Douglas
@dmgregory.ca
Game design professor, math and science geek.
Did spreadsheety stuff for Splinter Cell Blacklist, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, and Far Cry 6. Moderator on gamedev.stackexchange.com
Formerly @D_M_Gregory on Twitter (he/him/his)
Did spreadsheety stuff for Splinter Cell Blacklist, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, and Far Cry 6. Moderator on gamedev.stackexchange.com
Formerly @D_M_Gregory on Twitter (he/him/his)
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Interested in language, cognition, drawing, comics, and/or visual communication? My publisher @bloomsburyling.bsky.social is having a sale all week, including my new graphic novel, Speaking in Pictures: A Vision of Language, that comes out officially on Thursday! www.bloomsbury.com/us/speaking-...
February 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Interested in language, cognition, drawing, comics, and/or visual communication? My publisher @bloomsburyling.bsky.social is having a sale all week, including my new graphic novel, Speaking in Pictures: A Vision of Language, that comes out officially on Thursday! www.bloomsbury.com/us/speaking-...
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In terms of power fantasy I don't think you could create a more resonant game than this right now, from a team I can guarantee you will not bungle this premise.
Do you dream of revenge on billionaires? THEN WE HAVE THE GAME FOR YOU. Back our indie game made with rage + love on Kickstarter NOW and play our BRAND NEW DEMO on Steam
www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
February 16, 2026 at 3:23 PM
In terms of power fantasy I don't think you could create a more resonant game than this right now, from a team I can guarantee you will not bungle this premise.
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Something for anyone working on multiplayer networking for their game: while trying to fix my own game's netcode I updated my tool Rollback Diagnostic
The tool lets you create dumps from your game of multi-timeline world state and use a graphical viewer to explore them
gitlab.com/amini-alligh...
The tool lets you create dumps from your game of multi-timeline world state and use a graphical viewer to explore them
gitlab.com/amini-alligh...
February 15, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Something for anyone working on multiplayer networking for their game: while trying to fix my own game's netcode I updated my tool Rollback Diagnostic
The tool lets you create dumps from your game of multi-timeline world state and use a graphical viewer to explore them
gitlab.com/amini-alligh...
The tool lets you create dumps from your game of multi-timeline world state and use a graphical viewer to explore them
gitlab.com/amini-alligh...
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Recently I've been taking another look at fitting movement model parameters from data and managed to derive some formulations that work in terms of starting and stopping times and distances - something that is potentially a lot more intuitive for designers to use.
theorangeduck.com/page/fitting...
theorangeduck.com/page/fitting...
February 15, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Recently I've been taking another look at fitting movement model parameters from data and managed to derive some formulations that work in terms of starting and stopping times and distances - something that is potentially a lot more intuitive for designers to use.
theorangeduck.com/page/fitting...
theorangeduck.com/page/fitting...
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asking the woman next to me to take a few steps back and look disinterested while i grab a coke so the drinks cooler doesn't try to charge us surge pricing
February 16, 2026 at 1:06 PM
asking the woman next to me to take a few steps back and look disinterested while i grab a coke so the drinks cooler doesn't try to charge us surge pricing
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Follow-up post: "...it’s now possible to do targeted harassment, personal information gathering, and blackmail at scale... with zero traceability to find out who is behind the machine."
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
theshamblog.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Follow-up post: "...it’s now possible to do targeted harassment, personal information gathering, and blackmail at scale... with zero traceability to find out who is behind the machine."
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
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"If you are the person who deployed this agent, please reach out. It’s important for us to understand this failure mode, and to that end we need to know what model this was running on and what was in the soul document."
Cyberpunk 2077 data shard or real life quote?
Cyberpunk 2077 data shard or real life quote?
February 16, 2026 at 12:31 PM
"If you are the person who deployed this agent, please reach out. It’s important for us to understand this failure mode, and to that end we need to know what model this was running on and what was in the soul document."
Cyberpunk 2077 data shard or real life quote?
Cyberpunk 2077 data shard or real life quote?
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The only people making money are landlords and c-suites and company owners. Shareholders are getting paid before producing staff are.
February 16, 2026 at 11:45 AM
The only people making money are landlords and c-suites and company owners. Shareholders are getting paid before producing staff are.
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I want to stay informed and I like my community here but also the place I post "look at this cat" and the place where I see horrors every day being the same place is not optimal.
