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Brendan Sinclair @brendansinclair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New EA patent has some unusual ideas about game dev roles.

Chart with y-axis showing "skill level" from novice to expert, graphing a line of "level of creative participation" with increasingly higher skill levels.
Novice = Player
Beginner = Level Designer
Intermediate = Game Designer
Advanced = Technical Game Designer
Expert = Game Programmer / Artist

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Chel (🎂 Oct. 22nd) @opossumvalley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

for teh 7 games ive put out so far, the bug testing and squashing process is as much fun to me as writing for the games, drawing assets for em, making sure sequences pair nicely an checkin for possible breaks, and the whole presentation of the finished game too. i dont want AI to takeover any of it

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nova 🏳️‍⚧️ @novadragon.space · 03/10/2026

i am on the godot subreddit to get more info about godot, but the whole posts of "last year i didnt know anything, now i fully released a game on steam" the indirect pain caused by adhd via comparision being hurtful

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0x0961h @0x0961h.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

devlog 0: "everyone tells you that you should start small, but i am rebel, so here's my hyper-ambitious mmorpg with pcg, written on ue5, because fuck the rules" devlog 5 (final): "burned out and i don't know what to do, so i am cancelling this project. my next game is clicker btw" #gamedev

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Monique @monique-monsters.votv.dev · 03/10/2026

Random asset Saturday : Berd

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ok gamedev folks what's the go for when normies ask "so what do You do" because you still can't say "make games" but now if you say "make software" they'll assume you're an AI bro and (rightfully) execute you on the spot

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 20/09/2026

"You're absolutely right, there was indeed another commercial jet on the runway. That's my fault, I should have checked before assuming that runway was clear to land on. Since the runway is now closed, let me know if I can help with anything else. Do you know how runway numbers are selected?"

FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion

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Bat-Tali 🦇🎃 (Vancouver era ✨) @talidev3d.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

all of the best robot/AI characters in video game history were voiced by real people btw

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Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you’re not getting a % cut of the game’s sales, never agree to crunch a single minute. It just doesn’t make sense to work in your free time for some else’s profit. And anyone who tells you otherwise is a slave-driver.

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🎃👻BOO Li Jaw-bone👻🦴 @juleshortstuff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My counterpoint to "if you cared about your work, you would crunch" is if you cared about the quality of your game and your workers, you would give them appropriate time to craft it.

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 25/04/2026

no, please bring me the weightedest blanket

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m tired of the world, the noise, the bad news, and pretending everything is fine. Even things I love can feel like work. So I’m holding onto the little sparks: good conversations, games I love, projects that excite me, stupid jokes. Just, you know, trying to remember what makes me feel like me.

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Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com · 11/09/2026

I kind of crashed out this week. Generative AI has made a lot of my hobbies and creative endeavours feel pointless, when I'm not in a good headspace. I had a good conversation with a friend that helped, so I wrote about it, so I can read it when it happens again. www.joelotter.com/posts/2026/0...

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Fuck it, make it anyway

Carrying on in the face of creative devaluation.

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404 Media @404media.co · 11/09/2026

Representatives from the University of Michigan faced tough questions and a lot of vitriol from the citizens of Ypsilanti Township Wednesday night. Here are a few scenes from the nearly 3 hour meeting. Read the story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/we-did-not-i...

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

He fell asleep in my arms with his tongue out, purring

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/09/2026

Where are the GPUs? Undeployed, in warehouses because there's a cartel colluding to keep prices artificially high and keep the world dependent on inference capacity rented by about 6 companies.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It's a cute trick, framing this as a security disclosure. But it's not. No one involved in rubygems wrote any of this. It's pretending to be one for the sake of dramatizing the supposed "escape from containment", which appears to be their favourite way of drumming up press over the last few months.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/09/2026

The military wanted a version of OpenAI's models that would not refuse directives from military officials, a metric called the "minimal refusal rates." This kind of stuff is extremely dangerous. theintercept.com/2026/09/08/p... archive.ph/iKdbn

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The Pentagon Asked OpenAI for Artificial Intelligence Designed to Rarely Say No

The U.S. military’s desire for an AI tool with “minimal refusal rates” was revealed through a FOIA lawsuit filed by The Intercept.

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

everyone should watch this. nothing that works this way is conscious.

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Rii Abrego @riibrego.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I miss the magic that could happen when video games had to find creative solutions to technical limitations

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Maria Ohisalo @mariaohisalo.vihreat.fi · 09/09/2026

Jos annamme energiamme ja infrastruktuurimme teknojäteille ilman selkeitä pelisääntöjä, olemme pian tilanteessa, jossa Google ja Amazon sanelevat ehdot, emme me. Se ei ole vihreän siirtymän edistämistä, vaan banaanivaltion diili. 2/5

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Panu Raatikainen @panuraatikainen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Eh, tuota.... (Tässä siis tarkoitetaan Suomea.) #Suomi #Suomikuva

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Doodle | Making Starmadillo⭐ @doodle.arcticpolygon.com · 09/09/2026

It is depressing...but a silver lining is that it only fuels my desire to keep doing my own thing. I have to believe that there will continue to be a niche of people who want human-made games, and those are the people I want to know about what I'm making.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

9th Avenue — New York, 1940 📷 by Andreas Feininger

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One thing to have ai magically vanish overnight but the creatives left making and working need support to be able to live off their work as well. That’s the system you’re fighting for, the ability for people to live off their crafts and effort.

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🦇 Hexavier 🎃 @xavierck.com · 08/09/2026

Torn between "I'm no longer trying to find work in the game industry" and "I should be polite to artists who are following corporate demands"

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

CDPR: Hey did you buy Witcher 3 in 2015? We made a new version with better graphics and an updated control scheme. And it's free. Ubisoft: Hey did you buy Black Flag before? Here's a new version with better graphics. It costs 50 dollars and we're going to fire everyone who made it.

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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

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Kay-Lynne @kaylynne.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One thing about being a vocal femme person in this AI and corporate hellscape of the game dev industry is that there is a very real risk of being just blacklisted from the industry because you won't let these corpos get away with exploiting people and that is fucked.up. #antiai #gamedev #artsky

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Extent of the Jam @extentofthejam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One thing I love about the Atari 2600 is that each game design has to be boiled down to the essence, given the severe limitations of the system. And the limits are really interesting and unusual. E.g. there are reasons you tend to see objects in equally spaced triplets and things move in rows.

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Mistik Studios ✨ Wishlist Kitch Witch! @mistikstudios.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Another day another zero $ "wasting our time" hand crafting all our 3D assets ourselves without gen AI. Everything you see in our game is made with hrs and hrs of yelling at Blender until it bends to our will like god intended 🤣 I'm even modelling the damn blueberries #blender #gamedev #antiai

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Laura Knetzger @lauraknetzger.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Pets have a spreadsheet in their mind they are constantly updating about crumbs and where to find them

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