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Senior Game Writer @ Eidos Montreal | Into cats, plants, snakes, and escaping the divine right of kings. | She/Her

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leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"

10.03.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 7593 πŸ” 1647 πŸ’¬ 106 πŸ“Œ 19

You say that but a few years ago, a relative asked me what % of game dialogue was written by gen AI. He was very surprised when I said none of it was.

He'd been playing games fully expecting the dialogue to have been written by a bot.

10.03.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

*get

10.03.2026 15:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ironically, these people could ask their LLM chatbot about it and getg an extensive list of reasons why using a chatbot for NPC dialogue is a terrible idea.

10.03.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I would really love to see the Godot QuΓ©bec community grow!

If you could share this starter pack (and give it a look),
it would really really help!!

Thank you!!

go.bsky.app/VF1Gf65

#Godot #GameDev #GodotEgine #Art #Indie #StarterPack

09.03.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3

I showed them your post! My colleagues and I did a game jam on Godot last month. Thought maybe they'd be interested, but I don't think they're on bsky turns out :|

10.03.2026 01:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

First episode dialogue be like "We're talking about the same Steve, right? Mr. Used To Be A Cop? You mean to tell me MY brother- YOUR father and HIS boss- the same Steve who always scopes out the exits to whatever room he's in? That Steve? The Steve who is gonna walk through that door any minute?

09.03.2026 22:21 πŸ‘ 135 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh! Hol'up I know some guys.

09.03.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Quebec the city or Quebec the province?

09.03.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

03.01.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 7838 πŸ” 1699 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 17
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon

Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

08.03.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 11613 πŸ” 3290 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 21
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slay the spire 2

06.03.2026 18:51 πŸ‘ 3574 πŸ” 824 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 19

Intellectually, I don't foreclose the possibility that LLM code generation has utility! But... 1. people are making hysterically grand claims about it, 2. software engineers have become catastrophically tone-deaf about the externalities of the tech and the low credibility of their profession

06.03.2026 03:05 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Part of the disconnect is of course that techbros insist that a total revolution in the way that software is made is taking place, but anyone who uses software can observe that software continues to suck more than ever before

06.03.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 512 πŸ” 114 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 9

Mandatory :

05.03.2026 21:46 πŸ‘ 732 πŸ” 234 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 6

People are out there making VSs when they really should be making FPs or gyms.

03.03.2026 23:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The whole cheatsheet isn't done, but here is the updated section for the % string formatting syntax!

#Godot #GameDev #GDScript #Dev
#GodotEngine #UI #Code

02.03.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 67 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I agree with this so much. This results in many studios bodging it, implementing something without narrative input or shoving things in late. It's also very frustrating when mentoring new narrative designers because there's no one place to direct them to learn.

02.03.2026 14:14 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

everythiiing🎡
I have to saaayπŸ—£οΈ
would get me baaanned🎷
or on a liiist🎢

08.01.2026 03:54 πŸ‘ 1767 πŸ” 392 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 6

A broader takeaway I think is nobody should be allowed to be so rich that being told no, or being held accountable, represents such a moral injury to that person's psyche that they feel like their only recourse is to burn the world down.

28.02.2026 02:52 πŸ‘ 2249 πŸ” 527 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 10
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The Monday Period: Pages 1-4
#garfield #imsorryjon

18.02.2026 21:27 πŸ‘ 4298 πŸ” 2400 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 208

Nothing hurts more than a node-based dialogue system in 2026.

20.02.2026 13:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission - IGN Publisher Finji says that TikTok has been using generative AI to modify its ads on the platform without permission and pushing those ads to its users without Finji's knowledge, including at least one ...

Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something.

www.ign.com/articles/tun...

20.02.2026 13:03 πŸ‘ 3145 πŸ” 1325 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 134

"What do you mean you need an oven? Just use a pot."

19.02.2026 23:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

well what do you know mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the...

17.02.2026 10:54 πŸ‘ 239 πŸ” 79 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

finished The Dispossessed. how i am supposed to just go on with my day after this?

17.02.2026 00:00 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

This is literally the best article on this topic I've ever read. It is something that many game devs can tell you straight to your face, and something SO many people simply don't believe.

14.02.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 434 πŸ” 149 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
Letterboxd screenshot
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022

Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

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