February 16, 2026 at 12:07 PM
I want to stay informed and I like my community here but also the place I post "look at this cat" and the place where I see horrors every day being the same place is not optimal.
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Played this over the weekend and cannot recommend it enough. Solid fun, nice story, gets deeper than I originally expected, great characters.
It's also free!
It's also free!
Been a bit nervous about announcing this, but I was the Lead Writer on this week long game jam that turned into a YEAR LONG GAME JAM. 😅 From many of the same freaks that brought you OnlyCans!
Date your guns! Meditate on the nature of isolation! Fight the deep state! Get divorced! Love a worm!
Date your guns! Meditate on the nature of isolation! Fight the deep state! Get divorced! Love a worm!
My friend made a game about dating guns, PolyArmory: store.steampowered.com/app/4220820/...
It’s totally free, which is true love right there.
It’s totally free, which is true love right there.
February 16, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Played this over the weekend and cannot recommend it enough. Solid fun, nice story, gets deeper than I originally expected, great characters.
It's also free!
It's also free!
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Share your feedback on accessibility options with Xbox Research!
Xbox Research wants to hear from anyone who plays video games! Tell us which settings and accessibility options, like text size adjustments, single-input options, screen readers, you use in our survey!
survey.alchemer.com/s3/8671308/X...
#Accessibility #GameAccessibility #InclusiveDesign
survey.alchemer.com/s3/8671308/X...
#Accessibility #GameAccessibility #InclusiveDesign
February 16, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Share your feedback on accessibility options with Xbox Research!
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This whole thread is worth reading. “Be cheap and build your audience slowly“ is where I knew I had to be and Im fine with that for now.
And I’m still in the “hundreds of copies” range, not the “thousands of copies” range. 🎲✂️
And I’m still in the “hundreds of copies” range, not the “thousands of copies” range. 🎲✂️
For my money, something like Arcs is about as close to a AAA game as tabletop can get. And, the moment I extend the scope of a project like that even a hair, the whole business model falls apart. It seems like the only way to make anything is to be cheap and build your audience slowly.
February 16, 2026 at 2:20 AM
This whole thread is worth reading. “Be cheap and build your audience slowly“ is where I knew I had to be and Im fine with that for now.
And I’m still in the “hundreds of copies” range, not the “thousands of copies” range. 🎲✂️
And I’m still in the “hundreds of copies” range, not the “thousands of copies” range. 🎲✂️
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so much this 💯
if people want shorter games with worse graphics made with less work many exist but not enough people buy them for developers to be paid more (or even recoup costs)
similar to "there should be more variety in games" there's so much! gotta look for it! won't have CoD marketing budget
if people want shorter games with worse graphics made with less work many exist but not enough people buy them for developers to be paid more (or even recoup costs)
similar to "there should be more variety in games" there's so much! gotta look for it! won't have CoD marketing budget
I know it's meant in good faith but "if we just made smaller scope games and charged 20-40 dollars for them it would fix the industry" is very funny to me. indies release like 20 of those a week on steam. are you buying them? is the industry fixed? no? hm. sounds like you need a different solution
February 16, 2026 at 3:12 AM
so much this 💯
if people want shorter games with worse graphics made with less work many exist but not enough people buy them for developers to be paid more (or even recoup costs)
similar to "there should be more variety in games" there's so much! gotta look for it! won't have CoD marketing budget
if people want shorter games with worse graphics made with less work many exist but not enough people buy them for developers to be paid more (or even recoup costs)
similar to "there should be more variety in games" there's so much! gotta look for it! won't have CoD marketing budget
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As an intuitive user, you might even build up a large library of more complex techniques that you learn from tutorials, friends, forums, coworkers... but without the ability to take them apart, or create new ones. They're kind of just recipes you apply, because you don't understand the pieces.
July 4, 2024 at 1:58 PM
As an intuitive user, you might even build up a large library of more complex techniques that you learn from tutorials, friends, forums, coworkers... but without the ability to take them apart, or create new ones. They're kind of just recipes you apply, because you don't understand the pieces.
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the Black Panthers were right
February 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
the Black Panthers were right
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It's true these spaces are only being used this way because of a noxious combination of money being no object and safety not being on the list of priorities.
But on a deeper level, Sarah is right. Every time we're told something "can't" be done it only means they're not willing.
But on a deeper level, Sarah is right. Every time we're told something "can't" be done it only means they're not willing.
