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Björn Mattsson
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Computer person, game AI enthusiast, musician, and gamer. Part-time solo game dev, part-time game programmer at Paradox Interactive.
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legendofnerd.bsky.social
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults. And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!
February 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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mikekennedyart.bsky.social
Lofi double barrel shotgun for my #indiegame project! Will have lots more to show in the coming months!

#gameart #3dart #indiedev #solodev #pixelart
February 8, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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zenala.bsky.social
I helped make art for a gamejam game :D
Reckless Snowballery is a local multiplayer pvp game where you can duke it out winter-style with your friends!

More info and download here: arwynf.itch.io/reckless-sno...

[ #art | #indiedev | #gamejam | #gamedev ]
Drawing of two characters in a winter coat. One of them is throwing a snowball at the other, who also has a snowball in their hand.
February 8, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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thewulo.bsky.social
My bullet-hell precision platformer just reached 2500 Wishlists on Steam! 🦇
Time to celebrate! With guns and dynamites! 🔥🎉

#indiegames #Steam #gaming #indiedev
February 8, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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solinfonat.bsky.social
UBISOFT - Call for strike

Following the disastrous announcements made by Mr. Yves Guillemot (cost-cutting plan, projects scrapped, end of remote working, etc.), the Solidaires Informatique union is calling for a strike on Thursday, January 22, in the morning.
Following the disastrous announcements made by Mr. Yves Guillemot (cost-cutting plan, projects scrapped, end of remote working, etc.), the Solidaires Informatique union is calling for a strike on Thursday, January 22, in the morning. We are calling on Ubisoft Paris employees to strike for half a day, with the following demands: • the end of the cost-cutting plan, • maintaining and extending the teleworking conditions, • decent pay raises this year. This is an initial answer to the absurdity of management's decisions. Other strikes are currently being discussed. It is out of the question to let a boss run wild and destroy our working conditions. Perhaps we need to remind him that it is his employees who make the games.
January 21, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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ginacities.com
3 simple steps to making a book interactive in Godot. #gamedev #indiedev #godot
January 16, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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gameaischool.bsky.social
Early Bird registration is now open for the #GameAISchool2026📍 Leiden, NL | 📅 15–19 June 2026
We’re excited to welcome partners including Activision, DeepMind, Microsoft, Sony AI, Sony SIE, Riot Games, Unity, Arm, CCP, Wargaming, Krafton, Iconic, Ludomotion, Humanfeedback.ai & more announced soon.
January 16, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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erikaleesears.bsky.social
Oranges and lemon tea #oilpainting #art
January 15, 2026 at 1:14 AM
persmats.bsky.social
Ugh. Always fun when you add some extra functionality and suddenly things crash, and after way too long time trying to figure out what causes it you realize the problem has been there for months and what you added was practically unrelated but just so happened to trigger the issue...

#gamedev #c++
January 14, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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tanatb.housefuckinggame.com
accidentally introduced a bug to the game where all the text got replaced with "you"
January 7, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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aplante.com
boooooooooooo
January 7, 2026 at 6:17 AM
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ginacities.com
Things 2025 taught me about Game Development Part 1 #gamedev #indiedev
Things 2025 taught me about Game Development Make small games! Your first game should not be your magnum opus. Get the scope down and don't allow feature creep. You don't have to make your own artwork to make a game you can buy asset packs from other artists on itch.io so you can just focus on programming. Some of them are free. (Also don't use AI for artwork, duh) Ask people to play test! They will be happier to help than you think and you're so close to the game that you might not see something obvious
January 1, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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shingpapi.bsky.social
accidentally made satanic water, not 100% sure what's causing it but I have a feeling I'll lose this forever once the bug is fixed
January 1, 2026 at 9:12 PM
persmats.bsky.social
Hello wor... Bluesky! Time to explore this space then! I'm a game dev that was on Twitter for years before the muskrat took over, and after that I've tried first going without social media, then been on Mastodon and now it's time to try Bluesky. See ya around!
December 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM