Matt Giuca
@mgiuca.bsky.social
Solo game developer, former Web Apps eng at Google, former editor of Web Apps Manifest spec.
https://mgiuca.itch.io/
https://mastodon.social/@mgiuca
https://mgiuca.itch.io/
https://mastodon.social/@mgiuca
The problem with all streaming services: more competition is bad for consumers because it means more subscriptions, so they can argue consolidation is "pro-consumer". But consolidation is also bad for consumers for the traditional reasons monopolies are bad. So we can't win.
#netflix #warnerbros
#netflix #warnerbros
December 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The problem with all streaming services: more competition is bad for consumers because it means more subscriptions, so they can argue consolidation is "pro-consumer". But consolidation is also bad for consumers for the traditional reasons monopolies are bad. So we can't win.
#netflix #warnerbros
#netflix #warnerbros
Once you start down the path of government Internet censorship, you quickly find yourself in an escalating arms race between your government and your people. 1/2
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
#auspol #socialmediaban
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
#auspol #socialmediaban
Australia expects platforms to "stop under-16s from using VPNs" to evade social media ban
The regulator has refused to say how this will work in practice
www.techradar.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Once you start down the path of government Internet censorship, you quickly find yourself in an escalating arms race between your government and your people. 1/2
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
#auspol #socialmediaban
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
#auspol #socialmediaban
Reposted by Matt Giuca
"Oh sure, let me instantly generate every storefront image at once" is something no game developer ever said... until I added this feature to Kenney Game Assets All-in-1! 🎉
(Coming later this month!)
(Coming later this month!)
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"Oh sure, let me instantly generate every storefront image at once" is something no game developer ever said... until I added this feature to Kenney Game Assets All-in-1! 🎉
(Coming later this month!)
(Coming later this month!)
So it seems that it has now become the Australian government's policy that no content unsuitable for an eight year old should appear on any website unless the user creates an account.
This is beyond ridiculous.
Source: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
#auspol #socialmediaban
This is beyond ridiculous.
Source: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
#auspol #socialmediaban
December 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
So it seems that it has now become the Australian government's policy that no content unsuitable for an eight year old should appear on any website unless the user creates an account.
This is beyond ridiculous.
Source: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
#auspol #socialmediaban
This is beyond ridiculous.
Source: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
#auspol #socialmediaban
Australia just made it illegal for YouTube to provide safe age-appropriate content and parental controls. They didn't ban kids from YouTube, just gutted all the child safety features. Parents, do you feel your kids are safe online now?
blog.google/intl/en-au/p...
#auspol #socialmediaban
blog.google/intl/en-au/p...
#auspol #socialmediaban
What’s changing for under 16s and parents on YouTube in Australia
Today we shared an update with our users and creators about what to expect from the YouTube experience for under 16s in Australia as a result of the Social Media Minimum…
blog.google
December 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Australia just made it illegal for YouTube to provide safe age-appropriate content and parental controls. They didn't ban kids from YouTube, just gutted all the child safety features. Parents, do you feel your kids are safe online now?
blog.google/intl/en-au/p...
#auspol #socialmediaban
blog.google/intl/en-au/p...
#auspol #socialmediaban
Perfect: Aus government forces tech companies to rush to implement age verification or face massive fines, but doesn't offer any systems or regulations, simply "they have to figure it out." Then the inevitable privacy nightmare is their fault.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #auspol #socialmediaban
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #auspol #socialmediaban
Cybersecurity experts alarmed by Snapchat's age-verification plan
As the social media ban for kids under 16 approaches, popular messaging app Snapchat says young people will be able to verify their age by sending a selfie or their ID to a third-party platform, but s...
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Perfect: Aus government forces tech companies to rush to implement age verification or face massive fines, but doesn't offer any systems or regulations, simply "they have to figure it out." Then the inevitable privacy nightmare is their fault.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #auspol #socialmediaban
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #auspol #socialmediaban
There's an organization to fight Australia's under-16 social media ban:
www.digitalfreedomproject.org.au
Sign the petition. Our children will not be silenced.
#auspol #socialmediaban
www.digitalfreedomproject.org.au
Sign the petition. Our children will not be silenced.
#auspol #socialmediaban
Digital Freedom Project | Protecting the Rights of all Australians Online
Join the Digital Freedom Project to protect digital rights and freedoms of Australians online. Support our campaign against social media restrictions.
www.digitalfreedomproject.org.au
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
There's an organization to fight Australia's under-16 social media ban:
www.digitalfreedomproject.org.au
Sign the petition. Our children will not be silenced.
#auspol #socialmediaban
www.digitalfreedomproject.org.au
Sign the petition. Our children will not be silenced.
#auspol #socialmediaban
Best hope yet of striking down the chilling Australian social media ban for children:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
#auspol #socialmediaban
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
#auspol #socialmediaban
Social media ban for under-16s challenged in High Court
Australia's social media age ban is being challenged in the High Court on the grounds that it restricts young teens' implied right to freedom of political communication.
