Randy Tan
@oneseedfruit.bsky.social
In bed by day, software dev by night.
Gamedev on weekends. Tired.
Needs: lots of money, friends in gamedev, cure for backache
Wants: gamedev by day, gamedev by night, gamedev wild camping
peoplemaking.games/@oneseedfruit
oneseedfruit.itch.io
🇲🇾ian in 🇬🇧
Gamedev on weekends. Tired.
Needs: lots of money, friends in gamedev, cure for backache
Wants: gamedev by day, gamedev by night, gamedev wild camping
peoplemaking.games/@oneseedfruit
oneseedfruit.itch.io
🇲🇾ian in 🇬🇧
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Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!
I don't understand how video game market can support so many farming games. Do young people yearn for the fields?
August 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!
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I wanna make small silly games for no profit and be completely self sustainable somehow. How do I achieve this
July 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I wanna make small silly games for no profit and be completely self sustainable somehow. How do I achieve this
Just found out about what's going on with Subnautica 2.
OMG. Sigh. WTF.
OMG. Sigh. WTF.
July 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Just found out about what's going on with Subnautica 2.
OMG. Sigh. WTF.
OMG. Sigh. WTF.
You can do everything right, pass all the stages and even the final interviews, yet still get no offers.
Meanwhile a $100B billionaire could fund 49,750 working-class people to never work again, each with $40K/year for 50 years.
Meanwhile a $100B billionaire could fund 49,750 working-class people to never work again, each with $40K/year for 50 years.
July 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
You can do everything right, pass all the stages and even the final interviews, yet still get no offers.
Meanwhile a $100B billionaire could fund 49,750 working-class people to never work again, each with $40K/year for 50 years.
Meanwhile a $100B billionaire could fund 49,750 working-class people to never work again, each with $40K/year for 50 years.
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friendly reminder that all institutions are not real. laws, governments, nations, borders, corporations. they only exist in our collective imaginations. a bunch of little stories we tell ourselves. fairy tales
July 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
friendly reminder that all institutions are not real. laws, governments, nations, borders, corporations. they only exist in our collective imaginations. a bunch of little stories we tell ourselves. fairy tales
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"...the gravest sin you can commit, at least when it comes to games, is to look at games strictly as these commercial objects." Oh this video is the *good* shit
Everything about games, and life, is better when we stop seeing art as functional products meant to deliver return on investment
Everything about games, and life, is better when we stop seeing art as functional products meant to deliver return on investment
New video, in which I just... had to get something off my chest.
there's no such thing as a bad game
YouTube video by Alien Bob
www.youtube.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"...the gravest sin you can commit, at least when it comes to games, is to look at games strictly as these commercial objects." Oh this video is the *good* shit
Everything about games, and life, is better when we stop seeing art as functional products meant to deliver return on investment
Everything about games, and life, is better when we stop seeing art as functional products meant to deliver return on investment
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Not already having money. You need money to attract more money. If you don’t have the money they will ask you why you don’t ask someone for money. It’s “already have money” all the way down.
Hey,
To my game dev peeps out there,
what is your number one challenge related to obtaining funding for the game you’re trying to develop? 💜
To my game dev peeps out there,
what is your number one challenge related to obtaining funding for the game you’re trying to develop? 💜
May 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Not already having money. You need money to attract more money. If you don’t have the money they will ask you why you don’t ask someone for money. It’s “already have money” all the way down.
When I'm not exhausted, I have loads of work.
When I don't have loads of work, my back hurts.
So, I lie down. I go to sleep. Then I can dream about
When I don't have loads of work, my back hurts.
So, I lie down. I go to sleep. Then I can dream about
May 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
When I'm not exhausted, I have loads of work.
When I don't have loads of work, my back hurts.
So, I lie down. I go to sleep. Then I can dream about
When I don't have loads of work, my back hurts.
So, I lie down. I go to sleep. Then I can dream about
I develop software in primarily imperative programming languages from JavaScript to Python to C/C++ and I have a preference for gamedev.
I dream of working at a well-paid remote-only worker-owned cooperative.
If such a place does not exist, or out of my reach, I think I want to start one. Maybe.
I dream of working at a well-paid remote-only worker-owned cooperative.
If such a place does not exist, or out of my reach, I think I want to start one. Maybe.
May 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I develop software in primarily imperative programming languages from JavaScript to Python to C/C++ and I have a preference for gamedev.
I dream of working at a well-paid remote-only worker-owned cooperative.
If such a place does not exist, or out of my reach, I think I want to start one. Maybe.
I dream of working at a well-paid remote-only worker-owned cooperative.
