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Niiice It kind of reminds me of the tricks used in Obra Dinn for dithering stabilization forums.tigsource.com/index.php?to...

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 18h

Something that has seemed increasingly apparent to me is the power of a platform to set expectations for the quality bar and production value of the games it runs. Platforms have immense _curation_ powers

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 18h

The challenge is part of the charm 😛 But you are right, that would be inefficient You're not the only one to raise this point : bsky.app/profile/brie... My most recent and fav example of this is Crow Country. While made with modern tooling, the game has an insane ambiance and runs on anything

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 18h

(Extreme) constraints force to be extremely creative The Playdate and PICO-8 are good examples of that

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 18h

Yes but that's still not even close A Steam Deck can run most of PS4/XOne gen games with AAA quality A PS2 has 32MB of RAM and a CPU clock rate of 300MHz. Today, consumer hardware typically has 1000x more RAM and 10x faster CPU speed

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 21h

Même sans explosion ni dégât physique, le machin pète à +140dB, 120dB étant le seuil de douleur et de dommage auditif irréversible peu importe la durée du son

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23h

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 23h

Awesome tutorial ! I just took a proper look at your channel, and it's nice to see tutorials that are actually useful, well-cut, and most of all : get to the point

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Mina Pêcheux 🔶 GET Locktale on Steam! @minapecheux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So - want to add lights to your Godot 2D scenes? Check out this quick tutorial! 🔥 👉 youtu.be/Qvtxx3evMwg #gamedev #godot #GodotEngine #godot4 #gdscript #csharp #madewithgodot #tutorial #programming #lighting

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mais avec une bienveillante clarté

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.

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Prodigle @prodigle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rare feeling of working on something that's getting me kind of excited #IndieGame #GameDev #Godot #DarkFantasy #ScreenshotSaturday

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Hippolyte 🪐 @hippolyte.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"There are as many water shader as there are games" - a very smart friend

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Ivan Gaudé @ivanlefou.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

#RAMpocalypse Le PDG de Micron, un des 3 géants de la RAM : - j'ai déjà vendu toute ma production 2027 - pas de nouvelles capacités de production avant 2028 - les prix en 2027 et 2028 seront pires qu'en 2026 - pas de visibilité sur une date d'amélioration www.theregister.com/systems/2026...

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RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates ‘much higher’ prices

Posts huge leaps in revenue, profit, and margin, with more to come

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Bat-Tali 🦇🎃 (Vancouver era ✨) @talidev3d.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I want to say it cannot be said enough how important it is for other men to say things about this shit. In the moment, or ASAP My first ever game dev event I was sexually harassed (assaulted?) by a Sony exec while all of my coworkers saw and said nothing Please say something, for people that can't

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Nerial @nerial.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh no...

Unfortunately, another one of those announcements with text on a somber background color. We're stopping the activity of our studio, Nerial.

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SRDebugger is a real missing spot, it was plug-and-play in Unity There are some debug menus and consoles available, and it's not hard to build a runtime debug screen, but a full-feature turnkey solution could be cool

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You might already know them, but just in case, there are some alternatives to those ! DOTween => Godot native Tween API (why Unity doesn't have one ??) TextMeshPro => Godot uses SDF rendering by default and proposes many text features natively Cinemachine => Phantom Camera phantom-camera.dev

phantom-camera.dev

Phantom Camera

A Camera Addon for Godot

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A Godot alternative to famous @freya.bsky.social's Shapes plugin for Unity

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Connor Makar @connormakar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I spoke to several sources working hard at The Coalition, who have experienced increased anxiety around layoffs and promised Metacritic bonuses since Xbox's Reset. The sudden cut of story director Juan Vaca only fueled these fears. Read it below!

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It looks cool but being closed-source is suspicious for now

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The art direction, the polish and the movement gameplay of this game is absolutely outstanding Too bad it's a moba and the gunfeel is very pew pew (I would have liked so much a spiritual successor to Team Fortress 2)

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you have the Android versions of the spine-godot gdextensions ?

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And if you didn't know, Spine in Godot is available as both a GDExtension or a module

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just discovered that @esotericsoftware.com's #spine2D now supports 3D rendering in #godotengine!! This setup of complex 2D skeletons in 3D is quite common in famous Unity games like Cult of the Lamb or Tinykin: this is very good news for the Godot ecosystem esotericsoftware.com/blog/spine-g...

