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The video advertising Unity's ew AI-driven autocomplete game maker has 'Mari' who has a game idea they "always wanted to make" and that idea is "Space Corridor" and it looks like this, and that's the strongest argument I can think of for keeping game dev out of the pro-AI crowd's hands.

A conversation between Theo and Mari. He asks "you know that game you always wanted to make?"

A screenshot of Unity building a game called "Space Corridor".

A generic 3rd person space marine in a generic scifi corridor. It is large and empty.

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daffodil 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @daff.space · 06/10/2026

Because they released a new update and are trying to generate hype for their project again: The team behind Tony Hawk's American Wasteland mod reTHAWed are overtly racist, transphobic in their discord server, and harassed me for calling this out as a problem while my work was featured in the mod

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No one’s immune to propaganda and I’m a nobody who replied in a way that could be taken as scolding. I can let it go if the rest of the replies have given him some fresh perspective and awareness.

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Please don't perpetuate or validate the idea that we're moving to that world. I'm sure you don't mean to but it's reinforcing the same message as the "AI is inevitable, adapt or be left behind" snake oil.

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suzanne @binarypartitioned.space · 02/10/2026

Psst. Skin Deep is 40% off for the next week. Sneeze, crawl on your belly, argue with severed heads, mishandle firearms, commit digital mischief. store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

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Save 40% on Skin Deep on Steam

Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this ...

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Mayor May Knott 🎀💀🎀 AVAILABLE NOW! @mayormayknott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mayor May Knott is 30% off during the Steam Autumn Sale! It's a creepy-cozy 3D adventure game about solving puzzles, rebuilding a haunted ghost town, meeting weird creatures, and listening to ridiculous music! Perfect for Halloweens! store.steampowered.com/app/2377450?... #indiedev #indiegames

the cover art for the game Mayor May Knott, surrounded by the Steam Autumn Sale frame.

In the cover art, a girl with her face hidden and her hands in her pockets uses her prehensile hair to water vegetables with a water pump. In the background are a haunted house, a cartoonish cruise ship, and a building with a clock tower

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I frequently see "AI" boosters implying that LLMs are simply an innate and superior part of coding now, inescapable, and that literally all programmers agree with them. And, well. That, too, is a form of propaganda

Looking at my software peers in 2026 I see fatigued faces, I see frustration, and I see a lot of people looking for a way out of an industry that seems poised on the brink of collapse. LLMs are being pushed on us at every turn, most people seem at best frustrated by them, and ultimately they seem to appeal most to people who see the production of software as a purely mechanical means to an end. They are antithetical, however, to the idea of software as a craft, or something requiring both initial and ongoing care. As an expression of the soul.

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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

there's a really nice little AI-booster-free community sprouting up at humancrafted.dev/forum to talk about the joys of coding by hand & how to navigate this current moment come help make this ad-free discussion-centric hangout zone a wonderful place!

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Humancrafted

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FlippByte @flippbyte.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

...And suddenly it's #screenshotsaturday again! Here's another colorful set of tubes from Eternitubes 3D, freshly created a couple of minutes ago. If you're interested: store.steampowered.com/app/4979880 #screensaver #creativecoding #indiedev #retro #gamedev #indiegame #digitalart #3Dart #mathart

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Miss the animals? Bring them back with this fun easter egg! Switch to Random mode and enter these guesses to unlock Herd mode 🦙

Screenshot of Word Peaks showing the following guesses: TIGER, LLAMA, SHEEP, HIPPO, RHINO, CAMEL

Screenshot from the options in Word Peaks, showing Hard mode and Herd mode 🦙

Screenshot from Word Peaks showing the colorful vector landscape populated by animal emoji

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Miss the animals? Bring them back with this fun easter egg! Switch to Random mode and enter these guesses to unlock Herd mode 🦙

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Izzy it's already hard enough to explain "bimbo" to my friends

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@flippbyte.bsky.social The variety of tube shapes in this is wonderful. This is my favorite one so far (plus the color and lighting!) (from Eternitubes 3D on steam)

Screenshot from Eternitubes 3D depicting a twisted mess of 3D rendered pipe that vaguely resembles a long scaly dragon

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I don't feel like I've really solved a problem if I don't get to close 30 tabs at the end.

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yesterday I was looking at job postings and wondering if any other skill requirement ever had to be qualified with "know when to use it, and when not to because it's lying and infecting the code with subtle hard to fix bugs oh god please don't let it break our software or get us into legal trouble"

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Eerily similar to this shirt I designed years ago

MS Paint drawing of a shirt depicting a padlock with the caption "no shit shirtlock"

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Screenshot contains the entire history of my interaction with him btw I was just trying to separate "harassment is bad" from "people who disagree with me are lying or delusional" but I can't play on his level. Any reply I could follow up with would just be twisted into something else.