If such a place does not exist, or out of my reach, I think I want to start one. Maybe.
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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
May 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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The future is, I pray, employee owned.
May 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The future is, I pray, employee owned.
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i sometimes joke that social media is gamification of relationships for surveillance capitalism.
i wonder how it would be if it was “ungamified”. does the numbers game make it addicting & keep us coming back? can *just* making connections with people, without that urgency for competition, be enough?
i wonder how it would be if it was “ungamified”. does the numbers game make it addicting & keep us coming back? can *just* making connections with people, without that urgency for competition, be enough?
May 4, 2025 at 7:35 AM
i sometimes joke that social media is gamification of relationships for surveillance capitalism.
i wonder how it would be if it was “ungamified”. does the numbers game make it addicting & keep us coming back? can *just* making connections with people, without that urgency for competition, be enough?
i wonder how it would be if it was “ungamified”. does the numbers game make it addicting & keep us coming back? can *just* making connections with people, without that urgency for competition, be enough?
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Annoying Imbecile (AI)
April 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Annoying Imbecile (AI)
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Someone just tried to argue with me that Israel is not "committing 9/11" and I just want to point out that Israel has committed is the equivalent of six 9/11's if the Twin Towers had been filled with kids and babies only. Israel committed a tenth of 9/11 but all victims are kids last weekend alone.
March 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Someone just tried to argue with me that Israel is not "committing 9/11" and I just want to point out that Israel has committed is the equivalent of six 9/11's if the Twin Towers had been filled with kids and babies only. Israel committed a tenth of 9/11 but all victims are kids last weekend alone.
Getting slapped in the face at 9 y.o. ended up in having that pain in the back that is scoliosis in the 30s.
March 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Getting slapped in the face at 9 y.o. ended up in having that pain in the back that is scoliosis in the 30s.
Want to do audio work?
Or video editing with audio in it?
Stay far far away from Linux. Like, another galaxy far far away.
Use a Mac instead. Even Windows is paradise for audio work compared to Linux.
Or video editing with audio in it?
Stay far far away from Linux. Like, another galaxy far far away.
Use a Mac instead. Even Windows is paradise for audio work compared to Linux.
March 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Want to do audio work?
Or video editing with audio in it?
Stay far far away from Linux. Like, another galaxy far far away.
Use a Mac instead. Even Windows is paradise for audio work compared to Linux.
Or video editing with audio in it?
Stay far far away from Linux. Like, another galaxy far far away.
Use a Mac instead. Even Windows is paradise for audio work compared to Linux.
It's 2025. I still really enjoy using Linux.
And I still really think audio on Linux is really 💩.
And I still really think audio on Linux is really 💩.
March 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
It's 2025. I still really enjoy using Linux.
And I still really think audio on Linux is really 💩.
And I still really think audio on Linux is really 💩.
random Andromeda galaxy photo
February 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
random Andromeda galaxy photo
I'm slowly getting into astrophotography for fun.
Here is M44 / NGC 2632 Praesepe a.k.a. Beehive Cluster in the Cancer constellation.
Taken on a Canon EOS 550D with a 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens (already broke my bank with these, can't afford better equipment, so no star tracker too! 😂).
Here is M44 / NGC 2632 Praesepe a.k.a. Beehive Cluster in the Cancer constellation.
Taken on a Canon EOS 550D with a 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens (already broke my bank with these, can't afford better equipment, so no star tracker too! 😂).
February 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I'm slowly getting into astrophotography for fun.
Here is M44 / NGC 2632 Praesepe a.k.a. Beehive Cluster in the Cancer constellation.
Taken on a Canon EOS 550D with a 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens (already broke my bank with these, can't afford better equipment, so no star tracker too! 😂).
Here is M44 / NGC 2632 Praesepe a.k.a. Beehive Cluster in the Cancer constellation.
Taken on a Canon EOS 550D with a 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens (already broke my bank with these, can't afford better equipment, so no star tracker too! 😂).
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I'm so doing this for now on.
Fun game for games sphere folks: any time you see awful behavior, instead of sharing it, go scan the Indie Game feed or Game Development feed for something that looks cool but isn't getting much traction, and share that instead
I promise it'll make ya feel better, ditto for your followers
I promise it'll make ya feel better, ditto for your followers
January 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I'm so doing this for now on.
Woohhh!! I'm a Game Dev!!
Reminder, if you're games industry, it's never a bad idea to get your Bluesky labels over at @ozone.birb.house.
December 12, 2024 at 12:31 AM
Woohhh!! I'm a Game Dev!!