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Ashe

@surfacedfox.net

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Maker of games and interactive media 🔹 Also solving IRL problems using game tech. surfacedfox.net

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 14/06/2026

every company using "ai" has split its workforce into two groups: those who are useless hacks and those who suddenly want to kill themselves

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jazz mickle @queenjazz.gay · 27/09/2026

conventional wisdom for the entire time i've been programming has always been "less code is better". the idea that we must write more code faster is ridiculous. the problem has never been rate of output

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 25/09/2026

let's fucking do this

Screenshot of the Steam downloads window showing Control: Resonant being ready to play

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Abz-J-Harding ☾ @abzjharding.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 21/09/2026

The miiverse Yeah! button, with a smiling face and a + sign.

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Izzyience @izzyience.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

hey all, i hope you enjoyed our... jet set radio evolution track that went up a month ago that i forgot to post about when it dropped. its a tribute to the totally tubular and awesome (and insanely creative) game hypnospace outlaw. nothing else big happened recently www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4O5...

COOLFUNK IS DEAD - Jet Set Radio Evolution

YouTube video by SiIvaGunner

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 21/09/2026

fefe

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 21/09/2026

What a wonderful day 🤍 I'm still at @fullindie.bsky.social this evening for the social!!!

Front row seat to the screen that says "Full Indie Summit", Vancouver, 2026 :D

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Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 20/09/2026

Yeah I got an alien baby (for trading purposes) :3

a small, blue, plastic alien baby

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Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 20/09/2026

Hey y'all, I'm at @fullindie.bsky.social !!!! Had a wonderful morning today with a couple AMAZING SESSIONS by @writnelson.bsky.social and Armando Troisi 🤍

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind

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

Honestly I think like 50% of the Teams 101 course is just me saying this in 30 different ways with 15 different methods of making sure everybody on your team understands that decisions are made to be executed on, not argued about further, that's the whole-ass point of it being a decision.

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The original Mahjong Solitaire (Brodie Lockard, 1981) on the PLATO looked glorious. Also clever to show stack height with outline width.

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 31/08/2026

AI185

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Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 31/08/2026

AI2910

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Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 27/08/2026

not so tough, really. Just puts the game in the same pile as any of the million other clones that have no substance.

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sailor Moon getting ready to fuck your shit up with "AI is trash" emerging from her incoming attack

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yep, leave me behind….. #BookSky

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 25/08/2026

when i interviewed for wolfeye i had a separate interview with raf just to find out if i got imsims and it took like 15 minutes because you either get it or ya don't

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 22/08/2026

None of them can/will be solved with AI

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 22/08/2026

do get off there gang

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 22/08/2026

and what of beaky spies :3 (that map looks familiar, is it the SCCT MP one from that one time ported over?)

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 21/08/2026

Godot being Open Source is empowering for game studios, but there are nuances. Thread 🧵👇🏼 #godotengine

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 19/08/2026

Congratulations!!

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/08/2026

Woah.

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 19/08/2026

booted up two thrones to show something specific to my partner and god it doesn't have the fluidity of sands

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 19/08/2026

I understand now, thanks!!

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 19/08/2026

Sources: variety.com/2026/gaming/... www.ign.com/articles/gta...

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Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 19/08/2026

Didn't it already exceed expectations? Honestly, from what I've seen online and lived in my experience growing up in a country where the definition of a game begins at CSGO and ends at GTA V(it was San Andreas back then) is that they're the demographic that only ever plays GTA, The Everything Game

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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

@edzitron.com had it on the money here

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Gonna keep telling this story. I watched an hour long "How To Write An AI Novel" how to video out of curiosity and I shit you not, 60% of the video was about how to trick Claude into writing something that didn't look like it was AI. If genAI is a tool, it's core audience uses it mostly for fraud.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A Tumblr thread between two user.

Scorpio-System says: "AAA Video Game Publisher Voice: 'Look. The goose layed a golden egg, and that's nice! Everyone loved that egg. But keeping the golden goose means paying for bird feed and I don't want to, so I killed the goose."

The post is tagged with numerous replies, including.
"That goose keeps laying golden eggs. That's stagnation. I'm going to kill it and look for a goose that lays diamond eggs."
"That goose normally lays golden eggs, but this time it laid a silver egg. So I'm going to kill it because even though I can still make good money with that, It's not as good as a golden egg."
"That golden egg laying goose only lays an egg once a day instead of constantly shitting them out. I don't care that golden eggs take time. If they're not constant, the goose is worthless to me."

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 16/08/2026

hollup what? > O'Donnell is a self-described political conservative, and Bungie coworkers described him as the most right-leaning employee at the company. Huh. News to me.

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Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 16/08/2026

Remembering that one anecdote Marty O'Donnell shared where an exec said "sometimes you can't beat a good foie gras"

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 10/08/2026

Non-native English speaker also took the IELTS recently and god, really (I got an 8.0 without any prior prep :D) The "interview" was what killed my score, too, I hate that they format it like a "conversation" but it's a series of questions and idk how short or detailed they expect my answers to be

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 02/08/2026

Okay, I missed that one, reading (sorry!)

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Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 02/08/2026

isn't the point that the investors and publishers not taking "risks" with more creative projects? or was i plain wrong? genuinely trying to understand here

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Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 02/08/2026

chet please read the article

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Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 02/08/2026

Yeah, I agree, the cool stuff is already out there and needs more support :/

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 02/08/2026

Aerial I love you but the article itself is saying exactly that, that the publishers and investors need to be more courageous. Gotta love the misleading headline, though.

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Shayna MoooOOOooon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 02/08/2026

Devs, pay attention to who is actually, practically offering support to our laid off colleagues. It’s not the companies, it’s not the ESA, it’s the union, it’s us.

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Adam @arbiterw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I dont think that's ridiculous to say

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 28/07/2026

oh this is doing things to my brain

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Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 25/07/2026

trying to scream this from the top of rooftops

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 23/07/2026

I think this kind of self-deprecation is a part of why the culture around code devalues itself. You may not "understand" or remember the reasons for why you wrote something the way you did last month, but the fact that you did do that means you're able to tug on those lines to do something now.

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 23/07/2026

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

static.klipy.com

Alan Wake Alan Wake Ii

Alt: Alan Wake and Warlin Door from Alan Wake II

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Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 19/07/2026

CLOSE ENOUGH ALLEZ LES ROUGES

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Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 19/07/2026

So basically medium-fidelity, "low budget" PC single player and consoles maybe for the elders (a la Clair Obscur or whatever Remedy was doing before Alan Wake 2)

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 19/07/2026

wait so what are the kids playing other than the danged fortnites and robloxes

Ashe @surfacedfox.net · 17/07/2026

Hey!

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