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Best hope yet of striking down the chilling Australian social media ban for children:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
#auspol #socialmediaban
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
#auspol #socialmediaban
Stoked to be featured in today's Godot XR blog post
godotengine.org/article/godo...
My jam entry Things You Can Do With Two Hands placed second and there's a neat 3-minute playthrough of it on that page (or you can play it at mgiuca.itch.io/two-hands). Thanks Bastiaan! #godot #xr #vr
godotengine.org/article/godo...
My jam entry Things You Can Do With Two Hands placed second and there's a neat 3-minute playthrough of it on that page (or you can play it at mgiuca.itch.io/two-hands). Thanks Bastiaan! #godot #xr #vr
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Stoked to be featured in today's Godot XR blog post
godotengine.org/article/godo...
My jam entry Things You Can Do With Two Hands placed second and there's a neat 3-minute playthrough of it on that page (or you can play it at mgiuca.itch.io/two-hands). Thanks Bastiaan! #godot #xr #vr
godotengine.org/article/godo...
My jam entry Things You Can Do With Two Hands placed second and there's a neat 3-minute playthrough of it on that page (or you can play it at mgiuca.itch.io/two-hands). Thanks Bastiaan! #godot #xr #vr
Just a couple of weeks until the Aus govt's disastrous social media ban kicks in.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"We know this law will not be perfect" they keep saying, like it's an excuse for making a shitty law and letting us figure out the consequences in real time. #auspol #socialmediaban
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"We know this law will not be perfect" they keep saying, like it's an excuse for making a shitty law and letting us figure out the consequences in real time. #auspol #socialmediaban
How the social media ban could impact students a long way from home
Boarders living thousands of kilometres from home, already vulnerable to isolation, are coming to terms with the government's under-16 social media ban.
www.abc.net.au
November 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Just a couple of weeks until the Aus govt's disastrous social media ban kicks in.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"We know this law will not be perfect" they keep saying, like it's an excuse for making a shitty law and letting us figure out the consequences in real time. #auspol #socialmediaban
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"We know this law will not be perfect" they keep saying, like it's an excuse for making a shitty law and letting us figure out the consequences in real time. #auspol #socialmediaban
Extruding the mountains of Mars in my #indie #space game Celestial Golf.
Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/...
Full tutorial here:
youtu.be/is5ufFKHy7o
#gamedev #blender
Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/...
Full tutorial here:
youtu.be/is5ufFKHy7o
#gamedev #blender
November 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Extruding the mountains of Mars in my #indie #space game Celestial Golf.
Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/...
Full tutorial here:
youtu.be/is5ufFKHy7o
#gamedev #blender
Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/...
Full tutorial here:
youtu.be/is5ufFKHy7o
#gamedev #blender
New devlog for my #indie #space game Celestial Golf. How I got NASA terrain data for Mars and used #Blender to convert it into a realistic 2D planet with dynamic lighting.
youtu.be/is5ufFKHy7o
#gamedev #godot
If this looks cool, you can wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/...
youtu.be/is5ufFKHy7o
#gamedev #godot
If this looks cool, you can wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/...
Making realistic planets in Blender for my 2D golf game
YouTube video by Matt Giuca
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM
New devlog for my #indie #space game Celestial Golf. How I got NASA terrain data for Mars and used #Blender to convert it into a realistic 2D planet with dynamic lighting.
youtu.be/is5ufFKHy7o
#gamedev #godot
If this looks cool, you can wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/...
youtu.be/is5ufFKHy7o
#gamedev #godot
If this looks cool, you can wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/...
"If your website used Cloudflare, you'd be having an outage right now, too!"
Seems like a bad time to try and advertise your services.
(I hit this last night; apparently Cloudflare was down across Australia.)
Seems like a bad time to try and advertise your services.
(I hit this last night; apparently Cloudflare was down across Australia.)
November 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"If your website used Cloudflare, you'd be having an outage right now, too!"
Seems like a bad time to try and advertise your services.
(I hit this last night; apparently Cloudflare was down across Australia.)
Seems like a bad time to try and advertise your services.
(I hit this last night; apparently Cloudflare was down across Australia.)
The devastation made to NASA by its Trump leadership during the shutdown is truly shocking.
www.space.com/space-explor... #nasa #shutdown
www.space.com/space-explor... #nasa #shutdown
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The devastation made to NASA by its Trump leadership during the shutdown is truly shocking.
www.space.com/space-explor... #nasa #shutdown
www.space.com/space-explor... #nasa #shutdown
Reposted by Matt Giuca
Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
November 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
Are you serious? The Australian government literally gave Reddit and Kick 36 days notice that they must implement AI-powered age verification or be banned in Australia. This is such a joke. #auspol #socialmediaban
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Reddit targeted by Australia’s under-16s social media ban as list of platforms grows
Popular platform added to list of companies required to restrict access for children, along with video streaming site Kick
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Are you serious? The Australian government literally gave Reddit and Kick 36 days notice that they must implement AI-powered age verification or be banned in Australia. This is such a joke. #auspol #socialmediaban
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
🤦 Just realized after a year of #Godot I've been building mipmaps to get smoother texture downscaling but never actually turned on the texture filtering to use them. Here's how!
