Grant

QA Lead @Aardman 🐞 Technical Game Designer in the making! 🎮 Formerly Jagex, Rare, Dlala.

[WATCHHOLLIE @WATCHHOLLIE]

My biggest pet peeve is when someone gives advice about audio, AND IT'S WRONG ahh

With a degree in Post Production (editing) and 10 years working in the industry for tv, my advice is...

Audio Mixer OBS:
Voice: -5db (THE RED ZONE IS GOOD, never get to 0)
Game: between -20db & -15db (Yellow)
Music: between -45db & -35db (Low Green)

People saying never to put audio in the red zone in OBS are flat out wrong. You want to avoid distortion, which is when it peaks at 0 and above, but your voice should be louder than the game.

Hope this helps!

[Samuel Deats 🌕 @SamuelDeats]

Generative AI is built on the stolen personal data and creative works of countless people across generations. Our art, music, writing, movies, photos, voices, journalism, and so on. Stolen by tech oligarchs.

It destroys jobs, communities, the environment, and now your hobbies.

[Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity @cyber_razz]

DO NOT touch that keyboard. This is one of the most dangerous attacks circulating right now.

This is called a ClickFix attack. It is not a CAPTCHA. It is not a verification step. It is a social engineering attack designed to make you execute malicious code on your own machine while believing you are proving you are human.

Here is exactly what happens if you follow those steps.

The fake page has already silently copied a malicious PowerShell command to your clipboard without you knowing. It happened the moment the page loaded. You did not click anything. You did not consent to anything. The clipboard was written to in the background by JavaScript running on the page.

When you press Win + R you open the Windows Run dialog. When you press Ctrl + V you paste that malicious command directly into it. When you press Run you execute it with your own permissions on your own machine. No exploit needed. No vulnerability needed. You did it yourself. Willingly. While thinking you were completing a CAPTCHA.

The payload varies. Researchers have documented ClickFix delivering infostealers, remote access trojans, and credential harvesters. The malware executes instantly and silently. By the time the Run dialog closes the damage is done.

The reason this attack works so well is threefold. The fake CAPTCHA looks visually identical to a real one. The instructions sound technical and therefore trustworthy. And critically, you are the one executing the command so endpoint security tools see a legitimate user action rather than an automated attack.

Real CAPTCHAs never ask you to open Run dialogs. Real CAPTCHAs never ask you to paste anything. Real CAPTCHAs never give you keyboard shortcuts.

If a webpage ever asks you to press Win + R for any reason, close the tab immediately.

[Misc. A Tiny Tale ✨ OUT NOW ON STEAM & SWITCH! @MiscATinyTale]

Our game was made fully with Blueprints. Many others like Misc are too, due to their accessible and visual format. Removing blueprints in favour of a custom language and AI isn't where the industry should be going.

Gamers and game devs deserve better.

[Kenney @KenneyNL]

Dear sound effect and music asset creators;

Please stop using generative AI for your thumbnails. You're putting a giant label on your work that gives the impression it's low effort slop, even when the actual content might be excellent stuff!

[Just Oliver 3D @TomOliver3D]

Regardless of their efficiency or scalability , Blueprint was a massive accessibility win in UE for visual learners and non-coders. Their removal is brutal.

And LLMs ejaculating scripts for you aren't a replacement, cuz that won't teach you anything.

[Grant @LittleWO0D]

@its_mirrors I've been building up a small collection of pictures to use as textures on my phone.
I get weird looks whenever I take deliberate photos of the floor.

[Pandan | GearGrit @Weston_Mitchell]

@UnrealEngine poll game designers & level designers how they feel about it.

The point is visual scripting, not whether verse is easy to pick up or not.

Visual scripting is appealing to artist types. I think removing that is a terrible move for Unreal Engine.

[David Toons @DavidToons_]

You know, I see a lot of the 'Animation twitter' community going on about how animators deserve much more respect

Yet when a leak gets put out everyone disregards all the 'respect' they have for animation and the people who work so hard at making it.

Don't watch the leaks.

[Crowne Prince @CrownePrints]

I've gone absolutely feral. I'm using free Open Source animation software. And now I have the power to convert everyone to it, so they save $.

The complete Tahoma2D tutorial will come out next week. Up early for Patreons. https://t.co/0sedbECJMA

[˖ Ridhima 𓂀 ݁˖ @ridhima_z]

i love when doctors say "avoid stress" like i can just unsubscribe from economy and become a decorative gargoyle.

[once and future wife geist @wife_geist]

theyll never be able to afford a nest

[Jessie Lam _(:3 」∠ ) @axl99]

Don't let the Epic marketing machine fool you. That's still exploited artists' work using commerical diffusion models; decades of art Epic doesn't own are in those datasets and generated results.

Why'd you think Artstation and Sketchfab were scraped for this and then some?

[Argonaut Games @ArgonautGames_]

@HardcoreXBL Argonaut founder Jez San has spoken about this openly. EA set a ~6-month deadline & Argonaut threw about 100 people at it to make it happen. That's a 2-year job normally. The movie bombed, and everything tied to it suffered as a result. Work-for-hire can be unforgiving

[Pandan | GearGrit @Weston_Mitchell]

Hypothetical for y'all today

• sell your game for 14.99
• steam/nintendo/xbx/ps take 30%
Oh you have a publisher?
• 50%
• taxes 24%

So you made 3.75 per sale.

It's just not sustainable, many have moved to self publishing to retain as much as they can.

[Big Lions Den 🏋️ @BigRoundLion]

A small tutorial of how I use markers, how to blend them, and the various other things I generally throw in there!

[Artur @Vocetubeia]

Meu jogo de RM2K3 ficou em 5º lugar num concurso da Nintendo World. Eu gravei o jogo em CD-R com capa e rótulo impresso e entreguei pessoalmente na redação. Criaram uma comunidade no Orkut para o meu jogo e tinha 480 pessoas. Infelizmente, perdi os arquivos. Virou Lost Media.

[dale coop ☕️ @dale_coop]

🚀 The New 8-Bit All-Stars Bundle is now live!

Honestly, I still can’t believe we managed to bring together so many incredible NES & Famicom homebrew developers and games in one bundle.

I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we enjoyed putting it together.

🎮 https://t.co/ex4Qx4MY9v

And if you’d like to help support the developers, please consider sharing the bundle with your friends, followers, or fellow retro gaming fans. It really helps 🙏❤️☕️

#N8ABundle #NES #FAMICOM #homebrew #nesdev #indieNES #NESmaker #indiegames #gamedev #ファミコン #同人ゲーム

[B作 @Btoretsukuru]

昨日の「セロテープ調色法」が案外好評だったので改めて動画撮りました。
調色したい対象物にセロテープを貼って上から色を塗るだけです。微妙な色の差が見やすいので、次に何色を混ぜるか決めやすいです。モデラーの皆さんぜひー！
#プラモデル