It's an Annual Games Biz Vibe Cycle that seems largely related to the internal emotional state of the attendees of these conferences, and nothing to do with the actual state of the industry
The pattern is way more noticeable after Gamescom, as the same people show up to say, "It feels like things are looking up for the industry in the coming months", completely forgetting that they thought the same last year
Over the past few years I've noticed a that after every single Gamescom, people come away feeling optimistic for the future of the industry, and after every GDC people come away feeling pretty pessimistic
Looking forward to see if the pattern holds next week, as people write their takeaway posts
To be clear, I absolutely do not think you're at fault here. It's an ongoing problem within the indie space as a whole
Indie fund Outersloth has rejected every generative AI pitch it has received
Nothing more wholesome than protecting your home from thousands of fascists (cute animals edition)
Yeah, this is a constant struggle for us. We do our best to use "funder" terms for ourselves and it is great when others acknowledge and are consistent with the distinction.
Simply put, we do not offer services (loc, qa, marketing, etc) and devs own their own operations and external relationships!
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I feel like there's a LOT of people in indie spaces who just equate funding with publishers, and in a world where a lot of publishers are coming in much later (arguably once the dev team has proven they don't need a publisher), it's really important that people know there is a difference
It seems like a lot of folks are just clinging to that idea and lumping the project funds they do know about in with publishers
These are entirely different models, entirely different relationships, and have wildly different expectations on you as a developer
While Outersloth sharing their contract is extremely cool and good, there's way too many people on my timeline who think they are a publisher
I thought Outersloth being a very prominent project funder would help people break out of the mindset that publishers are the only source of funding, but
💰THE OUTERSLOTH CONTRACT 💰
We just released the FULL contract and terms that all our games sign!
We hope this challenges the status quo of what you see out there.
In a nutshell:
💸 Pre-recoup 50/50
💸 Post-recoup 15/85
💸 Terms after 7 years
www.innersloth.com/the-outerslo...
A six month old tabby kitten with a white bob and white socks is sitting on a sofa next to a foam ball.
Patiently waiting for her ball to be thrown and fetch to resume
I cannot emphasize enough that these people are being laid off for failing to do things that are literally impossible
Mountain path watchtower
Sometimes when doing stuff like this I just ladel as much liquid as I can into a separate pan and reduce that before returning to main pot. Saves some of the stress of trying to not burn solids.
But overall this is very close to stews I make and can 100% agree it's a solid recipe
#notGDC 2026, March 9-13. A game development non-conference, for everyone!
#notGDC 2026 is a free, online game dev non-conference for everyone!
This year it runs from March 9–13, the same time as that other conf.
Have some gamedev knowledge you want to share with the world? Slides, articles, videos are welcome, and submissions are now open!
For more info: notgdc.io
They are, just rarely cute *together*
A fluffy white Angora cat lies curled up, nearly asleep. A six month old tabby kitten is snuggle up to her
Rare scenes of my girls tolerating each other this #caturday
A fluffy white Angora cat lies curled up, nearly asleep. A six month old tabby kitten is snuggle up to her
Rare scenes of my girls tolerating each other this #caturday
When Unity started collapsing I made a quick "how do I get going in Unreal" website many folks found helpful. that website has now MOVED and is a DIFFERENT COLOUR. If you want Unreal demystification, tips and scoops, this is a place
www.ughiguessiwanttomovefromunitytounreal.com
Update to the update: we got up this morning I got everyone fed and then Beez found the dress, sat on it and stared at me until I put it back on her
I have never seen a cat act like this
She's very happy now
I'm reacting to a statement in the form "X is disproved by Y", by saying
1. You misunderstand X
2. Y is irrelevant to X
I'm rejecting the premises, so there's no rearrangement of those premises that is salient here
Also nothing in the blog post moves the needle on either point
Asking for access to a complete, known product, is utterly different to asking for modifications to a existing product
Yeah, as I suspected, you're completely misconstruing the meaning behind that phrase
And even if you weren't, the WOW Classic example is so completely different to typical user/player feedback as to be irrelevant
We're in agreement here in a practical sense, I just think you've misunderstood the intent behind a particular phrasing?
But that's what "players/users don't know what they want" or "users think they know what they want, but they don't" means:
Users are right in their feelings but come with solutions/suggestions/demands (what they say they "want") and generally you've gotta look past what they say they want
Yes, there's a need to reinterpret player's feedback, to "find the need and address it properly" as you say downthread, which means that "players don't know what they want" hasn't been disproven at all! Quite the opposite is true, in fact
Then maybe vibe coders could hold off on the grandiose claims until *after* they can show results? The point is not to declare anything with certainty, it's to point out the gap between what the techbros are saying and what they're shipping.
a collage of these three tweets https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzrkcsk3xc24 https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzsgnvof4c2n https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzubxv6q722o
i for one am shocked that the "i go in the pool to cool down, why can't my phone?" guy is bad at programming and offloading his job to the anthropic api