(Along with a shameless plug to check out Celestial Golf store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/) #gamedev #indie #space
(Along with a shameless plug to check out Celestial Golf store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/) #gamedev #indie #space
November 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🤦 Just realized after a year of #Godot I've been building mipmaps to get smoother texture downscaling but never actually turned on the texture filtering to use them. Here's how!
(Along with a shameless plug to check out Celestial Golf store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/) #gamedev #indie #space
(Along with a shameless plug to check out Celestial Golf store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/) #gamedev #indie #space
NASA is being gutted by the Trump administration and it seems unlikely it will be coming back.
They say they're for space exploration but the real target here is science, specifically climate science.
(A long read but eye-opening/watering.)
www.space.com/space-explor...
They say they're for space exploration but the real target here is science, specifically climate science.
(A long read but eye-opening/watering.)
www.space.com/space-explor...
NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown — and may be breaking the law in the process, critics say
"There is just a general acknowledgement that a lot of what is happening is illegal…"
www.space.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
NASA is being gutted by the Trump administration and it seems unlikely it will be coming back.
They say they're for space exploration but the real target here is science, specifically climate science.
(A long read but eye-opening/watering.)
www.space.com/space-explor...
They say they're for space exploration but the real target here is science, specifically climate science.
(A long read but eye-opening/watering.)
www.space.com/space-explor...
I tried making the planets in Celestial Golf rotate but it did weird things with physics, so in the end, the whole universe rotates around a static body, as seen in this short.
Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/...
#gamedev #indie #space #golf
Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/...
#gamedev #indie #space #golf
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I tried making the planets in Celestial Golf rotate but it did weird things with physics, so in the end, the whole universe rotates around a static body, as seen in this short.
Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/...
#gamedev #indie #space #golf
Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/...
#gamedev #indie #space #golf
Reposted by Matt Giuca
"Every tyrant tries to convince the public that support for them is all but universal and opposition is both dangerous and futile. Trump will keep saying that. But after No Kings, it will be even harder to believe than it was before." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
No Kings was a huge success. Just look at Trump's response.
Turnout was enormous. There was no violence. And the wannabe king is triggered.
www.publicnotice.co
October 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"Every tyrant tries to convince the public that support for them is all but universal and opposition is both dangerous and futile. Trump will keep saying that. But after No Kings, it will be even harder to believe than it was before." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Instead of rotating planets in my space golf game, I just rotate the entire universe around them.
I had to learn about the coriolis force to correct the motion of the ball. Devlog: youtu.be/oMN8FqbpCw4
Wishlist Celestial Golf on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/...
#indie #gamedev #space
I had to learn about the coriolis force to correct the motion of the ball. Devlog: youtu.be/oMN8FqbpCw4
Wishlist Celestial Golf on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/...
#indie #gamedev #space
Godot didn't like rotating planets, so I rotated everything else - Celestial Golf devlog
YouTube video by Matt Giuca
youtu.be
October 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Instead of rotating planets in my space golf game, I just rotate the entire universe around them.
I had to learn about the coriolis force to correct the motion of the ball. Devlog: youtu.be/oMN8FqbpCw4
Wishlist Celestial Golf on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/...
#indie #gamedev #space
I had to learn about the coriolis force to correct the motion of the ball. Devlog: youtu.be/oMN8FqbpCw4
Wishlist Celestial Golf on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/...
#indie #gamedev #space
On social media bans and going after kids instead of holding platforms to higher standards. #socialmediaban
theconversation.com/as-social-me...
theconversation.com/as-social-me...
As social media age restrictions spread, is the internet entering its Victorian era?
Social media bans suggest a resurgence of conservative values in our digital lives. But at what cost to young people’s autonomy, creativity and expression?
theconversation.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
On social media bans and going after kids instead of holding platforms to higher standards. #socialmediaban
theconversation.com/as-social-me...
theconversation.com/as-social-me...
I don't want to alarm anyone but because of human-caused climate change, the trees are no longer capturing carbon...
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Australian tropical rainforest trees switch in world first from carbon sink to emissions source
Researchers say carbon emissions change in Queensland tropical rainforests may have global climate implications
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I don't want to alarm anyone but because of human-caused climate change, the trees are no longer capturing carbon...
🔥🔥🔥
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🔥🔥🔥
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is becoming a huge problem.
"Against ‘chat control’: we can’t eliminate child abuse by eliminating privacy" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Against ‘chat control’: we can’t eliminate child abuse by eliminating privacy" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Against ‘chat control’: we can’t eliminate child abuse by eliminating privacy
Banning online anonymity tools like Tor won’t stop crime. It will only drive people underground and normalize government control over the internet
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This is becoming a huge problem.
"Against ‘chat control’: we can’t eliminate child abuse by eliminating privacy" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Against ‘chat control’: we can’t eliminate child abuse by eliminating privacy" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...