my money is on AI vibe coding as the root of the issue.
05.03.2026 20:48
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my money is on AI vibe coding as the root of the issue.
A code snippet that reads: /** * Validates a tarball buffer * @param {Uint8Array} _tarballBuffer - The tarball buffer to validate * @returns {boolean} True if valid tarball */ export function validateTarball(_tarballBuffer: Uint8Array): boolean { // Basic validation - could be extended return true }
some of the best slop i've seen. i love the comment in the function body especially
EQUIP Canberra Games on March 18 is going to be great!
🎟️ Check out the newly announced Program and grab your tickets: loom.ly/1n6ylVQ
Speakers include: @merryh.bsky.social @gameconsulting.bsky.social @classicceri.bsky.social @deanw.xyz and more!
#ScreenCanberra #EQUIPCanberraGames #EQUIP2026
We use Google Sheets and just use the API to pull down the sheets as tsv (or your format of choice) and parse that at runtime or pre parse it and convert to json or whatever for runtime.
We are excited to announce that PRO JANK FOOTY will be at DAY OF THE DEVS in San Francisco this week 🏆
David, Dario, and Cam will be at the free event on March 8 from 3-8pm.
Time to see what the Americans think of real FOOTY!
So you use AI to write code, which takes longer and is buggier, then you don't understand how to fix it, so you use AI to fix it, which takes longer and is buggier, which needs to be fixed, so you use AI which takes longer and is buggier....
Turns out more code faster has never been the bottleneck
I am somewhat lucky in that the games I generally play all seem to work fine on steam deck (or Mac, which is my dev machine)
But yeah, giving up windows means that some games are simply not playable.
hard pass.
Was only using windows for games and have fully moved to steam deck for that. Will fire up a windows VM on my linux desktops when I need to do platform testing but otherwise: nope.
In May '25, a beloved Australian games website was sold off. It went dark then, a month later, rose from the dead but stuffed full of gambling links and AI authors.
It wasn't the first time, or the last time, this exact thing had happened. And it's still happening.
My months-long investigation 👇
SOME GENERAL TIPS FOR STEAM GAME DEMOS
(from someone who has played so many of them)
Note: These tips also apply to games in general! They're good tips!
Newsletter: Bitcoin is down 50%, several prominent industry figures have been uncovered in the Epstein files, Trump’s facing a probe into his family’s $500M deal with the UAE, and crypto super PACs spend their first $6 million in the midterms.
www.citationneeded.news/issue-101/
Vulkan releases game engine tutorial
The Vulkan Working Group has published, Building a Simple Game Engine, a new in-depth tutorial for developers ready to move beyond the basics and into professional-grade engine development.
Learn more: www.khronos.org/blog/new-vul...
#vulkan #tutorial #programming #gpu #gameengine
hmmm..
bsky.app/profile/benb...
The Mighty Milkshake Ducks
PSA Outer Wilds is 50% off on Steam till Thursday! This is the biggest discount it's ever gotten; usually sales max at 40%.
store.steampowered.com/app/753640/O...
A modern hero.
Every vox pop should try to segue into how late stage capitalism is breaking everything.
I lost about 75% of followers in my transition from Twitter to Bluesky, my engagement is up by 20% average, and more importantly, I have don't hate myself for being complicit in supporting yet another evil oligarch that helped elect a narcissist fascist to the White House.
I was thinking of popping along, seems like it may be a good event :)
Thinking about going to the EQUIP games event in Canberra on March 18 – would anyone be interested in chatting @frostygamesfest.com or anything else while I am there? 🤔
This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.
As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.
and fair enough too, your jank IS part of your charm!
also, maybe the jank is part of the charm 🐎
I mean, maybe, but quadrupeds are notoriously hard to get right.
turns out that rigging quadruped animations is actually really really hard 😬
Dear game industry: I’m going to hold your hand as I say this, but
No-one. Wants. Your AI. Bullshit.
Nobody.
There is no audience for it. Stop it.
Most 20 year olds can tell me how many 'r's are in strawberry.
I am honestly super anxious about GDC and game devs travelling there. I am not going (ever again?). But I know many who are heading over there reluctantly.
I guess if you are going, make sure that someone is expecting you and can contact your lawyer or whatever.
This sucks and I hate it.
It's the quote that makes it.
To be fair to GenAI, it is not _useless_ like NFTs, it is more akin IMHO to the metaverse. It has its use cases, but the actual usability of the tech is around 0.001% of what is being sold.
The bullshit hype train pump and dump cash grab is 100% analogous to NFTs tho.