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Blog: Native 3D rendering in spine-godot

SpineSprite3D brings Spine animation to Godot's 3D world, with lighting, normal maps, shadows, slot nodes, and AnimationPlayer support.

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A lightmapper that doesn't leak And GDScript traits

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Testez de parler avec un seul micro allumé à la fois, depuis vos positions respectives, et vérifiez si vous pouvez (trop) entendre la personne sans micro dans la sortie de celui branché

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 27/09/2026

we should teach kids not to gamble by making them play xcom

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Source games (HL2, Portal 2) still look good today With hardware costs exploding, legacy/precomputed solutions are still important to keep

$Meme from the "Invicible" anime with Omni-man talking to his son about incoming jetfighters The jetfighters are labeled : "Realtime GI on RTX 5090" Omniman and his son are labeled : "Baked GI on a 15yo GPU" The caption at the bottom with Omniman dialog line : "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power"$

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A lot of people—I’d say almost all adults—are not told “I’m proud of you” often enough. Culturally it seems we reserve that praise for mentees or kids. Be that person! Say it to your spouse. Your siblings. Your friends. Even your parents and folks you look up to!

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's the delightful development story behind Big Walk, one of this year's best video games www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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The Six-Year Journey Behind ‘Big Walk,’ One of This Year’s Best Video Games

The delightful new co-op game started off as a pandemic fever dream

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dude, no freaking way... What you're seeing here is me doing live-blending / animations on baked lightmaps in Godot... 3700 FPS #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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DevMsg.txt @devmsg-txt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

THE FACT THAT YOU ARE DIGGING AROUND ON THIS DISK AND THINKING ABOUT HOW TO DECODE IT IS PROOF THAT THE GAME IS FUN ENOUGH TO TRY TO STEAL IT AND GIVE IT TO YOUR FRIENDS.

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Final two cents on the PMG x Kotick story: It is paramount that you support the journalism you want to see in the world. Outlets like PMG continue to raise the bar, BUT if you want even more of that probing journalism you have to give reporters the runway and financial backing to produce it.

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026

video games as a whole make hundreds of billions of dollars a year and apparently somehow nobody can make any money on them or pay anyone to make them

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They're still trying to get them through no ? Or is it over ?

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Still waiting for mine, they had issue going through french customs 😭

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

in a week that saw microsoft give activision the reins to halo and bungie pivot back to destiny, one thing has become abundantly clear: the people in charge do not have a long-term, overriding plan. they’re just reacting. the result, when times are bad, is chaos

"Things are still very chaotic," a current id Software employee who was granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly told Aftermath. "While there has been an attempt to communicate to the studios, it is still entirely in bullshit corporate speak. I still don't believe they have a clear vision for the future. The only concrete thing they have communicated is they want higher profits, and they want it now. Aggressive goals are being set that would have been unrealistic even before the layoffs. ... To say the workers within Xbox have a dim view of the future is putting it mildly. We keep thinking morale can't sink lower but the obvious incompetence of Xbox management somehow keeps driving it down worse."
This mirrors shifts in strategy that have come to dominate the still-new Sharma era, including others outlined Tuesday. Rare is joining Activision, Turn 10 and Playground are fusing, and—most gallingly, considering their history—Obsidian is being folded into Bethesda to work on Fallout instead of its own original series. As with the previous round of layoffs, details betray Microsoft's haphazard approach: A Halo developer got promoted and laid off in the same week. Gears of War: E-Day's story director is out of a job days after celebrating that the game had gone gold. Hellblade developer Ninja Theory, now without a buyer after a brief glimmer of hope, is once again on the chopping block.
All of this betrays a simplistic mindset that does not accurately reflect the reality of game development: People are disposable, studios are interchangeable, and series can be traded like sports teams. Nothing matters more than franchises and their money-printing prowess. Unless, evidently, you are Hideo Kojima, in which case Microsoft suddenly has money to burn.

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midiphony @midiphony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@picster.bsky.social MOLDRISE mentioned (the game intro was so disturbing that this single screenshot awakened me like a sleeper agent)

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