JC Lau
@drjclau.bsky.social
A multi-award winning game developer. Game Changer, SPG100, BAFTA, Next Gen Leader, Future Class. She/they. I hope you like ferrets.
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Random person who plays indie games, you are the most important cog in an indie game's success.
Most gamers don't know or care that indies exist.... unless a friend tells them.
Our games succeed because you tell other people you liked our game. Word of mouth is the best marketing there is.
Most gamers don't know or care that indies exist.... unless a friend tells them.
Our games succeed because you tell other people you liked our game. Word of mouth is the best marketing there is.
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Random person who plays indie games, you are the most important cog in an indie game's success.
Most gamers don't know or care that indies exist.... unless a friend tells them.
Our games succeed because you tell other people you liked our game. Word of mouth is the best marketing there is.
Most gamers don't know or care that indies exist.... unless a friend tells them.
Our games succeed because you tell other people you liked our game. Word of mouth is the best marketing there is.
If this app doesn’t turn water into wine, I’m not interested
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
If this app doesn’t turn water into wine, I’m not interested
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Please read this in the gentlest possible voice but we HAVE to divest from mil-sims as gamedevs. Even before this AI bullshit in the latest Black Ops, these games have done so much harm and contributed massively to the dehumanization of several populations worldwide. It’s US foreign pol propaganda.
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Please read this in the gentlest possible voice but we HAVE to divest from mil-sims as gamedevs. Even before this AI bullshit in the latest Black Ops, these games have done so much harm and contributed massively to the dehumanization of several populations worldwide. It’s US foreign pol propaganda.
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A reminder that the crises routinely treated as separate—housing, food, climate, healthcare, electricity—are anything but.
This moment in America makes it glaringly clear: each feeds the other, driven by the same rapacious, profit-maximizing forces.
This moment in America makes it glaringly clear: each feeds the other, driven by the same rapacious, profit-maximizing forces.
November 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
A reminder that the crises routinely treated as separate—housing, food, climate, healthcare, electricity—are anything but.
This moment in America makes it glaringly clear: each feeds the other, driven by the same rapacious, profit-maximizing forces.
This moment in America makes it glaringly clear: each feeds the other, driven by the same rapacious, profit-maximizing forces.
Oh shit the new Frankenstein movie is going to make monsterfuckers of us all
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Oh shit the new Frankenstein movie is going to make monsterfuckers of us all
It’s my birthday today! Share a pic or a story about something that makes you happy 💜
November 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
It’s my birthday today! Share a pic or a story about something that makes you happy 💜
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credits that include the names of everyone who worked on the game at any point
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
credits that include the names of everyone who worked on the game at any point
This is the eloquent way of saying GET THEIR ASSES
SINCERE POST™️: you might be very angry tonight. don't let that anger eat you. that doesn't mean "don't be angry." just don't let it turn you to despair. anger in an energy, and you can use it as fuel for actions. As the saying goes, let this radicalize you
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This is the eloquent way of saying GET THEIR ASSES
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I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really
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Good morning! Just a reminder that the video games you play are made by living and real people who deserve to be treated as such and you need to demand for better and safer conditions for the devs behind your favorite games, especially if you ever want good games and not corporate slop!
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Good morning! Just a reminder that the video games you play are made by living and real people who deserve to be treated as such and you need to demand for better and safer conditions for the devs behind your favorite games, especially if you ever want good games and not corporate slop!
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I think what really needs to happen re: The Game Awards is we all need to boycott it. it goes beyond Future Class; the game awards exist to push marketing at people. it's not a real award show and it's not produced by people who care about gamedevs at all. we're just props.
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I think what really needs to happen re: The Game Awards is we all need to boycott it. it goes beyond Future Class; the game awards exist to push marketing at people. it's not a real award show and it's not produced by people who care about gamedevs at all. we're just props.
Still thinking about the “official” 2023 Future Class meetup after we had to pay for our own travel to LA/hotel/tickets to the Game Awards, only to stand on a sidewalk outside a Starbucks where they wouldn’t even cover the cost of our shitty coffees 🫠
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the...
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the...
The Game Awards' Future Class program remains on ice
Future Class organizer Emily Weir has informed past honorees that The Game Awards has no active plans for the program.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Still thinking about the “official” 2023 Future Class meetup after we had to pay for our own travel to LA/hotel/tickets to the Game Awards, only to stand on a sidewalk outside a Starbucks where they wouldn’t even cover the cost of our shitty coffees 🫠
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the...
