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Brandon Grimshaw @grimeh.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Santa came early in the form of the RustRover 2025.3 release notes 🙂 New & improved LLDB expression evaluator AND support for custom cargo profiles in the profile dropdown??? THANK YOU @jetbrains.com (I promise to complain less about LLDB support on youtrack going forward)

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Ron Chan @rondanchan.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Hekki GOTTEM. They are PLAYING AND ENJOYING #1000xRESIST

Redrawing of the sickos meme featuring Watcher from the sci fi video game 1000 times resist. A young woman looks through a window with a wicked smile. A word balloon from her says in all caps: Yes... ha ha ha Yes!

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Ron Chan @rondanchan.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Trying to describe 1000xRESIST to someone using commonly known media

Three images at the top show cover art for Turning Red, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Life is Strange. Red lines from them converge and point to the cover art for the video game 1000 times resist.

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Standard Issue Computing @standardissuecomputing.blog · 01/07/2025

Right about now, it's time to rock with the biggity Buck Bumble Right about now, it's time to rock with the biggity Buck Bumble Bum to the bum to the bum to the bass to the bum to the boom to the Bumble Bum to the bum to the bum to the bass to the bum to the boom to the Bumble Bum to the bum to the

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Croc studio Argonaut wants to remaster cult N64 shooter Buck Bumble | VGC

“We hope that Buck Bumble will have his day in the sun eventually”, the studio’s co-CEO says…

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Brandon Grimshaw @grimeh.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Man, I fucking love Void Stranger

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Brandon Grimshaw @grimeh.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I can't believe Blue Prince tricked me into caring about history

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Sidney @justsid.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Honestly, forget about AI tools. The trifecta of power tools for game engine development is RenderDoc, Superluminal and Live++. Hands down the most bang for your buck you can ever get and RenderDoc in particular is criminally underpriced.

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Brandon Grimshaw @grimeh.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I can't believe @meltedmasks.me would bully me like this 😩

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lucy @lucyamorris.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

a tragedy in three parts (feat @grimeh.bsky.social)

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Victoria Tran ✨ @victoriatran.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

New Community Dev newsletter! Hot n' fresh! 📰🔥 Featuring ✨ Tips for dealing with player demands ✨ Activity: how to avoid spoilers when doing promos? ✨ Resources & job posts And sign up now to get some exciting news from me veryyy soon!! (Let me advertise to u ok 🥺) thevtran.kit.com/posts/dealin...

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Dealing with community expectations ✨ Community Dev Newsletter #35

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Ryan Langley 🎮 Game Designer @ryan.makesvideogames.com · 03/03/2025

Let me tell you about how we developed the new modes in Jetpack Joyride! When we took over for the team in we wanted to be able to have the game feel fresh over time - events that turn on and off, but not overscope it. #gamedev #mobiledev

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lucy @lucyamorris.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

1000xresist tattoo 🥰

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Ron Chan @rondanchan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Sometimes you gotta take a sketch break to draw sad fanart #1000xRESIST

Loosely drawn color sketch of Healer and Bang Bang Fire from the video game 1000 times Resist. BBF buries her head in Healer's lap. Healer strokes her hair to comfort her. On the ground is a mess of blood splatter and BBF's gun. Text next to Healer's head indicates she is saying "oh, BB..."

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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Shutting down Arkane or Monolith must look fantastic on your spreadsheet, i'm sure. But when you come to have to make games, your actual business that is more profitable than anything else, not having these established mega-studios is going to result in games which just aren't very well made.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Old as hell PC gamers pouring several ones out today

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unreal🌱garden @unreal-garden.com · 23/02/2025

Steve's tutorial on animating text using the Rich Text Block shows exactly how to achieve wiggly text without needing to write any C++. It just uses the standard Rich Text Block and a few custom materials.

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

no I'm not in an abusive relationship with a game engine *crosses arms* why would you assume that

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David Amador @djlink.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

if you use an external code editor on Godot (VSCode, Rider etc) and want to stop the warning "files have been modified outside" popup activate this option. I'm betting 99% of the time you'll want it to auto reload.

Godot Editor settings showing the "text_editor/behavior/files/auto_reload_scripts_on_external_change" setting

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

a thing that is pretty great about all the major cloud services providers is that every single documentation page on their own websites has out-of-date screenshots and instructions

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 27/01/2025

There has been some debate over whether bluesky is good for game promotion or whether actual consumers are here. As a test, last week we did two posts with mid-level performance - one from the company account, one from mine - and got ~900 wishlists. There was no other promo elsewhere. Pretty solid.

Screenshot of a post from me in which I shared a gif of the harbor in Demonschool with the ferry docked, in which the ferry bobs up and down and it generally looks chill with lights in the rails, brown wood, and a calm vibe. The text says "I want demonschool to be finished AND I want to live there"

Post from the Necrosoft account saying "hello this is us. Please buy our "persona like.""

And it's quote tweeting a post about how game devs have to reductively call out our game's similarity to another, when really we have thousands of influences.

A steam wishlist chart is depicted during the period of these two posts where you see the numbers going up across the week where we posted these two things.

