@julienkaspart I was hoping that Blender Studio would do another game project after all these movies again for sooo long.

Love how this turned out. It's actually even a lot more than I expected it to be when it was first announced. ❤️

Would really love to see some ultimate thoughts on whether the project realized some new insights into Blender or Godot or how much it differed from film production for you guys.

The ongoing battle between Apple and Epic Games just took a MASSIVE turn.

Apple can no longer charge fees on external App Store payments AND are being referred for possible criminal contempt charges!
https://gamefromscratch.com/apple-suffers-major-app-store-lawsuit-loss/

#gamedev

Miziziziziziziziziziziziz (@miziziziz.deeproot.dev) a fellow #gamedev YouTuber and #GodotEngine game creator has just open-sourced game code used in several of his commercial games.

https://gamefromscratch.com/miziziziz-releases-godot-game-source-code/

Once in a while I get asked so I took a bit of time to write a blog post about my experience moving from Unity to Godot. Some thoughts, frustrations, and why I'm overall excited about it 🚀

https://www.david-amador.com/2025/04/switching-unity-to-godot-my-experience-so-far/ #godot #GameDev

@stdsxezat don't destroy that. There might be more invisible blocks to climb to a secret area! 😮

@muratk5n @arrrg @SmudgeTheInsultCat
"Do not tax until inflation" is not how MMT works, though. The article has that wrong.
Taxes are used to counter an overheated economy. But not only for that.
If you use it that way then, yes, inequality will not change. But MMT does not say anything about how social ot capitalist to lead a country.
It only says you don't need taxes to spend money. If you WANT to tax the rich you can absolutely do that under MMT.

@muratk5n @arrrg @SmudgeTheInsultCat so again - where the money is spent is the problem. Not that it exists.
The state doesn't need to cater to the big corporations. That is politics. Not MMT
The state can also adjust taxes to shift social balance or increase spending for low income or homeless. Especially education is one of THE most important places to spend money.
MMT absolutely allows taxing to go beyond countering inflation.
But it's a myth that the state needs to get taxes first.

@muratk5n @arrrg @SmudgeTheInsultCat money is only a debit if you are a USER of the currency. For a state the rules are different.
As citizen you have to pay taxes in order to have an incentive to work for the state. Since everyone has to pay taxes money is an all round value that creates secondary (free) markets. Or in another way: The monopoly bank does not need to get money from the players before it can hamd out money to them. A state is never a debitor to it's citizens. Only the other way

@arrrg you're welcome. 😂
For the record: MMT stands for Modern Monetary Theory and is a different point of view on how money can be handled by sovereign countries who have their own money.
It's interesting to see how much of the common narrative is actually skewed and that we COULD handle money very differently.
Mind you: it uses the current economic system. It just shifts the focus we can discuss financial matters.

@muratk5n @arrrg @SmudgeTheInsultCat or in other words: You can apply MMT over the whole range of social economics to pure neo liberalism.
If a state is able to release its own money they don't need to get money from their people to be able to invest in infrastructure, housing, healthcare and the like.

Very fundamental it means:
How many real resources (materials, manpower) are available dictates inflation. High taxes will choke the market, more money will drive it. The government decides where

@muratk5n @arrrg @SmudgeTheInsultCat MMT didn't steer the money during covid. The government did.
MMT is not a different money model. It's how you can apply it. MMT wasn't applied during COVID. At least not in the US or Germany

@muratk5n @arrrg @SmudgeTheInsultCat that's not an MMT problem. That's a political and social problem. The existence of the money is not the problem. It's where the system allows it to flow.

MMT is just a different explanation for the possibilities the system offers. How to apply this is politics. MMT says that a sovereign state does not need the money from the tax payers to invest. Taxes should be used to steer equality and making sure the economy doesn't overheat.

@muratk5n @arrrg @SmudgeTheInsultCat how so?

@arrrg @SmudgeTheInsultCat and yet if you demand to try something new and more social in politics and economics, most people still look at you like you are the weird one. 😵
And god forbid you utter the three letters "MMT".

@GameFromScratch @aras The real horror in this is that it takes Konami a developer who hasn't finished one game by themselves before, to create a sequel to a 26 year old game.
As a Silent Hill fan who was really looking forward to Silent Hills, that one resonates deeply with me.

@jan Ah - the good old festival check-in for homeopathic globules consumers.

@aras @GameFromScratch well I be damned ... on the Konami page it actually says: Designed and developed by Unity in collaboration with Konami.
https://www.konami.com/games/eu/en/topics/18620/

I still have to nitpick that Unity did release a game unter the name of "Over the Edge Entertainment" and that this certainly is NOT a horror game. XD

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Eugene Robinson has quit The Washington Post over billionaire owner Jeff Bezos' changes to the opinion page.

For many of us, this is a ‘fork-in-the-road moment’ because these kinds of strictures—whatever they turn out to be—are not what we thought we had signed up for,”Robinson said.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pulitzer-winner-quits-washington-post-and-slams-bezos/ #press

Today we check out Ucupaint, a powerful and FREE open-source add-on that brings Substance Painter like texture painting to Blender. A must have in your Blender toolbox if you do any texturing work.

https://gamefromscratch.com/ucupaint-turning-blender-into-substance-painter/

#gamedev #indiedev #Blender3d

Wouldn't it be nice if #godot had one single Container node with properties like margin (top, bottom, left, right), orientation (vertical, horizontal), center (boolean), etc., instead of having so many container nodes?

#gamedev #indiegames #godotengine