David Speck
@saduras.bsky.social
AI Programmer @guerrilla | he/him
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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Oh, God, this is one of those "where do I even start" things, because Roblox is, like, *fractally* fucked. They are terrible at content moderation. A lot of the games are rated incorrectly, so kids can encounter graphic content (sex or violence) out of nowhere --
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Oh, God, this is one of those "where do I even start" things, because Roblox is, like, *fractally* fucked. They are terrible at content moderation. A lot of the games are rated incorrectly, so kids can encounter graphic content (sex or violence) out of nowhere --
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Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time
Congrats to Jennifer English for winning the Best Lead Performer award at the 2025 #GoldenJoystickAwards!
And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time
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I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct.
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...
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For about another 21 hours all our games are suspiciously cheap:
🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G...
🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H...
🧙♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...
🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G...
🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H...
🧙♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...
Save 40% on Tactical Breach Wizards on Steam
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to ...
store.steampowered.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
For about another 21 hours all our games are suspiciously cheap:
🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G...
🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H...
🧙♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...
🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G...
🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H...
🧙♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...
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"Rockstar, Rockstar, you're disgusting, we charge you with union busting," the protesters declared.
'All you had to do was follow the damn law, Rockstar!': Workers are protesting outside Take-Two after GTA 6 dev's alleged 'brazen' union-busting
"They can get used to seeing us on their doorstep."
www.pcgamer.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"Rockstar, Rockstar, you're disgusting, we charge you with union busting," the protesters declared.
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Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
November 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
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PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else!
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
PROCJAM - The Procedural Generation Jam
A game jam from 2025-11-21 to 2025-12-01 hosted by PROCJAM. Let's Make Something! PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is a creative coding jam about making things that make things. This normally...
itch.io
October 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
PROCJAM - the Procedural Generation Jam - is back for another year! Join us on itch.io this November for another week of making something that makes something - a bskybot, a videogame, a digital artwork, a dice table or something else!
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
🗓️ Nov 21st - Dec 1st
🔮 itch.io/jam/procjam
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Toughest choice you have to make every morning when getting dressed.
November 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Toughest choice you have to make every morning when getting dressed.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Rift Riff nominated for 4⁉️ #DutchGameAwards!
🎨Best Art: @simkaart.co's insane pixel art
🎙️Best Audio: @matthijskoster.com made banger tracks/sfx!
🕹️Best Design: @adriaan.games & @professionalpanda.bsky.social endless tweaks
👑GOTY: teamwork!
dutchgameawards.nl/nominees/
#Godot #indiegame #gamedev
🎨Best Art: @simkaart.co's insane pixel art
🎙️Best Audio: @matthijskoster.com made banger tracks/sfx!
🕹️Best Design: @adriaan.games & @professionalpanda.bsky.social endless tweaks
👑GOTY: teamwork!
dutchgameawards.nl/nominees/
#Godot #indiegame #gamedev
Nominees - Dutch Game Awards 2025
Best Game Grunn – Sokpop Collective Microtopia – Cordyceps Collective Rift Riff – Adriaan de Jongh, Sim Kaart, Matthijs Koster, Franz LaZerte, Professional Panda Best Art The Knightling – Twirlbound R...
dutchgameawards.nl
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Rift Riff nominated for 4⁉️ #DutchGameAwards!
🎨Best Art: @simkaart.co's insane pixel art
🎙️Best Audio: @matthijskoster.com made banger tracks/sfx!
🕹️Best Design: @adriaan.games & @professionalpanda.bsky.social endless tweaks
👑GOTY: teamwork!
dutchgameawards.nl/nominees/
#Godot #indiegame #gamedev
🎨Best Art: @simkaart.co's insane pixel art
🎙️Best Audio: @matthijskoster.com made banger tracks/sfx!
🕹️Best Design: @adriaan.games & @professionalpanda.bsky.social endless tweaks
👑GOTY: teamwork!
dutchgameawards.nl/nominees/
#Godot #indiegame #gamedev
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With our event just days away, it's time to announce a special surprise!
We made an @aiandgames.com plushie!
Grab yours at the AI and Games Conference next week, or sign up to the waitlist (plushie.aiandgames.com) to be the first to know when we release a batch for sale online in early 2026.
We made an @aiandgames.com plushie!
Grab yours at the AI and Games Conference next week, or sign up to the waitlist (plushie.aiandgames.com) to be the first to know when we release a batch for sale online in early 2026.
October 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
With our event just days away, it's time to announce a special surprise!
We made an @aiandgames.com plushie!
Grab yours at the AI and Games Conference next week, or sign up to the waitlist (plushie.aiandgames.com) to be the first to know when we release a batch for sale online in early 2026.
We made an @aiandgames.com plushie!
Grab yours at the AI and Games Conference next week, or sign up to the waitlist (plushie.aiandgames.com) to be the first to know when we release a batch for sale online in early 2026.
