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Dirk Van Welden

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Founder & Jack-of-all-trades @ I-Illusions & FoamPunch. (Shredders - Space Pirate Trainer - BAM - Element4l) Eternally stuck between art & code. Optimist.

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Godot's GitHub has increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it's a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers – especially if people don't disclose it. Changes often make no sense, descriptions are extremely verbose, users don't understand their own changes… It's a total shitshow. #godotengine

16.02.2026 09:03 👍 1372 🔁 312 💬 31 📌 36

Nice! Congrats on the demo release Daniel!

05.02.2026 20:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh, not cool. I hope you’ll find other opportunities soon…

29.01.2026 07:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He got the fifa peace price… so much credibility for that price and FIFA!

19.01.2026 18:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You said! you said! you said! … (you know the rest)

07.01.2026 12:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I do miss the physicality of TF2 in a lot of those other “older” games. The movement was so good…

06.01.2026 06:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Same, after that I started Dishonored 2 again, also aged very well!

06.01.2026 06:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lots of respect here Denny. I hope things turn around for the company and that those people get new amazing opportunities.

06.01.2026 06:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

As someone who’s still using Unity most of my days, I have a lot of thoughts about the Keynote…
Where is the cool stuff for hands-on devs? Give me nice editor stuff, info about unified rendering, even rendering improvements!
Did I miss a part?

19.11.2025 12:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cool game by a nice dude! Looking forward to it @tovanbo.bsky.social !

25.10.2025 16:00 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Tomorrow is Indie-Penance Day on Kotaku! If you have an indie game in development, or a recent release that's been ignored, email me: botherer@gmail.com, with the subject line "INDIE PENANCE 2025".

Please include a store link and a YT link (if possible).

Rules next...

03.07.2025 16:31 👍 161 🔁 69 💬 24 📌 4

Super uncool news, hope you’ll find an awesome job soon Autumn! Take care

02.07.2025 21:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh man, so sorry to hear this Nick. Wishing you all the best.

02.07.2025 20:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🙌

16.04.2025 19:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Perfect, it also literally translates to « shitistocracy » in Dutch…

06.04.2025 20:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤘

09.12.2024 14:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

After 19 months under wraps, finally able to talk about our upcoming game Modulus. A factory automation game like no other.

09.12.2024 12:00 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

Yeah, I’m so glad we’re past that… it’s hard to transfer the same energy through webcams.

04.12.2024 08:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We also try to get colleagues in from abroad, every quarter, for a week. And that usually results in the whole team coming to office as well, just because it’s nice to work with them in person.

04.12.2024 08:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We do 2/3 days a week at the office now for people that live within reasonable distance (less than 90 minutes of travel).
Works well, we do our do-not-disturb stuff mostly at home, and the energy we get on the two days that everyone is there is great.

04.12.2024 08:16 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

New amazing area coming soon as a free update for Shredders. 🤘

22.11.2024 07:30 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yeah, it would have definitely motivated me more if I would have seen some visual results.
I’ve heard first-year game programming bachelors are now getting the visual versions though!

16.11.2024 13:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hey Bluesky people, here's some footage of a selection of games I've worked on... #shredders #spacepiratetrainer #BAM #Element4l #spacepiratearena

23.10.2024 12:34 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You’re a champion Sos!

23.10.2024 11:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Woohoow, this is starting to feel like old twitter again, I might actually post gamedev updates and stuff here again soon. :-p

22.10.2024 15:45 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Ah, could have been the first then, I was just afraid that my mirror image would be doing something different than me. :-D

14.10.2024 07:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Haha, true… I was afraid of mirrors for a while! (Second one if I remember correctly?)

14.10.2024 06:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hmm… maybe Bosh? Miele is also an OK brand, but I’m not as familiar with those

23.09.2024 18:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not sure if they are easily available around your area, but in the EU I would definitely say Siemens for quality hardware.

23.09.2024 18:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Doing some sculpting for the new season update for Shredders. Level design is my zen moment :-)

23.09.2024 15:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0