Tim

Multiple people can be terrible at once, and these people never seem to realise that.

One more project might actually fix your burnout, I'm sure that's the way to go.

What do you mean, The Quiet Man is a modern masterpiece! They don't even let you understand anything the main character understands until you've beaten the game once, then you get to replay it and actually see the story! Genius!

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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So, in spite of a public consultation that OVERWHELMINGLY agreed that this was a terrible idea and not wanted, the government are ploughing ahead anyway?

And they wonder why they're losing elections...

We can just use them for stock.

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No, just chikorita. For its meat.

Fellow indie developers: have any of you ever paid for marketing advice or services?

I'm not planning any myself, but having just had a discussion with a supposed marketing expert, who claimed that all serious indies should pay him for help (essentially), I wondered if anyone had any experience?

Today did have a very Friday vibe to it, so I understand

Blimey. Sky News reporting YouGov / Sky News / Times voting intention

*Greens leapfrog Labour into second place*

RefUK 23% (-1)
GRN 21% (+4)
LAB 16%(-2)
CON 16%(-2)
LDEM 14%(nc),

Pollster note: This is the highest we've had the Greens, the first time we've had them in second

Amanita knocking it out of the park with the visuals here. And this little knot untying interaction was perhaps one of the most oddly satisfying mechanics I've ever engaged with. Unscrewing the screws felt real good too.

Cannot wait for the full thing!

You see there has to be an exactly ratio of one woman for every four men on a given gaming platform, so that there's enough for the men to say mean/weird things to, but not so many that they have to potentially deal with more than one at once.

The male ego is in a very delicate balance.

So when are we rising up? Give me a time and place and we can grab a quick coffee first. Gotta have energy for dealing with the technolords (that sounds way too cool...)

May your chafing recover quickly

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

It's gonna come down to the final evos and typings for me. If Pombon stands up and puts on boxing gloves, it's over for him.

Couldn't agree more. I was in precisely the same boat as you, but yeah, he completely fumbled the ball in so many ways I also hopped off.

Today's news has me vaguely hopeful again though, so that's always a plus!

I was genuinely excited when they first announced, and then they've proceeded to speedrun irrelevance and infighting at a hitherto unseen pace, and so the excitement faded just as quickly

Just make sure it's the one actually made in Japan, not the European branded one that tastes like shit!

I made that mistake recently and was very, very sad when I first tried to use it.

You will never in a million years guess what the second paragraph of this Polygon review says.

Oooo I hadn't realised it had started yet, I need to get on that.

SCOPECREEP reached Very Positive on Steam just in time for Next Fest! Be sure to go play the demo and also leave a little review on there if you haven't already! (thank you to all of you who already did <3)

#gamedev #indiedev #scopecreep #incremental #godot #steam #nextfest

Oh true, I completely forgot they updated that!

I do think it would be a fun turn for the industry if a bunch of high profile indies went exclusive to EGS for like 6 months to a year. I'm not exactly keen to help out the guys in charge of Epic, but I would love something to give Steam pause.

It is VAT, but it's paid by the merchat, so you won't skip it. VAT applies in the country of purchase, not where you are as a developer.

Steam takes sales tax as part of your price - if you're selling for $10, $2 of that is gone to sales tax before Steam's cut, then you pay income tax on the rest.

Sales tax averages out globally to about 20%, so I factor that in before income tax, as that's what you actually get paid out.

Definitely a good idea. I'm aiming to launch on as many platforms as I can too, just to cast as wide a net as I can.

To be fair, releasing on EGS and GOG these days isn't hard, it just isn't where the majority of people are, unfortunately. Keeping 88% on EGS is definitely a major upside though.

Yeahh, having to do the revenue * 0.8 * 0.7 and then putting it through income tax and NI is always a sad time. One day Steam will maybe give us a better deal, but eh...

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...