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wait wait wait, a Bed ... that only works if there's internet????? What next, "smart" toilets?
www.dexerto.com/ente...
www.dexerto.com/ente...
October 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
wait wait wait, a Bed ... that only works if there's internet????? What next, "smart" toilets?
www.dexerto.com/ente...
www.dexerto.com/ente...
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This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
October 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
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Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.
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good morning, early birbs
October 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
good morning, early birbs
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Update time for www.startmakinggames.com
A one stop shop for 100% free curated information that answers the question - 'How do I get started in game design?'
As always please share! As a self run passion project for the last 8 years, your help is the only way the site spreads!
#Gamedev #Indiedev
A one stop shop for 100% free curated information that answers the question - 'How do I get started in game design?'
As always please share! As a self run passion project for the last 8 years, your help is the only way the site spreads!
#Gamedev #Indiedev
October 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Update time for www.startmakinggames.com
A one stop shop for 100% free curated information that answers the question - 'How do I get started in game design?'
As always please share! As a self run passion project for the last 8 years, your help is the only way the site spreads!
#Gamedev #Indiedev
A one stop shop for 100% free curated information that answers the question - 'How do I get started in game design?'
As always please share! As a self run passion project for the last 8 years, your help is the only way the site spreads!
#Gamedev #Indiedev
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[boss music starts]
she summons loads of ads during her fight, all of them wearing familiar faces, faintly smiling...
I listened to so much Clair Obscure Expedition 33 OST the last couple days...
she summons loads of ads during her fight, all of them wearing familiar faces, faintly smiling...
I listened to so much Clair Obscure Expedition 33 OST the last couple days...
June 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
[boss music starts]
she summons loads of ads during her fight, all of them wearing familiar faces, faintly smiling...
I listened to so much Clair Obscure Expedition 33 OST the last couple days...
she summons loads of ads during her fight, all of them wearing familiar faces, faintly smiling...
I listened to so much Clair Obscure Expedition 33 OST the last couple days...
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🗣️ Please hire this man!
Very talented
Very kind
All in one package
Very talented
Very kind
All in one package
Hi, I'm an Art Director & 3D Game Artist
Available for hire 👐
I worked on award-winning stylized games
Looking for the next project I can contribute to 👀
Please reach out!
💌 boury.charles@gmail.com
RT appreciated ✨
Available for hire 👐
I worked on award-winning stylized games
Looking for the next project I can contribute to 👀
Please reach out!
💌 boury.charles@gmail.com
RT appreciated ✨
October 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
🗣️ Please hire this man!
Very talented
Very kind
All in one package
Very talented
Very kind
All in one package
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Welp, Im a casualty from last weeks Stockholm Gamedev Bloodbath
10+yrs makin stuff, "an unstoppable creative force" & "patient, clear, & deft at design"
Here for creative leadership, game design, narrative, & good-trouble-making roles so reach out if you need me
linkedin.com/in/acegiak & acegiak.net
10+yrs makin stuff, "an unstoppable creative force" & "patient, clear, & deft at design"
Here for creative leadership, game design, narrative, & good-trouble-making roles so reach out if you need me
linkedin.com/in/acegiak & acegiak.net
October 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Welp, Im a casualty from last weeks Stockholm Gamedev Bloodbath
10+yrs makin stuff, "an unstoppable creative force" & "patient, clear, & deft at design"
Here for creative leadership, game design, narrative, & good-trouble-making roles so reach out if you need me
linkedin.com/in/acegiak & acegiak.net
10+yrs makin stuff, "an unstoppable creative force" & "patient, clear, & deft at design"
Here for creative leadership, game design, narrative, & good-trouble-making roles so reach out if you need me
linkedin.com/in/acegiak & acegiak.net
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Recently had the opportunity to build 3 demos to demonstrate the power of game feel!
October 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Recently had the opportunity to build 3 demos to demonstrate the power of game feel!
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Megabonk uses my #gameassets, specifically the Foliage Sprites! 🌿
You can find them here, they're completely free to use (no attribution required!): kenney.nl/assets/folia...
You can find them here, they're completely free to use (no attribution required!): kenney.nl/assets/folia...
October 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Megabonk uses my #gameassets, specifically the Foliage Sprites! 🌿
You can find them here, they're completely free to use (no attribution required!): kenney.nl/assets/folia...
You can find them here, they're completely free to use (no attribution required!): kenney.nl/assets/folia...
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I wrote about this in "The Unaccountability Machine" - when you describe leveraged buyouts to ordinary people, half of them say that it should be illegal and the other half are often convinced that it already is.
Buying a company by taking out a massive loan, then making the company you bought responsible for paying off that loan, is so patently evil that it should be beyond illegal. The kind of thing that inspires enlightened societies without corporal punishment to bring back the death penalty as a one-off
September 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I wrote about this in "The Unaccountability Machine" - when you describe leveraged buyouts to ordinary people, half of them say that it should be illegal and the other half are often convinced that it already is.