Liz England
@lizardengland.bsky.social
Design Director at System Era. I post a lot of brunch photos. she/her.
was trying to explain what makes Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams so good to a friend and I feel like saying "full physics jigsaw pieces" always undersells it
you can even move the pieces to anywhere else in the house and complete the puzzle on the floor or in the kitchen sink if you wanted
you can even move the pieces to anywhere else in the house and complete the puzzle on the floor or in the kitchen sink if you wanted
November 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
was trying to explain what makes Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams so good to a friend and I feel like saying "full physics jigsaw pieces" always undersells it
you can even move the pieces to anywhere else in the house and complete the puzzle on the floor or in the kitchen sink if you wanted
you can even move the pieces to anywhere else in the house and complete the puzzle on the floor or in the kitchen sink if you wanted
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Gave penguins timing-sensitive motor planning capabilities. In other words, they can try to move a body part to a specific place *at a specific time*. This is vital for NPCs with a sense of rhythm or good reflexes!
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Gave penguins timing-sensitive motor planning capabilities. In other words, they can try to move a body part to a specific place *at a specific time*. This is vital for NPCs with a sense of rhythm or good reflexes!
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
Cheap grocery delivery when you live in a city is both fantastic (keeps me from takeout) and terrible (ice cream is on sale).
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Cheap grocery delivery when you live in a city is both fantastic (keeps me from takeout) and terrible (ice cream is on sale).
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I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...
November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...
So in Arc Raiders there is a door glitch. You don't need to know what it is, just that the gamers are brainstorming all the "easy" ways to "fix" the doors and it's simultaneously hilarious and horrifying. My two favorite solutions are "add a kill volume" and "put a second door behind the door".
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 AM
So in Arc Raiders there is a door glitch. You don't need to know what it is, just that the gamers are brainstorming all the "easy" ways to "fix" the doors and it's simultaneously hilarious and horrifying. My two favorite solutions are "add a kill volume" and "put a second door behind the door".
This is an excellent analysis and matches my own thoughts. I was hoping someone with more development expertise could explain the use of ML/AI in Arc Raiders and unpack that both in terms of technical implementation and ethical impact on the broader industry.
The release of Arc Raiders has raised significant concerns about the ethics of utilising generative AI in a AAA game. It’s important we understand that for whatever gains AI delivers, who is losing out, and what impact does that have on the industry?
Read on!
www.aiandgames.com/p/arc-raider...
Read on!
www.aiandgames.com/p/arc-raider...
Arc Raiders and the Ethical Use of Generative AI | 19/11/25
We discuss the issues surrounding Embark's use of AI voices
www.aiandgames.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This is an excellent analysis and matches my own thoughts. I was hoping someone with more development expertise could explain the use of ML/AI in Arc Raiders and unpack that both in terms of technical implementation and ethical impact on the broader industry.
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do you know renpy? do you live in ontario? do you wanna help me with my game. pleas
Do you know Ren'Py? Would you like to help out on @truthscrapper.bsky.social? We're looking for a Ren'Py programmer based in Ontario, CA (remote) we can periodically contract for hourly paid work to solve problems and program certain items! More details here:
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November 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
do you know renpy? do you live in ontario? do you wanna help me with my game. pleas
Woke up early so I made a lasagna and baked a cake before work.
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Woke up early so I made a lasagna and baked a cake before work.
I folded and used microsoft's chatgpt to ask it how to turn off its "AI designer" tool that keeps stealing input and giving me suggestions every time I paste an image into powerpoint and it gave me detailed, confident instructions that fail on the very first line
I am so tired of this
I am so tired of this
November 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I folded and used microsoft's chatgpt to ask it how to turn off its "AI designer" tool that keeps stealing input and giving me suggestions every time I paste an image into powerpoint and it gave me detailed, confident instructions that fail on the very first line
I am so tired of this
I am so tired of this
dnd update: we are, for the third session in a row, only two sessions away from finishing this campaign
November 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM
dnd update: we are, for the third session in a row, only two sessions away from finishing this campaign
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When you're writing a tabletop roleplaying game, the mechanics should evoke the atmosphere you want in your story.
A simple example: we're writing a cozy woodland mystery game. What are the combat mechanics like? Well, clearly there aren't any. Combat isn't part of our cozy woodland story.
But...
A simple example: we're writing a cozy woodland mystery game. What are the combat mechanics like? Well, clearly there aren't any. Combat isn't part of our cozy woodland story.
But...
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
When you're writing a tabletop roleplaying game, the mechanics should evoke the atmosphere you want in your story.
A simple example: we're writing a cozy woodland mystery game. What are the combat mechanics like? Well, clearly there aren't any. Combat isn't part of our cozy woodland story.
But...
A simple example: we're writing a cozy woodland mystery game. What are the combat mechanics like? Well, clearly there aren't any. Combat isn't part of our cozy woodland story.
But...
I was checking out what Blumhouse was getting up to in games today and discovered this unannounced gem developed exactly for me
store.steampowered.com/app/3394500/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3394500/...
