I know the game is good when I stop doing that

#gamedev

What the... You want a photo of my grandma's tree? Weirdo.

Remarkable chart in a new paper out of MIT looking at cognitive performance of LLM users in an essay writing task - https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

What the... You want a photo of my grandma's tree? Weirdo.

FUN FACT: a vertical slice of a side scroller does not make for a very compelling proof of concept

@aeva

Neat. I think arrows on the lines would be helpful, or some way of telling directionality. On larger formulae it could be difficult to tell if it's doing add(sin(mul(...))) or mul(sin(add(...))).

@GameFromScratch @YoSoyFreeman

I know I'd like it, this video was quite interesting. More "where are they now" or "the history of" videos would be both interesting and useful to get a broader and longer perspective on game engines, especially for younger devs who only know of engines beginning with U.

Once upon a time, CryEngine was among the most promising game engines out there.

These days, it's barely used and even more rarely updated. We look at the past, present and future of CryEngine answering... What happened?
https://gamefromscratch.com/what-happened-to-cryengine/

#gamedev

You know I've been mulling over the differences between JRPG, CRPG, and ARPG for a while, trying to come up with some sort of rubric. I think I'm starting to settle on something that I'm beginning to initially start to like the sound of, for starters... But what's your opinion? What differentiates the J's from the C's from the A's?

https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/how-to-define-rpgs-and-crpgs-and-why-the-title-of-my-book-doesnt-make-sense-anymore/

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Yes, I vibe code!

That is: I work on a solution until I can vibe with it 👈😎👈 Good code just feels different, y'know!

I don't like this new game from Microsoft where you have to hunt down every one of these little fuckers and turn them off.

Now there's neat stuff this lets me do (I map GRADIENTS to each material group, not solid colors, that's why the B&W is so value-heavy) but the point is more:

your art pipeline doesn't have to be like anyone else's. Evict the manager in your head. Figure out what works for YOUR team, and do that.

Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash

🔗 https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summaries-after-editor-backlash/

If you are interested in low-level development, our rendering lead @clayjohn wrote a post sharing some insights into the optimization process for mobile devices using Arm Performance Studio 👇

https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/mobile-graphics-and-gaming-blog/posts/optimizing-3d-scenes-in-godot-on-arm-gpus

Lowpoly commission for JohnnyTenta 🐸💜
#lowpoly #b3d #3dart

If you work at a startup with no on-call rotation and you've become the default SRE, you are legally allowed to change your job title to "The Child of Omelas"

you know what really grills my cheese? web pages where you can't search because the text that isn't on screen doesn't exist, and when you scroll on these pages you have to wait forever for react to slog through rendering it

No, our job is PRECISELY to use our games as an outlet for our own views and believes, Jon Bellamy, CEO of Jagex, who recently cancelled annual Pride events in RuneScape “to protect against backlash”.

What the fuck do you think we’re making here?

Source: https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/10/runescape-pride-2025/