The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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every ai-using programmer i talk to is some kind of schroedinger's coder
they simultaneously don't need to write code anymore, and also they are so special their job position will never be replaced
After looking through over 700 thinky-ish games, these are the best demos we found in Steam Next Fest!
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In the New Statesman this week, I channel just some of my hatred toward AI Hype into 900 words.
On the grifters and rubes surfing a bubble atop a pyramid, and the economy-shattering fraud the rest of us can no longer escape.
www.newstatesman.com/science-tech...
Title: Blooming Desiderium The first piece of a Duotycht. A large gargoyle is crouched on a terrace wall overlooking a landscape of prairie and farm fields. The gargoyle crouches with its head down and its arms wrapped around itself in profile. In one huge claws hand it delicately cups a rose, its petals a color somewhere between pale blue and lilac. A snarl of rose bramble grows up the gargoyles back, producing similar blooms.
Title: Blooming Desiderium The second piece of a Duotycht. High on a ridge a large crumbling house in the early prairie-style grows overgrown and decays. Forlorn bay windows of leaded glass show no light and lonely chimneys stand crooked and without hearth smoke. Below the house a bramble of roses grows, blooming in a pale color between light blue and lilac. In the sky a moon with a wistful ecpfsssjon looks on.
🦋 𝔅𝔩𝔬𝔬𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔇𝔢𝔰𝔦𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔲𝔪 🦋
In the grottos of masonry and high up on the chimney stacks of Goblin Hill, the rare Rosa Desiderium blooms the color of deep longing, illuminated only by the moon.
With new blockbusters taking longer and costing more than ever to make, and nostalgia never a more powerful currency, shuttering a proven specialist in remakes and remasters is frankly insane. Casting out a team of such deep technical expertise and, more crucially, such broad institutional knowledge — Bluepoint doesn’t just know its own tools and technology, but also those of the studios whose games it has modernised, from Sony Santa Monica to Naughty Dog, Team Ico to FromSoftware — is simply inexplicable. Pretending there’s nothing for Bluepoint to work on, when the market for remakes has never been bigger and the long-rumoured, widely coveted Bloodborne remake has reached Shenmue 3 levels of mythicism, is unbelievable. Everything about this decision, from top to bottom and viewed from any and every angle, is ridiculous, baffling, an affront.
On Bluepoint
newsletter.hitpoints.co/361-pointless/
Oh my god, I laughed my arse off at this skit before knowing anything about that. O_o
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I should give that album another spin! I think I bought Accelerator at uni and later listened to ISDN. Tracks like Central Industrial and their music featuring on the Wipeout soundtracks always made FSOL (fittingly) sound futuristic.
Here's a small portion of an animated bumper I made to promote a video game from @owlcatgames.bsky.social (Blind Descent). Seeing the latest advances in generative AI and how they've invaded space, I feel lucky to have at least produced this little piece from start to finish 🥲.
Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...
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Pencil drawing of a knight on paper
Pencil drawing of an axolotl on paper
Pencil drawing of a hulder on paper
Pencil drawing of an adventurer on paper
Show me what you can do with just a pencil!
An archer rides an elephant shrew like mount, rendered in ink on paper.
A rider on an isopod like mount, rendered in ink on paper.
An adventurer on a gecko like mount, rendered in ink on paper.
Fen elves on a moorhen like mount, rendered in ink on paper.
I saw a post about pen drawings, but lost it.
Here are some of my old ink stuff that I did in the month of ink drawings, usually sketch one day, ink the next.
These ones were all alphabetical mount themed.
#ink #illustration #characterdesign #elephantshrew #isopod #gecko #moorhen
Landscape gouache painting of some purple flowery fields under a cloudy sky.
back to gouache (it's hard T_T)
Hey, hey, I'm looking for work and open for commissions. If interested send me an email to: matejkollar.art@gmail.com
Portfolio: www.matejkollar.com
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
Suddenly a wild *Serenity Demo* appears! 🛸💨
Download now for MacOS and Windows.
Linux will also be supported in the final game.
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I believe we did attempt 0space, for season 2 perhaps, but I think we ran into technical issues at the time. It's been ages so it's hard to remember!
Alas, Side by Side was shuttered in 2024 after a good 10 year run!
In prep for the podcast, I just played @smestorp.bsky.social's KOMPENDIUM again for the first time in ~13 years.
omfg it's sooooooo good. Sorry roguelikers, but I'm convinced that this is Michael's best game.
Must-play collection of 9+ 1v1 games.
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Yeah that was one of my favourites from the collection too! We also really enjoyed Exuberant Struggle.
@electrondance.com I think we need to get back on this in the summer! It's been too long, over ~11 years for us? One of our favourites!
Illustration of a big street fight scene inspired by the gane fFnal fFght, featuring the main characters and some emblematic enemies.
Illustration of a big street fight scene inspired by the gane fFnal fFght 2, featuring the main characters and some emblematic enemies.
Illustration of a big street fight scene inspired by the gane fFnal fFght 3, featuring the main characters and some emblematic enemies.
Finally out! 🥲 my covers for the Final Fight trilogy OST vinyls, published by Mana Wave.
I ended up designing most of the box, labels, etc as well (except the logo).
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Méwilo screenshot from 1987
Freedom rebels in the darkness screenshot
Legend of Djel, Tramis designed its gameplay
Emmanuelle from 1990, Tramis wrote it
For Black History month: Muriel Tramis.
Known as the "French Roberta Williams", she's way more than that. Among the first black women game designers, her first games were her love letter to Martinique, Méwilo (87), and the incredible strategy game about slavery, Freedom: Rebels in the Darkness (90)
Visual development art by Lou Romano for The Incredibles (2004), dir. Brad Bird, Pixar Animation Studios
My horse turned out very peaceful but I forgot to add hair.
I now believe the defining quality of a roguelike is to degrade the definition of a roguelike
Had a blast working on this, very self-indulgent piece 🙏
From the Almanac;
Since the New Year I've been pretty overcome, and the need to make art has been fraught with difficulty and sadness. It has been some time since I last felt so small and defeated.
Work on the Almanac continues. Bit by bit. I beg your patience.