November 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I was checking out what Blumhouse was getting up to in games today and discovered this unannounced gem developed exactly for me
store.steampowered.com/app/3394500/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3394500/...
spent the evening being self indulgent and organizing my game ideas I’ve spec’d out over the last 10+ years into a database
turns out I really love what I’d call ‘playful horror’, kind of dark horror-comedies with a mix of simulation and deduction gameplay
turns out I really love what I’d call ‘playful horror’, kind of dark horror-comedies with a mix of simulation and deduction gameplay
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
spent the evening being self indulgent and organizing my game ideas I’ve spec’d out over the last 10+ years into a database
turns out I really love what I’d call ‘playful horror’, kind of dark horror-comedies with a mix of simulation and deduction gameplay
turns out I really love what I’d call ‘playful horror’, kind of dark horror-comedies with a mix of simulation and deduction gameplay
the gamedev timeline is getting dark, vibes are bad, we don't need to discourse like this on a friday, we're going to start getting angry about yellow paint and difficulty sliders again at this rate
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
the gamedev timeline is getting dark, vibes are bad, we don't need to discourse like this on a friday, we're going to start getting angry about yellow paint and difficulty sliders again at this rate
I ordered a "large taquito" from a local place for lunch and in theory "large taquito" should just be a "taco" but instead it's giving "small boulder the size of a large boulder" energy.
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I ordered a "large taquito" from a local place for lunch and in theory "large taquito" should just be a "taco" but instead it's giving "small boulder the size of a large boulder" energy.
Last night I watched a streamer in Arc that downed other players and then had them answer trivia questions in exchange for a revive. The questions were like "who runs this whole operation" and "what's the name of the cataclysmic event that led to all this" and lol no, gamers do not pay attention.
You wanna know why we're having nag line discourse in 2025? Because developers know we're fighting an attention economy war we'll lose no matter what. Players don't read, have TikTok open next to them, god forbid we are scared you miss something and then blame us for not giving you all the info.
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Last night I watched a streamer in Arc that downed other players and then had them answer trivia questions in exchange for a revive. The questions were like "who runs this whole operation" and "what's the name of the cataclysmic event that led to all this" and lol no, gamers do not pay attention.
happy brunch day
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
happy brunch day
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Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it
November 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it
dnd update: we are almost at the end of the campaign and tonight I watched them have a full emotional breakdown as they finally realized they were, in fact, bad people and were heading straight into a full villain arc
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 AM
dnd update: we are almost at the end of the campaign and tonight I watched them have a full emotional breakdown as they finally realized they were, in fact, bad people and were heading straight into a full villain arc
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
I continue to believe very strongly that a person's reaction to generative AI is directly correlated to whether it presents any existential risks to your craft. This is why senior engineers and CEOs are so psyched about it, and artists and writers are rallying against it.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has defended AI following Eurogamer's 2/5 Arc Raiders review, which criticised the game's use use of AI voice generation. "AI dialog generation + human personality and tuning could totally transform gaming," Sweeney said.
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...
Epic's Tim Sweeney wades into the Arc Raiders AI row
"This technology increases human productivity in some areas by integer multiples"
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I continue to believe very strongly that a person's reaction to generative AI is directly correlated to whether it presents any existential risks to your craft. This is why senior engineers and CEOs are so psyched about it, and artists and writers are rallying against it.
Playing Arc Raiders in an attempt to understand what people like about these games.
I casually teamed up with 5 other solo players. We made our way to the top of a huge tower, defending and healing each other, sharing loot along the way.
I then watched 4 of the 5 die falling off of a ladder.
I casually teamed up with 5 other solo players. We made our way to the top of a huge tower, defending and healing each other, sharing loot along the way.
I then watched 4 of the 5 die falling off of a ladder.
November 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Playing Arc Raiders in an attempt to understand what people like about these games.
I casually teamed up with 5 other solo players. We made our way to the top of a huge tower, defending and healing each other, sharing loot along the way.
I then watched 4 of the 5 die falling off of a ladder.
I casually teamed up with 5 other solo players. We made our way to the top of a huge tower, defending and healing each other, sharing loot along the way.
I then watched 4 of the 5 die falling off of a ladder.
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Two more weeks to apply to our microgrants program! We've received a few applications already (wooo!) but there is room left, so shoot your shot!
Head over to blog.iftechfoundation.org/2025-10-12-2..., and ask us any lingering questions - we want to hear from you!
Head over to blog.iftechfoundation.org/2025-10-12-2..., and ask us any lingering questions - we want to hear from you!
2026 IFTF Microgrant Applications Now Open!
You can now apply to our third grant cycle!
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November 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Two more weeks to apply to our microgrants program! We've received a few applications already (wooo!) but there is room left, so shoot your shot!
Head over to blog.iftechfoundation.org/2025-10-12-2..., and ask us any lingering questions - we want to hear from you!
Head over to blog.iftechfoundation.org/2025-10-12-2..., and ask us any lingering questions - we want to hear from you!
please go buy my friend's game, thanks in advance
There'll be a new pinned post this week, but for now: Ambrosia Sky: Act One is *out* now!
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...
EGS: store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/ambr...
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...
EGS: store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/ambr...
Save 15% on Ambrosia Sky on Steam
You left. Now they’re dead. Ambrosia Sky: Act One is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by a mysterious contamination. Survive and harvest strains of aggressive alien fungi...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
please go buy my friend's game, thanks in advance
I said I wish more devs would blog about their thoughts on game design and the monkey's claw curls again
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I said I wish more devs would blog about their thoughts on game design and the monkey's claw curls again