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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 27/01/2025

today on BRAIN WORMS i have up an article that used to be published on my old, dead website about the way Final Fantasy VIII handles Seifer and the darker aspects of a chosen one narrative... share and enjoy!

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Why isn't Seifer the hero in Final Fantasy VIII?

The so-called villain of the story is just an unfortunate case of misplaced heroics.

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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I just posted an intro video on Youtube for a devlog I'm gonna try to keep up for Build The Sun there! 🎥 Check it out: youtu.be/vvj8xyhWMkU 💖

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We made a God Game in 72 hours - Build The Sun devlog intro

YouTube video by PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞

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Peter Gordon 🇺🇦 @gordon.plus · 14/01/2025

"PDFs support javascript" is the kind of sentence that makes me want to throw all my tech in a well and go and live in a cave.

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eevee @eev.ee · 13/01/2025

they call it the xbox 360 because it's 360 months old

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rue @deathcarpets.enterdeepfo.rest · 13/01/2025

babe you’ve been manipulating your log for 36 days for no known purpose can you please put that down and come back to bed

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Sam Mac @benevogames.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I present Inspiration 🌈⭐️

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The even split of responses between journalists detailing exactly why this wouldn't work and readers enthusiastically saying this is exactly what they want feels a perfect example of why the modern capitalist internet is so terrible

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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 20/12/2024

🏆 1000xRESIST receives the NARRATIVE AWARD at @indiegameawards.gg 🏆 To be recognized is truly a dream and something we never considered during development. THANK YOU to everyone who has spread the word. It's working. We’re still around because of YOU 😭

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Lorenzo Pilia @lorenzopilia.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Today is an excellent day to be reminded how important @itch.io is and how lucky we are a platform like this exists, where creators (rather than customers) come first. Share an itch.io project you like! Make a purchase!

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Download the latest indie games

itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you're a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you co...

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itch.io @itch.io · 09/12/2024

Funko pops... never again 🥴 We're back if you haven't noticed!

Graph of gaping hold in site traffic due to the funko pop downtime of 2024

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

it should also be illegal to make digital robots who pretend to be real people why do we get chat "messages" in storefronts from "James" saying "Hello! How can I help you today?" or blog posts "written" by "people" with "human" pfps? why do we have robots *designed to impersonate us* everywhere?

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Don't miss out on our uhh.. .[reading review] uhh... normal video game. Now in 1.0! store.steampowered.com/app/333640

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Piers 💫 🔜 MIGW @piers.zip · 05/12/2024

I've just finished 1000xRESIST, after staring at it in my library for months and months... It did not let me down. It is beautiful, ambitious, and important. I don't really know what else to say.

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Brandon Grimshaw @grimeh.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I finished 1000xRESIST (by @sunsetvisitor.bsky.social @remysiu.bsky.social) last night and I haven't stopped thinking about it for a second. What storytelling, damn. I'm starting a 2nd playthrough tonight. It's been a long time since a game made me need to lick the plate like this. Hair to hair

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Power / Earwen @norcani.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

i finished 1000xresist

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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 04/12/2024

there is a star and a star and a dangerous gravity

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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 29/11/2024

New BRAIN WORMS for your pretty eyes! Epic has put a dead person in Fortnite (deceased rapper Juice WRLD) and it's weird and creepy and HEY what's the deal with death anyway and how does capitalism interact with that??? #mediacriticism

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Should we put dead people in Fortnite?

Juice WRLD's digital memory dominates the skies of the online shooter, years after his death. The ethics seem underexamined.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 21/11/2024

Just posted the 2nd article on my Bismuth VM hobby project, this time detailing the design of memory management and safety: enikofox.com/posts/memory... In it I cover that nobody wants to write a memory allocator, handles, linear feedback shift registers, and the stages of grief #Bismuth #PLDev

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Memory management and safety in Bismuth VM

This is the second in a series of posts about a virtual machine I’m developing as a hobby project called Bismuth. In this edition we’re going to look at the VM’s design for memory management and safet...

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Brandon Grimshaw @grimeh.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Finished rewriting my unity-yaml parser to be incremental (ie. line buffered) Was worried perf would tank, but not only did it hold, it's a tiny bit better! 🎉 Can still fully parse a medium-sized project + package cache in 2 secs, and now memory usage across 20+ worker threads stays <500MB 🤌

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Chris Murphy @highlyspammable.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I've made a Starter Pack for UE devs that give great tips that are helpful online. Know anyone that should be on it? Let me know!

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

there's a tendency to think of tools from a naively utilitarian perspective, as a list of features, and I think that's a huge mistake it misses a big part of the *experience* of using a tool, and the creative expression it encourages

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andy [known agitator] @meltedmasks.me · 18/11/2024

NEW Brain Worms! In which I hyperfixate on a single line of dialogue about John Wick from Dev Patel's film Monkey Man, deep diving on why it exists, what the two films are saying, and what they say to one another:

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Why does Monkey Man talk about John Wick?

We all want to be the cool dude who kills the bad guys and drives off in the expensive car. But that's not reality for those truly suffering.

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lucy @lucyamorris.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

not being on twitter

an email title that says "what are game developers getting out of blue sky"

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