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This particular analogy of blocking traffic is hilarious since AI coding could not exist without all the human written code it was trained on. How am I blocking anything by continuing to write code that your bots slurp up.

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don't harass or endorse doing so but just to make sure we're on the same page, you don't consider my reply harassment do you?

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You just called me delusional, or a liar. Is harassing really the problem, because it sure sounds like you actually have a problem with the very existence of someone who is anti-ai, regardless of how they act about it.

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Why485 @why485.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I like programming.

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's about time I thank @iznaut.com for creating a space that led me to meeting @wildweasel486.bsky.social, who is easily one of my favorite follows this year.

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm so grateful to you for putting me in my first starter pack, and I'm almost at 100 followers now! (this is big for me) I need to do more game-dev posting now 😅

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Deleted my attempt at a thoughtful assessment, this guy just kinda sucks no matter what the response was.

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For maybe the first time, I feel really good about of the number of unfinished game prototypes in my github. The realization of "what am i making here" is a harsh moment but a valuable filter, and AI just hops right over it.

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I almost never self promote but as someone in this space that despises what has happened to web games in the last few years I'm gonna pipe up. My game might be kind of boring, but it has procedurally generated landscapes to compensate! vegeta897.github.io/word-peaks/

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Nolan Filter @calamitynolan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

one of the things I like about being a game programmer is you have to make a million little decisions how does A talk to B? how do the physics behave here? how many times per second does the entire world get destroyed and rebuilt? AI takes away these decisions. It makes coding less intentional

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

there used to be a strong correlation between seeing neat things online, and the person who made it: 1. is very knowledgeable and passionate about it 2. put love and care into it 3. is getting recognition for it but that trust is now gone, the grifters skipped to step 3, the slop ghouls have won

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Reddit's all right cuz I can spontaneously decide to fixate on writing a detailed guide for a random stranger, and hopefully future strangers who find it.

A technical guide I wrote on reddit about how to set up a local Archipelago server with Link's Awakening and Metroid Fusion

The user who asked for help replied to my guide with their struggles but eventual success. They express their appreciation, and I reply in kind.

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sorry for you loss. Thank you for telling us about him.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

you're just a tiny little person, so why not align with the rest of us instead of Sam Altman and mr. jackets on this one. we can actually make a difference if we have solidarity. don't use claude etc. on your creative coding and games projects.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

i understand if people are pressured to use LLMs for work. you gotta eat, it's hierarchical, usage may be monitored, i get it. but if you bring that shit home it's different! that actually is a personal endorsement. you don't have to use your own projects to normalize unethical corporate projects.

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just normal comments that humans write in their code.

Code comment that reads "an armed "are you sure?" stands down the moment you touch anything else — capture phase, so even taps whose events never bubble out (stack strips, menu items) still count"

Code comment that reads "every form in the menu is its own magnet, so each one shows its own tilt, ink, plastic age, and wear — same as it will on the fridge"

More code with comments at the top of the source file. Lots of emdashes and weirdly declarative statements, as if mirroring prompts from the coder.

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 15/08/2026

I'm not being very productive, which could be due to sleep or thyroid. But what I can do is dick around on social media. So let's share again the starter packs I made of game devs who refuse to use gen AI in any capacity. Here you go: go.bsky.app/6DRdowf go.bsky.app/AS5R4p7 go.bsky.app/7K7JDCJ

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Would love to be added! I'm not a studio but I've been making silly little open source web games for 14 years and it's a huge bummer how much AI has taken over this particular corner of gamedev.

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tonya, werewolf of portland @tonyawolfe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

New on the Secret Area: I hate AI vibe coded game projects. Terrible machine translations! Barely functional recompilations! It's a hot mess, y'all. Shares and comments appreciated, as always. asecretarea.com/2026/08/10/a...

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AI vibe coded game projects suck. - You Found a Secret Area!

Time for me to rant about the current trend: AI vibe coded gaming projects. Lazy translations! Vibe coded recompilations! It's all here, y'all.

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hope I'm not too late. Audiobooks, yes/no/other?

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Mona @themonashow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hey Chat, super serious MA request for myself. I've been unable to work for most of the last year, which has left my nesting partner to pay for everything. We're behind on rent. . Rent past due is $1330. If you'd like to, anything helps. Please share. Links below.

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Mona @themonashow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"Ask GPT." Sure, if "GPT" stands for Gays, Polyamorists, and Trans folks.

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Devin Spikowski @vegeta897.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Yeah! It's called Renoise and it's also got quite a lot you'd expect to find in any modern DAW.

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