Thomas Simonini

Solo Indie Game Dev

Making The Lighthouse Investigation: a detective game where you solve a 1907 cold case.

Ex-@huggingface

[Govind @Govindtwtt]

Why does anthropic have 1,400 engineers if the models are writing most of the code

[Ben (no treats) @andersonbcdefg]

*getting kicked out of whole foods cause i tried to shoplift an entire wheel of pecorino romano*

"me and whole foods have parted ways"

[David @DavidSHolz]

this changes everything

[David Toons @DavidToons_]

“We know this news is disappointing”

[Jake Steinerman 🌎 @jasteinerman]

just can't win

[White Pill @Wh1t3pill]

@Polymarket

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

The future inmates of America list was just dropped

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

Nobody wants to read AI-generated posts.

Nobody wants to read AI-generated emails.

Nobody wants to read AI-generated newsletters.

Nobody wants to read AI-generated reports.

Nobody wants to read AI-generated articles.

Nobody wants to read AI-generated anything.

[Unreal Engine @UnrealEngine]

The Seaside Sprout by Digital 3D Artist Travis Sindewald is a personal project inspired by the background images that usually accompany LoFi streams. The project used an Unreal Engine water plugin to help complete the calming coastal elements.

"I set out to build a place that feels cozy and quiet, like something you’d see in a LoFi stream. At the same time, I challenged myself to blend a more painterly style with realistic lighting and materials. I mainly used Blender and Substance Designer while the water is using Unreal Engine 5 water plugin." - Travis Sindewald

[ᐱ ᑎ ᑐ ᒋ ᕮ ᒍ @Andr3jH]

They don't know I'm a great man of history

[80 LEVEL @80Level]

Forget-Me-Not Studios spoke to us about the narrative mystery game 12, Memory Lane, sharing the vision behind it, the challenges faced during development, and its approach to portraying Alzheimer's disease.

Read: https://t.co/kIepKTSdJI

[Mo @atmoio]

AI is making CEOs delusional

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

No Y axes again. That seems to be the default with all the AI labs now.

[Eurogamer @eurogamer]

Judge delivers bombshell order for Krafton to reinstate fired Subnautica 2 devs and CEO, putting $250m bonus package back on the table

https://t.co/eM6xq1vTaD

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

> be employee
> work at Atlassian
> 10am
> get promotion
> celebrate on LinkedIn
> new career milestone
> overwhelming joy and pride
> 2pm
> get email
> position promoted to being cut
> laid off
> promoted and laid off in same day

[Grinding Poet @GrindingPoet]

@naval yeah that is why you should stfu

[Sierra Division @sierra_division]

Here's what happens when you take a 19th century painting and transform it into a real-time 3D environment fit for a fantasy medieval game.

Introducing River Town: Laundry Day, our studio's latest project, inspired by Christian Friedrich Mali's oil painting "Wash Day Before a Small Town."

Built in #UnrealEngine with assets created in #Blender, our goal was to capture what made the original painting feel alive.

River Town includes a mix of hand created, sculpted, and textured assets, with modular building elements, overlaid with tessellated Megascans materials. Materials were altered and customized to capture the style and atmosphere of the original artwork.

See more on #ArtStation: https://t.co/ZN5cWGASsi

The team:
Inka Sipola - Artwork planning, project creation, texturing, lighting, art, assets, composition, props, material work, sculpting, cinematics
Jacob Norris - Art Direction, Final Renders, Some Lighting and Post Process work

#medieval #fantasy #gameart

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: AI-generated artwork is ineligible for copyright protection as the US Supreme Court declined to review a appeal case, per Reuters

[Hubert Łępicki @hubertlepicki]

No hurry. Monday is fine.