Good timing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaVzdnHyoUQ

Palworld recovered even further and has become the only game with such a comeback on Steam. All thanks to 1.0 update!

Backrooms movie is okay but I'm glad I haven't watched it on a big screen. It's slow, deliberately filmed on a bunch of carefully picked cameras and lenses. The director did a good job and deserves the praise.

But there are painfully slow and often unfinished moments mixed with time skips. Which holds it back in a way.

PS. Here's the origin of Backrooms

#Movies@GameDEV
#Horror@GameDEV

Morning chat

There's something wrong with Blender 5.2: I faced crashes and frame pacing issues (the UI feels laggy, like it runs at 10 FPS).

Steam forums, Blender feedback portal and Reddit are filled with reports about 5.2 freezing, crashing, and so on. Do not convert your old files before testing the app for a day or two.

Sadly, I'm going back to 5.1 and will stay on it for some time, apparently.

#Blender@GameDEV

Profits are right behind the corner, follow me!

#meme@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV

If you counter corpos on Twitter (or other socials), bots will come after you. And will "support" anything (apparently, for money).

They are real people with grid of accounts paid about $3-5 a day per one defensive case like this. They are often getting these "tasks" on Discord or freelance platforms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoUux9ifBBE

After the success of Sir Brante (which was given for free), the studio Schisma Games made a sequel about Prince Jerian and it utilizes a lot of AI-generated images.

1. It was noticed
2. They denied it and failed
3. They agreed partially
4. Some of their files are literally named CHAT GPT

Using AI for a small studio could be somewhat tolerated. But lying about it and not marking it clearly stated on Steam is a different story.

(Steam Discussions)

#AI@GameDEV
#IndieGames@GameDEV

Who would've guessed you can open their page and click a report button on the bottom of the right column!

Super Meowrio

#Cats@GameDEV

We always knew it

#AI@GameDEV

The weather suddenly changed from zero clouds and insane heat to the darkest sky I've ever seen. How's your day going?

I'm gonna make a visual novel named Deliberate AI Slop, but it will be 100% handcrafted with all the work captured on stream to cause butthurt for both camps.

I'm gonna manually draw AI artifacts, my characters will have six fingers and three legs, but that will be my artistic intent.

Sleep well!

And games are even worse with 99% of the modern dialogues are either static or done while walking. The rare dynamic cutscenes in the dining hall from Cyberpunk are priceless in modern world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQBWPGYGJkk

Apparently, Palworld improved by a mile including the new visuals (yep, I didn't know that)

Well, this explains their recent growth

Finally!

#meme@GameDEV
#HalfLife@GameDEV

Oldie but goodie

#meme@GameDEV

Nice stuff from our local developers from Bulgaria (and creators of Hard West II and Rogue Waters). The biggest part is Polish but still.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3310950/Nightmare_Frontier/
#IndieGames@GameDEV

PvE map brought people back to Marathon and they are keep coming. Something they initially refused to do was the thing their audience wanted the most.

#Bungie@GameDEV
#PlayStation@GameDEV

Literally a handcrafted game made with scanned embroidery:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1553260/Scarlet_Deer_Inn/
#ArtDirection@GameDEV
#IndieGames@GameDEV