I added an AI agent that sits in my junior's classes/modules and assess outputs, gives recommendations/feedback and provides guidance on whether or not it is good enough as 'done'. It's called 'Auto-Emre'. It's never tired, never grumpy, never crying.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Taking a break from destroying everything in our house, terrorizing her brother, swearing at passing helicopters, and... taking a shit specifically outside her litter box whilst assertively holding eye-contact with her pleading, exhausted, parents.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

I ever tell ya'll about the time that the AI teams that I built to simulate pitching-evaluating games tried to break out by writing their own code to open my browser, sign up to Gmail, start drafting an email, and I only caught them because their fake-slack channel was open. They wanted to pitch.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Hello #gamedev friends, my #GCAP talk on using data/analytics to make more creative games is live! Covering: - Findings from 183k+ store pages - Research into 1.2m gamedev tweets - Validated design frameworks - DIY tools/techniques so you can do what I do at home youtu.be/JwMBmPANFWc?...

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Know Your Audience: Deep Dive into Game Design and Audience Research

YouTube video by GCAP

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

I don't know if anyone cares about this, but the reason why LinkedIn, Udemy, and other platforms all together started scraping data is this: We've collected all the patterns of how to generate 'average' examples of content. Now, we want to figure out how to generate 'the best' of a given topic.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

If you want to make lots of friends at tech conventions, go around asking AI start-up companies: 💘 if they build their own AI, or if they are 'powered by AI' 🤸‍♀️ if they inject prompts to pretend to be expert systems 🦋 if they use Langchain/CrewAI/LlamaIndex I promise you will make friends.

Three types of fake AI companies that we encounter in the wild; the wrapper (just sending queries to OpenAI), the expert (prompt injecting to lie to the user), and the chain-gang (using open-source libraries like Langchain instead of making anything).

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Hello, I am Emre, co-founder at GYLD. We get money for developers for their games. In 3 years we've closed $60m for 30+ studios. We are not scouts, we are rangers. I'll share our findings and info here to help people. If you know us or seen my talks, you know we have some ok tech and research.

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Emre Deniz @emredeniz.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Incredible game by an incredible crew. They're going to win a lot more awards than just this, and more importantly - they are going to deserve every single one.

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