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David Speck

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AI Programmer @guerrilla | he/him

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Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com · 29/09/2026
I've always felt the games industry started crashing in 2018 but the money being pumped into it (especially during COVID) was a Hail Mary to push a broken model over the line. I'm now convinced GenAI is in the same boat. These idiots think you can defy gravity by just pumping more money into it.
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David Speck @saduras.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great read! And share a lot of the sentiment. What got me excited about “AI” back then is definitely nothing like what the common understanding of the term is today…
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
everyone should watch this. nothing that works this way is conscious.
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Iron Pineapple @ironpineapple.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
topic was GTA 6, but this applies to basically all games and the type of discourse/criticism you might see
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ShouXin手訫 @shouxin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It’s the weekend! Let’s stretch a little with these cats. Cats seem to know better than we do how to truly relax. Stretch your legs, loosen up, and let go of the week’s tiredness. I hope these little cats bring a bit of ease and a good mood to your weekend😊 #shouxinsketch #cat #sketch #sketchdaily
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
this is what I've been working on lately!! 🐼🎪
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Spelkollektivet @handle.invalid · 18/08/2026
Just 70 hours after launching our campaign, we reached our goal of 750,000 SEK! But we’re not stopping there. Every contribution from here helps us secure better loan terms, or potentially even purchasing the building outright. Thank you to everyone who has donated or shared our campaign so far. ❤️
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Kenney @kenney.nl · 16/08/2026
Thank you for the positive comments on Little Troubles in Spooky Town so far! 🙇‍♂️ I'd like to share a few tips for those looking to create a similar polished game in just a short time! 🧵
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Spelkollektivet @handle.invalid · 14/08/2026
Help Save the Home for Indie Game Developers For 9 years Spelkollektivet has had more than 700 game developers stay at the co-living & co-working hub, but due to new directives in the local area, the future may be at risk. Read more: gofund.me/f4244d6de #gamedev #indiegames #gofundme
GoFundMe post titled "Save the Home for Indie Game Developers" with a Photograph of game developers working hard in the background. Goal is 750,000 SEK
With a Call To Action of "Donate Now"
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Meaning of life
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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
starting a collection of quotes like this
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Kenney @kenney.nl · 29/07/2026
Someone asked me for the Armor Games intro I made back in 2008 and it made me curious if @ArmorGames still uses this... YES THEY DO! Anyway here it is in 4K (or whatever socials compress it to)
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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is probably the biggest moment of my life 😭 After 4 years, the Game UI Bible has finally launched for all the world to see. A 400+ page tome of Game UI/UX goodness, celebrating all the weird and wonderful intricacies of this field. I'm SO proud of this book, and for you all to read it!
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
it's winter in quaternion space! you can see the gravitational field this way (unless the video compression gods are angry with me)
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カヤマタイガ @taiga080521.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
スパムニャー🐱💌
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 14/07/2026
My first #PortfolioDay with the carousel! I hope you all are having a great day looking at all the pretty art! I'm Davis 👋 I'm an artist and game dev. So nice to meet you ☺️
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Ben Bergman (he/him) @benbergman.ca · 05/07/2026
I'm playing around with some @kenney.nl train assets in @godotengine.org. Should I make a simple train track sandbox toy/game?
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Black Tabby Games (This is Tony) - Slay the Princess @blacktabbygames.com · 30/06/2026
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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
It wasn't long before I realized *exactly* where I can leverage this new-found knowledge. Fired up a quick test in Desmos, and holy shit. 😤☁️ #gamedev #indiedev
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Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Panel 1: In the foreground is Shen, facing away, fists up in a fighting position. In the background is a generic 'bro' in a tank-top, red shorts, and an orange cap with yellow hair, with his fists also up. He says "BRING IT ON, BRO!!"

Panel 2: Shen, in a low boxing pose, replies, "Okay, but I should warn you ... I'm trained in marital arts."

Panel 3: The bro taunts him, smiling, saying "HAH! As if any of that 'martial arts' shit really wor--"

Panel 4: The bro goes a neutral stance, his expression flabbergasted. He says "Wait, did you say 'marital'?" 

