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Mike W
@gekido.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 Canadian Metis, Emmy award-winning Tech Producer / Tech Director. ex-Unity, Namco, Roadhouse, Gamedev for 25+ years...

Current: Cloudhead, Instructor @ VFS

In Vancouver
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gekido.bsky.social
holy fuck Adobe - they're changing their plans and the new price will be literally MORE THAN DOUBLE what I'm currently paying (from 43 CAD to 103CAD / mo)

What-the-actual fuck? Why would I keep paying this?

Just unbelievable

#adobe #fuckthisshit
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
gekido.bsky.social
Repost with an iconic fictional band
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
gekido.bsky.social
And it's live!
Hi Megacrush Interactive, Congratulations! We've accepted your submission of 'Runtime Spawner' to the Unity Asset Store! Your package may already be live, and otherwise it should be live within the hour.
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
gekido.bsky.social
Remember
Who are the Democrats voting for the government shutdown deal? From top left: Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin, Jacky Rosen, John Fetterman and Catherine Cortez Masto. From bottom left: Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan and Tim Kaine, with independent Sen. Angus King. From top left: Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin, Jacky Rosen, John Fetterman and Catherine Cortez Masto. From bottom left: Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan and Tim Kaine, with independent Sen. Angus King.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 AM
gekido.bsky.social
There we go! Runtime Spawner 1.5.0 is submitted, should be live tomorrow hopefully!

New features:
- deterministic spawning
- optional Photon Fusion and PUN adapters
- enhanced API (pause, resume, end) API's
- new factory based lifecycle for custom overrides

#unity3d #gamedev #screenshotsaturday
Runtime Spawner marking image with screenshots of the Fusion and PUN samples. Text says "Photon Fusion and PUN Networking Integrations!"
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
gekido.bsky.social
Holy crap just went through his IMDB, had no idea, and also: wow

1) he was in a Fall Guy episode AND a Pitfall commercial?

Crazy
Imdb screenshot showing the first 2 credits Jack Black has The Fall Guy 7.1 TV Series Chuck 1984 1 episode Pitfall 1982 Atari 2600 Commercial (1982) Pitfall 1982 Atari 2600 Commercial 6.1 Video Teen Wearing Hat 1982
November 9, 2025 at 7:44 AM
gekido.bsky.social
There we go - PUN 2 integration / sample is ready to go as well!

Now to document the integrations and they'll be pushed up to the asset store!

Strangely PUN was harder to integrate - was thinking it would be the other way around!

#indiedev #unity3d #assetstore
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 AM
gekido.bsky.social
It's been a tough week
Sappy dog snuggles
November 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
gekido.bsky.social
It's alive!

Fusion support for Runtime Spawner is a go!

Finishing touches on the PUN integration is next!

#indiedev #unity3d #assetstore
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
gekido.bsky.social
Day job has been chaos lately, but been slowly poking at this for the past few weeks (slowly)...

Adding network integrations for the Runtime Spawner - both PUN and Fusion support coming soon to an Asset Store near you!

Your (my) dreams of making a Left 4 Dead clone are coming true!
Screenshot of the editor showing the demo controls for the Runtime Spawner's Fusion integration. It shows session name selection, mode select (host / client etc) and connect / shut down buttons for Fusion.
November 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
gekido.bsky.social
Tough day
Dog sprawled on couch, does not look comfortable at all
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
gekido.bsky.social
What a joke Affinity

Pretty sure this isn't what people are saying about your AI bs pivot
Email from Affinity claiming that everyone just loves their AI bullshit pivot Turns out, the creative world can agree on something Since launch, thousands of creatives around the world have shared their first reactions, all rallying behind a single idea: Creative Freedom We’ve gathered some of our favorite media features and early reactions from across the internet.
November 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
gekido.bsky.social
Love how vibrant our Japanese maples are this time of the year
November 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
gekido.bsky.social
Bramble thinks you're awesome 😎
October 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
gekido.bsky.social
Noodling on another character for @dystopiapunk.bsky.social because day job has been chaos lately so I needed to do a brain cleanse.

I think she's cool 💪

#cyberpunk #gamedev #indiedev
October 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
gekido.bsky.social
Apparently this is our new future
October 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
gekido.bsky.social
The original post claimed Oracle was training on their customers data, but Ellison's quote is more that Oracle trained AI on their internal company data. Which is still pretty gross but not nearly as horrific.

www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-ma...
Although businesses want AI models that can reason with and answer questions directly related to their data, they want to keep this information private. And this is indeed possible. “You can have your cake and eat it, too,” said Ellison. Oracle has benefited from allowing AI models to access and reason with its own private data. Its first such project involved customer data, asking AI models questions such as which Oracle customers were likely to buy another product in the next six months, and which products those might be.
October 20, 2025 at 7:32 AM
gekido.bsky.social
don't use the @ sign
October 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
gekido.bsky.social
Jeesuz keerist.

Straight into the sun
A Fab creator recently published over 41,000+ AI-generated assets in a short timeframe, overwhelming the system we have for managing and surfacing content. We’re sorry for the degradation of the Fab experience everyone experienced. Here’s a summary of how our rules apply in this situation and how we’re adapting our approach to deal with incidents like this
October 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
gekido.bsky.social
Weekend experiment - building a turn based game in the style of polytopia (which I play far too much of)

Have the map, basic movement & turn system and a very simple AI in place!

#indiedev #gamedev #strategy #screenshotsaturday
October 6, 2025 at 1:29 AM
gekido.bsky.social
This should go smoothly no doubt
Count of how many Unity games are on Steam, by year... 6030 Unity games have been released in 2025 on Steam. View games. 8920 Unity games have been released in 2024 on Steam. View games. 7298 Unity games have been released in 2023 on Steam. View games. 6180 Unity games have been released in 2022 on Steam. View games. 5748 Unity games have been released in 2021 on Steam. View games. 4948 Unity games have been released in 2020 on Steam. View games. 4079 Unity games have been released in 2019 on Steam. View games. 4463 Unity games have been released in 2018 on Steam. View games. 3388 Unity games have been released in 2017 on Steam. View games. 2196 Unity games have been released in 2016 on Steam. View games. 1032 Unity games have been released in 2015 on Steam. View games. 453 Unity games have been released in 2014 on Steam. View games. 92 Unity games have been released in 2013 on Steam. View games. 25 Unity games have been released in 2012 on Steam. View games. 9 Unity games have been released in 2011 on Steam. View games. 9 Unity games have been released in 2010 on Steam. View games. 5 Unity games have been released in 2009 on Steam. View games. 2 Unity games have been released in 2008 on Steam. View games. 1 Unity games have been released in 2007 on Steam. View games.
October 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
gekido.bsky.social
Yay! 😭
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
gekido.bsky.social
This had better not be fucking AI
Affinity website claiming "creative freedom is coming", announcement page
October 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
gekido.bsky.social
See yah. It was cheap enough before that I didn't care if I didn't use it super regularly but this is just 'nope'
October 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
gekido.bsky.social
their 'manage subscription' page is broken. gee wonder why?
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM