Warren Spector leaves the game industry. The creator of Thief, Deus Ex, and Ultima feels too old for this whole mess. He will take care of his health now and pursue different goals.

#ImmersiveSim@GameDEV

Just needed to find a real example for Character Turnaround Sheets and holy crap — this medium is poisoned by:

- AI with inconsistent elements between views making it impossible to model a final combined output. Sometimes they are looking oddly good at glance but then you look a bit longer and it falls apart completely.

- Cheap odd DnD characters, Roblox Characters, VR Chat avatars, and such. Basically useful only and only for this specific user and not as a general reference. Often a cringe gooner art.

Handy if you are on Radeon:

A flexible toolkit for background removal or blur, made as OBS Studio plugin. Works with basically any source, allows custom contour blur, expansion, and such.

For NVIDIA their Broadcast plugin is less flexible but usually just works.

https://github.com/royshil/obs-backgroundremoval
#FOSS@GameDEV

The Last House could be a nice movie if the authors would have a second thought and time to cook. Too raw as of now.

Feels like a bad pizza you made out of everything that was slightly off in your fridge. Even some good sauce and two spicy peppers will not make it good.

Can't recommend.

#Movies@GameDEV

GTA VI videos were leaked by hackers, tons of them (all from about a year old build). The game looks like MindsEye:

Vehicle physics is stiff, AI of the drivers is nearly absent, cutscenes are ludicrous. This is not on par with GTA V and definitely not looking like something that should be released in 2026.

It looks amateur at best. Let's see how the official gameplay trailer gonna look like but I'm concerned and confused.

#Rockstar@GameDEV
#GTA@GameDEV

Yeah! (via)

Also, Wednesday my dudes

Eat peapol... (via)

Very Safe Dino Park by Panic Stations

#IndieGames@GameDEV

Okay

#meme@GameDEV

Bro got so young:
(and old at the same time)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYb7shq5a48
#Valve@GameDEV

You haven't seen anything

#meme@GameDEV
#Rockstar@GameDEV

Every new GTA VI leak leaves more and more MindsEye vibes. The movement is off, the driving is stiff, shooting is not on par with older games. The company that made all GTA games is now making a GTA wannabe at best. Like a template from asset store — all features are there but the essence is absent.

It feels like we lost something as the industry, like we are looking at the monumental buildings previous generations were able to do an we can only make concrete + glass boxes now.

😏 Comments section here is the absolute cinema:

https://x.com/RockstarGames/status/2089713932554424713

The new hope for Riot Games shattered: their fighting game failed commercially. Up to the point where Riot refunds the purchases to bet on the long term relationships with their audience.

Just for context: Riot Games are still one of the biggest live service companies, comparable to Minecraft or Fortnite with 130-140m MAU across their projects (mostly League of Legends). They are owned by Tencent, earn billions, and thrive on average.

#RiotGames@GameDEV
#Fighting@GameDEV

All the lots of "200+ stylized flight attendants, game ready" are not getting any sales. Like, for real — start with the problem! Have anyone needed random stuff before? Or 200 of any 3D asset!

Like in many cases, lack of creativity and effort also means lack of marketing vision and no ability to understand the supply and demand workflow.

#AI@GameDEV
#GameAssets@GameDEV

Who's gonna tell him?

#AI@GameDEV
#Books@GameDEV

For over five years mother and her son in China were making their first animated movie Niu Lai. They have learned all the skills along the way and the results were outrageously bad. But it was their small dream.

It earned only $1200 during the first two weeks (trial limited run) but then was noticed by social media and went viral for being made by humans without AI, for being a family story, and for being as bad that it's almost brilliant.

Now it earned $3m and counting.

Not everything must be a cute anime girl

#meme@GameDEV
#Warhammer@GameDEV

Yesterday Take-Two sent legal request to Microsoft and Discord to share their own investigations related to GTA VI leaks. Moreover, they target not only the initial person but everyone from the servers related to him and several influencers who covered the story.

Their legal representative filed this request in New York, now both companies have up to September 4 to share the details or officially reject the request.

Why Microsoft? At least some of the videos were captured on XBOX Series S and among the requirements TT deliberately ask for XBOX account data. Some leaks were also posted on GitHub.

#TakeTwo@GameDEV
#Rockstar@GameDEV
#GTA@GameDEV
#Legal@GameDEV

Objectively correct