Panel 5: In the exact same expression and stance, the bro is now in a wedding dress at an altar, holding a bouquet of flowers as white petals fall around him.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 25/06/2026
Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Bungie friends, I am so, so sorry. You deserve better.
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Squeaky @squeaky.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Octo Painter
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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
for the best part of this year, I've been speaking to former Maxis developers to put together this: a near-6000 word oral history of Spore 🦠 www.designroom.site/spore-an-ora...
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Spore: An oral history
A wild bet in development for the better part of a decade, Spore reached for the stars — and, at times, got there. We recently spoke to eight team members, including chief designer Will Wright, to loo...
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Richard Meredith @rtm223.me · 12/06/2026
"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"
Various graphs related to AI coding adoption, titled "The Acceleration Whiplash"

Epics (features) : +66.2%
Features: +33.7%
Pull Requests: +16.2%
Code Churn: +861%
Incidents (per PR) : +242.7%
Monthly incidents: +57.9%
Bugs per developer: +54%
Bugs per PR: +28.7%
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AI and Games Conference @conference.aiandgames.com · 08/06/2026
Talk submissions for the conference are now open If you have solved a hard problem, built something that works, or learned something the community needs to hear, we want to hear from you. Deadline: 23:59 BST Sunday August 2. www.aiandgamesconference.com/talk-submiss...
Promotional graphic for AI and Games Conference 2026. Text reads: Talk Submissions Now Open. Event dates: 10th–11th November. Venue: Here East, Olympic Park, London. Background shows a conference hall with a projected slide displaying a cartoon of a hand unplugging a computer, captioned "Kasparov beats Deep Blue in one move."
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Dr Matt Mahmoudi @docmattmoudi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
oh no, i don't use the ai for <thing that i am paid to do> it's terrible at that. it's great for <thing you are paid to do> though.
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time about things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.
First, I’d created 2000 free-text responses and labelled them ‘UK’. Then I copied and pasted the exact same 2000 responses but labelled these ‘US’. Finally, I combined them to create a dataset of 4000 total responses, and jumbled them up.

Despite the responses being identical for the UK and US, Copilot produced a rich, detailed summary of how US and UK respondents differed.
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Willie Agnew @willie-agnew.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Our work on how gen ai is impacting the labor conditions and power of professional visual artists got a great writeup from Brian Merchant! www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-inf...
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The AI-inflected crisis artists are facing, in 4 charts
An alarming new study reveals the dire impact AI is having on artists' livelihoods. It does offer some hope, too.
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Myzreal @myzreal.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Working hard on the Godot Fluid Simulation blog post! It's much harder to make a proper write-up than I thought lol. Here's a sort of "flare" effect I achieved while fiddling with the parameters #gamedev #indiedev #godot
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ぶろ @buro4.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#pragmata 👧👧👧👧
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Captain Pacito @captainpacito.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
THE MERCHANT
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David Speck @saduras.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Finally got around to watch the latest video from AI and Games. Very good stuff! Can’t wait for the next parts (I know the articles are already out there)
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Stefan Reinalter @molecularmusing.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Gave a talk at Guerrilla Games this morning (slides coming on Monday). Met a bunch of very welcoming, fun and smart people and the tech they built is nothing short of amazing! Had lots of fun hanging out with you folks, thanks so much @jeremy.laumon.name for inviting me!
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GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️🎄 @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
.... I see.
Screenshot of Google having been asked "is blender easy", responds by saying "Blender has a steep learning curve and is generally considered difficult for beginners due to its complex interface and vast" before suddenly breaking off mid sentence and spouting off an incredibly long sequence of numbers
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
most of the time you don’t want true randomness and/or simulation in a game. you think you do but you’re wrong and will get mad at us if you get it.
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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
ideas are cheap
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 25/03/2026
If this verdict holds, I can see this lawsuit being a landmark case: if social media companies are liable for making addictive apps, then it could massively limit the extent to which they can use algorithms to harm people.
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Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial
A woman has been awarded $3m in a verdict that could have implications for hundreds of other cases in the US.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
BREAKING: Epic Games is laying off more than 1,000 workers today, sources tell Bloomberg News. Story hitting shortly
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Martin @tuxedopato.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Run and gun
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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years. we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this?? between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright
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Nynne ☁️ @beanynne.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
favourite spell #frieren #art
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Steven Lumpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
“We’re going to ship lower quality stuff, faster” seems like an exceptionally clear sighted and honest explication of AI’s value proposition, I’m just not convinced that a) people will want the lower quality stuff, or b) that it will actually be faster
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 @expedition33.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Wishing you all the happiest of holidays, from our painted family to yours ❤️❤️ - The Expedition 33 Team!! Artwork made by Nicholas Maxson-Francombe, Art Director.
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Taconite @taconite.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I guess this a game about rum running now... Taking some time to setup systems appropriately can have some significant benefits; these NPC drivers are just steering by offset to player! They're bunching up rn, but that's nothing that boids can't solve 🤔 #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d
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Celesse ✿ @celesse.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Home for Christmas 🌿💋🎁 #art #christmas #christmasart #bunnies
A soft drawing of two rabbits dressed in old fashioned Christmas-themed clothing in bright, warm colors, meeting excitedly under the mistletoe for a joyful kiss.
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Kenney @kenney.nl · 22/12/2025
I just learned something that I want to share; 1. Create an invisible box with an outer shadow 2. Create an invisible box with an inner shadow 3. Place randomly... TA-DA. Free depth in your texture!
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