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:57 PM
It's true these spaces are only being used this way because of a noxious combination of money being no object and safety not being on the list of priorities.
But on a deeper level, Sarah is right. Every time we're told something "can't" be done it only means they're not willing.
But on a deeper level, Sarah is right. Every time we're told something "can't" be done it only means they're not willing.
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This is what a rigged economy looks like.
February 14, 2026 at 11:01 PM
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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If those who claim the authority of law do not obey the law, and the law does not stop them, then they do not have the authority of law, because there is no longer any law.
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.
www.reuters.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:07 PM
If those who claim the authority of law do not obey the law, and the law does not stop them, then they do not have the authority of law, because there is no longer any law.
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Game dev? Laid off? Considering going indie? Also consider applying for our new…
☞ COOPERATIVE FOUNDATIONS ☜
8-week cohort-based course, starting April 8!
babyghosts.fund/coop-foundat...
☞ COOPERATIVE FOUNDATIONS ☜
8-week cohort-based course, starting April 8!
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February 14, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Game dev? Laid off? Considering going indie? Also consider applying for our new…
☞ COOPERATIVE FOUNDATIONS ☜
8-week cohort-based course, starting April 8!
babyghosts.fund/coop-foundat...
☞ COOPERATIVE FOUNDATIONS ☜
8-week cohort-based course, starting April 8!
babyghosts.fund/coop-foundat...
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Humans, officially too damn tall.
#screenshotsaturday #GoblinGirlGame #indiegame #indiedev #gamemaker
#screenshotsaturday #GoblinGirlGame #indiegame #indiedev #gamemaker
February 14, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Humans, officially too damn tall.
#screenshotsaturday #GoblinGirlGame #indiegame #indiedev #gamemaker
#screenshotsaturday #GoblinGirlGame #indiegame #indiedev #gamemaker
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Oh wow! Feels like some of the predictions I’m making in this op-ed episode and essay are quickly coming to pass. :(
voicesofvr.com/1710-when-in...
voicesofvr.com/1710-when-in...
#1710: When Integration Becomes Subordination: Big Tech Parallels in Carney’s Davos Speech & Untethering from the AI Big Brother – Voices of VR Podcast
voicesofvr.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Oh wow! Feels like some of the predictions I’m making in this op-ed episode and essay are quickly coming to pass. :(
voicesofvr.com/1710-when-in...
voicesofvr.com/1710-when-in...
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MAJOR ANNOUNCE :
fuck AI assets, who needs that!
When ShipShaper fully releases it will come with fbx export and a license to use it in your #indiegame , mods, or 3D prints. No limits.
Try out the DEMO today tho and Wishlist #shipShaper
store.steampowered.com/app/4339280/...
fuck AI assets, who needs that!
When ShipShaper fully releases it will come with fbx export and a license to use it in your #indiegame , mods, or 3D prints. No limits.
Try out the DEMO today tho and Wishlist #shipShaper
store.steampowered.com/app/4339280/...
February 12, 2026 at 2:31 PM
MAJOR ANNOUNCE :
fuck AI assets, who needs that!
When ShipShaper fully releases it will come with fbx export and a license to use it in your #indiegame , mods, or 3D prints. No limits.
Try out the DEMO today tho and Wishlist #shipShaper
store.steampowered.com/app/4339280/...
fuck AI assets, who needs that!
When ShipShaper fully releases it will come with fbx export and a license to use it in your #indiegame , mods, or 3D prints. No limits.
Try out the DEMO today tho and Wishlist #shipShaper
store.steampowered.com/app/4339280/...
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This is how isolated these tech bros are from normal humans. They spent millions developing this, bought a SUPERBOWL AD for it, and had no clue that regular people would be absolutely repulsed by it.
Ring, the doorbell video security system owned by Amazon, parted ways with a tech surveillance company that promoted a “Search Party” function that could access multiple cameras in a neighborhood. The function, which was featured in a Super Bowl ad, drew criticism over privacy concerns.
Ring Ends Deal to Link Neighborhood Cameras After Backlash to Super Bowl Ad
A commercial about a lost dog being reunited with his family ignited concerns that a “Search Party” feature posed privacy risks. Ring parted ways with the tech company Flock Safety.
nyti.ms
February 14, 2026 at 10:32 PM
This is how isolated these tech bros are from normal humans. They spent millions developing this, bought a SUPERBOWL AD for it, and had no clue that regular people would be absolutely repulsed by it.