So, re: LLMs and the "jury is out on energy usage", I just want to point out a couple of historical things.

When studies came out linking smoking to increased risk of cancer, the Tobacco industry paid for and produced studies that said "nuh uh".

When Obesity and heart disease rates increased in the United States and the problem was linked to sugar intake, the sugar industry produced studies saying it was fats.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3490543/#sec4

@memoriesin8bit I used to do that a looooong time ago.
But after years and years abroad, working in english, living in english, talking to everybody in english around me... my brain have switched to thinking in english at some point (very insidiously 😆), so nowadays I do everything in english, naming variables as well 😅

Hello #PortfolioDay

I'm a painter and game-developer. My dream is to make a gallery show and complete my first indie game. In the meantime, illustration is how I pay the bills.

If you want world-building illustrations or design sketches for games, tabletop RPGs, I can help bring your world to life. 🫡

#DigitalArt #MastoArt #noAI

@eniko Then it works 😛

@eniko I'm personally more drawn to "do whatever I want, whenever I want to." 😁

@dona I totally should do that as well, I've tried many games in the past months, maybe I should share the ones I like 😄
Mmmmh 🤔

@dona Oh that looks nice! I'll try the demo, I'm curious 🙂

Thanks for posting about it!

This essay by @baldur on why individual experiments on the usefulness of "AI" (or similar stuff) don't teach us anything useful and might actually harm us is brilliant.

Go read it. Too many insights to pull a quote TBH: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judgement-on-ai/

@eniko Ouch 😠
No words here honestly 😑

@sinbad Totally agree.
I've played that one with my partner, the same as I've did with Return of the Obra Dinn for example, and it's definitely the best way indeed!
I don't have enough brain by myself to pay attention to everything and solve all the stuff 😅 , and it helps so much with staying invested in it!

Hey there gamedev place! I am a solo-dev working on a first-person sneaker, Noirmancer (think Thief with cartoony noir vibes, corporate sabotage, and a somewhat odd collection of supernatural abilities).

I've been on Mastodon for a number of years now but I basically only posted game-dev related stuff anymore anyway so I thought I'd move to a more relevant instance. Looking forward to dev-posting with you all!

#introduction #gamedev

And to add to that, more or less another take on it, and a sobering view on the industry this year...
Mmmh. 🤨

https://aftermath.site/summer-game-fest-2025-switch-2-launch-geoff-keighley

This is such an insightful article on the video games industry and the AAA vs indie paradigm, and how we got where we are now 😊

https://www.pushtotalk.gg/p/gamings-great-downsizing-and-the-garage-band-game-economy

#videogames #gamesindustry #gamedev

@RYStorm I feel his pain, and I shudder just at the thought of how that menu was designed 😑

@sparkles Very good choice 😁

@nicknicknicknick I've been unsuccessfully trying to sell that to people for a while as well 😄
It's funny how each time everybody think it's a terrible thing to use and must have been really painful to type, except people who actually played the game and are like "oh yeah that was awesome!" 😁

@leonardbertos Gorgeous beard and moustache 😛

@lambdacalculus @eniko

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ai-company-files-for-bankruptcy-after-being-exposed-as-700-human-engineers-3208136/

@djlink Oh dear...