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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Engineers will remain indispensable for: - Setting goals - Designing experiments - Handling edge cases - And taking responsibility for outcomes Machines will assist, not decide. fastcode.io/2025/10/20/w...

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Why Large Language Models Won’t Replace Engineers Anytime Soon

Explore the mathematical and cognitive limits that stop large language models from achieving true human-like engineering intelligence

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Wake up! "Spooky Candy Crush" was just announced! Basalt: The Cursed Vein is a match-3 roguelite where you delve haunted depths to rebuild a decripit mining town ☠⛏️ Steam: s.team/a/3930130 Trailer: youtu.be/-OEli70mPdc #MadeWithGodot by @gamespeopleplayas.bsky.social and @rubarb.bsky.social

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Gamers & Games @gamersegames.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Basalt: The Cursed Vein mistura roguelite e match-3 em uma sombria cidade mineradora #gamersegames #themixshowcase Basalt: The Cursed Vein traz ação roguelite com match-3 em pixel art sombrio. Adicione agora mesmo à sua lista de desejos no Steam. www.gamersegames.com.br/2025/08/29/b...

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Basalt: The Cursed Vein mistura roguelite e match-3 em uma sombria cidade mineradora

Basalt: The Cursed Vein traz ação roguelite com match-3 em pixel art sombrio. Adicione agora mesmo à sua lista de desejos no Steam.

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gamespeopleplayas.bsky.social @gamespeopleplayas.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We just announced Basalt: The Cursed Vein! A grim roguelite match-3 where you mine, rebuild, and face things best left underground. The deeper you dig, the greater the rewards, but the villagers warn: Don’t dig too deep! We’re making this game together with @rubarb.bsky.social

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

ordep.dev/posts/writin... The marginal cost of adding new software is approaching zero, especially with LLMs. But what is the price of understanding, testing, and trusting that code? Higher than ever.

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Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck

LLMs make it easier to write code, but understanding, reviewing, and maintaining it still takes time, trust, and good judgment.

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

gamedev.city is like HackerNews for gamedev. So much cool content in one place! Went straight on my browser startup page. #gamedev

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Gamedev.city

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The Games playlist I maintain on Spotify just surpassed 2,000 songs, 116 hours of music. Should be enough for a few work days. Features soundtracks from Crypt of the Necrodancer, Fez, Teardown, Silent Hill, SOMA, Slime Rancher, Limbo, Minecraft, Below, etc. #gamedev open.spotify.com/playlist/5NA...

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🕹️ Games

Playlist · mandarinx · 2033 items

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Arvy @arvy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Ah, yes, I remember playing Balatro 95 back in my dad's office

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I've always been nervous about copying other games, even though I always do. This quote made me feel less nervous about it. 😄

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Dragonsweeper is one of those games that makes me wish I was smart enough to have come up with the idea myself. Try it, it's good! danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper

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Dragonsweeper by Daniel Benmergui

A roguelike minesweeper adventure

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KRAK @mckrak.ink · 17/11/2024

I've been seeing a lot of pixel artists struggle with Bluesky's image compression, so I'd thought I'd share how to get clear, crisp pixels on the site! Share to help a fellow pixel-artist! #pixelart #tutorial

When uploading to Bluesky, remember to resize your works to 800%!

Why? Images are converted to .jpeg when uploaded. .jpeg compresses the image into 8x8 pixel blocks.

If a block has more than one colour, that dreaded compression occurs!

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Check out Dig Dig Boom! It’s a different kind of mining game.

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The Bustling World looks amazing! Would like to try it. I get exhausted thinking about how many hours it must have taken to make all those assets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY0u...

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The Bustling World - Official Trailer #2

YouTube video by IGN

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I never thought I would say something like this, but Godot has made setting up UI a fun experience. #godot

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Ategon @ategon.dev · 03/01/2025

Daily Godot Tip #32: You can use @ icon to assign a custom icon to a node instead of it having the default icon. You will need to close and then reopen the node to see the changes and icon must be put before the class declaration #godot #gamedev #godottips

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ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Does your #godot game startup slowly? Do you use NoiseTexture2D by chance as textures in some materials? Check this thread to find out how you can unknowingly ruin your game startup time + level load times either instantly, or slowly over time by using unbaked noise textures. 🧵 #techart #Gamedev

An extreme example of poor startup time in a test scene using 4 unique noise2D textures. Each texture spread across 4 different materials, the time from starting the game until the first rendered frame visible to the user is 12 seconds.

startup time measurement in seconds of a NoiseTexture2D using FastNoiseLite at increasing resolutions and features enabled.

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Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Why does 'finding the fun' fail so often as a design strategy? #gamedesign New designers are told to prototype and 'find the fun'. But the naive version of this is a garbage tactic that mostly results in poorly thought out prototypes that are never going to converge on gameplay.

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social knew it earlier than most of us and paid a high price for pointing it out. She’s back now and not for a cheap ‚told you so‘. But to warn us again. It’s late. But not too late. Just read this. 👇

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A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power | Carole Cadwalladr

The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

The soundtrack to Teardown is super nice for programming sessions! Check out both part 1 and 2. #gamedev open.spotify.com/album/57zMfC... and open.spotify.com/album/0VCZGN...

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Teardown, Pt. 1 (Original Game Soundtrack)

Douglas Holmquist · Album · 2020 · 16 songs

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Rubarb Studio @rubarb.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Breaking news! Rubarb is on Itch. ✨ We really love experimenting and playing with ideas in rough states.. *and* we believe in sharing! Warts and all 🧌 Cool guy Simon will dump all of his prototypes on Itch for you to see and try at rubarbgames.itch.io

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Rubarb Studio @rubarb.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Dan the funding man recently secured 200,000 NOK from Viken Film Centre for his game Bargainer! He is already busy learning Godot. Wish him luck! @danwakefield.bsky.social vikenfilmsenter.no/tildeling/bargai…

A malevolent god-like creature with three eyes and roots growing out of its head. It looks like it's smiling in excitement.

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

The soundtracs for Dome Keeper are really good! Makes for a pleasant programming session. :-) vol 1: open.spotify.com/album/6S9mSj... vol 2: open.spotify.com/album/2s2wjC...

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Dome Keeper, Vol. 1: The Engineer (Original Soundtrack)

Cameron Paxton · Album · 2022 · 15 songs

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Rubarb Studio @rubarb.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Our programmer is making a game called Share Wars, and has started a devlog over at the official Godot forums! Give him a follow so that he feels the pressure 🗜️ to actually finish the game. 😄 @mandarin.bsky.social forum.godotengine.org/t/share-wars-…

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Sane advice on gamedev, from @jakobwahlberg.bsky.social Some of them resonates with the learnings Sid Meier presents in his memoirs.

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

So many awesome people in one handy list! go.bsky.app/Bih7pqu

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