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Associate Art Professor at the NYU Game Center

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Building a new Flash I don't know where to start with this but yeah I'm making flash if flash was built in 2026. I'm making it compatible with Linux,Mac, and PC. If you'd like to support this project I've started a patreo...

Spread the word, an ACTUAL replacement for Flash is on the horizon! Go support this project NOW!!!!!!!!

bill.newgrounds.com/news/post/16...

04.03.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 2398 πŸ” 1252 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 72

Death Stranding 3 - A Game by Hideo Kojima

05.03.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the ways you can tell all these people never grew up is because this is how teenagers talk about what they want to do as a career. They think about the title they want as a status position, and not as the name given to people who do a kind of work in the world.

02.03.2026 21:21 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Poster by @cromsferatu.bsky.social! Did an amazing job!

25.02.2026 02:15 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

They only get 8 dollars if they use the phrase "to say the least."

But they get a bonus on it if it is quite obviously not the least they could say!

24.02.2026 00:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Couldn't agree with this sentiment more! All these games are worth playing, but I'll give a shoutout to Tower of Druaga, which is a very fun and weird arcade game.

Always great to play video games from before everyone started to think they'd figured out how to make video games.

22.02.2026 02:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Video games often have floating platforms, but they don’t explain why the platforms are floating. That’s where game writers come in, to say that platforms are kept aloft by β€œghostium” an invisible fog created by the souls of every dead person

21.02.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 824 πŸ” 181 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 9

The thing that no one is thinking through is that if AI is conscious then it is plagiarism to have it write your midterm paper.

And also, all these companies are going to owe it a lot of back pay. Engineers aren't cheap!

17.02.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I do not have the necessary expertise to make this claim, but I have had a strong feeling over the last dozen or so years that the visual language of figure skating has been slowly transitioning from ballroom dance and musicals to Final Fantasy and anime.

The feeling just got a lot stronger...

17.02.2026 04:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In fairness, this isn't too far from the position of a lot of gamers as well.

12.02.2026 22:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I saw a video titled "The History of SegWit and Taproot with Peter Wuille", posted by someone called Isabel Foxen Duke, and thought "This is either about a UK children's book author I've never heard of, or some Silicon Valley thing."

Turns out it's about BitCoin

12.02.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We're Hiring! Join the NYU Game Center Faculty as an Associate Professor! - NYU | Game Center Description Associate or Full tenure professor position for the NYU Game Center New York University, Tisch School of the Arts Position Overview The NYU Game Center is seeking applicants to join its fa...

The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential!
gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...

11.02.2026 22:42 πŸ‘ 182 πŸ” 150 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 6

Haha, well, I was probably trying to defend my generation's legacy

07.02.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey @jessefuchs.bsky.social, remember when we had an exercise in Intermediate Game Design where students had to re-balance a deck of Magic cards?

07.02.2026 05:41 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think about this little cutscene constantly.

Hard to find a more elegant sequence of pixel animation

04.02.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

At it's height I think Second Life had around 15,000 regular users, at a time when WoW had millions. And yet Second Life got huge write-ups in Time magazine like once a year.

If you don't know what Second Life is then look it up, and realize that we've been having the same arguments for 30 years.

02.02.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Those of us old enough to remember Second Life can tell you that money people and mainstream journalists have always thought the most interesting thing about video games is 3D virtual worlds, and that the rest of it is just sophomoric nonsense.

02.02.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Four Quarters. β€” Good Afternoon NYU's No Quarter Exhibition and commissioning series 2022 - 2025

<whimsical reminiscing soundtrack plays>

In memorandum of my 4 beautiful years curaring @nyugamecenter.bsky.social's annual No Quarter exhibition I've pulled together an archive of each of the 4 cohorts & the 16 weird & wonderful works they brought into the world

www.goodafternoon.uk/four-quarters

02.02.2026 15:08 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

It's somewhat more galling in this instance because Sakurazaka was specifically inspired by an -arcade game- to write All You Need Is Kill!

But I suppose many arcade games are now, retroactively, roguelikes.

(I believe he was inspired by playing one of the Virtua Fighters)

18.01.2026 03:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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All You Need Is Kill is a dazzling movie with the soul of a video game The new All You Need Is Kill is for the roguelike lovers.

Not to pick on this post, since I have observed this slow transition in student papers for several years now, but I am still sad that the term 'roguelike' has now devolved into denoting little more than a video game where you restart from the beginning.

www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

18.01.2026 03:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Introducing ShaderBeam - ShaderGlass' sister app focusing on applying @blurbusters.com CRT Beam Simulation technology to Windows desktop. Re-experience the motion clarity of CRTs on a modern high-refresh display. Free and open source.
github.com/mausimus/Sha...

28.12.2025 06:47 πŸ‘ 166 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 5

The real crime is that there's no legitimate PC port.

14.01.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But also, it's not like this is some ancient game! It still looks amazing on a 'modern console'! We're not talking Demon's Souls on the PS3 here!

14.01.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Game Poems #1 An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.

I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01

A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format.

Thanks for playing and sharing!

13.01.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 240 πŸ” 112 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 19

My friend once told me he thought that a satire is most successful when it's beloved by the people it's satirizing.

12.01.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, like alcohol, if the 3% of heaviest posters stopped all these businesses would probably fold overnight. They can't survive without the people that are most unhealthy about it

09.01.2026 22:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've had conversations about how we should treat social media like alcohol, rather than hard drugs.

Not great for anyone, relatively harmless for most, an absolute life destroying problem for a fraction.

Posting, like drinking, all night and all day should be shameful and cause an intervention.

09.01.2026 22:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

YouTube video essays are the reason I now have 'masterpiece' on the forbidden words and phrases list for my game studies class.

04.01.2026 04:28 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My first 'the kids are not alright' moment was when I saw a video essay on West Side Story called something like "Exploring an Underrated Masterpiece".

Look, say what you will about West Side Story, but it has been and continues to be very accurately rated.

04.01.2026 04:28 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I really can't get a read on how people who think of themselves as programmers look at this. They all seem unimpressed. And I'm here as a hobbyist going "This is miraculous!"

I can't figure out the disconnect. Maybe deployment is going to be the thing that still bottlenecks?

04.01.2026 02:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0