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the...
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If you're not willing to even keep up an *archived list* of the game developers you touted as future stars in the industry, let alone a notably *underprivileged* list of developers who were supposed to get resources *from your organization*, then you're not serious about that work. (3/5)
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If you're not willing to even keep up an *archived list* of the game developers you touted as future stars in the industry, let alone a notably *underprivileged* list of developers who were supposed to get resources *from your organization*, then you're not serious about that work. (3/5)
There was no Future Class last year and there will not be one this year, because we had the audacity to do the thing we were good at and the powers that be that had underestimated us were too cowardly to put their money where their mouths were. 🤷🏻♀️
I mean when you put 149 people known for their activism, advocacy, and organizing skills in the industry in a room and tell them they are the bright, bold, inclusive future of the industry, can you really be surprised when they start advocating and organizing themselves to create such a future 🤔
November 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
There was no Future Class last year and there will not be one this year, because we had the audacity to do the thing we were good at and the powers that be that had underestimated us were too cowardly to put their money where their mouths were. 🤷🏻♀️
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
They gave me a headset mic and everything for my talk this afternoon; I’m so professional 😅
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
They gave me a headset mic and everything for my talk this afternoon; I’m so professional 😅
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A thing that I think is good is when a human creates a piece of art
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 AM
A thing that I think is good is when a human creates a piece of art
Clarification: you have to pick a function first and then the detail section should have more options!
I’m sure this opens up a whole different debate about prioritization of what goes into the main function and what goes into detail section but yall can figure that out for yourselves
I’m sure this opens up a whole different debate about prioritization of what goes into the main function and what goes into detail section but yall can figure that out for yourselves
Ey good news those roles (and others) are in the registration menu! If you don't see it at "Job Function" it's probably under "Job Function Detail."
November 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Clarification: you have to pick a function first and then the detail section should have more options!
I’m sure this opens up a whole different debate about prioritization of what goes into the main function and what goes into detail section but yall can figure that out for yourselves
I’m sure this opens up a whole different debate about prioritization of what goes into the main function and what goes into detail section but yall can figure that out for yourselves
Looking at the registration form for GDC and they don't even include production or QA or narrative or UI as a role you can have as a game developer 😩
November 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Looking at the registration form for GDC and they don't even include production or QA or narrative or UI as a role you can have as a game developer 😩
It’s really nice to wake up and see so much political joy on my feed for once. Good job with the vote, America 🎉
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
It’s really nice to wake up and see so much political joy on my feed for once. Good job with the vote, America 🎉
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If you’re in the US and you’re able to, please go vote. Even if your slate is just local elections. Change has to begin locally.
November 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If you’re in the US and you’re able to, please go vote. Even if your slate is just local elections. Change has to begin locally.
Is that a problem because it was too seasoned for him
The officer Sandwich Guy is charged with assaulting testifies that he could feel the impact of the sandwich through his ballistic vest, and it “exploded all over my uniform.” He says he could “smell the onions and the mustard.”
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Is that a problem because it was too seasoned for him
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I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
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Creatives dealing with production people. Yes you need to update your tasks. No we're not trying to throttle the creative process. Please leave the attitude at the door.
I'd love for designers especially to be mindful of this (or anyone we directly collaborate with). If you admit to general contempt for the discipline even before we start to work together, well then it gets real awkward for us you know? And it's hard to trust you'll keep our interests at heart.
I'm going to be honest it is unpleasant to work in the discipline within the games industry that people seem to have especially-reserved venom for. Nobody seems really intent on calling out, eg, video game sountracks they think are middling as if it's really important to yell about.
November 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Creatives dealing with production people. Yes you need to update your tasks. No we're not trying to throttle the creative process. Please leave the attitude at the door.
I have an irrational + minor fear at the hair salon that when I put my head in that washbasin thing that my neck won't make a seal with the washbasin properly and when they are washing my hair that the water will go down my neck and my clothes/back will get wet, is this me being neurospicy or...?
a woman says " i feel gross now " while wearing a white jacket
ALT: a woman says " i feel gross now " while wearing a white jacket
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November 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I have an irrational + minor fear at the hair salon that when I put my head in that washbasin thing that my neck won't make a seal with the washbasin properly and when they are washing my hair that the water will go down my neck and my clothes/back will get wet, is this me being neurospicy or...?